The Evening Times from Sayre, Pennsylvania • Page 1

Diminishing winds, becoming fair and cooler tonight, low 2.5-32. Wednesday, partly cloudy and a bit warmer, high upper 40s and 50s. Temperature Record Noon yesterday 45 Noon today 52 High last 24 hours 52 Low last 24 hours 39 EVE 'HE OMES NING ATHENS, WAVERLY, N. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1958 Vol. LXVI, No.

204 East German Reds Follow Hailed Hussein Is Khrushchev in Denouncin Hero After Escape From Nassers Planes Occupation of Allied Firemen Search Montreal Tax Rise Seen To Finance Sayre Fire Equipment While firemen search the ruins of an explosion-rocked tenement in Montreal, Canada, rescue workers (right) carry off the body of one of the victims. Five were immediately listed as dead, and from 11 to 13 others were believed to have perished in the fire that followed the blasts. The explosions, now being- investigated, were of undetermined origin. SAYRE as County to Replace Two Bridges, One At Lcckwood The Tioga County board of supervisors yesterday approved the rebuilding of two bridges in the county next year, including the Lockwood bridge, which is about 75 years old and the Bridge street bridge in Newark Valley. The new Lockwood bridge is expected to be 22 feet in width and approximately 100 feet long spanning Cayuta Creek, and will be of concrete and steel construction.

The actual construction will start during 1959, according to the resolution passed at the meeting. The bridge to be constructed in Newark Valley is approx imately the same size as one at Lockwood. The spans will be re placed at county expense from motor fuel tax money, with $10,000 of that money being allocated for surveys and preparation of contract forms for the bridges. The Barton Town board had approved the Lockwood project, feeling that the tax burden would be too great for a township to bear. The county will take title to the bridge at a later date and will also maintain it.

The responsibility of maintaining the bridge will be up to the Town of Barton until the county takes title. In other business conducted by the supervisors yesterday the annual budget of $1,790,076 was approved with the amount to raised by taxes being The tax rate for the Town of Barton will he revealed at a later date following the announcement of the equalization rates. Argentina Put In State of Siege Biirns Aires, Argentina (AP) A state of siege has been declared in Argentina for 30 days as a "preventive measure to maintain order," the Ministry of Interior announced today. Informed sources said President Arturo Fronclizi signed the decree placing the entire nation under modified martial law early today in the crisis boiling up from an oil workers strike in Mendoza' province. Russia's Tough Line Deadlocks Geneva Parley Fiery Onslaught on West in Opening Talk Causes Adjournment Geneva (UPI) Russia's new tough line with the West brought a quick second deadlock in East West cold war talks In Geneva today.

Experts of the Western and Communist camps met lor an hour in the first working session of a conference on prevention of surprise attacks. They they adjourned in sharp conflict following an opening move by the Soviets to trans form the meeting into another cold war battleground. This brought' the tally of bog ged down East-West parleys in Geneva to a total of two out of two. Russia and the West have been deadlocked for more than 10 days the nuclear ban talks here over Moscow's demand for an immediate and unconditional Western pledge to ban nuclear tests for all time. The surprise attack talks hit their first major snag at the for mal opening session Monday.

Russia's Chief Delegate V. Kuznetsov delivered a fiery on slaught against the West, laid down a shattering list of Soviet conditions for an agreement that added up to total capitula tion by the West, and made it clear the Russians want the par ley to be an East West political forum. The West has announced re peatedly that it has come here only on condition that the sur prise attack talks be strictly on a technical basis between ex perts. At the first working session to day, U. S.

Chief Delegate Wil liam C. Foster and Russia's Kuznetsov each delivered state (Continued on page 5, column 3) Army Major Dies ii Theater Burglary Kansas City (AP) A 40-year-old major, studying with the Army's brightest officers at the Command and General Staff College, was shot and killed Monday night after robbing a downtown theater of $568. Police identified him as Russell Edgar Parker, originally from Corbin, Ky. John E. Dugan, manager of the theater, shot Parker in the back.

Parker staggered down a flight of stairs and through the lobby, then collapsed and died face down on main street in the bright light of the Roxy Theater marquee. He still cradled the theater's metal cash box in one arm. The major's wife, the former Janie McBride of Raeford. N.C., went into shock when she was told of his death. They were living in Leavenworth, 25 miles northwest of Kansas City, while Parker attended the college at Ft.

Leavenworth. They have no children. 'We have been unable to de termine any cause for his actions 'Other than that he might have been having som sort of financial difficulties, said an Army Says von Braun While Committing Athens Council Told State to Send Engineer to Study River Flood Hazard Fire Officials Ask For About $24,000 in Equipment in '59 Sayre Fire Department of ficials recommended equipment costing about S24.0O0, including a new truck, to the borough council at last night's regular meeting, which indicated that the tax rate will have to be increased to pay for it. Councilman Donald Schrader, chairman of the fire committee, reported the recommendations drawn up by committee, the fire board and fire chiefs, in consultation with John Ryan of Sayre, Bradford county chief. A new pumper for Howard Elmer Hose Company similar to that bought previously for J.

E. VVheelock Hose Company would cost, he said, nearly $20,000. It would replace the present vehicle, now 17 years old. In addition, he submitted to the council a list of equipment needed by the entire department which will cost about $4,000. It includes 1,600 feet of hose, 800 feet of 1 1-2-inch and 800 feet of 2 1-2-inch, which Mr.

Schrader said was actually a two-year order, since no hose was bought this year. "The department has a long-range program to meet the needs of the growing borough," he said, and the equipment recommended will keep the Sayre department among the top rated ones, "where "it has always been." On the question of cheaper equipment, Mr. Schrader said Sayre has had experience with so-called commercial vehicles, in which fire equipment is mounted on a regular truck chassis, "and it was not too satisfactory. The Sayre department officials are convinced that for best results its apparatus should be built for fire-fighting from the ground up." The question of whether the truck and equipment will be bought next year will not be decided until the finance committee has gone over the budget requirements for 1959. This committee will also have to recommend a method for financing the program, but several councilmen and Burgess Harold Peterson said last night that there was no doubt but that taxes would have to be increased to pay off a debt of that kind, even over a period of years.

Borough Solicitor Edward C. O'Connor submitted a progress report from the engineers drawing up plans for the Athens-Sayre sewage disposal system. The firm, Gannet, Fleming, (Continued on page 5. column 5) Fire Ruins Aircraft Reports Sighting Wreck Lisbon (UPI) A British aircraft from Gibraltar reported today it had sighted wreckage in the Atlantic close to the point where a Portuguese flying boat was believed to have crashed into the sea with, 36 persons aboard. The passengers included six Americans.

The plane said it had spotted the wreckage 35 to 40 miles southwest of the area where the missing aircraft was believed to have dropped into the sea while on a flight to Madeira off northwest Africa. Bank Embezzler Caught in Denver Denver (AP) Boyne Lester Johnston, 25, of Ottawa, Canada, wanted for embezzling $260,000 from an Ottawa bank, was arrested at a night club here Monday night and an estimated J200.000 of the loot was recovered, police said today. Johnston, an employe of the Imperial Bank of Canada, told detectives Art Esterling and Gene Ater in an oral statement ho took the money because "I wondered what it would be like to have all that money. Now I know." He said the 64-year-old Beck treated the union money as a loan, but the defense lawyer did not directly call it a loan. "Beck took the money in a rather peculiar way an informal way, and its was this in- (Continued on page 5.

column 3) Jordan Parliament Considers Retaliation For Attack on King Amman (AP) Jordan today was expected to complain to the United Nations about what King Hussein called an attempt to kill or capture him in a flight over Syria. The Jordan Parliament was called in an emergency session to hear the retaliatory steps promised by the young king. He raced home Monday with United Arab Republic jet fighters in pursuit two hours after taking off for a vacation in Europe. While the U.A.R. was inclined to play down the incident Hussein emerged as a hero in the eyes of many of his people.

Jordanians mixed wild celebrations of joy with bitter demonstrations against the U.A.R. Relations between the king and President Nasser's U.S.R. worsened just when there were indications the two Arab leaders were about to patch up their feud. Some officials in Jordan reportedly viewed the incident as an attempt to kidnap the 23-year-old king and force him to sign his abdication. There was no confirmation of this theory, however.

Hussein charged the jets tried to force his plane down. U. S. A. officials in Cairo denied the charges.

They said Hussein's plane lacked proper clearance to fly over the Syrian Province of the U.A.R. In Damascus, a spokesman for the U.A.R. air force claimed today Hussein's plane had violated international conventions and local aviation instructions over Syria "sufficient to justify shooting it down." He added that "instead of using their legitimate right under international laws to take positive action against the intruding plane, the region authority only sent two jet fighters to escort it out of Syrian air space." He denied any attack on the Jordanian plane. President Nasser was reported to be convinced Syrian authorities acted properly but also to be upset by the incident. A national holiday was declared throughout Jordan to celebrate the escape of the 23-year-old king.

Crowds surged through the narrow streets of Amman Monday night, firing roman candles and rifles. Hussein left Amman Airport Monday in a twin-engine transport plane bound for a European vacation. He later reported that two communist-built MIG jet fighters from Syria set upon him near Damascus, capital of the Syriat Province. The MIGs tried to force his (Continued on page 5. column 7) Feds Nab Group Loading Firearms Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

(AP) Federal agents surprised nearly two dozen Cuban rebel sympathizers in the act of loading munitions aboard a plane and charged 22 persons with violating the Neutrality Act. Two women were among the group seized with an arms-laden B18 bomber on abandoned Prospect Air Field Monday night. Boarder Patrol agents blasted a fleeing auto's tire with machine gun bullets, preventing the getaway of five of their prisoners. Agents said a big assortment of riflesi machine guns, ammunition, medical supplies, boots and field equipment were placed aboard the plane as they watched from concealment. PRICE SEVEN CENTS Berlin West Berlin Is Facing Gravest Threat Since Blockade 10 Years Ago Berlin (UPI) East German Communists today denounced the Western allied occupation of West Berlin as unbearable and completely abnormal.

They made ominous threats against the city as a follow up to Premier Nikita Khrushchev's announcement that the Soviets will renounce agreements under which the Western Allies occupy Berlin and supply their garrisons. Khrushchev's statement confronted the West's isolated outpost with its gravest threat since the Soviet land blockade of the city 10 years ago. Ernst Lemmcr, West German minister for all-German Soviet zone affairs, told a press conference, "Khrushchev's speech represents the gravest throat to Berlin since the blockade of 19-48-49." It could place the Western position here and the air and ground lifelines to the West at the mercy of East German Communists. They surround the city because it lies 110 miles inside the Soviet zone, Moreover, the Western powers do not recognize the East German government and have no relations with it. Deputy East German Interior Minister Hans Jendretsky struck a particularly ominous note when he accused the West of interfering with traffic between East and West Germany.

The East German radio in a newscast carried a U. S. State Department spokesman's reaffirmation of the U. S. pledge to hold West Berlin by force if necessary.

The radio Immediately after this news item quoted Khrush. chev as saying the Soviet Un. ion will support East Germany against any aggression. Khrushchev in his speech said the Soviets will transfer to East German Communists four-power functions still exercised by the Soviets control of the air" land and canal lifelines to the West. He threatened to annul the four-power Potsdam agreements under which the Western powers occupy and supply this city 110 miles behind the Iron Curtain.

If the threat is carried but it could lead to a new blockade (Continued on page 5. column 8) Chrysler Office Workers Strike Detroit (AP) Some 8.000 Chrysler Corp. office workers and engineers struck at 10 a. m. today after failing in an all-night negotiating session to reach agreement on a new contract.

The strikers immediately set up picket lines at 21 Chrysler plants in the Detroit area and 10 others across the nation. It was expected the strike would idle some 80.000 other Chrysler workers shortly. Chrysler's office workers, engineers, cafeteria workers and production workers are represented by tlie United Auto orkers. The UAW and Chrysler reached settlement five weeks ago on a new three-year contract for production workers and cafeteria workers. The office workers and engineers' contracts were loft open for further negotiations and these talks ended in the strike today.

The major issues in conflict are the union's demands for adjustments of wage increases and seniority provisions for office workers. the Nationalists on the offshore islands waited until Wednesday to see what Red gunners would do. Nothing was heard from Radio Peiping. Radio Peiping announced 17 days ago thai tho Iandirg beaches and airstrip on the Quemoys would not be shelled even days. It said the remainder of the offshore islands might he shelled on even days, however.

But in practice. Communist gunners have been Inactive on the last four even days. The Continued on page 5, column 2k The Athens Borough Council last night liearb a letter read by secretary Richard DeWitt from the Department of Forests and Waters stating that the department would send an engineer to Athens to study the Sat-terlee Creek-Susquehanna river problem, even though it was the opinion of that department that the problem was strictly a borough one and not the state's. The news of the engineer coming to Athens was accepted by the council members without too much ado, but the inference that the problem was one for the borough to hash out caused considerable debate, inasmuch as the Satterlee Creek area in ques tion is in Athens Township and not the borough. It was decided to adopt a "wait and see' attitude on the problem, so that when the engineer does arrive the situation may be explained to him more thoroughly.

Council also authorized the secretary to write abetter to- the Bureau of Correction informing them that plans were in progress for the installation of wash basins, lavatories and fire proof material in the jail cells of the borough lock-up It is thought by the council that this procedure will satisfy the requirements of the Bureau on the prob lem of modernizing the local jail, which the Bureau had requested. Fire Chief Donald Schrader recommended to the council that an agreement with the American LaFrance company be entered (Continued on page 5. column 4) School Board at Little Rock May Resign en Masse Little Kock, Ark. (UPI) The Little Rock High School Board decides at a meeting today whether to resign as a group in the face of a new federal court order that it proceed with plans to integrate the city's high schools. The one Negro and three white high schools are already closed in defiance of Integration rulings.

Many white students are attending private segregated classes under a massive, state-supported resistance plan. Gov. Orval E. Faubus told a cheering segregationist rally in New Orleans Monday night that the federal government "has not one continental thing to say about the private segregated schools in Little Rock" and they will continue to operate. Wiley Branton.

chief attor ney in Arkansas for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the resignation of the school board would have little effect on the overall situation in the Little Rock schools because "any new board would be under the same court order to integrate." The U. S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Monday ordered the board to take positive steps to accomplish integration. The St. Louis court also made permanent an injunction which for bids the board from leasing out the schools for use by the private, segregated institutions.

If the board decides to resign. it was expected to do so Satur day, the deadline for candidates to file for the annual school elec tions, Dec. 6. The Army plans to shoot its probe at such high speed that it will go past tlie moon and forever escape from the earth. It might pass within 10 to 50 thousand miles of the moon.

It would soar millions of miles beyond earth and the moon until the sun's gravity pulled it into some yet unpredictable orbit around the sun. Some details of the Army moon-probe plane became known here informally at a space symposium attended by 700 space and medical scientists. The symposium is sponsored by the Air Force's School of Aviation Medicine and arranged by Southwest Research Institute. The Air Force probes were designed and given some control to swing them around the moon once, or into a steady orbit around the moon, or near the moon and then home again. The Army plan is in a large sense much less difficult.

(Continued on page 5, column 2) Dave Beck's Defense in Tax Evasion To Claim He Vas 'Sloppy' with Money Veterans Day Ceremonies Held at Arlington and Around the Country Army Plans to Shoot Baby Planet Into Sun's Orbit Early Next Month Reds May Resume Shelling Quemoys Seek Addition on So. Waverly Hall Washington (UPI) The nation paused today to pay tribute to the American veterans-living and dead of three major wars in this century. Veterans' Day ceremonies here and across the land stressed the sacrifice of the 616.619 servicemen who died for ueir country, and the task of keep- kept and fire company rooms on the second floor. An ordinance to open and widen Fourth street between Pit. ney and Division streets, as pre.

pared by Attorney Maurice Epstein, was adopted by the council. The law extends the new street from Pitney northerly to the north curb line of Walker street, for a width of 35 feet, and then from there northerly to the intersection of Division street for Taioma, Wash. (AP) Dave Beck's defense in his income tax evasion trial will be that he took nontaxable union funds "in a rather peculiar way" and became rich, his lawyers disclosed Monday. William Dwyer, of Beck's team of defense attorneys, said in an opening statement to a federal court jury that the ex-boss of the Teamsters Union got into trouble through "sloppy" handling of union money. "But he did no wrong where his taxes were concered," Dwyer said.

Beck's long-awaited trial opened Monday in U. S. District Court and a jury of eight men and four women was seated with unexpected speed. The one-time Seattle laundry truck driver, who rose to one of the nation's most powerful labor posts, is charged with defrauding the government out of $210,000 in income taxes for the years 1950-53. Dwyer told the jury that when Beck takes the stand he will show he took 5380,000 in Teamsters funds over a period of years, invested the money and eventually repaid it becoming wealthy in the process.

i ing the peace shared by America's 22.723,000 living veterans. Focal point for the national observance was the hushed acres at nearby Arlington National Cemetery. Solemn wreath ceremonies at the graves of fallen comrades were the order of the day. Schools, government offices and some businesses were closed in many communities for the 40th commemoration of what was once called Armistice Day in remembrance of the end cf World War 1 at exactly 11 a. m.

on Nov. 11, 1918. President Eisenhower was not present for the traditional presidential wreath ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington late this morning. Sumner G. Whittier.

administrator of veterans' affairs, officated on Eisenhower's behalf. Whittier said the President joined him in a tribute "to those who served the cause of freedom." He sa'd the nation, in honoring the dead of two world wars and the Korean conflict, also honored "the determination of a free nation from Valley Forge to heartbreak ridge to de- Continued on page 5, column 2) San Antonio, Tex, (AP) The Army plans to shoot a rocket right at the moon and create a man-made' planet, Dr. Wernher von Braun said today. And the German-born rocket genius predicts "it has a one in two chance of doing just that." The rocket would never come back. It would escape from the earth's gravity and be captured by the sun's gravity.

Falling into an orbit around the sun, it would become a 30-pound baby planet, revolving around the sun much like the Earth, Mars and Jupiter. The first attempt probably will be made in the first week cf December. It will be the first of two moon-probe shots by the Army. The Air Force has so far launched three probes. One soared abojt "3,000 miles of the to the moon in October, then was tugged back by earth's gravity to burn up in our Taipei, Formosa (AP) The Communists warned defenders of the Quemoys today that they might resume shelling every day.

the Chinese Nationalists reported. Red shore guns have been silent for four even-numbered days. The warning broadcast by loudspeakers on the mainland did not make clear whether the supply areas on Quemoy would be shelled on even days. Since Oct. 25 the Reds have shelled the supply areas only on odd-numbered days.

Since today was an odd day A delegation from the South Waverly Fire Department explained to the borough council last night at its November meeting of plans to build a two-story building addition to the borough hall to house two fire trucks, police car and ambulance. The plans were told orally to the council, which asked the group to bring back drawings of the proposed addition. Besides the four stalls for the vehicles there would be room for a police department office In the section where the trucks are now (Continued on pags 5, column 4).