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PA. STATE LIE ARY peraturand, cool tonight. Low tem- EDUCATION BLE Evening Thought to 60. Thursday fair HARRISBURG, Vacation is the time when you and slightly warmer. High 76 to 82.

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IKE REFUSES SELLOUT TO GAIN PEACE Rocky Grove Youth, OnWaytoWedding, Killed in Accident James F. Anders, 21, Dies, Fiancee Hurt In Turnpike Crash James F. Anders, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester T.

Anders, of 122 Elm Street. Rocky Grove, was killed and his fiancee. Janice Elizabeth Bahler. 22, of 461 Liberty Street, Grove City, was injured in an accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, near Carlisle and the Blue Mountain tunnel, early Tuesday evening. They were en route to the home of Miss Bahler's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Paul F. Bahler, Haworth, N. where they were to be married on Saturday. State Police said the car operated by Mr.

Anders skidded off the highway and struck a tree. It was the seventh fatality on the Turnpike within 24 hours. Miss Bahler. a graduate of Grove City College and an employe of a Grove City attorney, was apparently not seriously injured. She was treated at Carlisle Hospital for cuts and bruises.

Young Mr. Anders had planned return to classes in Grove City College next month for his fourth year of a pre-medical course. Only few days ago he completed the summer training program of the Air Force ROTC at Hunter Air Force Base. Savannah, Ga. In Pittsburgh Mr.

Anders was born in Pittsburgh on Sept. 11, 1934, the son of Chester T. and Jean Worrall Anders. The family has resided in Rocky Grove for several years and James graduated from Rocky Grove High School in 1952. In the fall of the year he entered Grove City College.

He was a member of the Adelphikoe Fraternity. He was a member of Grace Evangelical United Brethren Church. During his high school career he played the clarinet in school programs and played with the Rocky Grove Firemen's Band for a time. He was also a member of the Grove City College band in his freshman year. In addition to his parents he is 14.

and Elizabeth aged his survived by two sisters. Janet A Ann, paternal grandmother, Mrs. Charles T. Anders, of Franklin, the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Harry C. Denzin, of Pittsburgh, and a great aunt, Miss son, of Franklin. Friends will be received in the Barron Chapel after 7 p.m. today. Funeral services will be conducted in the Barron Chapel at 2 p.m.

Friday with Rev. B. E. Coleman, of the First Evangelical United Brethren Church, officiating. Interment will be made in Sunset Hill Memorial Park.

Girl Spelling Champ Passes $16,000 Quiz NEW YORK (UP)-Little Gloria Lockerman, the 12-year-old Negro spelling champ who ran her winnings to $16,000 on a TV giveaway show, rides back home to Baltimore today for some boning up, with the dictionary and conferences about her TV future. Gloria, smiling and pert in a new navy organdy dress. confi dently aspelled her way through a nonsense, sentence Question" on to earn CBS-TV'S A possible shot next Tuesday at $32,000. Indications were that Gloria go for the bigger money Her divorced parents, James Lockerman and Vivian Singleton, both of Philadelphia, seemed to "avor a go-ahead. Gloria's father and mother both they to hold a wide family conference.

probably in Baltimore, to decide whether Gloria should continue. conference would include her grandfather, the Rev. V. T. Key, pastor of a Methodist church.

in Baltimore and her grandmother, Mrs. Bertha Key, who has shepherded Gloher two TV appearances. revealed that had stumbled through part of the answer of her question because forgot where I The answer that boosted her to the $16.000 level on the quiz program was the spelling of: "The belligerent astigmatic anthropologist annihilated innumerable chrysanthemums." Penna. Weather By UNITED PRESS Fair and mild weather with temperatures in the 70's and 80's was in store for Pennsylvania today and Thursday. The Weather Bureau said a high pressure system in Canada brought the cooler and drier air into the state.

There will be a gradual shift in the winds so that by Friday Pennsylvania, could expect a warming trend. the bureau added. Temperatures were expected to stay in the 70's and 80's today and again on Thursday while the overnight low drops to the 40's and 50's in the mountains and holds in the 60's throughout the rest of the state. Skies will continue to remain generally clear until Friday when cloudiness was expected to increase. $80 Million in Flood Relief Funds Pledged Ravaged Areas Speed Plans to Restore Homes and Industries By UNITED PRESS Flood ravaged areas of the northeast today sped the task of reconstruction with assurance that the nation would support the effort.

The six states hit by the most damaging flood in U.S. history rushed plans to restore their residents, their communities. their industries and their The federal government promised an 80 million dollar assistance program. Gov. George M.

Leader of Pennsylvania summed up official opinion in the six affected states when he, sashall brief legislative leaders on my meeting with President Eisenhower and ask, their assistance in appropriating the money and in levying taxes meet the responsibility the commonthe, wealth in assisting the people. .1 to recover from this disaster." He made the statement as plans were completed to evacuate 10.000 boys and girls from summer camps. in the flood-torn area of Eastern Pennsylvania. Buses Transport Children Buses took the children from Camps Hagen, Miller and Ministerium in the Pocono Mountains to Allentown and Philadelphia for routing to their homes. The mass evacuation had been delayed by broken or over-burdened telephone lines to camps and faulty transportation brought on by the floods.

Similar operations were in progress in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Twenty-five persons were evacuated from a rest home in South Natick, and taken to a hospital when cesspools overflowed due to high water. Connecticut received 250,000 antityphoid shots from the National Drug Co. in Philadelphia. Drinking water.

food dry ice to prevent food spoilage were also rushed into the stricken area. Clear skies over most of the flood area helped the relief and rehabilitation work. The rains which pelted much of the area Tuesday and slowed reconstruction has mostly ended by midnight. Many areas continued to depend on hepicopters and boats for supplies and mail. Train Derailed Rail transportation near Lowell, disrupted Tuesday night when the Boston and Maine Railroad's crack train the Red Wing was derailed on a bridge over the swollen Concord River, Six persons suffered minor injuries when the passenger train.

bound from Boston to Montreal, struck a parked freight car on the bridge. With the dry weather and receding flood waters came hope for knowledge of the scores still reported missing. In Connecticut alone 71 persons were still unaccounted The revised death toll showed 201 confirmed dead. Pennsylvania had 115 fatalities; Connecticut 49. Massachusetts' 22.

New Jersey 6, New York 4, Virginia 2, Rhode Island 2 and Delaware 1. Damage was expected to reach 3 billion Two states, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, each estimated flood loss at 1 billion dollars. Some 100.000 were reported homeless but many were expected to be returned to their homes as water receded and streets and roads were cleared today. Atlantic Round Trip Record Set by Briton LONDON (UP) Britain today held a record "breakfast to supper" round trip crossing of the Atlantic by a Canberra bomber. The Royal Aero Club said pilot John Walter Hackett.

32. established a record timing Tuesday of 14 hours, 21 minutes, 45.4 seconds for London to New York and back flight of 6.915.92 miles. Nixon to Visit Africa, Near East on Mission By WILLIAM GALBRAITH WASHINGTON (UP) Vice President Richard M. Nixon. the administration's unofficial goodwill ambassador, will travel to the Near East and Africa in November to strengthen U.S.

relations with the key area on Russia's southern flank. The White House. in announcing the mission Tuesday. said Nixon is making the trip at the request of President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. The 42-year-old Californian previously has made highly successful goodwill missions to the Far East and Caribbean areas.

The announcement said the vice president visit the region become acquainted with the leaders of the countries in the to hear their views and to convey the sincere greetings of the of the United States to the peoples of the Nixon will be accompanied by his wife. Pat. and representatives of the State Department. The State Department will work out details of the trip with coun- Divided Germany And Satellites Are Ruled Out End of Red Subversion Among Conditions For Peace Listed by Ike This two-seat passenger ground on a tight downwind left the field shortly buttonhook turn back toward, and the plane slipped to the and his wife. plane, airborne only a few turn Tuesday afternoon seriously before 2 p.

took to the air at airfieid. He apparently had ground, wing first. The engine Condition of Plane Victims is Critical Mr. and Mrs. Richard Swope, mained in "critical condition" with injuries sustained when which they were riding crashed the Chess Lamberton Airport The light private plane had south runway and was making ward the field when it suddenly Coleman Wins Mississippi Race Negroes Discouraged From Casting Ballots JACKSON, Miss.

(UP)-Crusading Atty. Gen. J. P. Coleman swept to victory today in a Democratic runoff primary for governor in which party officials tically discouraged Negro votes.

Coleman, pledging strict enforcement of Mississippi's segrefeated young attorney Paul B. gation and anti-liquor, so soundly deJohnson Jr. after a campaign of bitter name calling. Johnson, making his third try for the job, conceded defeat just before midnight when Coleman's lead, steadily fattened since early returns, mounted toward the 000 vote mark. Returns from 1,687 of the state's 1,828 precincts gave Coleman 362 votes Johnson's 154,456.

Both candidates ignored the racial issue. on which their stands were identical, and party officials sought to ignore the Negro voters by turning them away from the polls or earmarking the few ballots cast for challenge. Chairman Tom J. Tubb of the state Democratic Executive Committee announced in advance that the "order went out" to county committees to challenge the Negroes' standing as actual party members. Few tried to vote.

The New York headquarters of the National Association Advancement of Colored "People said it would seek "prompt and immediate action" by the Justice Department." But in numerous counties across the state not a Negro showed up to vote, and the few ballots cast would have little effect on the outcome. Coleman's victory is tantamount to election. Gov. Hugh White, prevented by law from succeeding himself, called outcome a "clear indication the people of Missisthat' sippi like clean-cut politics." Two Actors Killed In Turnpike Crash DOWNINGTON, (UP)-Two actors were killed and four others were injured today when an automobile carrying them to a performance in Minnesota went out of contrl on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and plunged down an embankment. The fatalities raised the death toll on the superhighway since last Monday night to nine.

The dead were identified by po-! lice as James Buyer. 30, the driver, of Salt Lake City, Utah, known on the stage as Jimmy Powell; and George Curtis Paul, 31, of Farmington, Mo. Both maintained residences in New York City. State Trooper John Artuso of the Reading barracks said the car left the highway, one mile west of the Downingtwn Interchange, ripped through a guard rail and toppled over the 20-foot embankment. The injured, all taken to Chester County Hospital in West Chester, were: Dolores Piggott, 25, of 3014 Kensington Philadelphia; Monte Meachan, 40, of Nev.

York; his son, Bill, 14, of White Plains, N.Y., and Joseph Diaz, 25, of New York. Buyer was thrown 30 feet from the car in the accident. The performers belong to the Children's World Theater group. minutes after take -off from Chess Lamberton field. dropped injuring its two occupants.

The pilot, Richard Swope, of Sierra Madre, the end of the runway, made a brief turn and then attempted another neither the altitude nor speed to successfully complete the maneuver struck a large rock, pivoting the ship around and spilling out Swope The cabin. and fuselage of this Luscombe Silvaire, ripped open like tissue paper, shows the impact with which the light plane struck the earth 300 feet from the edge of the north-south sod runway et Chess Lamberton airport Tuesday afternoon. The pilot, Richard Swope, of Sierra Madre, was found partially beside and under the fuselage. shown in the foreground, and his wife, Lucille, was on the other side of the twisted wreckage, between the door and the wing. Both were critically hurt.

(NewsHerald photos) Senator Invites Russians to U.S. Ellender, Visiting Moscow, Issues Bid By KENNETH BRODNEY MOSCOW Sen. Allen J. Ellender Tuesday night invited five top Soviet Communist leaders to visit the United States to "make for better understanding" between the two nations. He also said a delegation from the U.S.

Congress should come to Russia to see how the country is run. Ellender specifically invited the Russians to visit his state-Louisiana. Asked what he thought Red-hunting Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis) would say about his views. Ellender replied that "I don't know and I don't give' a The Louisiana Democrat extended the invitation at a reception given by the Rumanian Embassy at Moscow's plush Hotel Sovietskaya and attended by U.S.

Am-, bassador Charles E. Bohlen virtually the entire Moscow diplomatic corps. The invitation included former Premier Georgi Malenkov, First Deputy Premiers Lazar Kaganovich, Anastas Mikoy an, Mihail Pervukhin, and M. A. Suslov, a secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee.

(Top Soviet leaders, including Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Khrushchev, have indicated a deParty a Chief Nikita sire to visit the United States but SO far no official invitation has been forthcoming.) Ellender, gaily swapping jokes with Soviet leaders, said he thought the exchange of agricultural delegations between the United States and the Soviet Union was 'of the finest things that has happened -both for this country and our own." "I feel that interchanges of more Russians and Americans visiting each other might make f.r better understanding between each other and more cordial he said. "We can not keep spending and spending" on defense and foreign aid. Ellender said. He that although there was "no question" that the Soviet Union is threat to the United States, "my hope is that the Russians do what they say and keep trying to find better ways to get with the free world. Bucs Sign Bonus Player PITTSBURGH (UP) Pittsburgh Pirates today announced the signing of 18-year-old Arthur "Red" Swanson of Monroe, to a two-year bonus contract.

Swanson, 175-pound. 6-foot. 2- inch right hander. will, join the Pirates Saturday as the fifth bonus player on the roster. The others are Johnny and Eddie O'Brien and pitchers Laurin Pepper and Paul Martin.

PHILADELPHIA (UP) PresiEisenhower said today the United States "can never accept" a divided Germany, Russian satellites and continued Communist subversion "as a part of the peace we desire, and said this nation must in its "eagerness to avoid war." make agreement that would sell out "the freedom of for any, the pottage of a false peace." Mr. Eisenhower said the United States asserted at Geneva "and we shall always hold--that there can be no true peace which involves acceptance of a status quo in which we find injustice to many nations. repressions of human beings on a gigantic scale, and constructive effort paralyzed in many areas by "The spirit of Geneva, if it is to provide a healthy atmosphere for the pursuit of peace. if it is to be genuine and not spurious, must inspire all to a correction of injustices. an observance of human rights and an end to subversion organized on a world-wide he declared.

JAMES F. ANDERS Traffic Lacking For Turnpike Pittsburgh to Erie Extension Uncertain PITTSBURGH (UP)-The future of a northwestern extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike linking Pittsburgh with Erie rested today on additional studies of the project liminary traffic results, proved when the of a G. Franklin McSorley, chairman of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, said Tuesday nothing definite could be announced until after a Labor Day count is made of traffic between the two cities. He said the preliminary traffic survey conducted last spring showed heavy travel in an area 20 miles north of Pittsburgh but was below expectations between that area and Erie. McSorley said the commission must show sufficient traffic to be able to interest potential bond buyers.

He said traffic revenue had to be about one and a half times the interest and amortization costs of the bonds. "We've had traffic counts made and the results were he said. "Right now, it looks as though we couldn't sell bonds to finance a turnpike to Erie." He said a "weak demand" was recorded on all three routes under consideration. "The route along the Ohio border showed a little more demand than either the Beaver Valley or Allegheny Valley routes but not enough to favor it in any McSorley said. The turnpike commission said that even if a favorable decision on the proposed extension made before the end of the year.

construction would not begin before 1958 because "building a turnpike isn't like buying a pack of Egypt Withdraws From Gaza Talks CAIRO. Egypt (UP Egypt. today angrily announced withdrawal from the United Nationssponsored talks with Israel, aimed at pacifying the embattled frontier area of the Gaza Strip. The talks began under the supervision of the United Nations late in June in the hope that direct Israeli Egyptian contacts could ease the tension along the Gaza Strip and halt the frequent bloody incidents. Cannot Accept Wrongs of Sierra Madre, rein Franklin Hospital today the two-passenger plane in seconds after take-off from Tuesday afternoon.

taken off from the sod northa low altitude turn back tofell to the ground about 1300 feet from the edge of the runway. Mr. Swope, the pilot and owner of the aircraft, was found lying partly under the crumpled fuselage. His injuries were listed as a severe concussion, two deep lacerations of the forehead, scalp wounds, multiple lacerations and punctures and shock. He bad regained consciousness at last report.

Mra Swope, also a licensed pilot, hurled out the door of the airplane and found between the door and the wing. She sustained a severe laceration of the upper eyelid, severe head injury and possible internal injuries. She was conscious after the crash but obviously suffering severe shock. The plane's nose struck a pile of rocks in the field, causing additional destruction of the aircraft. Mr.

and Mrs. E. H. Schenck of Reno, relatives of the Swopes, were at the airport and sew the erash. Inspector Views Wreckage Aeronautics Ipspector Richard Skillman, of Butler, arrived 1 late Tuesday afternoon to inspect the wreckage determine of the plane in an attempt to the cause of the crash.

State Police of the Franklin substation ordered the area surrounding the crash to be roped off until the inspector arrived. Franklin firemen enclosed the area with a heavy rope barrier and spectators were kept from the immediate scene of the crash. Skillman called the substation again today but upon learning the couple would not be able to be interviewed, he cancelled a planned second visit to the area. On permission from the inspector, the wreckage was hauled to a hangar for storage. Francis Sopher, airport manager and an eye-witness to the crash, said the light weight aircraft took off on the sod runway at about 1:55 p.

m. It became airborne successfully, but instead of climbing to the prescribed altitude, suddenly turned back toward the field. "It was a downward turn," one of the pilots at the field stated. It was his belief the plane not have sufficient speed or altitude for the maneuver attempted. It was his opinion the wind, though not much more than five to eight miles per hour, was "tricky" and slightly stronger than the pilot anticipated.

It was also possible the plane motor could have stalled. Neither Sopher nor Jim Snyder another eye-witness to the crash. could see any attempt on (Continued on Page 7) Big Truck Goes Over Bank, Driver Unhurt An unidentified driver "rode it out" when his big truck and tractor left Route 62 on the road to President early this morning and went down over a steep embankment, escaping uninjured. State Police of the Franklin substation were checking late morning to secure the details of the mishap. The driver reportedly survived the accident without a scratch and hitched a ride to Tionesta where he spent the night in a hotel.

The accident occurred about two miles from Oil City: The big truck, loaded with drums and cases of oil, was on its way from Warren, to a western It traveled down an almost vertical embankment and upset on its side, police said. An investigating officer reported the driver was "extremely lucky" in that the load did not shift forward. crushing the cab. The driver was expected -to report on the scene later today and make arrangements to have the load and truck removed. Kills Three, Injures Eight On Rampage BROADSTAIRS, England (UP)A deranged Negro airman today fatally shot two U.S.

fliers and a RAF corporal, and wounded eight other persons in a wild gunfight chase through a U.S. air base and this crowded beach resort. The Negro, identified as Napoleon Green, an air base ing room clerk, was cornered and wounded after terrorizing hundreds bathing or sunning themselves on the beach, and ended his own life with two shots from his .30 caliber Army carbine. British police and hospital sources identified one of the American victims as air policeman Nelson Gresham of 3854 N. Gratz Philadelphia, Pa.

Others Not Identified American Air Force sources refused to identify the Americans killed and wounded until notification of next of king. British police said four of the wounded were American service personnel and three were British women employes of the air base. A British male civilian also was reported wounded. The British Air Force corporal killed was identified by RAF as Cpl. H.

P. Grayer and the third victim was said by British sources to have been a U.S. Air Force master sergeant. "The division of Germany cannot be supported by any argument based on boundaries or language or racial origin. The domination of captive countries can no longer justified by any claim this is needed for purposes of security, An international political machine, operating within the borders of sovereign nations for their political and ideological subversion, cannot be explained cultural movement.

"In justice to others and to ourselves, we can never accept those wrongs as a part of the peace that we desire and The President's philosophy on peace was outlived, in a speech prepared for to ican Bar Association convention. He spoke in front of Independence Hall as part of an association program marking the John Marshall bicentennial. Marshall was a noted chief justice of the United States. He was to return, to Washington after his address a conference on the government's flood relief program and then depart for Denver to resume his Colorado vacation, Geneva, the President said, "spells for America, not stagnation, but opportunity opportunity for our own people and for people everywhere to realize their just aspirations." Justice And Security Mr. Eisenhower said that "the peace we want the product of understanding and agreement and law among nations is an enduring international environment, based on justice and security.

It will reflect enlightened self-interest. will foster the concentration of human energy for the advancement of human standards in the areas of mankind's material, intellectual and spiritual The Chief Executive said he believes this kind of peace is not out of the world's grasp. "At times it may seem hopeless, far beyond human capacity to reach," he said. "But has any great accomplishment in history begun with assurance of its success?" "We must learn to be firm but friendly," he said. "We must be tolerant but not complacent.

We must be quick to understand another's viewpoint, honestly assumed. "But we must never agree to injustice for the weak, for the unfortunate, for the underprivileged, well knowing that if we accept destruction of the principle of justice for all, we cannot longer claim justice for ourselves as a matter of right." He said that "in the search for justice, we can make our system an ever more glorious example of an orderly government devoted to (Continued on Page 7) Ike Receives Roaring Welcome in Philadelphia tries involved. It said Nixon's itinerary has not been fixed but that the timetable will depend upon how much time the vice president can devote to the trip and the political situation in the area. Nixon may spend up to a month on the journey. It was believed certain that he will visit both Egypt and Israel.

If sO. he -will probably make a strong plea to both Israeli and Arab leaders for a final end to their long dispute. The United States has long felt the Arab-Israeli controversy is a major problem barring the region from realzing its full potential. Nixon probably will touch on problems of the other nations he visits. If he stops at Algeria and Morocco.

officials said. he probably will discuss troubles that have led to recent violent rioting. But officials said the Nixon trip is primarily aimed at winning goodwill for the United States, not solving problems of the area. The United States has long considered the region of vital importance because of its position on Russia's southern borders. PHILADELPHIA (UP)- dent Eisenhower received a roaring welcome here today on his arrival to address the 78th annual convention of the American Bar Association.

The President's plane landed at International Airport at 9:40 a.m. EDT. The President was met at the airport by two of his brothers, Edgar, a Tacoma, attorney here for the ABA meeting, and Earl, a LaGrange, publisher, who rode with the President to his hotel. Also greeting the President on his arrival at the airport were Mayor Joseph S. Clark, Loyd Wright, president of the ABA, and state and local dignitaries.

Downtown Philadelphia roared a cheering welcome to the President as his motorcade wound through the business district to the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. He looked world like the presidential candidate of 1952 as he stood up in his specially-built limousine with the rolled- back top and responded with familiar gesture or outstretched arms. The -morning crowd was not as city crowds go, but there were clusters of people at almost every corner along the six-mile ride from the airport. When the President reached the hotel, the sidewalk was jammed and a big cheer went up. He drew more cheers as he moved through the packed lobby to the elevator.

The President was honor guest at an outdoor ABA luncheon at historic Independence Hall before his speech at 2:30 p.m. EDT. The luncheon was served at tables under large tents. He planned to leave immediately afterwards for the return flight to Washington where he was to pick up Mrs. Eisenhower and return by air to Denver to resume his work-and-play vacation.

The President visited with his brothers in his hotel suite and had two appointments before going to Independence Hall. He conferred with W. Thacher Longstreth, Republican candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, and also scheduled a call from Seaborn Collins, national commander of the American Legion..