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HOME EDITION. Twenty-Si Pae Dtpartmiots ind Ftaturts, AnMMt I MMmki QmrnTml, Baa TV I Cmmcs Society PRICEIVE CKNTS rv i IS i i i 1 I I I I I 1 I I i I i i i i UJL VJ 5 WITNESSES mm says Goshen Milk to Strike Spreads DISAPPEAR, SflY mnmFBI on Trail -1 win I ilUWUIVI Rackets Committee Ready to Call, Hoffa. WASHINGTON un Federal marshals pressed their search today for five witnesses sought by the Senate Rackets Investigating committee. Chairman McClellan (D-Ark) said the five "are on the Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy said staff aides and the U.S.

marshal's office in New York have been unable to locate any of the five, wanted as witnesses an inquiry into" New York labor rackets, a named only two of those sought: Benny The Bug" Ross, a former Teamsters Union organizer, and Leonard Geiger, vice oresident of Joint Council 16, governing body of the Teamsters' RFPIinilCANK STAND FIRM Indicate President Calls Protection WASHINGTON Rep. Mar- tin (R-Mass) said after a talk with President Eisenhower today that Republicans are "still standing pat" for a stronger civil rights bill than that being pushed by House Democrats. The. general feeling at the Capi tol, however, was that the House and probably Senate would approve next weejt a compromise bill embodying a modified jury trial amendment being spon sored by Rep. Celler (INY).

Martin, the House GOP leader, had breakfast with Eisenhower at the White House and later said We are still standing pat for the type of bill the President wants to give adequate protection to every single American who wants to vote. Won't Satisfy Ike. Asked whether the amendment proposed by Celler gives such. adequate protecttonMaitiarer plied: "I don't think that's tha kind of bid the President wants. Asked Eisenhower would sign the Senate bill Cell er has proposed to modify it.

Martin said "We didn't get that far." The House passed a bill closely tailored to Eisenhower's recommendations. The Senate revised it substantially. One change was the addition of a requirement for jury trials in all federal contempt of court cases. Eisenhower has objected strenuously to that provision. Jury Trial Proposal.

Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has pro posed that the jiny trial provision be limited to cases involving voting rights. To a question whether Eisen hower indicated he is against any compromise between the House bill and the more limited Senate MOTORIST CRITICALLY HURT WHEN TWO CARS AND TRUCK CRASH NEAR NAPPANEE Thomas H. Sopher, 65. of Wayland, driver of the smashed car in foreground, was critically hurt when two cars and a truck crashed about 8:15 p. m.

Friday on Ind. 19 about 3'4 miles north of Nappanee. Witnesses told State Trooper Charles E. Brown, and Nappanee Pa-trolman Richard Dean Middaugh, -that Gilford Lowell Swihart, 35, of 700 Lincoln Goshen, driver of the overturned car -in the background, passed Sopher on the right and forced him into the path of an oncoming auto carrier driven by Charles A. Palmatier, 37, of Grand Blanc, Mich.

Swihart and Palmatier escaped with bruises. Sopher, who was trapped for about 10 minutes in his smashed car, suffered head and internal injuries and a compound fracture of the left leg. He is reported in fair condition today in Elkhart General Hospital. Swihart denied he was passing the Sopher car on the right and contended he i swerved to avoid when its brake fights' went on. The crash is still under investigation, the officersTeported.

Photi. bv Tribune Staff PhotoerioniT. Of Woman 'Con Artist' ATLANTA (UP) The FBI today fingered Mrs. Margaret Ly- dia Burton, veteran "con artist' of the tea and crumpets set, as the master embezzler who fleeced group of local doctors out of $100,000. Burton, said the FBI, is the so-called Mrs.

Janet Gray, who wormed ber way' into the best social set in suburban Decatur, dipped into the till of a lo cal clinic where she worked to the tune of some $100,000 and then made 'a circus-style escape from the city as auditors closed in on the swindle. The FBI said vthe crime career of the 51-year-old Mrs. Burton, a woman of many aliases and many talents, spanned the ocean and covered a continent. Happy Hunting Grounds. Honolulu, Panama City, Los An geles, Vancouver, New Orleans.

Denver, St, Atlanta all provided happy hunting grounds for Mrs. "exploits and escapes read like a paper back novel, A 1953 automobile she bought in San Antonio, opened the door to her background when the FBI began investigating the disappearance of Mrs. Gray three weeks ago. Mrs. Gray had left town-in hurry in a pink limousine with la contingent t)f pedigree cocker spaniels, two truckloads of fumi ture and a "niece" with the ap pealing "name of Candy Lane.

Left behind was the car she bought in Texas. Trace 'Startling' Career. In establishing its ownership, agents traced the startling ca reer of an amazing woman. Mrs. Burton, who had traveled under an assortment of names.

Candy was not her 16-year-old niece but her 20-year-old daugh-, fterr a ifliarnage to Jasper Burton that ended in 125,000 members in New York. Hoffa Qui Due. The committee, meanwhile, pre- tional Teamsters officials including the union's Midwest boss. James R. Hoffa for questioning about activities in New York.

Thomas Hickey, a Teamsters Vice president, testified yesterday that Hoffa heir-apparent to retiring Teamsters President Dave Beck, originated the idea of forming phantom Teamsters locals to vote in the union's New York council election in 1956. Hickey and another witness Loan i Bandit May Hit at LaPorte The Tribune'! Special Senli. PLYMOUTH, Ind. A lone gunman who has staged four loan company robberies in little more than a month might be following a pattern, which will lead him to strike in LaPorte, next, pwpoae of the phantom locals was to get ad ditional votes to elect John J. 0'- Rourke president of the.

council, and thus place it under Hoffa's control. Predicts Ouster. the man 0Rourke jn- seated, called the phony locals a measure, martin saia: ne nasi Honolulu. hast efforts. tA frtt: never been opposed lo a com- promisei provided it gave protection to every American to vote." Police Ride Semi-Truck Into Dairy t- Tribune'! Special Service.

GOSHEN. Ind. Two Ekhart County sheriffs deputies escort ed a semi-trailer tank truck load ed with milk into a Goshen dairy this morning as the walkout of milk truck drivers and delivery- men spread here from Elkhart, Ind. About 30 striking drivers were reported waiting for the shipment from the New Paris, Ind. Cream ery to the Berger Dairy More on U.S.

33, west of the city limits. Set. Howard E. Salisbury and Chief deputy Woody Caton rode into the dairy with the truck to head off any violence. The truck was reported Unloading without incident.

Vote to Join Strike. Representatives of three city dairies Goshen Farms Dairy, City Dairy and Blough's" Dairy voted at a meeting Friday afternoon to support the Elkhart strike by cutting off local deliv eries. It was a protest action, drivers said, against "a price war that is gradually putting the drivers out of business." The drivers work on a commission basis and said the cutting of store prices has caused the milk route men to lose money because housewives drop orders and buy milk at the stores. Buyers were carrying their own milk home from the dairies to day as all deliveries in both cit ites have been stopped to homes. tstores Stores Cut Prices.

Several supermarkets, the driv ers used the milk price as a sales leader which dropped the price from a stand ard 75 cents a gallon to as low as 23 cents. Police in both cities, reported the strike action had been orderly. South Bend and other out-of-town dairies have refrained frorm mak ing deliveries ia either area. Dr. Paul Martin, Elkhart Coun ty night ordered one grocery store to stop the sale of Grade reportedly- bought by the owner in neighboring St.

Joseph County. Violates Ordinance. The order followed the purchase of a half-gallon of milk by the commissioner. The city has a Grade A ordinance, limiting pub lic consumption milk to that Dairies reported a brisk sale of milk at retail prices at their dairy stores. Efforts, were, made today to call a meeting of.

the drivers with the supermarket owners. Most stores in Goshen have been selling milk for 59 cents a gallon for several years, but re cently, several have dropped be low that price to entice customers into their stores. PILOT WARNED AIR LINER MAY HAVE LOST TIRE NEW YORK tm-A United Air lines plane was reported today flying to San Francisco minus a tire and tube. The San Francisco Airport was alerted to watch for the plane, due there this after noon with 56 passengers and a crew of five. The plane took off from Idiewild Airport here.

Pieces of a tire and inner tubing were found on the runway a short time later, and it was presumed one of the plane's tires had blown out on the take-off. The pilot was notified of his possible predicament. REPORT I KIT A MAY FLY INTO MIDDLE EAST LONDON (UP) Diplomatic sources reported today that Soviet Communist chief Nikita S. Khrushchev is preparing a flying visit to Egypt and Syria to press Russian counteroffensive against the Eisenhower doctrine. Khrushchev's strategy ently is to cash in fast on new Soviet ties with Syria, the sourc es said.

Syria has just signed a large-scale "economic aid pact with the Kremlin and has moved to purge anti-Communist ele ments from the army and Martin did not -indicate what 4 i ATOMIC POWER FIGHT FLARES Inter-Party Battle Kindled by Senate Version of Bill; WASHINGTON (UP) Th GOP-Democratic battle over pub lic development of nuclear power blazed anew today with Senate passage of' the atomic construc tion bill. The bill, unlike the House ver- sion.carried a Democratic-backed provision directing the A i EMefgftommi nuclear power plants. Also unlike raw House version, it orSered the administration to build five atom ic reactors to produce electricity. The battle now moves to House-Senate conference commit tee. The Senate last night reject ed by identical 42-34 votes two GOP amendments that would have knocked the projects out of the bill.

Then it passed the 390-mil- hon-dollar bill by a voice vote. Opposed by GOP. Democrats on the House-Senate Atomic Energy Committee "wrote the projects into the bill. Repub lican leaders and the AEC opposed them. The House in passing the bill last week eliminated the funds for all seven projects.

One of the controversial plants would use natural uranium fuel and would be -built at the AEC's Arco, installation at a cost of 40 million dollars. The other, to be built at Han- ford, would use, plutonium and 15 million dollars. The bill provides fof federal construction of the five small elec tricity-producing reactors for the consumersr-public- power district at Columbus, the city of nqua, ana rural co-opera tives at Elk River, Mich.j Ann chorage, Alaska, and i Mien. SUKARNO ASKS BRAINWASHING JAKARTA, Indonesia W-Presi- dent Sukarno today called for the people of Indonesia to brainwash themselves in his new life move ment" and forget the "rock and roll of unrestrained chatterbox de mocracy which does not recognize (discipline or guidance." to Ghosts. lifeless objects.

Deputy. Sheriff Chester Moberly said yesterday: "No evidence of a ghost. Could be some of the immediate family playing tricks, but no evidence of that yet. "It'sAueust. the silly season' he added.

Russell Fisher, chairman of the Northwestern University physics department, said he had never heard 'of such a He PLANE CRASHES AMID HOUSES Four Crewmen Die As Bomber Falls In Florida, WEST PALM Fla. (UP) A twin-engine Air Force bomber crashed in flames between rows of houses here early today, killing four crewmen but miracul ously sparing residents. Occupants of the, homes, many of them Air Force personnel of the. West Palm Beach Air Force Base and their families, r-wcre not hurt, thanks possibly to the pilot's A spokesman at the base here said the plane, a World War II type B-25, plowed along a strip of back yards and swerved into two of the houses just before halting. Hear Engine Trouble.

"The path the plane took in dicated the pilot may have been trying to land in the strip in order to miss the houses," the spokesman- -sai A -rY A number of the residents said they heard the plane in trouble and got out of their houses before It hit. The Air Force said the bomber was on the last leg of a training flight from Vance Air Force Base at Enid, Okla. It crashed into the group of homes about a quarter of a mile1 from the base here, where the plane was bound. A witness said one of the plane's engines hurtled into, the bedroom of a house, but the occupants had fled the home minutes Arrives Over Field. The bomber had arrived safely over the field here after making one atop at BarksdahAir Force Base in Shreveport.

La. It radioed for landing clearance, then ap parently developed engine trou ble. i The Air Force withheld names! of the dead "crewmen pending notification of nexf of kin. I Authorities' said the plane crashed about 3 a.m., littering the. area with debris and damag ing three homes.

Residents of the housing devel opment said they heard the plane in trouble and alerted the neigh borhood. Families evacuated their homes in nightclothes. 5 Bears Daughter On 11th Birthday LITTLE ROCK, Art An 1-year-old girl and the daughter she gave birth to are ia good condition at the state medical center here, physicians said today. Tbe 8-pound, 4-ounca baby was delivered bjr a -Caesarian-operation yesterday. It was the" mother's llth Dr.

Eva Dodge, who delivered the child, said the unmarried mother has been at the medical center for some time under aer supervision. BRITISH GRANT POLE ASYLUM Red Diplomat Flees London Embassy Witb Son. LONDON (UPKBriUin granted political asylum today to a Polish diplomat who said his Communist wife spied on him for the secret police. "Mieczyslaw Reluga, 26, an as sistant to the Polish commercial attache, fled the Polish embassy to freedom with his 4-year-old son. He was to have been sent home tomorrow.

A Polish secret policeman tried to stop him, but with Scotland Yards agents watching from a distance, Reluga ran to a taxi and disappeared into London traf fic. The Home Office announced without elaboration that Reluga had applied for political asylum and had received permission to remain in Britain. over the kitchen floor; chairs popped up and down; sometimes matoes leaped up and splattered the kitchen ceiling; a cabbage and a quarter-pound of butter hit Susan; mothballs bounced from a bed. and a tube of tooth- paste wouldn't stay in a suit- Police haver 't yet come up with Marshall, Oftunty Sheriff Harvey Phillips said -The bandit took $800 from the Security Loan Co. at Garro and Water Sts.

at 12:50 p. m. Friday after barricading a clerk and woman customer in a back room of. the office. Police said the man matches the description of the gunman who took 1,500 from the same company July 6.

A man fitting the same description robbed the Local Finance Co. in LaPorte trf $208 July and-took $175 from the Pacific Finance Gov, 114 Western South Bend on Aug. 7. "It seems strange that ths rob ber would set such an obvious Phillips said, "but he made a good haul at the loan company the first time and maybe he figured he would try it again. The $1,500 he got in July is more than you could expect to find in a loan the sheriff added.

May Have But there is a possibility that the gunman has picked up an accomplice since his last swing of daring daylight told-ups through the three cities. Witnesses said Friday they saw two men driving a blue car pull up on the wrong side of street and. park in front of the loan office. The witness said it appeared that one man remained in the car. Shelrittt'PhiUipatttkt appeared to be familiar with the loan Mrs.

tins, the clerk who was on duty at the time of the robbery, said the man appeared to know where the cash drawer was located and was familar with the back room in which he locked her and Mrs. Florence Hoham who entered the office while the hold-up was in progress. Mrs. Collins was oru vacation July 6 when the other robbery took place. Phillips said, and was unable to say if the robber was the same man who made the ear-j lier haul, A BLAST DELAYED.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UP) -4 Detonation of atomic device "Shasta" early "totfay was post poned for the 19th time. fraud against the union. O'Rourke invoked the Fifth Amendment Thursday in refusing to answer all questions! 'about' the election and about any relationship with Hoffa. JCyTJX Htckey announced from the he thinks there will be moves to get rid of him as a union official when the Teamsters hold their convention next month.

Hoffa will be questioned by the committee next week in the climax of the committee's exploration into McClellan's charge that Hoffa formed a corrupt alliance with labor racketeers Johnny Dio and Tony "Ducks" Corallo to increase his union power. winds push: OREGON BLAZE BAKER, Oref UPA fire roared out of control over 10,000 acres of eastern Oregon rangeland last night, destroying an old mining town and threatening 60 ranches. There is no hope of controlling the blaze on the lush grassland until the winds die down, the Bu- BOY. 14, WINS CHESS TITLE (UP)-R6bert Fischer, .14, of Brooklyn. won the championship title of the 58th annual national open chess tournament last night, besting a number of older players before tying tournament veteran Arthur Bisquier of New York City.

THE WEATHER. 17, 157. Mottly fair lonifM and Sunday. Lilil chugi ia umpcraturet. Light portheaat-rly windt tonifht.

Low tonight, M. High Sunday, (1. Monday outlook, fair with taodcrata temperatures. (U. S.

Weather Bureau prediction.) 'Aug. Sun riaea, aeta, SOUTH BEND TEMPERATURES. Recorded by the U. S. Weather bureau nice at St Joseph County Airport.

AUG. II, 1IS7. 1U1MI, II Noon .74 11:00 pm ..04 1:00 m. 1:00 p.m. I p.m.

1:00 p.m. 4 00 m. 1:00 p.m. :00 m. 7:00 pm.

70 a.m. ......70 ......77 74 1:00 a.m. ......01 1:00 a.m. ......00 4:00 a.m. 5 1:00 a.m.., 50 in a.m.

......07 0:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 5 0:00 Stltt. .....47 1:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.

10.00 p.m. 11:00 p. nv to.oo a.m. 71 04 11:00 am 70 11 Noon 70 04 1:00 70 1:00 p.m. Maximum 11.

Minimum 17. 1 Precipitalion during the lCnouro ending at a.m. today: None. Monthly through Aug. It, Inchea, above Annual precipitation through Aug.

If. 17 01 lnchee, aboro normal. The temperaiuro of Lake Michigan at St. Joarph at 10 a.m. today li 00 degreea.

POLLEN COUNT FRIDAY, 100 GRAINS. lfint nf a rnmnmmiw Picenhnu. er would accept. The White House has hinted that Eisenhow er will veto the Senate bill unless changes are made. Martin's statement that Eisenhower would be willing to accept some form of compromise lent weight to the belief that House Republicans were backing down from their stand in favor of the original Mniio Kill So confident were the Demo- crat that thpv tentatively nrhoA.

uled House action on the bill for next Wednesday or Russell Backs Cut WASHINGTON (UP) Sen. Richard B. Russell threw his pow erful influence todaV "behind "the 842 million dollar House cut In President Eisenhower's cherished The Georgia Democrat said he would oppose any move to restore part of the reduction when the Senate takes up the program, despite administration warnings that without the money" Nikeguided" missiles and other modern weap ons could not be sent to allied countries. House Republican Leader Jo seph W. Martin Jr.

said after a breakfast meeting with Eisenhow er this morning that the Presi dent is "very much disappointed" rat the House cut. Martin said Eisenhower reiterated that the money taken out of the bill is "absolutely" necessary for the United States to meet its commitments to its allies. Can You Make Money Raising Racketeers who promise big profits from home-employment schemes say you can. They're fleecing Americans of millions? each year, To learn how they do it. read Easy Money Lure of Newest Racket on the Feature Page of Sunday's SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE the cash payments made to the clinic where she kepf books, and Sheila is wanted as an accom plice.

Fleecing the doctors was easy after all she had done in the past, the FBI indicated. Bora la China. Burtonr-born in Tientsin China, of British parents, swin dled a Chinese rug in Honolulu in 1939 and proceeded to bigger and better swindles, fok lowing nothing resembling a fam iliar pattern except a quick foot on the escape pedal. In Los Angeles she operated a knitting shop. In New Orleans she ran a beauty parlor.

In San Antonio, she did television work and raised dogs. In Norfolk, and then Decatur, she was a bookkeeper. She always seemed to bea step ahead justice by leaving town just in time or by' falling back on legal technical! i The FBI said Mrs. Burton was indicted for embezzling her em ployer in Honolulu, charged with grand theft in Los Angeles, and accused of stealing w.OOO in Van couver. There was a bad check charge in San Antonio and the theft of $2,000 from a doctor in 'Find Big Shortage.

Mrs. Burton left here nearly three weeks ago a few hours after a big shortage was found in her books at the medical clinic. Th local embezzlement appeared to have been! her major accomplishment, enabling her to own three cars, a cozy home on Happy Hollow Road, expensive clothes and 50ocker spaniels. "Mrs. Gray" belonged to the best clubs in Decatur and was considered one of the top cocker fanciers in the South.

She owned Rise and! Shine, champion which had won the world series of the dog shows by being picked best in the annual American Kennel Gub dog show at Madison Square Garden, Rise and Shine and two other prize cockers, Piccolo Pete and Capitol Gains, are still missing along with Mrs. Burton and her daughter, who are. believed trav eling in a yellow and white Pon tiac station wagon. Objects 'Sailing About in Home' Laid slid mysteriously from an end ta-all 'We. Mr.

and Mr. James Mikulecky, traveling 65 inches into the air; and a granddaughter, Susan Wall, 'potatoes jumped out of a sink; to- Wilmington! iii. No one has seen any sheet-draped forms drifting around yet, but there have been some mighty weird happenings laid to "ghosts" in nearby Rest Haven. Mrs. Wayne Soltwedel, a report er, 'said that while she was in-; vestigating reporU of ghosts in a house, soap and a soap dish hur- tied from the bathroom wall, a stuffed kitten "jumped" off a television set twice, and magazines a a 15, had reported to-the Will Coun- ty sheriff's office that ghosts were bothering them.

They gave this account: During the last week, a crochet needle floated from a sewing box on their patio into the bedroomJcase shoehorn from a bathroom meaicme caDinei new mio me, living room; a salad tossed itself, a samiaciory answer to ine ap-aoaeo uiai ne oouDiea me vaucuiy parently free 'movement of thejof the stories. i I 1.

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