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2 THE DAILY SUN 1 1 UJ" Satnrdajr, Angnst 24, 1957 eL. a 7" 20 TO 40 POLES FLEE RED SHIP AT PORT IN DENMARK lantic run in 1951 because they lost so many crew members in free world ports and because New York ship workers refused to If I i A COPENHAGEN (UP) An estimated 20 to 40 Poles fled the Communist jinx ship Batory and asked asylum in Denmark yesterday. I he freedom seekers were among 722 vpassengers who arrived here aboard the Polish liner two days ago on Po land's first big tourist cruise since the Poznan uprising of June 1956. Neither Danish officials nor the Batory's captain could say definitely how many passengers were" missing when the liner sailed for its home port of Cdynia at midnight. No one seemed surprised at the defections.

The Batory has been a bad luck ship to the Communists ever since American Communist Gerhart Eisler jumped bail in New York and fled to East Ger many aboard it in 1949. The Communists were forced to take the Batory off the North At Actress Figure In Confidential Trial Vanishes MEXICO CITY Francesca de Scaffa, who figures in the Confidential magazine trials, is believed, to have left Mexico. Officials said yesterday they do not know where she is. Miss De Scaffa, an actress once wed to actor Bruce Cabot, came to Mexico early in January and her tourist permit expired Aug. 8.

Remaining in Mexico beyond that date would require a special permit, which Interior Ministry officials said was not granted. Officials told reporters that if Miss De Scaffa left Mexico prior to Aug. 8, she would not have to make any report under the law. They said they believe she has done this. HEADLINE INCIDENTS The actress was involved In several headline-making incidents during her six-month stay in Mexico.

They included a jewel theft, marriage to a bullfighter, and two suicide attempts. She was once detained by officials during the jewel theft case. She reported she had been robbed of a fortune in jewel's, which later were recovered. She was released pending trial of a suspect. Mrinniiiir'iWiiiiiiiiiiiirTiiiirniiiiiiiiifli miiiihiii iiiriit.iiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiin SAYS LIFE THREATENED Mrs.

Gertrude Arnold of 'SUBPOENA FOR HOFFA As his attorney scratches Boss James Hoffa takes a quick glance at a subpoena served his head, Midwest Teamsters him yesterday by Ruth Watts California Syndicate Buys Huge Arizona Ranch for $7 Million (left), clerk for the Senate Rackets Committee. The committee called a halt to further questioning of Hoffa but before he left the stand, he was served a subpoena for his personal records and then listened to Chairman McClellan (D-Ark) intone a 48-point indictment of his activities. The lawyer is George Fitzgerald. (AP wirephoto) Los Angeles, former wife of boxer Chalky Wright, said yesterday she had received an anonymous phone call advising her to "clam up." She has been subpoenaed by the defense in Confidential libel case. Wright, former featherweight champion and one-time chauffeur for actress Mae West, figured in a story in the scandal magazine.

(AP wirephoto) Meade Gives Names of 10 Informants for Confidential HOFFA GRILLING IS ENDED SCORNFULLY AND ABRUPTLY GILA BEND, Ariz, The Gillespie Ranch rear this southwestern Arizona citv was sold yesterday to a California syndicate for a price "in excess of 7 million dollars. Gila River Ranch, official ly took possession of the vast property when the transaction was cleared through a title and trust firm in Phoenix. New owners of the ranch, which has about 16,000 acres under cul tivation, are headed by Russell Giffen, a Fresno, rancher. Giffen reportedly' operates more than 100,000 acres of farm lands in California. He said the ranch would be de voted to general fanning, princi pally vegetable crops and possibly vines and trees.

Giffen said the company plans future develop ment of the property, which takes P38 SWERVES TO MISS AIRLINER, TWO KILLED governess at the home of Dean Martin's ex-wife. Carol O'Connor, whom Meade contacted in Dallas, Tex. Allan Nixon, former husband of Marie Wilson, who supplied information "on several people" and was once given a check for $25 by Meade because he "was broke." Paul Corday, an interior decorator, who was paid for both confirming a story on Denise Darcel and providing an article on a do-it-jurself atom bomb. The amounts ppid and the stories supplied were not named in all cases. RECEIVED $150,000 Meade testified that he received a total of $150,000 from Confidential Publisher Robert Harrison during the year and a half Meade and his wife operated Hollywood Research Inc.

He said he got out of the research business in February 1957 when "the Hollywood movie studios attempted to gang up against us and frame us." The day's first witness was William Bradford Huie, author of "The Revolt of Mamie Stover" and other books and articles. He testified for the defense that he wrote three stories for Confidential, including "Why the Army Hanged Emmett Till's Father." He said Confidential Publisher Robert Harrison told him the magazine "had to be concerned with obscenity." Huie said he fought against deletions from his articles, and added: "Nothing truthful is, obscene Truth must be the sole criterion." WOMAN THREATENED One of the charges against Con fidential is that it published lewd and obscene matter. Meanwhile, a woman who has been subpoenaed by the defense reported she had received an anonymous telephone call advis ing her to "clam up." She is Mrs. Gertrude Arnold, ex-wife of the late boxer Chalky Wright. A Confidential story said Wright received favors from actress Mae West.

Miss West has denied this. The defense said it doesn't know if Mrs. Arnold will be called to testify. overhaul it. Even the atory's Capt.

Jan Cwiklinski defected from the ship in London in 1953. He later obtained U.S. citizenship. The mass defection here was carried out under the nose of Poland's Minister of Justice Marian Rybicki, who was listed aboard the Batory as an "ordinary tourist." Some of the Poles reported at police stations, to seek asylum even before the liner sailed. Others waited until it was out of port.

Police said the defections numbered between 20 and 40. They expected still more Poles to emerge from hiding later. A re cent Polish tourist trip to Austria I carefully conducted by Commu nist guides lost 15 per cent of its members. water from some 42 miles of canal and 40 deep wells. The ranch, one of the largest tracts of patented land in Arizona, was established by the late F.

A. Gillespie in 1919. He built tha three million dollar Gillespie diversion dam at the north end of the ranch in 1922. Price Giffen of Fresno Is vice president and manager. Directors include Paul L.

Davies of San Jose, chairman of the board of Food Machinery Corp; S. D. Bechtel of Oakland, president of Bechtel S. D. Bechtel Oakland, senior vice president, Bechtel Corp; D.

J. Russell of San Francisco, president of Southern Pacific John D. Crumney of San Jose, chairman emeritus Food Machinery James B. Black of San Francisco, chairman' of board of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. ed World War II vintage fighter zoomed into a field from an estimated height of 2,700 feet in a dive to clear a TWA Constellation that had been okayed for landing by the airport control tower.

TWA Capt Arthur Sessi said he noticed the fighter approaching from the left as he descended to wards the runway. Sessi said he swung to the right to avoid a possible collision. "The other ship dived," Sessi said, "but never came out of it." BILL DING says: N0f600DeN0UGH" OB. IT WLL DO THE BESTAHO ONCf THAT FOR YOU OPEN ALL DAY SATURDAY Screen Doors $75 11" Grod A BUILDING Supply Co. IO5 BASCUMC- KELLY CG1.GE3PJTY HYLOU 00 down $1.

00 weekly Waterman TU 9-5415 km 3 3i (Continued From Page One) denials came from her brother and her attorney. The brother, Charles FitzSimons, called Casey's testimony false. The attorney, Guy Ward, said the conflict between Craig" and Casey makes it appear the defense "has impeached the credibility of both." Meade, his wife Marjorie, Confidential and Whisper magazines are charged with conspiracy to commit criminal libel and to publish lewd and obscene matter. Late in the day's session, prosecutor William Ritzi produced, over defense objections, photostats of checks and asked Meade what they were Meade identified each aspayment to informants. PROLIFIC SOURCE Questioned concerning a Stella Shoeul, Meade declared "She was one of the few ex prostitutes I dealt with." He added: 'She was prolific," having provided material for stories on Dan Dailey, Walter Pidgeon, George Jessel, Frederic March and Dane Clark.

Meade said she was given a number ofchecks for around $500 each. One informant, a film extra identified as William Chaney, supplied data for stories on Mickey Rooney and Donald O'Connor, Meade declared. He said he also paid Chaney $100 for an introduction to Gloria Wellman, who testified this week in the conspiracy trial about an alleged wild party at actor John Carroll's home. Among the others Meade named: Donald L. Bledsoe, who was paid $1,000 for confirming "an incident in Palm Springs involving Ava Gardner and Lana Turner." $750 FOR 'AFFAIR' Robert Tuton, who got 5750 for confirming his "affair with Joan Crawford." Hal Conrad, paid J900 for un identified information.

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TUxedo 81-4130 'Direct From The suicide attempts followed efforts to deport her to face trial in the Confidential magazine case. The efforts failed, although of ficials indicated at the time they would not extend her permits to remain here. Negotiations fail For Circulation of Scandal Magazines SAN FRANCISCO Attor neys for Confidential and Whisper magazines and the State Attorney General's office told the U.S. Dis trict Court of Appeals here yes terday they have failed to agree on circulation 01 the magazines in this state. Their distribution halted when the Attorney General advised distributors they might be liable to prosecution if they sold the mag azines, now being sued on ubel- conspiracy charges in Los Ange les.

The two magazines have asked the Court of Appeals for an in junction against "threats" by the Attorney General's office, which denies it has indulged in threats in communicating the situation to distributors. On Monday the court urged both sides to negotiate so that an in junction could be avoided. With the failure of negotiations, the case is now back with the court. Constitution Party Will Have Washington Office WASHINGTON Jess Ritchie of Oakland, national chairman of the Constitution Party, U.S.A., said yesterday he will set up national headquarters for the party here, probably next week. Ritchie said the party stands for impeachment of the U.S.

Supreme Court, states rights, repeal of the federal income, tax and for stopping all foreign aid programs. tie saia tne party is seven years old and has some five million adherents. duty it is to peep through key holes of Hollywood bedrooms and report on the private lives of the screen's famous stars." Russian listeners accustomed to laborious accounts of five-year plans in their news bulletins were hearing something new. And in overcrowded Moscow with its vast housing shortage and its ever present secret police, they easily could get a mental picture of what the announcer said had been hap pening in the States. "Gollyvud apparently is not dis turbed by this scandal," said the Muscovite commentator, "for its interest lies in profit making and it has always considered that pub- jlicity encourages profits.

I "Great numbers of journalists and television reporters are reporting every word of the case," the broadcaster continued. ever, that Hoffa knew about and even helped such underworld types seize union power. And the committee counsel drew from Hoffa an admission that he has promised to "look out for" Dio's family if the New York hoodlum and union figure draws a long prison term ifter a recent conviction on ft shakedown con spiracy charge. Sen. Ives (R-NY) broke in at one point to say that Hoffa's "consorting with bums and criminals" hadn't done'him or his union any good.

ni BE RESPECTABLE Hoffa said he' recognized that. But he said that "from indications around the country," he expects to succeed Dave Beck as president of the big union. And he declared: "I intend to conduct myself in keeping with respectability." Specifically, Hoffa said he would take action against racketeers who, the committee contends, have been moved into leadership of phony New York locals. "You knew it was going on all along," Kennedy told Hoffa. But the union chief, protesting for the fourth straight day as a witness that he couldn't remember many details of his New York activities, insisted he was 'shocked and disturbed" to learn that the mobsters had taken over.

MORE PROMISES He said that if he becomes head of the union there will be many fewer Teamster charters in New York, even if this interferes with his "friendship" with such men as John McNamara, accused in previous testimony of helping set up memberless "paper" locals. "You'll have, to make a decided change in Hoffa if you accom plish that," Sen. McClellan told Hoffa. It was at this point that Kennedy said it was "amazing" to hear Hoffa talking about a union cleanup. Kennedy also said Hoffa now was "turning his back" on mob sters who, the council said, had been used by Hoffa and Dio to strengthen their control in the New York Teamster organization.

"I don't turn my back on any body," Hoffa protested. Beck Denies He Issued Charters To Phony Locals SEATTLE (ff Dave Beck, international president of the Team sters Union, yesterday denied he issued charters to the phony locals set up in New York City in 1955. In testimony yesterday before the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee in Washington, James R. Hoffa, midwestern boss of the Teamsters, said Beck made the decision on issuing the charters. "I personally did not know anything about the issuance of those charters until after they were issued," Beck said at his office here.

"They were issued from the Teamsters' office by my executive assistant in my absence." Compromise on Civil Riahis Bill (Continued From Page One) before Senate and House for final ratification are these: 1. The attorney general would be empowered to apply to federal courts for injunctions to halt violations or threatened violations of voting rights. Violators of the in junctions would risk contempt of court action. If it were civil con tempt action designed to induce obedience there would be no jury trial. If it were criminal contempt action, the compromise proceedings announced yesterday would apply.

2. A new Civil Rights Division would be set up in the Justice Department, with an assistant attor ney general in charge. 3. A section designed to guarantee qualified Negroes and other minorities the right to serve on federal juries whether or not they are qualified under state law. 4.

A Federal Civil Rights Com mission, with subpoena powers, to investigate civil rights problems. The leaders agreed yesterday that the House Rules Committee will fashion an amendment to this fourth section to make plain that a provision for jail penalties for persons making unauthorized disclosures of commission proceed ings shall not apply to newsmen There had been protests that reporters doing their job of gathering the news could be jailed under the provision. ICBM Prototype Virtually Finished, Schriever Asserts SAN FRANCISCO OB A high Air Force officer indicated yester day the United States has virtually completed the prototype of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. However, on grounds of security he declined to say whether in an extreme emergency this country right now could fire an atomic warhead 5,000 miles, the projected range of the ICBM. All the components of the ICBM have been tested at full scale except the nose cone, Maj.

Gen. Bernard A. Schriever told a news conference. General Schriever heads the Air Force ballistic missile program. He came here from his Inglewood, headquarters to address the Western Electronics Show and Convention.

Models of the nose cone have been tested in wind tunnels but the full sized article has yet to be tried out, Gen. Schriever said. Theoretically all the nose cone problems have been solved. Ac tual proof of its workability awaits a tryout. Asked if the Air Force had a target date for actual completion, Gen.

Schriever said it did. But he refused to name it. Chicago Daily News Raises Its Prices CHICAGO (UP) The Chicago Daily News yesterday announced it will raise its weekday price from 5 to 7 cents next Monday and its Saturday price from 10 to 12 cents today. Publisher John S. Knight said in a front-page announcement that "as in every other business, inflation has hit us, too." PITTSBURGH (UP-A private ly owned twin-tailed P38 crashed in flames yesterday while swerv ing to avoid a commercial air liner at Greater Pittsburgh Air port.

Killed in the seared wreckage were Gilbert Mendoza, 30, Nor-walk, believed to be the pilot, and John L. MacPherson, Granada Hills, both employes of Hi-Con Aerial Surveys of Pasadena, owner of the plane. State police said their convert- Infection Downs Nearly Half of Destroyer Crew NORFOLK, Va. CB-Eleven new cases of suspected Asiatic flu turned up on the destroyer Huntington yesterday, pushing its total to 108. She carries a crew of 218.

Cmdr. William A. Arthur, skipper, saw no sign of a letup, despite doubled precautions to prevent a spread of the yet to be identified infection. Half the crew has come down with the malady since the first cases appeared four weeks ago. Gun Play All in Fun, But One Man Injured DALLAS (m Six delegates to the convention of Toastmasters International, a public speakers' organization, staged a gunfight in a hotel lobby.

It was all in fun, but there was a casualty just the same. Tom Murphy of Dallas, trying to fan his' six-shooter in approved Western style, gashed his thumb by getting it tangled with the hammer. regular list price. Without Trade-in $28.00 (Continued From Page One) hands after Hoffa, who pleaded inability to remember 111 times in Thursday's hearing alone, acknowledged he got some small recording devices about the time of a Detroit grand jury session but insisted he didn't recall whether they came from Dio. Asked if he ever "assigned" the "bugs" for use in recording what witnesses said about him to the grand jury, Hoffa said his best recollection was that "I did not assign anybody to do any such a thing." Hoffa stuck to his story even after listening to a recorded phone conversation in which Dio said he had "a couple of those things" and would bring them with two more if he could get them to Detroit.

Kennedy said the "things" were tiny microphones and recording devices. When the recording failed to jog Hoffa's memory, the committee held a whispered five-minute conferencein full view of television cameras and McClellan an nounced that since "the witness has no memory it would be useless to proceed further at this time." 48 ACCUSATIONS Hoffa then listened poker-faced as the chairman in his formal statement, listed 48 accusations against him. McClellan accused the Teamster titan of conflict of interest in bor rowing $89,500 from employers with whom the union bargains collectively and from union sub ordinates. Among "questionable actions" it listed the handling of some 000 of union funds, including a $150,000 expenditure to buy the home of Paul (The Waiter) Ricca, a notorious Chicago gangster, as a training school for union offi rials. It also listed a 550,000 loan by Teamster Local 337 in Detroit to the Northville Downs race track in Michigan, where Bert Brennan, a friend of Hoffa, racked his horses.

MEMORY FAILS HIM Hoffa pleaded lack of memory when asked about other phone conversations between himself and Dio. Kennedy asked him why, in one such talk June 16, 1953, he re ferred to Teamsters Vice Presi dent Thomas Hickey, who was opposing him in a New York or- drive, as "that stupid "I just don't have any recol lection of this incident," Hoffa said. Another recording, made about the same time, had Dio telling Hoffa about some men he was sending to Detroit to help Hoffa in a current difficulty. "They are the best," said the gravel-voiced Dio. "They work for the U.N.

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