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HAZLETON WEATHER Mostly gunny and continued cold. High in the 30s. (Forecast Page 32) EARLY EDITION peaKer continuing STANDARD-SENTINEL confirming THE PLAIN SPEAKER VOL. 99, NO. 27,295 HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1964 2 Sections 52 Pages EIGHT CENTS 9 Year01d Local Girl Murdered Standard- South Viet Nam Government Purge Planned Military Leader Intends To Put Wealthy Class Into Anti-Red War Marise Chiverella's Gagged, Bound Body Found in Bottom Of Abandoned Coal Stripping Threatening Calls Made To Connally Two Women Charged With Telephoning on Day Ruby Was Sentenced Soviet-U.

S. Relations May Be in Jeopardy Rescued From Indian Attack, SAIGO.V, South Viet Nam (AP) Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh said Wednesday he intends to purge his government and pitch Saigon's wealthy leisure class into the anti-Communist war in! a drive for total mobilization, Th? premier-strong man's de R. annut I Inimp Dort Claims llvliUl I jlCllUld ur They waived removal 1 Inamese draft dodgers who have appearance be-Information Says Soldiers carried on as usual here while Commissioner A.

B. Reached Trapped Road 'other Vietnamese and Jf1' -j Engineers in Peru i FBI here said the calls, fciViieer I eru difficult tQ admjt that; Victim Criminally Assaulted; Police Press Search For Sex Offender; Death Due to Asphyxiation By Strangulation, Autopsy Report Shows By CHUCK GLOMAK State police are seeking- a sex offender in the criminal assault of nine-year-old Marise Chiverella, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carmen Chiverella, 533 Alter street, whose bound and gagged body was found yesterday afternoon near the bottom of an abandoned stripping at Milnesville about a half mile northwest of the Hazleton Municipal Airport. Lt.

Edward J. Switaj, commanding officer of State Police Troop heading an investigation into the girl's death, said an autopsy conducted last night at Hazleton State General Hospital revealed the child had been attacked. Death was due to asphyxiation by strangulation, he said. Police last night began questioning residents of the six-block area between the girl's home and St. Joseph Parochial School where she was a third grade pupil.

Sex Offender Sought Asked if police had any clues, Lt. Switaj said, "Evidence was uncovered. We are processing the evidence obtained so far" but declined to elaborate. Queried as to the time of death, Switaj said the autopsy performed by Dr. Julius Foldes, pathologist, indicated death occurred sometime yesterday morning.

The police lieutenant indicated a sex offender i3 being sought. are wo viel, fitting the countryside, with Saigon feasting every night. IUIU fight against communism, all must participate." "As you have seen, my gen crals are getting out in the field, The morale of the army is high-j er than before Jan. 30" when; seized power in a blood v1- -w -if t.uay. lfu they see their leaders with The women will probably be This is what I mean by; tried in San Antonio.

Tex tho LIMA, Peru (AP) UnconJ firmed reports reached Lima Wednesday that 50 Peruvian diers have rescued a mixed i party of engineers and soldiers from a week-long attack by sav-iage. Stone-Age Indians. i These reports, printed newspapers, said by lnc to whole party was en route through the Amazonian jungle toward the Yaravi River where 'a gunboat was-waiting to p.ck Armed" soldiers in the be-1 leaguered party held off the In-! dians until help came, these re- ports said I However, the Ministry of Edu- cation had nothing beyond news released bv sDokesmen earlier. This said that radio contact had been made with the group who said us." As "They are closing in on the message crackled (Continued on Page Column 1) total. mobilization." A Officialdom of his regime got, The arrests were announced this warning: 'by J.

Myers Cole, special agent! Ue have decided to in charge of the San Antonio, the government machinery. Vc office of the FBI, and not hcsitate or gve Karl J- Dissl'. sPecial agent in llfe imprisonment to those who charge of the Memphis office. Marise NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Two women were charged by ine with making a threatening telephone call to Gov John Connally of Texas on the day Jack Ruby was sentenced to death.

The women were identified as Jme McGnff, 38, both of Nash- to injure the person of Gov. John Connally." Only one call was made, the FBI said, but two women talkpH to the governor, The women are charged with violating a federal extortion statute. If convicted thpv rnnlrf receive as much as fiv years in priSOI1 and i 000 finps Thp entered no plea Wednes- FBI said. Cole said the complaint filed by the FBI in the Western Dis-I trict of Texas federal court at Antonio accuses the women "did wilfully and knowingly interstate com- transmit in merce from Nashville to Austin a telephone call March 14 con taining a threat to injure the person of Gov. John Connally, in violation of the federal extortion statute." The announcement gave no other details.

Famed Scientist Dies in Stockholm CAMBRIDGE. Mass. fAP) Dr. Norbert Wiener. 69.

world- renownecj scientist and rnnsiH- Pred father nf anfnmatinn HioH ednesdav in Stockholm, it was5 announced by Massachusetts In stitute of Technology. Bulletin Rail Strike Averted REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (API The Southern Pacific Railroad Wednesday night obtained a California Superior Court restraining order banning a strike by five railway operating brotherhoods. The. order was signed by Superior Judge James T.

O'Keefe of San Mateo County. Never Walked to School General Motors to Spend Record $2 Billion, Will Hire 50,000 in New Plan Chiverella Yesterday By WM. J. McLAUGHLIX Nine-year-old Marise Chiverella never walked to school alone until yesterday. She was afraid of dogs, her brother, Ronald, said last night.

Now, Marise will never walk to school again. An inhuman fiend took care of that. The shy, quiet youngster died an tonnmininiis Hpath vettorHav at iho someone who is still at large, but she will live for a long time in the minds and hearts of her family. They talked of her fandly last night. A happy child, Marise was a "little mother" around the house, her relatives said.

When help was needed with anything in the home, Marise did it gladly. Nobody ever had to ask her twice. She went about it quietly and with an efficiency that belied her age. The youngster also helped out at the family store next door to the home, and there she was as efficient and as pleasant as she was plspwliprp Alone Before Says Marise Was Shy Pupil By ED MERRICK Marise Chiverella, whose bound and agged body was found in striDDins vesterdav. was des cribed by her teacher at St.

Jo seph's parish school, Sister Josephine, as a student who was very shy and not aggressive. Sister Clementia, school principal, noted the Chiverella family was very closely-knit, and Marise sat With them Sunday in the bleachers after participating in a testimonial to Monsignor Gavenda in the school auditorium. The sisters observed that apparently the last person to see Marise alive was a schoolmate, Mary Bozosi, who was beinj driven school by her father. Mary told the sisters that Marise was coming out on the porch. (Continued on Page 5, Column 6) Washington WanisMoscon-On Failure to Release Donned Airmen MOSCOW (AP) The United States told the Soviet Union on Wednesday their warming relations will be jeopardized if the Soviets continue to hold three U.S.

airmen shot down in Communist East Germany. But there was a quick hint the Soviets may risk it. Soviet authorities in Germany turned down a new American request that they release one of the three the injured Lt. Harold V. Welch of Detroit for return to U.S.

control. The U.S. warning encom passed Welch, 24; Capt. David I. Holland.

35. of Holland. Minn; and Capt. Melvin J. Kessler, 30, of Philadelphia, whose unarmed jet reconnaissance plane was shot down March 10 by a Soviet fighter over East Germany.

The U.S. charge d'affaires, Walter J. Stoessel, delivered the warning to Mikhail Smirnovsky, chief of the Soviet Foreign Ministry's American section. Stoessel made three points: Further delay in releasing the prisoners will jeopardize pood relations. American officials repeatedly have stated that the plane was not on an espionage mission and was unarmed.

U.S. air control officers made every effort even radio calls in plain language that Soviet monitors could understand to prevent the plane from straying off course on a training flight from a French base and this is known to Soviet officials. A U.S. Embassy spokesman taid Smirnovsky was told: "Further delay in release and return of the crewmen clearly jeopardized possibilities for ex-! panding areas of U.S.-Soviet co operation and can affect present efforts in cooperation in various fields." Smirnovsky promised to pass along Soessel's representation. Presumably it will be referred to Premier Khrushchev, though he is on vacation on the Black Sea.

Stoessel noted that a U.S. Air Force doctor, Capt. John Monroe of West End, X.C.. was permitted to visit Welch on Monday in the Soviet military hospital at Magdeburg, East Germany. But he complained that the U.S.

military liaison mission based at Potsdam had been prevented from talking ith the crew members to learn why the plane strayed. Suggests Use Of Idle Bases WASHINGTON (AP) Secre tary of Defense Robert S. McNamara suggested Wednesday that idle military bases be used as training centers for the proposed job corps key plank in the administra tion's plan to com bat poverty. McNamara, testifying before the House Education and Labor Committee, said the inactive de fense installations could house most of the youths, aged 16 to 21, the plan would remove from unfavorable environments and provide with basic education and job skills. The armed services' high rejection rate of draftees and recruits for failure to meet physical and mental requirements demonstrates the need for the program, McNamara said.

Where To Find It Page Deaths 32 Funerals 32 Hospital Admissions 32 Births 32 Comics, Crossword 26 Women's Pages 1819 Sports Pages 28-29 Editorial Page 8 Classified Pages 30-31 Markets 30 Theatres 27 Mine Work Schedule 17 Freeland News 24-25 McAdoo News 25 Beaver Meadows News 24 Weatherly News 3 FREEMONT, Calif. (AP) I General Motors expect- mg an economic boom, says it will spend a record $2 billion on equipment and hire up to 50,000 i a new workers to boost production by 20 per cent in two years. The record investment in 1964 and 1965 will prepare GM for an auto market expected to reach an average yearly sales narp nf in million units hv i97n said Fredprip c. Dnnnpp nM i board chairman. In a speech prepared for the dedication Wednesday of GM's new car and truck assembly plant here, Donner outlined: plans to build new plants and expand or improve facilities in nearly 30 U.S.

cities. Expansion will continue at major manfacturing plants in England, West Germany and Australia, he said, and GM will continue to spend about $600 million a year for special toos frt nrmrt ri it iter nnur mnHole rtf uars, uuiNS ana oiner proaucis. GM, the nation's No. 1 automaker, earned profits of last year setting a one-year record for any U.S. I Her brothers and sisters will tellCounty authorities were summoned you proudly that she was good in to the scene- where the girls body was examined by Dr.

John Gib-(Continued on Page 5, Column Luzerne County coroner; nav.e.becn narmfuI. to the people and have not awakened' to the total mobilization plan. Arrangements to step up the Backed war effort were dis closed in a White House state- ment Tuesday in Washington. corporation. ine nrm employs; about 300,000 hourly rated em ployes in tne united states, it i 4n ne a fln rvr i rio paiu int-m wwno.uw ioo.

Worldwide, it sold 5,974,000 cars while the auto industry as a whole sold about twice that number last year. "These planned plant expendi tures may be said to be a measure of the confidence of uenerai in me tuture its own future in the automobile industry the economic future of our country," Donner said. "This will represent the ilarffpst total of ranital pxnpnrii- t. 4 period in its history about 30 per cent above what we spent in 1955 and 1956 when our last major expansion was under way." he added. "When the new plants are built and equipped and the add-I ed capacity is utilized, we would look forward to an increase of about 50,000 jobs available in this country," he said.

Donner said more than $900 million will be spent this year (Continued on Page 5, Column 2) answered a careful question," adding: "An offering of the vice presidential nomination by the presi1 dential candidate is not a pure and honest draft." He said a draft would constitute a substantial expression of interest by convention delegates for the nomination of a particular candidate. Then he repeated that he does not believe a "sincere and honest" draft will develop for either office. The governor said he had no plans to call off a campaign in his behalf being waged by U.S. Rep. Richard S.

Schweiker, Lansdale Republican. "If I called off all the people that are working for me everywhere, I'd spend the whole day doing it," the governor said. A newsman pointed out that Schweiker is a Pennsylvanian, (Continued on Page 5, Column 7) Charles E. Flynn, chief deputy; Louis C. Fierro, deputy, and Dr.

V. James Kennedy. The dirt road leading from the airport road into the stripping was immediately blocked off by police as investigators made a thorough study of the site. The victim was bound and gag ged. A multicolored scarf was stuffed in her mouth and her hands and legs were bound.

She wore a dark jacket and skirt, with black leotards. The body lay near the bottom of the stripping, 26 feet over an embankment, among scattered ashes, garbage and other debris. Farther down the stripping, police found the child's black and brown suede shoes, brown pocketbook and red school bag. Police Notified City police were informed of the girl's disappearance at 1 p. m.

yesterday by an official of St. Joseph's School who said Marise had not reported for classes and was believed missing when she did not arrive home for lunch or show up at the school cafeteria. The child's mother recalled that Marise left for school shortly before 8 a. a few minutes before her brother Barry, 11 and sister Carmen, 13, who attend the same school. (Continued on Page 5, Column 5) Endorse Move By Cambodia SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) After a series of political blows from the little kingdom of Cambodia, the United States has decided to turn the other cheek to its volatile ruler, Prince Norodom Sihanouk.

That is evident from the U.S. endorsement of South Viet Nam decision to seek restoration of diplomatic relations with Cambodia. There are two reasons for Washington's forebearancc. First, the United States wants to defeat Red China's policy of divide and conquer in Asia. Second, Washington hopes to close the Cambodian valve through which Viet Cong agents and supplies flow to South Viet Nam's Red guerrillas from Communist North Viet Nam.

Last week, Cambodian rioters government employes among them sacked the U.S. and British embassies in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Sihanouk denied complicity in the raids, but said he understood why the people were angry. He called off a proposed conference with South Viet Nam on frontier problems, which he had proposed himself, and said he was sending a delegation to North Vict Nam to deal with the same problems. Sihanouk denounced the non-Communist world, and sent a delegation to Peking to negotiate an arms deal.

Cambodia used to get arms from the United States. The child had left home shortly before 8 o'clock yesterday morning, several minutes before her brother Barry, 11, and sister Carmen, 13, students at the same school. When she failed to show up for classes and did not arrive home for lunch, school officials were contacted by her family. Police were immediately notified the girl was missing. Found in Lovers Lane Her body fully clothed except for her shoes, which were discovered a short distance away was found near the bottom of an abandoned stripping in a lovers lane area approximately one-fourth mile off the airport road.

The body was found by Arthur F. Robinson, of House 30, Milnesvile, between 1:30 and 2 p. m. yesterday. Robinson told police he had gone to the area of the stripping to dump some ashes.

Identification was made by Revs. John Samson and Cyril Rable, assistant pastors at St. Joseph School. The victim, a shy but popular student, was slender and weighed approximately 55 pounds. She was a member of the Junior Catholic Daughters of America.

Area Blocked Off City and state police and Luzerne measure ment of the exact spot used as a dump. I "RlfM Wm it His Remarks Concerning Office-Seeking Confused, Scranton Tells Newsmen HARRISBURG (AP) Gov. Scranton indicated Wednesday that newsmen and others interested in politics don't listen carefully enough to his dis-clamers of interest in the presidency or the vice presidency. Conceding that semantics play an important part in questions and answers about his prospects at the Republican convention, Scranton told his weekly news conference that two different answers about the vice presidency boiled down to the same thing. Scranton told The Associated Press early in March that he would not accept the vice presidential nomination "if offered." Last Monday, Scranton said he would accept a "sincere and honest" draft for the vice presidency, the same as he would for the presidential nomination.

Scranton said the confusion developed "because people didn't listen carefully when I State Police Corporal Ralph A. Cameron (left) and Chief County Detective Robert Musser take a where the body of Marise Chiverella was found yesterday afternoon at abandoned stripping site now.

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