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by Twenty-Six Pages EDITION. HOME The South Bend Tribune. VOL. I.XXXV SOUTH BEND. INDIANA, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1957.

ONE SHOT KILLS PROWLER Truck Hits Car Near Laporte; 2 Die POLICE CHECK SHOT VICTIM; WATT TELLS STORY At the left, Police Sgt. John R. Niezgodski shines his flashlight on the body of a burglar suspect killed early today when he ran from Patrolman Robert Watt, who attempted to question him in the 700 block of Western Ave. Coroner Edward S. Shelley also is holding a flashlight.

In the picture at the right, Patrolman Watt gives his version of the shooting to Police Inspector John W. Porte, front, left, and other policemen. Plains by Tribune Staff Photographer. Local TV Stations Plan Channel Switch The three television stations "Elkhart area, including WSBT-FV, are expected to shift their channels coverage lof the area. Station WNDU.TV, operated by the University of -Notre Dame, will be the first to make the shift.

It already has received authorization from the Federal Communications Commission to switch from Channel 46 to Channel 16. Bernard C. Barth, manager, said that his station hopes to be on the air on the new channel between Sept. 15 and 30. Channel 46 will be used until that time, he added.

Arthur R. O'Neil chief engineer and assistant general manager of WSBT-TV, said that the three stations, including WSJV, Elkhart, have acted mutually in the matter as a means of improving television reception in this area. FCC Invites Comment. WSBT-TV, now operating on expected to signed Channel 22. WSJV, now on Channel 52, is.

expected to be allocated Channel 28. The FCC has invited comment by Sept. on for the shifts in channels. Barth said the change in channels will involve. reconstruction of station a anterina system.

He said that WNDUTV would be off the air for only two or three hours when the final changeover is completed. The shift in channels for WSJV also will involve a new location for its transmitter, antenna system and studios nearer to South Bend and Mishawaka, Edwin J. Lasko. WSJV assistant manager said. If FCC permission is led, the station would be moved from its present location on Oakland Ave.

south of Elkhart, to a 26-acre tract which it has purchased at Jackson and Grass southeast of Mishawaka. Plymouth to Get 34. Channel 22, the one proposed for WSBT-TV, previously was assigned to Ill. Channel 79 would be assigned to Waukegan and Channel 34 would be allocated to Plymouth; Ind. Channel 16.

will be transferred to South Bend from Aurora, for WNDU-TV. Channel 46 will be switched to Kalamazoo, to substitute for Channel 36. Channel 28, proposed for. would come here as a result of the substitution of Channel 52 for the unused educational Channel 40 in South Bend and the Channel 28. from Elgin, where Channel 83.

would. be assigned. Channel 40 would be allocated to Benton Harbor, in place of Channel 42. It was explained that the switch channels would affect only sets with strip tuners and not those with multi-channel tuners for ultra high frequency. A survey made by TV distributors and dealers shows that less than 10 per cent of the sets in the area have strip tuners.

Departments and Features. Amusement Mishawaka Radio-TV Comics Society Editorial Financial PRICE FIVE CENTS SEEK IDENTITY OF VICTIM HIT IN BACK CHICAGOANS FAIL TO STOP AT FLASHER Steel-Laden Carrier Crushes Auto; Pins Bodies. The Tribune's Special Service. LAPORTE, Ind. A Chicago couple was killed when their car was hit broadside by a heavily loaded double-trailer steel carrier Friday afternoon at U.

S. 20 and Ind. 39. The crash raised LaPorte county's 1957 traffic toll to more than double over last year. Killed were Frank T.

Platka, 80, and Mrs. Natalie Platka, about 70. LaPorte County Coroner Sterline Peak said both died instantly of head and chest injuries. The truck driver, Nathan Robinson, 31, of Gary, driving for the Tucker Freight Lines, of South Bend, suffered a superficial left arm bruise. Pull Wreckage Apart.

LaPorte County Deputies Tom State Conley and Harry Claude Moore, and Trooper worked for 45 minutes to extricate the bodies of the two victims from the twisted wreckage of their car. Officers used tow trucks to pull the wreckage apart before the bodies could be freed. A parrot which had been riding in the back seat of the car was unharmed in the crash, and squawked incessantly as officers worked to extricate the bodies of his apparent owners. The bird was taken to the LaPorte County Sheriff's office. Police quoted Robinson as saying the car, northbound on Ind.

39, approached the intersection "without even slowing down" despite a red flasher signal. Robinson, traveling west on U.S. 20, approached the intersection on an amber flasher, giving him the legal right of way. Truck Skids 250 Feet. Police said the heavy truck laid down 250-feet of skid marks as the driver tried to stop before ramming the auto.

The deaths raised La Porte County's 1956 traffic toll to 27. The toll stood at 13 at this time last year. Bodies. of both Mr. and Mrs.

Platka were taken to the Haverstock Funeral Home in LaPorte. They were to be taken today to the Love, Sons Funeral Home in Chicago. TV DIRECTOR WEDS ACTRESS for both. THE WEATHER. 'SATURDAY; AUG.

1957, Fair and cooler tonight. and Sunday. Winds shifting to northwesterly tonight. Low tonight, 60. High Sunday, 84.

Monday outlook, fair and pleasant. (U. S. Weather Bureau prediction.J LOWER MICHIGAN: Clearing tonight, Sunday' fair and pleasant. Low tonight 55-65.

Aug. 4: Sun rises, sets. 8:00. SOUTH BEND TEMPERATURES. by the U.

S. Weather. Bureau office at St. Joseph County airport Maximum 92, minimum 70. AUG.

2, 1957. TODAY. 12 Noon 1:00 a.m. 73 1:00 p.m. 2.00 a.m.

2:00 p.m. 3:00 a.m, 3:00 p.m. ...90 4:00 4:00 p.m. 4:30 a.m. 5:00 p.m.

...88 5:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. .84 6:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:00 a.m.

8:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. 9:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. 10:00 p.m.

10:00 a.m. 11:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. ...73 12:00 Noon 1:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m. Precipitation the 24 hours ending at 1:30 a.m. today: .01 inch. Monthly total, inch. Monthly normal, 3.25 inches.

Monthly precipitation through Aug. deficiency, Annual precipitation through Aug. 2. 20.58 inches, below normal. The temperature of Lake Michigan at St.

Joseph at 10. a.m. today was 74 grees. NEW YORK (UP) Lee Ann Remick, the baby faced blond movie starlet who won critical acclaim in "A Face in the Crowd," was married today to independent TV director Arthur Colleran at a quiet ceremony af St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church.

The 21-year-old bride and 34- year-old groom exchanged vows before Father Robert Morris in the presence of relatives and friends. It was the first marriage Utah Prison Hit by Riot; Free Women POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN, Utah (UP) 'Inmates at the Utah state prison staged their second riot in six months last holding 15 visiting woman band members and four others hostage during the brief uprising. Prison authorities were unable today to explain the reason for the riot and the prisoners gave no motives. Prison 'guards carrying 'sawedoff shotguns and .38 caliber pistols threatened to rush the rioters and the disturbance ended abruptly. All of the" hostages, including three prison officials, were released unharmed from the auditorium, only section affected riot.

The women were calm and left shortly thereafter to fill another engagement. Deputy Warden John Turner said last night's disturbance apparently was not connected with a riot at the Point of the Mountain prison last Feb. .7 or a riot at Montana state prison at "Deer Lodge, Mont. earlier this week. However, he admitted that "four or five" of the convicts who were responsible for last night's brief disturbance also were ringleaders of the February riot.

"It was strictly a spontaneous disturbance," Turner said. He emphasized that "only a handful" of the institution's 551 inmates participated in the riot and that "most of the convicts were against it. They were particularopposed to holding the women as hostages." 18 Prisoners Guarded. Eighteen prisoners. had been placed under guard as definite participants in the riot.

No prison property was damaged, and the rioters were confined to the auditorium. Hostages taken were 15 women and one man who were members of the "'Kitchen Rythmettes," a band from Price, Utah, and the three prison officials. Rioters first tried to grab corridor officer Reed Smith of Draper, but he and other officers quelled the outburst temporarily. But 30 minutes later the convicts broke into the prison recreation room to get baseball bats and. knives, then.

stormed into the auditorium. TITO IN TALKS WITH TOP RED Khrushchev Meets Yugoslav to End LONDON (UP) Soviet Communist Party Boss Nikita S. Khrushchev and Yugosltvia's president Tito met during the past two days to thrash out- between their two Red camps, Moscow. radio reported today. Large delegations of Russians and Yugoslavs assisted their leaders, the broadcasts said.

Obviously, it was a top flight party meeting of leading party figures of the two Communist countries, which have not always seen eye to eye. The broadcast did not immedilately say where Khrushchev and Tito met. "During the talks the two sides confiremd their agreemnt to work for a further all-round development of relations and removal of obstacles hindering this development," it said. "They also confirmed their agreement on the main problems of the present world CIVIL RIGHTS PLAN STUDIED BY PRESIDENT Ike and Knowland Map Strategy For WASHINGTON (INS) President Eisenhower and Senate GOP Leader William F. Knowland held a special Saturday.

conference at the White House today and they were believed to have mapped strategy for strengthening the civlil rights bill. Knowland conferred with the chief executive at a breakfast meeting lasting about 40 minutes and then eluded newsmen as he left the White House. The conference preceded a meetling of Southern Democrats to decide their position on passage of the watered-down bill. The erners, who won every round in, the Senate battle over the PresiIdent's measure, called parley in the office of Sen. Richard Russell (D-Ga.) Passage Put Off.

The Senate brought the legislation to the verge of. a final vote Friday. But passage was put off until next week to accomodate senators. who still have speeches to make on the bill. However, all amendments are out of the way and senators on and off the floor are discussing a possible jury trial compromise to prevent the legislation from being killed in a' Senate-House ence.

The basis of the compromise is a defeated amendment by Sen. Jacob K. Javits to limit the jury trial guarantee to crimlinal contempt cases involving the right to vote. Brings Ike Criticism, Senate adption of a jury trial amendment, that would apply to all cases of criminal contempt for defiance of a court order, brought stern criticism from Eisenhower. It led Knowland and Ho use GOP leader Joseph W.

Martin to predict the bill will' die in. conference. But Knowland said later he hopes the conferees will study. the Javits proposal. He said: "If we are to have a jury trial, it.

should be limited to voting Fight Jury A Senate-House conference is held when the two chambers pass different versions of a bill. In this case, the House refused a 50-vote margin to write a jury trial amendment into: the bill: Administration forces a del their biggest fight- against the jury trial amendment, but the Senate wrote it into the bill by a 51 to 42 vote early Friday. In its stripped down form, the bill would permit the government to obtain an injunction. against interference with a person's to vote. But a jury--rather than a federal judge would decide whether violator should bejailed or fined for criminal contempt, It also sets up a presidential commission to study racial discrimination, but the Senate again at the request of Southerners ruled.

out any volunteer workers on the commission. SEN. GEORGE NEAR DEATH VIENNA, Ga. (UP) Former Sen. Walter F.

George near death today with doctors convinced the 79-year-old foreign affairs expert can no longer rally in his fight against a heart ailment. Dr. Martin L. Malloy, George's family physician, said after a visit with the former "dean" of the Senate last night, "his heart is growing weaker." Finding Squirrel's Cache Nets Greenskeepers $10 BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine Rice, country club greenskeepers, a ball as it. bounded onto the eighth witnessed a repeat and followed the thief.

In a thicket, Leeman found the confused squirrel's cache. It 174 golf balls. Patrolman Fires At Figure In Dark. one of his pockets was a raincheck for a Cleveland Indians baseball game played July 13. The shirt, trousers and belt which he was wearing were bought two days ago in a South Bend store for $8, a receipt on the body disclosed.

very sorry I shot Watt said. "It wasn't my to kill him." Patrols Area 15 Years. Watt, who has been patrolling the Western Ave. beat. off and on for more than 15 years, said, "This is the first time anything like this has happened to me." It was indicated that the case probably 1 be referred to a grand jury in order that all the facts connected with the 'fatal shooting could become a matter of record.

Watt reported that he was walkling his beat west in the 700 block of Western a few minutes before: 3 o'clock when he noticed the dim outline of a man standing stiffly erect in the doorway of the. clothing. operated by. Joseph. Rosenbaum.

The figure was outlined by a night light in the store, Watt said. Begins to Edge Away. Watt said that he asked the man, "What are you doing?" but received no answer. Watt said that he repeated the question- and the man answered, just standing here, that's all." Then, -Watt said, the suspect, began edging away from the doorway west to the corner of the building, turned and ran south along the 75-foot building in a small space between the building land a fence. Watt said that the man had nearly reached the end of the building when he drew out his service revolver and fired.

Steps in Depression. Coroner Edward S. Shelley reported that the fleeing man apparently stepped small depression and. crouched over just as Watt fired. The low bullet caught him in the back, and the man tumbled through the broken palings in a fence in the rear of a store.

Watt said that he immediately went to a -nearby police call box, on page 2, column 3. Police are seeking the identity of a burglar suspect killed with a single bullet from a police patrolman's. service revolver shortbefore a.m. today in the 700 block of Western Ave. The body of the suspect, about 30 years old, shot through his heart with a bullet that entered his back, was found sprawled in an Rosenbaum areaway, in Clothing the Western Ave.

He had fallen so that his head rested on a rubbish can. Robert Watt, 1322 South Bend the patrolman who fired the shot, said that he aimed low at the fleeing suspect and had no intention of killing him. Watt has been on the force 22 years. Find Two Wallets. Police said that one of.

two wallets found in the dead. man's pockets bore a social security card made out in the name of Charles Thomas. They planned to send his fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington in an attempt to obtain more positive identification. The man was wearing a hat bearing a tag that showed it was bought in a Cleveland store. In CUBANS ASSAIL Stolen Plane ENVOY OF U.

sIs Used by Jail Fugitive in the South Bend-MishawakaThe Tribune's television station, soon to provide more uniform Farmer Trains Cows by Radio PENTWATER, Mich. (UP)Pentwater Farmer Claire W. Nelson says the radio blaring in his barn conditions his dairy cattle to frightening noises. "I keep it on so the cows will hear all sorts of noisesfrom women's screams, gunshots, to rock 'n' roll," Nelson explained. "Then when a stranger comes into the barn aren't.

upset. he.c.a.us.e. they've heard everything on "the radio." TWO ESCAPEES BACK IN JAIL Illinois Fugitives Give Selves Up; Third Nabbed. BENTON, I. Two of four fugitives from Menard State Pris-tro on surrendered early today- at the urging of one of the convict's sister--and a third was captured Alabama.

Millard Carlile. 35, of Benton, and Clarence Newberry, 31, of St. Louis, gave themselves up at the Franklin County jail here at 2:45 a.m. Warden Ross Randolph of the prison at Chester announced that Joe Strange, 26, was picked up Friday night by FBI agents and local officers in his home town of Albertsville, Ala. Still at Large.

Still at large was Francis M. Murphy, 65, of Terre Haute, whom the other prisoners abandoned when he tired during their flight from the prison early last Sunday. The three back in custody have beert charged in a federal complaint with interstate transportation of a "Stolen car on a report by la a Missourian that they kidnaped him last Friday. Carlile and Newberry were tioned at the county jail by WardRandolph and FBI agents. Randolph said whereabouts of the crippled Murphy "remains a "He had a hard time going when they left the prison, dormitory.

and they had to stop and rest him every once in a Randolph said. "They say they just went off and left The warden said Carlile. and Newberry would be returned to the prison as soon as authorities finished taking statements from them. Ambassador Recall Goal of Batista Followers. HAVANA (UP) The government bloc in Congress demanded today that the United States recall Ambassador Earl E.

T. Smith (from Cuba because his "interference in this: country's affairs" makes him a "disturbing agent." A bill introduced yesterday by pro-government Sen. Ernesto Rosell crystallized official indignation over Smith's comment that the police precautions he found in rebel-infested Santiago were repugnant. comments during a tour of eastern Cuba were made on the eve of a new outbreak of angovernment violence in the area The army announced last night that 15 persons have been killed and four wounded in the area this week in the heaviest fighting in weeks. Approve Batista Decree.

A special joint session of Congress last night approved President Fulgencio Batista's decree suspending civil rights in Cuba for 45 days by a vote of 123 to 11. Some pro legislators urged discussion of Rosell's anti-Smith bill at last night's session, but speaker Anselmo ruled that another special session will have to be called for the purpose. Alliegro did not set a date for the The attacks on the Ambassador drew quick response from Washington, where Sen. Mike field (D-Mont) said last night the Senate Foreign Relations Committee may call on Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to explain Smith's conduct. Queen Speech Criticism Sets British Agog LONDON (INS)-British newspapers roared with indignation today over a Conservative peer's attack on Queen Elizabeth's speeches.

Lord Altrincham, leveling the blast at the queen in a six-page article in "The National English Review." claimed that her ma-. jesty's speeches were a "pain in the neck" and aura of "priggish -school girl." A Buckingham Palace spokesman, rallying to the queen's defense, explained that important speeches by the queen usually are drafted: by the minister concerned." The story was splashed across the front pages of morning newspapers, including the London Daily Telegraph which ly complained that Altrincham's article "will give widespread and justified offense." ENID. Okla. A convicted, rapist disappeared in an airplane Friday after escaping from a Texas Air Force base and terrorlizing the family of his former wife. Milton J.

Martin, 27, described as dangerous by authorities at Bergstrom Air. Force Base, was the object of a man hunt today and surrounding states. Bergstrom officials said he had vowed "not to be taken alive." Last June Martin was convicted of rape, allegedly holding his wife. while another man assaulted her. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and was being held at Bergstrom pending review of the Escapes From Stockade.

He escaped from the stockade Thursday, authorities said, stole an airplane at nearby Austin, and made his way to Enid. Sheriff Mason Hart said Martin was divorced by his wife last month and had threatened to kill her. The sheriff placed her in after hearing her husband had escaped. Mr. and Mrs.

Ercle B. Fest, parents of Martin's wife, hearing tot the escape, flew home from a California vacation with their 13- Fests found Martin hiding in a old son, Hart said the closet. in their house. Martin pulled a knife and bound the three Fests, the sheriff said, and threatened their lives. After several hours 'he left.

Pilot Not Identified. Mrs. Barbara Jansen, 18 of Garber, said a man answering description subsequently stopped her on a highway east of Enid, brandished a knife took her car. Late Friday afternoon, Sheriff Hart said, a blue and white plane landed at an airport near. here.

A man hurried out from hind a hangar and climbed into it, and it took off. Hart -said the man was believed to be Martin. Police said the plane stolen at Austin also was blue and white. DRUG ADDICT a ADMITS ATTACK SAN FRANCISCO (UP) -Po-1 lice announced early, today that a 21-year-old unemployed warehouseman has admitted the sadistic rape of a young student nurse in Golden Gate park. The was identified as Melvin N.

Bakkerud, a stocky, 5-foot-3-inch admitted drug addict. The sudden announcement eliminated from suspicion entirely John Alvin Rexinger, a old ex-convict who had been in jail for 10 days while police sought clues in the case. The victim had identified him as the attacker. KOREA FLOODS KILL. PUSAN, Korea UP Korean napolice said today floods along the Naktong River north of Pusan killed .13 persons, left one missing and nearly 4,000 homeless.

What is The DEW Line? It's 'an -warning system of radar posts stretching from the Pacific to the Atlantic in the far north. Read why it's important to you. What the St. Lawrence Seaway Will Mean to Us Third, of a on this tremendous project. CROSS- WORD PUZZLE On the Feature Page of Tomorrow's SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE (A.P) Mark Leeman and Ken spotted a grey squirrel snatching green yesterday.

Today Leeman The keepers turned them in to the club pro, who paid them $10 and suggested they purchase some peanuts for the rodent..