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'(- a ft It The News-Herald An Independent Newspaper Serving Venango County and Vicinity Evening Thought A decent and inanly examination of the acts of government should bt not only toldratod but encouraged, -William Henry Harrison. Weather Mild with scattered showers tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight In 40s. High Wednesday 64 to 70. 80TH YEAR NO.

21,927 FRANKLIN AND OIL CITY, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1957 7c a Copy, By Carrier 45c Wk. Fyimdls mm Vf Secure Gestae ft' Franklin Stores Adopt New Hours; Open Two Nights The Retail Division of the Franklin Chamber of Commerce approved a streamlined store hours plan Monday night featuring Monday and Friday evening shopping and an all-day closing on Wednesdays. Ballots sent recently to all 42 members of the Retail Division provided a choice of five possible store hour plans. Merchants were asked to "vote for two" and the decision between the two was made by the 20 members attending the special Monday night meeting in the Chamber offices. Ex-Boxer Tel 1 6 Racket Probers Of Scranton Violence By HERBERT FOSTER WASHINGTON (UP) A former professional boxer testified today that strong-arm squads beat up.

dissident members of a Teamsters Union local in Scranton, Pa. The witness, Paul Bradshaw, also told the Senate Labor Rackets Committee that he and his friends "voted six or seven times" each in a 1954 union election. Bradshaw said Robert Malloy Bradshaw. a stocky, powerfully- once him alt other built 36-year-oM truck driver, was fien up ne, "'T8' th0 'nnpnin iton, but I wouldn have nothing Acts Quickly On $41 Million Emergency Bill Measure Takes Only 40 Minutes to Clear Committee, Senate WASHINGTON (UP)-The Senate quickly approved by voice vote today a House passed 41 million dollar emergency appropriation to restore normal postal service. The action came a scant 10 minutes after the Senate met at noon and unanimously agreed to suspend its rules and take up the measure immediately.

It had been approved less than a half hour earlier by the Senate Appropriations Committee in a 10-minute closed door session. 1st Add 2nd lead Postal UP73A: The bill, carrying a total of $49,861,000 for the Post Office and several other agencies, was returned to the House for concur rence in minor Senate amend- The new plan will go into effect to do with it." Bradshaw said "I done all right in the amateurs" in 40 boxing bouts and then won 20 or 21 fights as a professional. He said he was first elected a steward of Local 229, then Malloy told him to bring friends to a meeting with instructions how to vote. With only a few members MAKING HIS fifth. start as opening day pitcher, President Eisenhower (top) tosses out the traditional first ball the 10 millionth made for the majors by a sporting goods firm in Griffith stadium.

The Baltimore Orioles took over first place by shading the hometown Senators, 7-6, in 11 innings. In bottom photo, the Senators' Eddie Yost slides across with a run in the fourth as the ball eludes catcher Gus Triandos. Clint Courtney (No. 14) awaits his turn at bat, (International Soundphotos) Ike Pleads For Information Agency Funds Urges Congress To Restore Part of Big Cut by Committee By FRANK ELEAZER WASHINGTON (UP) President Eisenhower urged Congress today to restore some of the 38 million dollars cut from funds for the embattled U.S. Information Agency.

He told his congressional leaders that he recognizes that Congress is1 in an economy mood and probably would not give the agency the full 144 million dollars he requested. But he said reductions voted by the House Appropriations Committee at a time when the U.S. government must tell its story in the Middle East are "too deep." The agency was in double trouble in both the House and Senate. The House took up the USIA's committee-reduced 106 million dollars I with Republicans leery of trying to restore cuts for fear of opening the door to even deeper slashes. Simultaneously Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) said he not only "thoroughly approved" of the House Appropriations Committee cut, but would be satisfied to see the propaganda agency's fund whittled to a low 55 million dollars.

Eisenhower asked for 144 million dollars. Mansfield, appearing Monday night on ABC's televised "Press Conference," said he has "never been-too fond" of USIA and would like to see it "reduced in size, made more efficient and made part of the State Department." It now is a separate agency. The Montana Democrat also said he thinks Congress can reduce Eisenhower's foreign aid program "on the order of one billion dollars or more" below the administration's expected new figure. The President has indicated he will cut his $4,400,000,000 request himself. Mansfield predicted the reduced administration figure will probably be $4,100,000,000 or $4,200,000,00.

but, Uvuillj, "HIIVOJ lilt VV1IJ- mittee began hearings on what it called "a classic example of the use of force and violence and terror tactics" by union leaders. Bradshaw, who was convicted in connection with the dynamiting of a house, told senators that Robert Malloy, business agent of Teamsters Local 229 in Scranton, rigged elections. He said 80 per cent of the union members did not even know the elections were on the! agenda. He also testified that Malloy "gave instructions about beating up a fellow; he'd get Robert Hubshman" to do it. "There was a fellow there he'd get up on the floor at meetings," Bradshaw said.

"He was going out the door and Hubshman clipped him a couple of times and said, 'Don't call me no damned The fellow never opened his mouth." Safety Latch Plan Results From Test Of Children In Trap WASHINGTON (UP) Government researchers have lured 201 tiny tots one by one into a refrigerator-size "playhouse" to test their reactions when trapped, The result was a government proposal to prevent "ice Took Rap For Many Others, Beck Claims GALVESTON, Tex. (UP) The executive board of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters decides today whether to answer up May 6 to AFL-CIO charges of cor ruption or thumb its nose at Also at issue, although ture of Teamster President Dave Beck, who was suspended from his AFL-CIO vice presidency after he invoked the present, the local then voted to extend the tenure of Malloy and two other business agents from three to five years, and allow them to appoint the stewards. Then in Local 229's election in 1954, Bradshaw said, Malloy gave him and his friends extra receipts for paid-up dues, allowing them to vote extra times. "Several of us voted six or seven times," Biadshaw said. Malloy was elected business agent of the Local and J.

C. (Pinky) Hart, president. the united labor body. less directly, may be the fu Fifth Amendment, 117 times, before the Senate questions into his handling of union funds. Beck was qjoted Monday night as saying that if he answered those questions "it might blow the lid right off the Senate." He said he was "taking the rap" for "a lot of fine people." He was quoted as saying: "I think these restrictions on con-tribulions are all wrong, But if I start talking about contributions it's going to embarrass a lot of fine people whom I don't want to hurt." The inference was drawn that which the Senate charged he had diverted to his own use.

Beck had previously said in a TV press con- $300,000 without interest and had paid it back. Beck is understood to favor a double snub for the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee, which has invited him and the union to separate hearings next month. Inhabitants Of Island Secure Doctor in Japan TANGIER ISLAND, Va. (UP)-The isolated fishermen of little Tangier Island today at last had a doctor. They had to go to Japan to find one.

The inhabitants of the island in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay 12 miles from the Virginia mainland have been looking for a doctor for four years. Four years ago the 1,100 islanders decided they needed a doctor when the island's Methodist pastor suffered a heart attack and lay 17 days in bed without medical treatment. The Virginia Council of Health and Medical Care offered to help the islanders find one. The council with the help of a Chicago placement bureau finally found Vi 4 ft IK ft Intervention By Russia Fails Tried to Keep Nabulsi In Power in Jordan BIERUT, Lebanon (UP) The Soviet Union intervened in the Jordan political crisis in an unsuccessful effort to keep leftist Premier Suleiman Nabulsi in power, informed Arab sources said today. The sources said the Soviet sent warnings to President Gamal Ab- HpI Napr nf Kevnt Kvrian Pros.

Brief News Dafelines Arrest Cemetery Vandal LUEBECK, Germany (UP) -Police said todav they have arrested an 18-year-old laborer for damaging 25 tombstones in a Jewish cemetery here. Many of the stones marked the graves of concentration camp victims. Jewish organizations here claimed the damage was the result of anti-Semitism. Laborer Hans-Heinrich Hertz told police he had a grudge against the cemetery keeper. Officials said preliminary evidence indicated it was not a case of anti-Semitism.

Exchange Economic Data BONN, Germany (UP) The West German government said today it would continue to exchange economic information with the U.S. even though Marshall Plan aid ceased some time ago. Returns To Good Graces BUENOS AIRES (UP) Rear Adm. Arturo Rial, fired as navy undersecretary and placed under 30-day disciplinary arrest last month, returned to the good gracs of President Pedro Aram- buru's provisional government to-o'ay. The government named Rial to the important post of command er of the Rio Santiago navy base near La Plata.

Explosion Kills Four pnTTFRmT Thp Nptherlands (UP) Four men were killed and! at least eight were injured seri ously today when the boiler of a- tugboat undergoing repairs ex ploded in Rotterdam harbor. Sow Oats Wild DONCASTER. England (UP- Farmers Les" and Jack Keel spent Mondav sowing a field with oats and then found it belonged to somebody else. The brothers mistook one of iheir own fields for one belonging to the farm next door. The shifting of a mound of earth marking the boundary had caused them to sow their oats wild.

No Tax-No Rent HARTFORD, Conn. (UP) Ralph Kolodney, 68, awaiting, sentence "on an income tax evasion conviction, is an official of the company that rents space to the local office of the Internal Revenue Service. Search Jap Ferryboat For Additional Bodies TOKYO UP) Coast Guardsmen searched through the water-filled hull of the ferryboat Kita-gawa Maru today for additional bodies of passengers who died Friday when the boat capsized with a loss of more than 100 lives. The 39-ton ferry was raised and towed to shallow water" late Monday. Search officials said 218 passengers had bought tickets on the ferry and that several others went aboard without reservations.

Thirty-five bodies have' been recovered. From 75 to 79 persons are believed missing. Gets Divorce Decree HOLLYWOOD (UP)-The mar-j riage of actress Ruth Roman andj radio station owner Mortimer Hall! ended officially in Superior Court Monday when Hall requested and received a final divorce decree. Miss Roman obtained an inter locutory decree March 29, 1956, i but since then both the actress; and Halt took new marriage part-! r.ers after Hall had obtained a Mexican divorce from Miss May 3, the same date selected for the recently announced change city banking hours. The new store hour plan, a radical change from the present schedule, includes: Monday Stores open at noon and until 9 p.

m. Tuesday Regular 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.

hours. Wednesday Closed all day. Thursday Regular 9 a. m. to 5 p.

m. hours. Friday 9 a. m. until 9 p.

m. Saturday Regular 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.

hours. Thomas A. executive manager of the Franklin Chamber of Commerce, said the Retail Division gave as reasons for the change, "A better system to serve the shopping public, better hours for employes, and conformity with the new banking hours." The Wednesday closing will be abandoned during November December, Royer said. He asp reported there were no votes cast against the proposal Monday night Steve JVfarbish, Retaiti Division chairman, presided at the meeting. Stores will observe the traditional Good Friday closing from 1 to 3 p.

Royer added. Some Merchants Disagree A spot check1 of the business section this morning revealed a number of merchants who asserted they would "not conform" to the new hours. Although no votes were cast against the measure, several abstained from the voting, indicating they did not favor either of the two plans under final consideration. Both plans called for Monday and Friday night shopping hours but the rejected plan included Wednesday morning store hours instead of the all-day closing in the adopted version. Indications were the city would be "split" with some stores conforming to the new plan and others ignoring the action of the division by remaining open Saturday evenings and Wednesday mornings.

At least two merchants stated flatly they would "not close" all day Wednesday. "Closing a full day in the middle of the week can not be considered in the service of the buying public," one business man stated. Sues Turnpike For Fatal Crash PITTSBURGH (UP)-A Toledo, Ohio, truck driver, who was involved in an accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in which three persons died, sued the Turnpike Commission today charging it with failure to maintain safe conditions on the highway. James Linger, 33, who suffered severe burns of the entire body in the wreck, said the commission was negligent in failing to maintain a safe speed limit and a medial strip of sufficient width. He also charged failure to keep the roadway cindered and salted.

The unusual suit, filed in fed eral court here, said Linger was! i i il.I uiiviiig a iraciur-uauei uii ins turnpike in Mount Pleasant Twp. last Jan. 17. 1956 when a car skidded across the medial strip and rammed his rig. Pointing 0'it that the commission charges tolls, the complaint said it owed those paying to use the highway a high degree of care and should have known the roadway was unsafe.

Reds Seize Boats NEMURO. Hokkaido HP) Russian patrol boats seized two unidentified Japanese fishing craft off Shikotan Island in the South Kuriles Monday afternoon, it was reported today. box" deaths. Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks in a report to Congress Monday night proposed standards for an easily operated release mechanism for escaping from inside a closed refrigerator. He said the standards were set after a series of tests by the Bu-eau of Standards and Children's Bureau with 201 children ranging In age from 2 to 5.

The report said the children one by one were lured into a "playhouse" by showing inside a Mickey Mouse Donald Duck cartoon. The plywood "playhouse" inside was the size of the average family refrigerator. Once the child was inside the cartoon stopped, the "playhouse" door was shut and the child was left in darkness. Child development experts observed the trapped children's behavior through a "snooperscope." Infra red motion oictures were made. Sound recordings were tak- en of the children's outcries.

The report said three-fourths of the children found a safety latch! on the "playnousc" door and released themselves in less than three minutes One tenth of these got out in less than 10 seconds. The tests revealed that some children madi a purposeful effort to escape by searching for the latch while others engaged in "violent action both directed toward escape and undirected." Because some youngsters did nothing at all, test observers concluded no safety release will be 100 per cent effective. Search for Boats COPENHAGEN (UP)-The Dan-hh navy started a search today for three motorboats that failed to return to their Greenland ports Sunday from a walrus hunt in the Greenland west ice. I ments. The postal figure was 41 million dollars six million short of what Postmaster General Arthur E.

Summerfield requested. The swift Senate action required barely 40 minutes from the open-ing of the special appropriations committee session to final Senate passage. Committee Chairman Carl Hay-den (D-Ariz.) asked and got unani-mous consent to suspend Senate rules and take up the emergency appropriation immediately. Summerfield, who cut back postal services drastically last Saturday, has said he can not restore full service un'l emergenc jbill is by the President. I He has asked for 47 million dol- I lore civ 11 gress appeared willing to provide.

Summerfield faced a possible rough session lodav when he an- pears before a public session of the House Post Office Committee to plead for an increase in postal rates a penny boost in three-cent stamps and six-cent air mail stamps and hikes in other mail costs. Although committee members said the squabble over his postal cutbacks would have little effect on his case for stamp price hikes, members were likely to question him closely on reasons for the postal The House, despite hints of possible delay, thumped the money bill through Monday by voice vote when a demand for a roll call would have stymied the measure at least until Wednesday. The House did not act, however, until after Democrats had roundly denounced Summerfield and Republicans had defended him. Democratic attacks ranged the way from suggestions postmaster be impeached charges he "discommoded all the to as manv DeoDle as he could" bv his postal cuts. Republicans retorted the Democrats were to blame for holding up the post office's money.

Record Earthquakes NEW YORK (UP) A two-shock earthquake described as "quite sharp" was recorded in seismograph readings at Fordham University observatory Monday night at 11:22:36 p.m. and 11:24:51 p.m. her marriages. In one of her wills, however, Mrs. Momand remembered her mother by a gift to the University of Nevada.

In contesting the will, attorney for Mrs. Van Etten cited usage of alcohol and drugs as reasons why her daughter was unfit to make a will. The only member of the family mentioned in the will was Mrs. Betty Roberts, of Los Angeles, a sister of" Mrs. Momand.

Other beneficiaries included her doctors, nurses, servants and her last husband, Donald S. Momand of London. Mrs. Van Etten. a hospital patient lor the past two years, was said to be in "satisfactory condition." Asked what she would do with the money, she said: "Just pay some bill.

ident Shukri El-Kuwatly and King Eeck had made Plitical CODtribu-Hussein that Israel was preparingj tions in violation of the Taft-an armed attack that could cone' Hartley law with the union funds at any time. The warning was made to persuade Hussein not to insist on the withdrawal of Syrian troops fronrference that he borrowed the Stock Prices Move In Narrow Range NEW YORK (UP) Stocks moved within a narrow ra.igc again today. The market so far this week has been able to display the rallying powers it demonstrated the three previous weeks, when almost four billion dollars were added to stock values. Ford firmed in the motors on a block. General Motors was unchanged on 1,500 shares and Chrysler on 1,000 shares.

General Electric firmed on 1.000 shares, reflecting a record fir.it quarter earnings epot. Steels were mixed. Bethlehem eased on 2,500 shares. Luk'ins jumped l's on shares and U.S. Steel tacked on small fraction.

Aircraits moved within a narrow range, with Boeing down a small fraction on 1,700 shares. The oils were fairly active and mixed. Royal Dutch was higher on 1.000 shares and Standard Oil of California firmed on 1,800 shares. Cities Service lost St. Regis Paper, a big loser Monday, was down in the paper group on 2,200 shares.

American Home Products featured on the upside with a gain of International Nickel lost i in the non-ferrous metals. $5 Relic Actually Diamond Worth $750 CHARLESTON, S.C. (UP)-Mrs. Annie Lee Small, pretty wife of a traveling salesman, told an an-j tique shopkeeper here, "This looks like a real diamond how much?" The proprietor of one of this; port city's many antique shops looked over the tarnished ring she had chosen from his display of old jewelry and said with a laugh: "Sure, it's a diamond. Tor you, five bucks.

You always get a dia-j mond that size for $5, but all; sales are finaL" Mrs. Small took her purchase to two appraisers who agreed the stone was a 72-point, blue white diamond worth $750. $300,000 Award To Charity Patient Dr. Mikio Kato of Kobe, Japan, He promised to try it for a year, The young, slightly-built doctor arrived from Japan Monday by plane. All the island turned out to give him a great welcome.

Then they escorted the grinning doctor to a $12,000 medical center that they had built for him. "1 like fishing people and I like fish," he said, happily. Lucky Seven NEW YORK (UP) -Bart Schwartz, 35, president of Bart Schwartz International Textiles announced Monday that starting May 1 every executive in the firm must take a week's paid vacation every seventh week. "We're all workers here," Schwartz said. "It's a dynamic firm." two rocket engines weighing less than a pound each, can be folded to fit a hangar "the size of a telephone booth," Rotor Craft President Gilbert Ma gill said.

Magill explained that the purpose of the little charts is "to fly an infantryman and his equipment about the battlefield and over terrain inaccessible to other helicopters." The "pinwheel" was developed under a Navy and will be sent to the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River, Md for further performance demonstrations. i Flies By Pinwheel Like Grasshopper Jordan and to persuade' him to re tain Nabulsi as premier on grounds it would be fatal for Jordan to be without a government when attacked. Hussein suspected the intrigue but did not leave anything to chance, the sources said. He called in the foreign ambassadors in Amman to check the reports and then went ahead with his original plans when informed the reports were without foundation. Hussein went ahead and ousted Nabulsi last Wednesday to touch off a week-long power struggle.

The two appeared to have struck a compromise Monday night when Hussein Khalidi, a former foreign minister and a staunch supporter of the King, formed a cabinet which included Nabulsi as foreign minister and minister of communications. Informed sources here said Jordan's position was still far from clear although King Hussein apparently had won. But they said the basic issue of whether Jordan will pursue a pro-Western Or a leftist foreign policy remains to be seen. Eden Improving BOSTON TP)' Doctors said today Sir Anthony Eden's post op erative condition continues to im prove and he may be able to try eating some solid foods within a few days. DETROIT (UP) A 104-year-old charity patient, who worked as a charwoman to raise a family of 10 children, was awarded $300,000 Monday from the estate of a millionairess daughter who tried to cut her off without a cent.

The award to Mrs. Wilhelmina Van Etten, a city-supported pa- jtient at a rest home here, climaxed a two-year legal battle in courts in Michigan and New ork. Mrs. Van Etten attorneys, in a suit filed two years ago, contended that her six times wed daughter, Mrs. Agnes Momand.

ignored her mother because of fraud and undue influence. TKa rtniirrtntAr u-Iia rlin1 ATqv 1 25, 1955 at the age of 65, wrote I six wills, but failed to leave her mother any of the 3 million dol lar fortune she had amassed by VAN NUYS, Calif. (UP) The Bureau of Aeronautics has witnessed a flight demonstration of the "pinwheel" strap-on-the-back rocket powered helicopter which enables its pilot to fly like a grasshopper. In a demonstration Monday by the Rotor-Craft pHot Dick Whitehead put the one-man aircraft, first of its kind, into the air with a hop and then came down, literally landing on his feet which dangled beneath the pinwheel blades twirling over his head. Tfc tin 'copter, powered by.