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I37B 70th Year No. 49 REDLANDS. CALIFORNIA. MONDAY. MARCH 28.

I960 phon. PY s-3221 Twelve Pages 5 Cent! EISENHOWER, MACMILLAN CONFER Underworld Tightens Grip On U.S. Economy By JOHN A. GOLDSMITH United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate Rackets Committee uamed today that a "criminal sjndicate" of underworld hoodlums has strengthened its grip on the U. S.

economy. Its findings were unanimous but the conmiittee split 4-4 along strict party lines over proposed establishment of a national crime commission to help combat the growing menace. The committee, in another report on its investigation of infiltration of management and labor by racketeers, accused Teamster President James R. Hoffa again of "gross abuses" of union power and an "unconscionable betra.val" of union members. The new attack on Hoffa said he gained power with the help of "racketeers and hoodlums" and.

despite a promised clean-up drive, has shown "no inclination to move against a variety of thieves, robbers, burglars, arsonists, white slavers, extortionists, dope pedd lers, and even murderers who are holding office in teamster affil iates." The suggested crime commission would have as a federal clearing house for nationwide data on crime. Unable to agree on the proposal, the committee voted instead to recommend immediate study by an "appropriate" congressional committee on how to best cope with the problem of syndicated crime. The committee split over the Former Truman Officials Lose Court Plea W.ASHINGTON (UPI) The Supreme Court today for the third time denied a hearing to J. Connelly and T. Lamar Caudle, two former Truman administration officials convicted, in 1956 of conspiring to defraud! -Mafia Sicihan the government in an income taxIWack hand group but took no on whether it js the back- proposed crime commission had more than the usual partisan overtones.

Sen. John F. Kennedy a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, spearheaded the drive for its adoption. He drew support from the other three committee Democrats Chairman John L. McClellan and Sens.

Frank Church I Idaho) and Sam J. Jr (N.C.). All four Republicans Sens. Kad E. Mundt (S.D.), Barrj- Goldwater Carl T.

Curtis and Homer E. Cane- yart ilnd.) were opposed. Kennedy said the proposed commission would "gather information on the top criminal leaders in the countrj'. keep a close surveillance on their activities, and disseminate their information to local and state law enforcement agencies." Could Injure Innocent The Republicans opposed the commission as a costly and unnecessary accessory to such existing facilities as the FBI. They said its data on crime might fall into the hands of crimi nals themselves in areas where they are in league with "venal or corrupt officials." Also, they said, the commission might distribute "unverified data consistine of rumor and gossip" and "injure innocent persons." There was no dissent on the committee's finding that the "growing power of the American underworld," as evidenced by the 1957 crime convention at Apalachin, N.

Y. poses a "national problem." "Despite strenuous local efforts in some parts of the country, the grip of hoodlums and racketeers on the American economy continue? to grow," the report said. The committed noted "the continuing operation of vast illicit enterprises, and the infiltration of top hoodlums into labor management, and management associations." The report summarized testi- case. The court's brief order the two will soon be called to start the two-year jail sentences imposed on them in 1957. They were also fined each.

Connelly was a House I aide of former President Truman Caudle is a former chief of the Justice Department's Tax sion. Connelly and Caudle were con victed of conspiring to prevent the income tax prosecution of Irving Sachs, a St. Louis shoe broker. Telcpliots THE X-15 CHANGES missile-ljke aircraft X-15 nestles beneath the wing of its B-52 mother ship shortly before the drop. It was the first flight for National Aeronautics and Space.

Administration pilot Joe Walker in the rocket- plane that he may take to the edge of space. Previous flights of the X-15 have been made with North American Aviation pilot Scott Crossfield at the controls. U. S. Warns Russia Must Agree On First Stages GENEVA (UPI) -The United bone of a U.

S. crime syndicate. Weather Rcdlands Weather Today Highest 63, Lowest 50 Rainfall: 24 hrs. .16. Season 8.90.

Last Year 5.61 Sunday Highest 59, Lowest 52 Saturday Highest 73, Lowest 46 One Year Ago Highest 77, Lowest 44 Tomorrow's Sunrise and Sunset 5:40 a.m. p.m. San Bernardino Valley: Decreasing cloudiness early tonight. Cloudy with rain Tuesday. Continued cool.

LOS ANGELES lUPI)-" Noon forecast as prepared by the U.S. Weather Bureau: Cloudiness will decrease this afternoon and early tonight in all of Southern California, but there is a chance of a few scattered light showers in the mountains. It will be mostly cloudy Tuesday with rain in the coastal and mountain areas and scattered showers in the northern deserts. The snow level in the mountains will be near 6, 000 feet. Temperatures will be cooler this afternoon in the moun fains and deserts and slightly cooler tonight in most areas Winds will be strong and gusty at times especially in the mountains and deserts.

Wednesjay's outlook is for partly cloudy skies and continued cool tetLperatures. Temperatures and precipitation Civil Defense Shelter Program In Bad Shape Boston Chicago Denver Fairbanks Fort Worth Helena Kansas City Los Angeles Minneapolis New York Oklahoma City Palm Springs Sacramento Salt Lake City San Francisco SeatUe Washington at 4 a.m. 50 42 T. 56 36 T. 74 49 25 0 73 53 63 40 73 62 60 54 .08 58 30 52 46 70 50 83 65 44 .08 70 55 60 50 .21 57 43 .16 66 47 WASHINGTON (UPI) -A con gressman told the nation's civil defense chief today that the shelter construction program is in "deplorable shape." But Leo A.

Hoegh. civil and defense mobilization director, disputed the statement of Rep. Chct Holifield Hoegh insisted the administration's 2-year-old shelter policy "has met with reasonable success." He gave his assessment after Holifield called the program a failure, with only 1,565 home fallout belters built in 35 stales. Holifield made his statement in opening hearings by his Uouie government operations subcommittee on the status of shelter! construction. Other congressional news: Civil rights: Attorney General William P.

Rogers tried to convince the Senate Judiciary Committee behind closed doors today to support the House approved civil rights bill. The committee, headed by James 0. Eastland (D- was under orders to have the measure ready for consideration by Tuesday night. The committee's split lineup made prospects slim for any major revisions to strengthen or weaken it. Testimony was heard frrnn Charles J.

Bloch, a Macon, attorney who opposed the bill, as well as from Rogers. States warned Russia today that unless it is willing to agree on the first stages of disarmament it is useless to discuss later steps The warning came af ter Russia's Valerian A. Zorin dumped cold water on a detailed western blueprint for a veto-free watchdog organization to prevent cheating on disarmament. Zorin said he would discuss con trols only after the ID-nation Disarmament Conference here had elaborated a concrete agreement on "general and complete disarmament." But chief American delegate Frederick M. Eaton reminded the Russian that the United States will accept no disarmament agreement which does not include substantial inspection and control insurance.

The western proposal was laid before the conference by Italy's deputy delegation chief Francisco Calavetti, acting for Italian chief delegate Gaetano Martino, who returned to Rome for formation of, a new government. One of the chief functions of the new disarmament organization, Calavetti proposed, should be to set up machinery to ban nu clear satellite warfare from outer space. The western proposal suggested that the international disarmament organization should have a'; 14-member executive committee, some permanent and some rotat ing as in the United Nations Security Council. It also would have a council of stales and a director, general. There would be no veto, such Heavy Rioting In So.

Africa Dr. Eisenhower III. Trip To Rome Postponed B.4LTIM0RE, Md. (UPH -Dr S. Eisenhower, 60.

the President's brother, was confined to bed today by an illness that forced postponement of his departure on a trip to Rome. The president of Johns Hopkins University was described by his secretary. Keith Spaulding, as "still confined to bed, but getting well." The university president had been scheduled to leave Sunday night for Rome to dedicate a new- building at the Bologna center of Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies. as the Soviets have used to hamstring the V. y.

Security Council. Calavetti said the International Disarmament Organization could collect information on each nation's armed forces and verify whether agreed reductions were carried out. He said it could install machinery capable. of controlling nuclear production for warlike pur poses and verify the transfer of existing nuclear stocks from military to peaceful purposes. First Major Thaw Of Spring Causes Floods CHICAGO The first major thaw of the spring sent ers and streams over their banks in midwestern plains areas today and some Kansas and Nebraska towns reported streets deep in water.

The Vermillion River flowed several feet deep through the bus iness district and some residence portions of Frankfort, in the north central part of Kansas. Heavy mud caked as the waters began to drop. Some families moved from their homes overnight. Eight to 10 blocks of low-lying areas in Columbus, were flooded by waters of the Loup River. At Beatrice, waters from the flooded Big Blue River seeped into a residential area.

At least 60 families were forced to evacuate their homes in the Nebraska towns of Lynch, Verdel and Monowi. Col. Don Penterman, assistant adjutant general, said the eastern part of Nebraska below the Platte River was like a huge swamp He toured the area by air 'Sunday. Floods were reported, but most ly of river bottom areas often flooded in peacetime, in Missouri in iowa, and in the Dakotas Some roads were closed in all flooded areas. The "villain" in the flood picture was the heavy late snowfall which made after midwinter, and in some parts of Kansas and Nebraska had piled up to the deepest layer in a half century or more.

guardsmen were called upon to aid rescue groups in some communities. Authorities in flood hit states said that there would be other and perhaps worse floods to follow as the spring wore on Navy Announces Speed-Up In Polaris Program WASHINGTON (UPI) The Navy today announced a 52 triil- lion dollar speed-up in its Polaris center of France. Khrushchev Frightened By Crowd French Police Whisk Catholic Priesr Out Of Town DIJON, France (UPI) -Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev flew into this eastern French city from JIarseilles, where he was frightened by overenthusiastic Communists and cheered by lunatics and where he promised to take the mayor to the moon. Four hours before he arrived' in Dijon police whisked away Canon Felix Kir, 84 French Catholic priest who also is mayor of Dijon, to an undisclosed destination to make certain he did not meet the Soviet leader. Canon Kir had been forbidden by his bishop to meet the touring Premier, even in his official ca parity as mayor.

But the lives only 50 yards from the city hall, and Sunday night he said: "If Monsieur Khrushchev knocks on my door, I will receive him." Police officials headed off that possibility by taking the aged canon away, lest Khrushchev tempted to call on him and add a bit more spice to this mustard Taxi Union Chief Spent $40,000 On Love Nest (UPI) Joey South (UPI. rioting was ported tonight in the native township of Orlando outside Johannesburg as South African Negroes held a national day of mourning. Casualties were reported but no figures were available immediately. Early reports said the police station was surrounded and number of beer halls were bum-! ing. The noilence flared after a day in which native Negro stayed home from work in motoi ing for the 70 to 80 Africans killed in race riots last week when police fired on mobs.

The stay at home strikes disrupted public services and industry, but until nightfall the itry gHierally was quiet. union money on a love nest for himself and his secretarj-, the Senate Rackets Committee said today. A report on the committee's investigation of unions said Glimco diverted about S50.000 of the money to remodel the union's office quarters and used most of it tO' buy a $40,000 home for himself and his secretary. Miss LaVeme -Murray. Glimco and Miss Miirray, according to the report, also took a trip at union expense to Los Angeles, where they stayed as man and wife at the Bel Air Hotel.

The report labeled Glimco, president of Local 777 of the Teamsters Union, a companion of hoodlums and public enemies, "a common thug and criminal. a parasite on the labor movement and a leech on society." But the committee said. Glimco took a back seat to John T. 0' Brien, secretary treasurer of Local 710 in Chicago and second vice president of the teamsters international. "For sheer brazen plunder, the story of O'Brien and his companion officers and how they siphoned off huge amounts of the union dues was unequalled in the committee's experience," the report said.

The coiiimittee said O'Brien. President Frank Brown of Local 710 and two other officers drained the local's treasury of $1,136,275 in salaries, vacation allowances, Christmas bonuses and commission's during the years 1952-58. Brown retired in 1953. missile submarine program. It said funds will be switched from other sources to put extra crews at work on Polaris firing submarines so they can be put into operation ahead of schedule.

"This speed-up of the Polaris weapons system," the Navy said, "has been under consideration for some time. The decision was based on recent successes of the missile test program. Nine of tiie last 10 Polaris test vehicles have been flown successfully and have met all test objectives." A spokesman said the money was being taken from "various sources." He did not identify these, but said no other program will be cancelled. The spokesman could not say how much construction timCi would be saved by Ihe speed-up. The seven submarines previously' were scheduled for commissioning! on dates ranging from Sept.

this year to March, 1962. Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D a leading congressional proponent of the Polarir, hailed the speed-up as helping "close the missile gap by making carrying submarines available sooner in this critical period." President Eisenhower's budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 sought funds for three more Polaris subs. Arleigh A.

Burke, chief of operations, has said the Navy wants Con gress to authorize six bringing the total fleet (o 18. Veterans Housing Bond Issue Passage Certain SACRAMENTO lUPD-Passaee; of a 400-Vnillion-dollar bond issue for veterans' housing was assured in the Legislature today when the voted 70 0 to place such a measure on the election ballot. The Senate already has passed a rival measure calling for the same arhount to continue a program started after World War 1 in which veterans get low-interest state loans to buy a farm or home. The Assembly measure was introduced by Myron H. Frew (D Dinubal: the Senate version was the work of Nelson Dilworth (R- Hcmeti.

One of the houses has to accent the other's version before a mea sure finally is there were no dissenting votes in either the Assembly or Senate on the Dilworth-Frew proposals. Gov. Edmund G. Brown has expressed hope that the Legislature will approve a bill which will permit the veterans' bond issue and another 300-million-dollar bond issue for school construction to eo on the June 7 primary election ballot instead of in November. $500,000 Fire At Newport NEWPORT BEACH A spectacular fire caused an estimated $500,000 damage today when it leveled a drug store at the entrance to the exclusive Lido Isle residential area.

The fire was discovered shortly before 8 a.m. in the kitchen of the store and was fought by units from Newport Beach and Costa Mesa. A nearby theater and market were endangered by the flames. Hustled into Auto The aged canon was hustled in to a police car. He was bare- 'headed, his face was livid and he waved his arms excitedly in the air.

Tltree hours and 23 minutes later, a French governijient Caravelle jet bringing Khrushchev and his party from Marseilles touched down at the military airfield out -I side Dijon. Canon Kir is a Catholic churchman who believes in reconciliation with the Soviet Communists. Last year he got into hot water with the Vatican by sponsoring a project which made Dijon the "twin city" of Russia's Stalin-! grad. Cheered by Insane In Marseilles, France's second largest city and a center of munist loyalties, the crowds swarmed so tightly against Khrushchev's car that they dented a fender. Sunday night, 350,000 people stood in a downpour to watch him drive into town.

Today, the Red throng broke through police lines and surrounded Khrushchev. He paled for a moment until he realized he was among friends. Bodyguards cleared a way for him to his car as he was en route between visits to the ultramodern Chave Kindergarten in downtown Marseilles and the new medical school. As Khrushchev went to the medical facility, he drove past an insane asylum. The inmates cheered and waved at him from their windows.

At city hall, Mayor Gaston Def- ferre gave Khrushchev a gold medal and a phora, a Greek jug for storing; wine or oil. Defferre said modestly, "You have been giving outi Sputnik models. We have no Sput niks. We offer you a symbol of the past." Khrushchev replied, "You say you have no lunik. Very well When we fly to the moon, I will invite you, and we will fly together." TO Prime Minister Harold Mac- ittillan to D.

for hurriedly arranged talks with President Eisenhower to find an Anglo- American compromise on a controlled nuclear test ban. Legislature Approves Budget SACRAMENTO The California Legislature Saturday night approved a compromise $2,481,092, 813 budget. The compromise provides a per cent pay raise for all state, employes, per cent for university and state college teachers and 10 per cent for clerical, domestic and custodial employes. The final budget compares with the $2,477,121,000 bill that Gov. Brown submitted for the fiscal year.

The approved sum is S4- million more than Brown asked Debra Paget, Director Wed HOLLYWOOD (UPD Screen star Debra Paget, 27, was secretly married Sunday night to director Budd Boetticher in Tijuana, Mexico, it was announced today by friends. The actress and her director husband, 44, took the movie colony by surprise when they drove, to the border town Sunday with another couple. Both -Miss Paget and Boetticher i were previously married. She was married to actor David Street for two months ia 1358. Legal Challenge Introduced In Chessman Case SAN RAFAEL (UPD- A new legal challenge to Carj'l Chessman's death sentence was introduced today by his attorney, George T.

Davis, in a petition filed in Superior Court. Davis filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus asking that the two death warrants against Chess man be nullified and that he he freed from San Quentin Prison where he is scheduled to die May The attorney said the petition raises for the first time the argument that Chessman was sentenced to death 12 years ago for a crime which actually carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Judge Jordan Martinelli set Wednesday for pro and con arguments by Davis and District Ai- torney W.O. Weissich. The judge then will either dismiss the peti tion or oeder a full-fledged hearing with Chessman present.

Martinelli said he would expe dite the matter because "time is running out." If Martinelli dismisses the petition, Davis said he would appeal to a higher court. Today's appeal argued that the two counts on which Chessman originally was charged were for simple kidnaping and robbery, punishable by life imprisonment at most, and not kidnaping and rob- hery with intent to do harm for which the maximum penalty is death. Davis charged that the late Su perior Judge Charles J. Fricke, who presided at the original trial in Los Angeles, illegally instructed the jury to consider morals offenses, which stepped up the case to include bodily harm. Chessman was accused of perverted sex attacks on two women during the kidnapings.

In effect, Davis said. Chessman was charged with one crime and convicted for a greater one. Express Hope For Agreement With Soviets President, British Prime Minister Ry By 'Copter To Camp David CAMP DAVID, Md. (UPI) President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold JIacmillan opened their crucial nuclear test ban talks today by expressing hope of arriving "at a properly safeguarded agreement with the Soviet Union" to suspend tests. The President and Prime Minister flew by helicopter to this snow-covered retreat in the Catoctin JVIountains of Maryland.

Before starting their talks over the luncheon table, they issued a joint statement forecasting agreement as partners in development of a western policy on test suspension. Eisenhower and Macmillan said they thought an East-West agreement On suspending nuclear tests might give impetus "to progress in a broader field of the reduction and control of armaments." Eisenhower and Macmillan landed on a small helicopter field within this heavily guarded camp and drove over a slushy road to Aspen cottage, where their talks will continue until Tuesday night or early Wednesday. Eisenhower and Macmillan will be joined here Tuesday by Vice President Richard iVixon and Secretary of State Christian A. Herter. To Run For Congress LOS ANGELES (UPD- Llovd F.

Dunn, 42, resigned today as the government's chief prosecutor of organized crime in the western United States, saying he xvould run for Congress in the 22nd District. Dunn, a Republican, will campaign for the seat being vacatet' by Joe Holt Court Affirms Spy Conviction Of Soviet Agent (UPD The Supreme Court today affirmed the 1957 espionage conviction of Col. Rudolf Ivanovich Abel. 57, veteran Soviet agent who posed for nine years in York as a down at the heel artist. The vote was 5-4.

The meek mannered Russian is now serving a 20-year sentence in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Justice Felix Frankfurter spoke for the majority in affirming the conviction. Abel contended that the wav the government arrested him and searched his room violated the Constitution's guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. Abel was taken into custody for deportation under an administrative warrant of the Immigration Service. Articles seized at that time were used at his espionage trial.

Recreation Area At Prado Voted SACRAMENTO (UPD-The Senate Finance Committee today approved and sent to the Senate floor a bill to establish a recreation area in the Prado Dam area near the Riverside-San Bernardino- Orange County line. Sen. John A. Murdy (R-Santa said he would oppose the bill on the Senate floor, unless it were changed, because it "tampers with our natural water supply." Sen. Stanford C.

Shaw (D-On- iario), author of the measure, said he would amend.it so the recreation area "will not interfere with rights or ours as they now "xist." Rev. Mack, R-Washington, Dies On Floor Of House WASHINGTON (UPD Rep.f Mack's death was announced to Russell V. Mack, 70 hushed House within minutes by collapsed and died on the House Rep. Thomas M. Pelly floor today.

i Pelly, shaking with emotion, was stricken while stand-itold the House he had had dinner ing the rostrum to answer a -Mack and Mrs. Sunday rum call. He toppled to the floor night and that Mack seemed well and lay on his back. at the time. Five colleagues carried him off, The House laid aside a pending the floor to a sofa in the to dispose of some of the speaker's lobby.

As they lowered him to the sofa. Rep. Walter Judd a iphysician. murmured: "He's finished." Dr. George W.

Calver the attending physician at the Capitol, was summoned and after an examination announced that Mack was dead. Mack was bom in Hillman, June 13, 1891. He had served in Congress, representing the 3rd District of Washington, since June 7, 1947. Mack was the second ranking Republican on the Public Worksj which has jurisdiction; over rivers and harbors and highway construction. government's stockpile of natural rubber to eulogize Mack.

-Mack, a resident of Hoquiam, Wash, attended Stanford University and the University of Washington. He was a reporter, editor manager and' publisher of the Hoquiam Daily Wasiiingtonian from 1934 until 1950. He was former president of the Northwest Rivers and Harbors Congress and past post commander of the American Legion. Mack is survived by his widow, Laura. Mack was the second member of Congress to die this month.

Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D- Ore.) died of a cerebral hemorrhage earlier in the month..