Guam Daily News from Agana Heights, Guam • 1

FROM VrtilTniOUSE THE WORLD VOL NO 260 AG AN A GUAM SATURDAY NOV 7 1959 FIVE CENTS Network President Urges Congress To Make Quiz Rigging A Federal Crime WASHINGTON Nov 6 (P) The National Broadcasting Co called od Congress yesterday to- make it a Federal crime to rig television quiz shows This position was taken before a House subcommittee by NBC Pres- Robert Kintner He said NBC was just as much deceived as the public in the current quiz show scandals He insisted as the networks have previously that No Time For Golf During War WASHINGTON Nov 6 The White House said yesterday President Eisenhower did not have a golf club in his hands from the time of the invasion of Europe until the defeat of Germany Eisenhower was supreme allied commander in Europe Since the war diaries and memoirs of same of the allied commanders who served under him have been critical of the way he ran things In a book out Monday Viscount Alanbrooke wartime chief of the British general staff griped at Eisenhower's performance at the time the critical Battle of the Bulge was looming up In 1944 GOLF book said there was a unsatisfactory state of affairs in France with no one running the land battle Eisenhower though supposed to be doing so wa on the golf links at Rhelnm entirely detached nd taking practically no part in running the While these words say literally that Eisenhower was playing golf at the time the reference to his being the golf links" was generally given that interpretation Eisenhower has refrained from snapping back at his critics as has White House Press Secretary James Hagerty DIDNT PLAY MUCH Hagerty said he had no comment and never would have any (Continued on page 12) IN BRIEF Wash Nov 6 (TV-Three persons died yesterday when a UA Navy TV2 Jet train-ing plane crashed into a perking lot at MeCbord Air Force Base near here and burned None was identified immediate- iy Two of the victims were In the trainer which was taking off for its borne base at Colorado Springs Cola The third was a civilian employe at McChord who was driving a truck in the lot when the plane faltered and plunged to earth Fifteen car were damaged or destroyed 9 WASHINGTON Nov 6 Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston will receive the French Order of the Legion of Honor in the rank of an officer st the French embassy today Ambassador Herve Alphand will make the award one of the- highest bestowed by the French government at a luncheon ceremony MONTEVIDEO Uruguay Nov 6 VP) Workers on government-owned railways staged a 24-hour strike yesterday for higher wages Only a few trains operated A strike of its ground personnel also for higher wages caused the Pluna Airline to stop service It operates services to Argentina Brazil and the interior of Uruguay Employes of the Montevideo Gas Co also are on strike with navy personnel operating the gasworks The Building Construction Workers Union has announced a 48-hour strike to be effective today and tomorroy 9 ANKARA Nov 6 US Air Force Lt CoL Morrison Allan was involved in an auto accident with a detachment of presidential guards marching back to their barracks after duty at the presidential palace last night Eleven of the Turkish soldiers were wounded nine seriously Police said the accident was on a steep hill near the presidential palace while Allan was driving to downtown Ankara They took Allan to the police station for questioning Police afterwards repeated he said he had been blinded by the headlights of an oncoming car NEW YORK Nov: 6 VPh-Mrs Ramon Magsaysay widow of (Continued oh page 12) Canal Troops Barricades Are Removed PANAMA Nov 6 (JPy-American troops and barbed wire barricades were removed from border intersections in the US-run Panama Canal Zone yesterday DEMONSTRATORS BACK A short time later about 200 Panamanian a rators crossed into the zone and planted a big Panama flag in an open area An Army detachment was rushed to the scene cleared out the crowd and removed the flag The flag-planting took place about a block from an area where violent demonstrations were broken tip Tuesday REGULAR POLICE American troops took over control of the border dividing (he Canal Zone from Panamanian territory after the earlier disorders The border control duty was turned back to regular zone police yesterday afternoon The move was interpreted as a sign that anti-American tension was easing but apprehension remained Legislature Other committee members who were at hearing were Cong Ricardo Bordallo chairman of thd Committee on Health and Welfare and Congressman Juan San Miguel and Jose Castro WEATHER Cloudy with showers Wind southeasterly 15-25 mph gust to 30 mph Sea moderate to rough Max Temp Today 84 Min Temp Tonight 77 Max Temp Yest 83 Mia Temp Yest 77 TIDE HIGH 2:46 pzn LOW 7:23 am 8:51 pun Sunrise 7:17 am Sunset 6:51 pza Max ReL Humidity 100 Mia ReL Hnmidity 85 Rainfall Yest 326 Total for Month 886 Joint Committee Holding Hearings on Departments Two legislative committees Governmental Operations and Health and are currently conducting executive hearings on various government departments and agencies The two groups yesterday resumed closed-door hearings on the Department of Medical Services NOT INVESTIGATIONS Cong Jesus Okiyama chairman of this Joint committee said the hearings are not congressional investigations about any alleged malfeasance He said the committees are interested in finding ways to improve the operations of the various departments and agencies It was learned that some of the professional staff members of Guam Memorial Hospital have testified including three doctors and a top nurse One of the doctors reportedly has resigned from the hospital TO SUBMIT REPORT Okiyama said the Joint committee will submit a report of its findings in the January session of the NBC had no knowledge the shows bad been fixed KICK BACK SYSTEM we had known we would have stopped Kintner told the House Legislative Oversight Subcommittee Kintner also revealed that the company has uncovered a money system on one of its quiz shows and is turning the evidence over to the New York district attorney Kintner did not immediately explain how the system worked PRACTICE HALTED The subcommittee haa heard testimony that some show winners have paid back part of their winnings to persons with some connection with the shows Of the alleged kickback discovery Kintner said NBC is convinced it is a of (Continued oh page 12) Critically III Rota Woman Flown Here (PHOTO ON 12) In plightly more than two hours yesterday an emergency flight was undertaken and accomplished to bring to Guam a critically injured Rotanese woman to the Naval Hospital FRACTURED PELVIS The patient Is Mrs Maria Quitugua 30 who was suffering from a fractured pelvis She was accompanied by her husband Antonia Quick action here by Trust Territory and Navy authorities got underway minutes after word of the emergency case was received at TT headquar- (Continued am page 12) fight TB with Christmas Seals PR Man Named In TV Probe WASHINGTON Nov 6 VP) Gino Di Grandi Italo-American public relations man and well-known figure in Roman cafe society circles was named yesterday as the man who arranged for mention of an Allentown Pa department store on television program! and in newts columns HEADS FIRM Di Grandi heads Gino Di Grandi Associates He formerly represented Princess Marcella Borghese in the United States in a public relations capacity but has not had the account for some time Di Grandi was named before US congressional investigating committee by Max Levine of Hess Brothers the Allentown store Levine said his firm was mentioned on the Dave Garroway Show the show the Gary Moore Show the show and Night show All were television programs Widely viewed by Americans Some are no longer broadcast NAMES COLUMNISTS Levine also said that columnists who used the name included Bob Considine Hears t-Syndicated columnist Stanton De-laplane McNaught Syndicate columnist Earl Wilsoa Hall Syndicate columnist and Hal Boyle Associated Press columnist Max Hess head of the firm Wednesday mentioned Hearst columnist Jack also He said Considine was paid (Continued on page 12) PI Statesman Laurel Dies MANILA Nov 6 Dr Jose Laurel 68 one of the leading elder statesmen and president of the wartime Japanese-sponsored Philippine Republic died this morning of cerebral hemorrhage All members of his family Including Mrs Laurel and their eldest son former Speaker Jose Laurel Jr were at his bedside when death came Laurel lawyer educator hanker constitutional authority ex-senator ex-Supreme Court justice and unsuccessful presidential aspirant in the 1949 elections served in the government service for 48 years Laurel retired from public life shortly after his senatorial term expired in 1947 US Russ Disagree On Next Move Toward Space Research Accord UNITED NATIONS Nov 6 VP) The Soviet Union and the United States were reported far apart today at the start of negotiations on what to do next toward international cooperation in outer-space research Informed quarters said this was die situation after Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge sought out Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov for a first private meeting on the subject Wednesday Union and the one Kuznetsov suggested drew1 no immediate a-greement from the United States They said the Soviet Union could not accept the US proposal because it mentioned the present 18-nation committee on outer space whose life expires at the end of this year The informants said the Russians were still insisting that (Continued on page 12) They said Lodge asked backing toe a resolution to have the UN General Assembly set up a new 18-nation committee on outer space and Kuznetsov asked backing for a resolution to have the Assembly call a conference on that topic in 1962 NO AGREEMENT But the informants went on the resolution Lodge suggested was unacceptable to the Soviet.