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LIBRARY" WIATHER Cloudy, Hot THE DAILY NEWS VOLUME 13. HUNTINGDON AND MOUNT UNION, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1954 6 CENTS PER OOPT NO. 14T. BIG 3 IRON OUT DIFFERENCES ON INDO-CHINA Historical Pageant To Be Highlight Of Saxton's Centennial I "Through the Years," an historical pageant, will be presented each evening, Monday through Saturday July 18-24, at the Saxton- Ldberty "Memorial Field as a highlight of the Saxton-Liberty Centennial. The pageant is scheduled to open at 9 o'clock each etyening, and promise to be an outstanding event in' the week-long observance.

Co-chairmen of the pageant, Mrs. Daniel Brumbaugh and Sheldon Horton, are pleased with the fine cooperation that has been given by the citizens of the area in preparing for the pageant, which proved to be a huge undertaking. Edmond Nejairtiey of the John B. Rodgers Producing Company is directing the pageant, as well as cither Centennial festivities. All types of music will be featured during the telling of the 100- year Saxton-Ldberty history.

Colorful scenes will add greatly to the pageant. It promises, to be an evening of hilarity, tears, laughter and fun, as the developments of the 100 years are told by the five narrators: Albert Masood, George Eichelberger, Jack Saus- ey, Betty Mclntyre and Alice Anne Workman. Martha S. Hamilton will be soloist for the pageant, with Anna Irk McCahan as organist (substituting for Mi-s. William Parks).

The pageant will close each evening with the audience joining with the pageant participants in the singing of the National Anthem, while a gigantic display of fireworks is set off. It will be an event well worth seeing. (Continued on Page Fifteen) Harrisburg Railways Makes Final Offer Harrisburg, July 14. Harrisburg Railways waited for a union, decision today on the firm's latest and "final" wage offer for settlement of the capital's 12- week-old bus strike. The company offer included a five-cent increase for -the first year and a second five-cent in- creafee at the beginning of the second year of the contract, with several additional fringe benefits.

The company's best prior offer been a total of eight cents for a two-year contract, while the AFL union had asked a A total 20-cent raise for a two-year agreement. In the company's letter to C. W. Lineburg, president of the striking local, Harrisburg Railways said rejection- of the offer would prompt the firm to "take such steps as may be deemed appropriate to meet the public demand for prompt resumption of full operation." The company asked the union to submit the offer to a vote of (Continued on Page Fourteen) fa The WASHINGTON Bfcffy-Go-Roiad BREW PEARSOI DREW PEARSON SAYS: SENATORS SMELL POLITICAL DEAL BETWEEN IKE AND PRIVATE UTILITIES IN TENNESSEE VALLEY; EISENHOWER TVA LETTER PLAYED INTO HANDS OF ONE COMPANY; BIDDING WAS PREVENTED FOR AEC POWER PLANT. WASHINGTON Despite backstage efforts to throttle it, one of most important Senate investigations of.the Eisenhower admin- isration gets back into gear today.

It won't have the benefit of TV cameras or radio coverage, and it's being conducted on a shoestring. Nevertheless, the probe goes into the strange reasons why the President of the United States should go over the heads of the Atomic Energy commissioners, which is most unusual, and order them to sign a contract with a private power firm without competing bids, and when that contract will cost the taxpayers at least $100,000,000 more than if operated by tHe government. Those who would like to stop the probe are Senators Dirksen of Illinois flnd Hendrickson of New Jersey, both Republican members of the Judiciary committee which ij conducting the investigation. Another senator who has reached a-clammy hand to discourage ie probe Is Senator Jenner of chairman of the cqmmlttee which on Js for such probes. So far OgvHflg jubqommittee has 'ttle money that it can ed, On Pastor Resigns The Rev.

Thomas D. Garner, a native of Huntingdon, has resigned as pastor of the Bedford Evangelical and Reformed Church, to become minister of the. Nazareth Evangelical and Church, one of the largest in the entire" denomination in the U. S. His resignation becomes effective August SI.

GL RED SOLDIERS TOILING TOGETHER ON FLOOD RELIEF Muckendorf, Austria, July 14 American and Russian tcoops put guns and politics aside today to work shoulder to shoulder to save Soviet-occupied village and of acres of farmland from rampaging- floodwaters of the mighty Danube River. Battling- against the common enemy were 50 Americans and 50 Red army troops. The stubble on their faces and the mud on their fatigues made it almost impossible to distinguish between the A- m-eriean G. I. and the Russian Ivan.

Through the night, against the threat of the rising river, they toiled, piling tons of sandbags, rock and rubble atop the protective levees. There was no language problems The American-Russian team got along swell with but two words "please" and "karasho." Karisho is a Russian term which a 1 "okay." jiJven while the flood waters (Continued on Page Thirteen) Eisenhower's Pilot Visits Huntingdon President Eisenhower's personal pilot, Col. William G. Draper, visited Huntingdon yesterday while the nation's Chief Executive attended funeral services for his sister-in-law at State College. Draper and five other members of 'the presidential party motored to Huntingdon to visit the Swigart Motor Museum.

They spent nearly three hours as guests of William E. Swigart, Huntingdon insurance executive. Col. Draper larided the giant four-engine Columbine at Blair County Airport at 9:51 a. m.

yesterday after a flight from Washington, D. C. President Eisenhower and his wife returned to the national capital on Tuesday afternoon. Capt. Harry Knapp of Eastern Airlines, accompanied Draper to Huntingdon.

Knapp piloted the large EAL transport which brought a corps of Secret Ser(Continued on Page Eight) FAST SABRE JETS TO BE FURNISHED NATION AUST CHINA By DONALD J. GONZALE5 United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, July 14. Nationalist China soon will be receiving swift U.S. F-86 Sabre jets that could give Red China a lot of first- class headaches, informed sources reported, today. The modern jet fighters will be able to zip across the 180 miles between Nationalist-held Formosa and the Red-held China mainland at speeds of around 650 miles per hour.

They will be available also for the defense of Formosa and other Nationalist islands if the Communists strike. Authorities would not disclose the number oi fighters scheduled for delivery to Formosa or the date of their expected arrival. Deliveries will be soon perhaps as early as next month. Good Record In Korea Sabre jets were used by American pilots in the Korean war. They had a fine record against the Russian-built MIG-15 jets flown by Chinese pilots.

The Communists may have nearly 400 jet. fighters based along the mainland area facing Formosa. Intelligence agencies apparently (Continued on Page Thirteen) PIGGY-BACK SYSTEM APPROVED BY PUC Harrisburg, July Public Utility Commission today approved Pennsylvania Railroad plans to inaugurate the "piggyback" system of transporting loaded truck-trailers on flatcars within the state. The railroad began interstate "piggyback" hauls earlier this following last Friday's approval of the system by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The railroad said it expected to begin intra-state piggyback service today.

The commission denied a request from a group of truckers to suspend the trailer carrying plan. The truckers contend the system would establish "unfair competitive practices. 1 STATE GOVERNORS DESIRE SHOWDOWN ON HIGHWAY PLAN By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent Bolton Landing, N. July 14.

State governors, Upset over President Eisenhower's multi-billion-dollar highway proposal planned today for a showdown meeting with the President. A resolution advocating the meeting be held in Washington soon after the 'November elections to seek a 'compromise highway plan appeared certain of unanimous approval at today's closing session of tho 46th annual Governors' Conference. The Eisenhower "grand plan" for highway modernization, unveiled in a speech by Vice President Richard M. Nixon, proposed a broad, co-operative federal-state highway construction plan costing billion dollars over the next 10 years. It was understood this would be in addition to normal expenditures.

The speech shocked scaia governors who said the program's (Continued on Page Thirteen) DRIVER IS HELD FOR MANSLAUGHTER Pittsburgh, July J. Bankowitz, 24, 701 Willow Drive, Duquesne, was held today on manslaughter charges in the highway death of W- Howard Hazlett, 26, of R3ttanning. Haziett died in McKeesport Hospital June 19 after his automobile was rammed from the rear by a car driven by Baiikowitz, coroner's inquest disclosed. Hazlett was riding alone when the accident occurred on Rt. 30 in N.

Versailles Twp. Bankowitz and three assengers in his car suffered minor injuries. A utopsy Is Ordered In Mail Order Heir's Death Chicago, July 14. Six persons who attended an all-night "bring your own bottle" party were expected to testify today at the inquest into the strange death of mail order heir Montgomery Ward Thome. The hearing room dramatics were matched by an autopsy Of Thome's exhumed body, scheduled to take place at the same time.

The all-night party, which may hold the clue of how "Monty" spent his last hours, held the spotlight as the marathon inquest resumed. Thome, heir to $1,300,000, was found dead in his one room studio apartment. His body, clad only in shorts, was sprawled across the lurrouuded by cvjdenct of a sex-narcotics session. Tlu body was dug up Tuesday on the recommendation of four top The experts had thrown out a coroner's physician's report that Thorne died of an alcohol-narcotics combination. Seek Clues To Death The pathologists hoped to find new clues of what killed Thorne at today's autopsy.

'The board of experts also Included physicians representing Mrs. Marion Thorne, "Monty's" wealthy mother, and 18- year old Maureen Ragen, his blonde sweetheart. i Thorne, great grandson of a founder of the Montgomery Ward mail order firm, left Miss Ragen (Continuad On Unexpected Coder King-sized trailer truck sits at foot of stairs in living room of a home in Chagrin Falls, after roaring out of control through town and over the front porch of another house. Driver and his passenger were injured, but residents of wrecked house miraculously escaped. U.S.

To Rush Jet Planes And Arms To Thailand Washington, July drive to shore up Southeast Asia's defenses picked up speed today following a decision to rush jet planes and arms to vulnerable Thailand. The Defense Department announced the "crash" program Tuesday night at the conclusion of 14 days of secret strategy talks here with a Thai military mission. U.S. and Thai officials said the plan calls for immediate doubling of officer and non-com trainees hi the army; prompt shipment of U.S. jets, small arms, tanks, artillery and equipment; and the allotment of 3 million dollars in American funds to build a strategically important highway.

Informed sources revealed today that Nationalist China also will soon be receiving swift Sabre jets that may'Help keep'Red China from committing the bulk of its air power to the Communist aggression in Southeast Asia. Adopt Anti-Red Resolution These strategic moves were disclosed after the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approved a resolution opposing the admission of Red China to the United Nations and backing President Eisenhower in his determination to keep it out. The committee adopted the resolution instead several stronger proposals calling for U.S. withdrawal from the U.N. or at least a policy "re-examination" in case Fund Campaign For Blind Work Short Of Goal Report of the fund-raising campaign for the Huntingdon County Chapter of the Juniata Foundation for the Blind was given at the monthly meeting held last evening at the Penn Hunt Hotel dining room, A total of has been received to date by the treasurer, Mis.

Clara Renaud. The county chapter needs several times this figure to continue all services to the blind of Huntingdon County. Since the goal has not been reached, the campaign for funds to carry on the blind program in the county will be continued for an indefinite period. Persons wishing to contribute to the work should make checks payable to the Huntingdon County Chapter. Mrs.

Walter Lane of Shirleya- (Continued on Page Seven) NURSE QUESTIONED IN SHEPPARD CASE Bay Village, Ohio, July The former fiance of "mystery woman" Susan Hayes today denied there was any romance between the pretty 24-year-old nurse and Dr. Samuel Sheppard, whose wife was slain here July 4, Dr. Robert Stevenson, an osteopath in Kent, Ohio, backed up Mise Hayes' claim that acceptance of the gift of a watch from Sheppard did not indicate any romantic involvement. Stevenson said he and Miss Hayes had broken off their engagement 'a year ago and that to his knowledge she had not been involved with Sheppard, either before or since. Miss Hayes, a former medical technician at Sheppard's Bay (Continued on Page Seven) THE WEATHER Some Cloudlnemi And Hot Today.

Scattered Thundershowers This Afternoon And Tonight. Thursday, Partly Cloudy And A Little Cooler. The High Today 92 to tlM Low, Xonifht of Red China's admission. The group emphasized that It was making "no recommendation" as to what action the President or Congress should take. It said it has "every confidence" that Mr.

Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will retain free world support for the U.S. position. Sponsored By Bentley The resolution, "sponsored by Rep. Alvin M. Bentley (R-Mich), somewhat similar to a statement approved last week, by the Senate' Foreign Relations Commit(Continued On Page Fifteen) INDO-CHINESE REDS TIGHTEN PRESSURE ON OF HANOI Hanoi, Indo-China, July Communist troops tightened their pressure on Hanoi from three sides today with most of the action centering around the area of the Seven Pagodas 30 miles north-east oi the capital.

French" forces south of Hanoi prepared to defend Hung Yen, last important French city below the Hanoi-Haiphong corridor. Hung Yen is encircled by 12 rebel battalions. Strong pressure was exerted against Son Tay, 25 miles to the -west and many civilians were reported leaving there for Hanoi on their way out of the Red River Delta. The attacks in the Seven Pagodas region appeared to be part of a clamp the rebels are trying to close on the north -and south sides of the French-held of the delta. Political and military observers offered converse opinions on Red Gen.

Vo Nguyen Giap's strategy on taking Hanoi. The political sources argued that (Continued on Page Seventeen) Record-Breaking Temperatures Are Forecast By UNITED PRESS New records were expected today as temperatures ranging, from the middle to upper 90's were forecast for most sections of the state. A high of 97 was expected in Philadelphia, topping the record of 92 set for this date in 1952, and similar record-breaking temperatures were expected throughout the Commonwealth. Hot weather hit Huntingdon yesterday as the mercury rose to 93 during- the afternoon, just two degrees below the season's high, according- to John Henderson, weather observer, last night's low wag a cool 58, the reading at 7 a. m.

today was 59. No relief is in sight unless shift of winds predicted for (Continued on Page Fourteen) CAMERA BODY IS FOUND AT ERIE Erie, July pathologist examined the vital organs today of Frank Schlanda, Cleveland, Ohio, whose partly decomposed body was found along a creek at the edge of Erie's industrial section. Police said the bofiy, found by four boys Tuesday, had been lying near a factory at least 10 Coroner Warren W. Wood said after an autopsy the body's "too badly. decomposed" for a true diagnosis as to the death cause.

However, he said there were no en Stvtn), THREE INJURED IN AUTO CRASH NEAR ATKINSONS MILLS Three persons were Injured last evening in a two-car crash near Atkinsons Mills. It was the first of two accidents within a three-mile radius in which two of the victims were involved. Injured in the initial collision Were Carl Shoemaker of Lewistown, bland executive director of the Juniata Foundation for the Blind; Mrs. Virgie Grinnminger of Lewiatown, driver for the foundation, and Carl Grace, 22, of Big Brier Road, McVeytown, R. D.

1, a soldier home on furlough from his camp in. Texas. Shoemaker and Mrs. Grimminger were en route to Huntingdon to attend the July meeting of the Huntingdon County Chapter of the Juniata Foundation. En route to Huntingdon on Route 22, Shoemaker and Mrs.

Grimminger turned off the William Penn Highway at Atkinsons Mills to travel to Beacon Lodge for the Blind near Newton Hamilton. The accident happened on the Atkinsons Mills-Newton Hamilton Road, about one mile front the Route 22 intersection. Grace was travelling east pn the highway in a 1940 Chevrolet sedan. As he glanced to the right, his car crossed center line in the highway into ttie path of the Ford sedan operated by Mrs. (Continued On Page Fifteen) U.S.

WILL OPPOSE ANY PROPOSAL FOR CARVING VIET NAM Washington, July United States is opposed to carving Viet Nam into separate Communist and non-Communist territories on the order of Korea and Germany. American officials, would prefer an armistice which' would group French and Communist forces into a pockets.so that.the possibility of future unification, of the country would not be permanently foreclosed. Partition along the 16th, 18th, or any parallel, these experts maintain, would in effect stamp the West's approval on a deal which would place many free Vietnamese under the Communist yoke. It also would dampen the hopes of the millions of Asians already under Red rule who look to the United States and the free world for possible liberation. It is precisely because this country fears France may accept this land of peace, however, that U.S.

officials have warned they might not be able to endorse the. truce finally arranged by Paris and Pei- ping. The United States has not an(Continued on Page Fifteen) Cof in's Trial Is Expected To Open Tomorrow Perce, Quebec, July trial of Wilbert Coffin, a prospector charged with trying to commit the perfect crime, was expected to begin here Thursday. Coffin was arrested last year and held for trial on the single charge of slaying Richard Lindsey, 17, of Hollidaysburg, Pa. Lindsey's body was found in the Gaspe wilds near the bodies of those of his father, Eugene, 47, and a friend, Albert Claar, .20, of East Freedom, Pa.

Police charged Coffin killed the three men for the $1,000 the American'hunters had with them. When the bodies were found by searchers who at one point were guided through the bush by Coffin, it was believed they had been killed by bears. Prosecutor Noel Dorion. indicated he would try to prove that Coffin hacked up the to make it appear that animals had mutilated them. Selection of a jury was expected to take at least one day.

Prospects Are Good For Honorable Peace At Geneva Next Week By EDWARD M. United Press Correspondent Paris, July diplomatic sources said today U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has agreed with Premier Pierre Mendes-France and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that prospects are good for concluding an "honorable" Indo-China peace at Geneva next week. The Big Three-diplomats were said to have ironed out their differences over Indo-China at the second of 'their conferences since Dulles arrived Tuesday.

They agreed upon a third, brief session later today to spell out for the public, in a com- munique, the results of their talks. Dulles turned down French and British pleas to return to Geneva for the final attempts to hammer out Indo-China peace. He prepared 1 to fly back to Washington late today. But he agreed that Undersecretary of State Walter Bedell Smith BULLETIN Paris, July 14. An official announcement said today that Undersecretary of State Walter Bedell Smith will arrive In Geneva within 48 hours to represent the United States at the showdown phase ol the Indo-China peace talks.

The United States abandoned its "hands-off" policy on the Geneva conference after emergency meetings which began Tuesday night and concluded today among Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, French Premier and Foreign Minister Pierre Mendes-France and Britain's Anthony Eden. would return to Geneva if prospects for an honorable settlement as bright as Mendesr France and Eden reported they would. Dulles arrived here skeptical of Communist intentions, but authoritative sources said the first-hand accounts given by Mendes-France and Eden of the progress so far convinced him that an acceptable peace may be in the making. The three statesmen met at the (Continued on Page Sixteen) Late Bulletins Washington, July 14. President Eisenhower said he will not relent in his fight for the federal health reinsurance bill virtually killed by the House.

Washington, July Eisenhower said today that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is returning- soon from Paris to report on the Far Eastern crisis and the Geneva conference. Mr. Eisenhower said Dulles went to Paris Monday night because of this government's great concern to maintain a united front with France and Britain. The President said Dulles also went to Paris to see if American presence at Geneva would be helpful and not damaging. Then the President Dulles is coming back soon to make a report and that more Information will be available then.

Cranfield, England, July 14. The world's first crescent-winged jet bomber, the giant four-engin- ed Handley Page Victor, crashed today, killing its crew of four. The bomber, with a wing shaped like a. scythe on each side of its gleaming fuselage, plunged onto the airfield here and exploded, officials said. London, July Minister Winston Churchill said today that admission of Communist China to the United Nations should be long postponed and he stoutly defended the United States against criticism by Socialist Leader Clement Attlee.

Health Plan Author Puts Bill's Defeat On Doctors Washington, July 14. p. Charles A. Wolverton (R-NJ) blamed the American Medical Association today for the defeat of President Eisenhower's federal health re-insurance program in the House. Republican leaders predicted the measure would win handily but when the showdown came late Tuesday it was decisively defeated, 238 to 134.

Wolverton said tie believed the defeat was largely due to the fact that the AMA, which represents most U.S. physicians, took a strong stand against the bill. He noted that AMA spokesmen had charged that it was the first toward "socialized medicine." GOP House Leader A. Halleck (Ind) action kills the bill for this session, although it was one of the key items in the administration's legislative program. There is some question now whether the Senate will act on it.

But Wolverton, sponsor of the measure and chairman of the House Commerce Committee which handled it, refused to give up hope. "It's good legislation," Wolverton told a reporter. "It ought to pass. It's well intentioned, it's well drawn, it's part of the President's program." Under the measure, the government would pay up to 75 per cent of the "abnormal" losses of acceptable private and nonprofit health insurance plans which agree to come into the federal reinsur- (Continued on Thirteen). Expires I LANDIS E.

HIMES LANDIS HIES, 79, MAPLETON BANKER, DIES I HOSPITAL Landis Himes, prominent Mapletoh banker, died in the J. C. Blair Memorial Hospital this Wednesday morning, July. 14, 1954, at 5 o'clock. He had been in failing health for some time, and had been a patient in the hospital for six days.

He was aged 79 years. Mr. Himes had been a director of the First National Bank of Mapleton for years. He was president of the bank at the time of his death. He was a.

retired engineer of the Pittsburgh Division, Pennsylvania Railroad. He was elected president of the First National Bank of Mapleton at 'the January meeting, 1954, and for six years prior to that tune he served as vice president of the board of directors. He became a director of bank at the January meeting, and he had successively been reelected each year. He had a record for perfect attendance at every bank directors' meeting- regular and special from the time he became a director until his death. Bank directors had postponed the regular meeting scheduled for July 13, in the hope (Continued on Page Sixteen) Mapleton Boy Fractures Leg In Bike Mishap A six-year-old Mapleton lad is a patient in the J.

C. Blair Memorial Hospital today with a fractured left leg. Gerald Wesley Bair, the accident victim, is in "good" condition at the hospital- today. His leg is broken between the knee and the hip. Jerry was injured shortly before noon yesterday when he took a "spill" on his bicycle.

While descending a grade in Mapleton, the lad's bike hit. some sand on the street, causing him to lose control of the bicycle. The lad Is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman of Mapleton.

He is a grandson of Capt. Gerald (Continued on Page Seven) SHOWDOWN NEARS IN SPANGLE CASE Ebensburg, July 14. showdown in the bitter controversy between the medical staff of Miners' Hospital and hospital administrator John J. Haluska neared today. Hearings on the petition of-Haluska and the trustees of the Spangler, hospital for an injunction to prevent mass resignation of the 16-doctor staff resumed with only one day remaining before the deadline set by the for Haluska's ouster.

At the opening of the hearings Monday, the doctors, who said they will quit unless Haluska is removed (Continued on Page Seventeen).