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14 PAGES 7c a Copy. By Carrier '45c Wk. LYDIA DEAN FOUND NOT GUILTY Defense Dept. Might Control Space Projects By WILMOT HERCHER WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 Wl--The Defense Department gained ground today i fight for control of space age.

projects. A Senatc- -House committee voted lo give Secretary of Defense McElroy limiled authority in the field. The development came a short time after it was disclosed Presi dent Eisenhower has ordered a special survey to determine which branch of the government should be entrusted with Ihe nation's vital space There has been considerable sentiment for putting il under a civilian agency. Working on a compromise version of a $549,670,000 defense authorization bill, Ihe Senate-House conference committee agreed to give the secretary of defense authority to develop missiles and other advanced weapons systems through any agency he desires to set The secretary also would be empowered, for one year from the effective date of the act, to work on "siich advance space projects as may be assigned -by the President." This could include satellite projects. Approval of both the House and Senate is required before the bill (Continued on Page 7, Col.

2) Sees Need For Curbing Red Moons WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 W-Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin said today the United States ultimately may have to find ways to Communist earth satellites from roaming across the free world.

At the same time, the Army's research chief expressed hope this wouldn't be necessary. He said a system of watchdog satellites operating under the United Nations would offer the first hope of a guaranteed peace. Gavin, who is resigning next month in protest over Army budget difficulties, testified before a House Government. Operations subcommlitee. The much decorated general said the just-accomplished job of flinging a U.S.'satellilc into space was easier than what lies ahead.

He figured it would take five to 10 years of all-out effort to catch up with Soviet missile developments to the point where "we might show some Army, after launching the first U.S. moon Friday night, de- By JOHN A. BARBOOR AP Science Reporter NEW YORK, Feb. 4 The irst American visitor to space has messaged home: Staying longer. Come on up.

VVeather fine. That's the report from earth- lound scientists listening to the lumming radio voice of the ilorer satellite. The Explorer has given them information on the three hings it was sent into orbit to 'bserve: Cosmic rays, meteorites and the temperature of sunlight md earth-shadow. From these first reports scicn- ists know the cosmic weather as been calm. They also know hat Explorer will be aloft for many a stormy day in space as veil.

These stormy days come after he gigantic solar flares explode rom the surface of the sun, send ing bursts of high energy radia (Continued on a 7, Col. 3) Package Peace Plaii Panned WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 UFI-Sen. Humphrey (D-Minn) said today U. S.

insistence on a package disarmament agreement is "doomed to defeat ano ridicule." He said this country should break up and negotiate first-for a two-year ban on nuclear weapons tests. Humphrey, chairman of the Senate Disarmament' subcommittee, said no nation, least of all the Soviet Union, would be willing to accept the U. S. disarmament package "all at one lime." And he questioned, in a speech delivered to the Senate, whether the United States itself would agree to its own package "if the Soviet Union were to surprise us by accepting the proposal." Union Plans Cokl War On Teamslers MIAMI BEACH, Feb. 4 UP --The AFL-CIO today decided ti continue its feud with the scandal scarred Teamsters Union on cold war rather than a hot wai basis.

The federation's 11 Council considered but shelved plans to Iry to woo Teamster: locals away from the parent Inicl union and cancel pacts scvera AFL-CIO unions slill maintain wilh the Teamsters. George Mcany, AFL-CIO prcsi dent, said the decision to hoi back now on any open war wa based on faint hope thnt reform minded elements within the Team Mcrs may be able to make som ttoadwny. Satellite Message Received (Continued on Page 7, Col. 2) Urges More Inspection Of Rockets WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (ffl-Thc chief of naval research told Con- today the cure for bugs like that have plagued the Van- satellite rocket is more Rear Adm.

Rawson Bennett told he House Armed Services Committee about the burnout in (he irst-stagc engine that ruined the attempt in December to put the Vanguard satellite in orbit. The he said, "was quality con- if you like--of a small but essential part." He said a change in metal proc essing has cured this defect ant stand-by equipment has been tested and is on hand. Bennett said dirt was' found in he second Vanguard vehicle sent .0 the Cape Canaveral, Fla. aunching base. A human failure ie said.

"Cure: even more inspec- ion." The admiral expressed confi dence that Vanguard is "well managed, properly handled." Storms Buffet Both Coasts By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Storms buffeted both coasts Tuesday and Florida faced an other freezing night after shiver ing through the coldest weather in half a century. A vast cold wave pushed into the Northern Plains and spread ti South and East. Wind-driven snow in the Eas made highways perilous or impas sable, forcing schools to close ii sections of New York Stale, Pcnn sylvania and West Virginia. Blinding rainstorms water over highway the San Fernando Valley of Cal ifornia, forcing more than schools to suspend classes for tin day. The weather's loll of-lives ran to six including one in a three-car collision in Upstate New York and another in an auto-train collision in California.

Defendant Sobs After Acquittal "Bursi OS Jubilant Emotion Siveeps Through Courtroom Ky CLARENCE PELAGIII Derrick City Editor A burst of. jubilant emotion shot out from the court room Tuesday after the verdict of. "not guilty" was pronounced in favor of the sad-eyed Lydia Dean, Lydia who was acquitted of murdering her Air Force sergeant husband remained unmoved for a moment after the verdict. Then beginning to sob, she cried softly, "I want my husband." These were her first words. Her mother, Mrs.

Eugenia do Dcen who was seated-be-, side her, immediately dropped her head and began to cry. Attorney Estanislao Fernandez and friends rushed to her when she seemed to faint. The impact of the verdict caused a lull in the room at fust--then all of a sudden reporters and well-wishers verged her mother and defense As the jurors filed from their seats, Lydia rose from her chair where she heard the verdict, and wilh tears tackling down her cheeks, she told them, "Thank you so much for being so under- 1 standing." Thou she sat down beside her mother, who had traveled from her homo in Bagnio City to be wilh her daughter (luring the two women clung MRS. 'DE BEEN tearfully told icportors she was "very happy" about the verdict. "1 want to thank everybody In Ibis placc mid the many other people who helped my daughter," she, said, She had been praying all the LYDIA DEAN, young Filipina mother, bursts tears after being asked how she felt being found not guilty in the slay- ti she told reporters, ing of her husband, Ronald Dean.

She mumbled: "I just want my Lydia was found innocent Tuesday after it Ly ii a ms pl ng )a clc an eight-day trial in Franklin, Pa. Gerald McGill, her attorney, stands at her side. Man Wanted In Kidnaping Surrenders PADUCAH, Ky Feb. 4 W-Carl E. Burton, wanted for kidnaping a Missouri state troopcY Saturday night, gave himself up to police here tonight.

Paducah Police Sgt. Robert Shelton said the 24-year-old Redwood City, gunman almost 'run" into the police station. He said Burton was on foot and that several officers were chasing him. He' was slill carrying Missouri state trooper William Little's police revolver, Shelton said. Burton's surrender ended one of Western Kentucky's largest manhunts.

Police from four stales put a net around this area after also of Redwood City, abducted Trooper Little at Van Bure.n, Saturday night and fled in Little's police cruiser into Paducah. Burton and Davis holed up at a farm home in remote. McCrackcn County and held Little and Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Shelton hostage for 24 hours.

They were left' behind unharmed when Davis shot himself and Bur ton fled into river bottomland. The manhunt, involving some 150 officers, grew cold earlier today. Roadblocks were set up within 50 miles of Paducah during Ihc hunt. At one, a 24-year-old woman accidentally was shot to death while sightseeing. An inquest will be held Friday into her death.

Electrified emotion swept the franklin courtroom shortly after 4 p.m. Tuesday when a jury re- a verdict of "not guilty" in the Lydia Dean murder trial. It was 4:03 p.m. that word was received a verdict had been reached. Two Derrick reporters were talking to two tipstaves in he hall when three sharp knocks on the jury room door interrupted conversation.

One of the tipstaves unlocked the door and a voice later identified as that of John Coffey, Franklin merchant who was the jury foreman, said: "We have reached a verdict." Within minutes the word swept courthouse like fire. A Pittsburgh radio man. phoned his sta- jon and reported that a verdict would be read in a matter of minutes. The radio program was interrupted for this bulletin. Wage Tax Imposed GREENVILLE, Fob, 4 --The first wage tax in Iho history of this Mercer borough will become effective in the spring.

Council approved last night a one per cent levy on wages to meeting rising municipal Discover Gas Pbol In Somerset County PITTSBURGH, Feb. 4 Peoples Nalural Gas Co. announc eel today discovery of a gas poo in Jcnncr Somerset County The' well Drought in an initia (low of cubic feel in hours, Ihc company said. It is lo catcd on the property ol C. Williams.

The well, i a 4ti hour rock pressure, of pounds, opened the first pool 01 the cast flank of the Laurel Hldgo anticline in Pennsylvania, Peoples said. Lydia Dean Acquittal Electrified Courtroom was brought into the courtroom by one of the matrons. Judge Me- Cracken asked Foreman Coffcy if the jury had reached a verdict. After -he answered it had, the judge asked for the written verdict for the court record. The judge then told the spectators "this is a courtroom" and that no outburst would be tolerated.

After looking at the paper wilh the verdict on it, Judge McCracken handed it to Clerk of Courts Roy Nelson who then asked the jury to give Its verdict. "WE THE jury find the defendant, Lydia Dean, not guilty," Foreman Coffcy said. The emotion, pent up since the jury retired just before 11 a.m., let loose with cries from the spectators. Order was restored only long enough for the jury to be dismissed. Thc-ii the reporters who have SEVERAL minutes later Lydia I been covering the trial since it opened swarmed around Lydia.

Site was crying quite hard and she was overheard to say: "1 want my husband." Questions were fired at her. Between sobs she answered them tersely. HER MOTHER sat nearby, also crying. There were few people in the courtroom who did not have tears in their eyes or who were not crying. Attorney Gerald McGill announced a press conference would be held in Courtroom No.

2, but these plans misfired. Lydia was taken to what had been her jail cell since December 7. Reporters were permitted to interview her in the cell but photographers were barred. "Will you ever marry again?" her lo Ihc Philippine Islands, Mrs. Dcen said, possible I would like lo take her back with nc." "I don't know what is in her niud.

The decision is up lo her." She pointed'out that Lydia is an American citizen, ATTORNEYS for tho defend ant, J. Gerald McGill of Oil 'ily and Estanislao Fernandez of Manila were openly happy about (Continued on Pago 3, Col. FCC Chairman Returns Money WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 W- Chairman John C. Doerfer of the Federal Communications Commission testifPcd a sent back a 1954 payment from a TV station two weeks ago about the lime he learned House investigators were digging into the matter.

Docrfcr said he accepted a $165.12 payment from KWT-V, Oklahoma City, in the first place under the mistaken impression ii was to pay for air transportation of himself and his wife lo the dedication of a new TV tower. Bernard L. Schwartz, chief counsel of a special House committee looking into charges of improper conduct by five FCC members, suggested Doerfer "tripling up" on travel --thai is, having them paid by (he government and two different radio-TV groups at the same lime. Doerfer insisted however, thai his accepting a check from Ihc Oklahoma station was an honest mistake which he corrected by re turning Iho money as soon as he learnds about it. Greenville Opposes Proposed UNG Hike GREENVILLE Feb.

4 W- This Mercer County community of 9,000 was on record today as opposing a proposed nine per cent natural gas rate increase sought by United Natural Gas Co. Borough Council look the action at a meeting last night. Plane Crashes With 6 Aboard MONROE, Feb. 4 Wl-A KC97 Slratolankcr with a six-man crew crashed in swamps about 45 miles southeast of here tonight. The fate of Ihc crew was not known.

A search plane which circled over the crash site reported seeing two bonfire. Bark.sdalo men standing by a Air Force Hasc at said the four-engine tanker was on a routine mission. The. I anker, used lo refuel U47 and 1)52 jol bombers of tho Strategic Air Command, was assigned lo the 37CI1I Air Refueling Squadron, Rayburii Pushes Disability Plan WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 House Speaker Rayburn gave a mighty push today lo a proposed law permitting a vice president to temporarily replace a disabled U.S.

president. This plan would give Congress leaders a voice in Ihe mailer. A lilllc later, however, Ally Gen. Rogers said he would recommend a presidential velo foi any such legislation. Rogers lold a news conference Ihc power to decide when a prcsi dent is unable lo function is a mailer for Ihe executive brand of the government, and cannot be transferred by law lo anyone outside that branch.

He said anything Congress coulc do about il would have lo be vlr I i i a amend tnent mule. Rogers said he had not heart of Kayburn's statement earlier to dny. In that statement the spcaket for -Ihe first lime publicly threw his support to an arrangement lo set up a sort of disability commission. I Verdict Tops In McGiWs Long Career Lydia Dean's acquittal is the "high point" lo dale in attorney Gerald McGill's legal career. This career has included five first-degree murder Irials a.nci eight manslaughter cases, in one of which he acted as prosecutor and won a conviction.

Back in the early 30s, Attorney McGill along with M. McGill, his father, defended Walter Wilherup of 11, charged with shooting lo death his father. Witherup was acquitted. In 1935, he was defense attorney i the Harry Dragan case, a shooting, which resulted in a second- degree conviction. He gained Ihc same verdict in 1940 in a case involving a fatal knifing.

In a lavcrn brawl killing in 1943, his client, charged wilh firsl-dc- gree murder, was convicted on a manslaughter charge. Attorney McGill eight manslaughter cases included action in five counties among which was Allegheny County, Pittsburgh. He cited as one of the more difficult cases a case in Tionesta, Forest County, when he gained an acquittal. was the case in which ho acted as prosecuting attorney and won guilty verdict. As lo the outcome of the Dean case, McGill had this lo say: "1 was sure of acquittal all the way." The $500 compensation he re- ccivcd was nominal to say the very least.

He worked hard 01 the case since December 7 aw since Ihe trial opened January 27 he labored day and night, getting very litllc sleep. He allowed his work ul Ihc of ficoUo pile up so Hint he coulc devote as time as possible Ii the Lydia case. "I didn't do fcr any pecuniary jains," he he outcome of the case and.re- eived many congratulations. After being smouldered in tho crowd for a while, Deputy.Sherlff Brown escorted Lydia'out if Ihc courtroom and back 1 to tho irlvncy of her cell In the county ail where she had been confined. December 7.

Reporters were admitted later mid. talked lo licr between outbursts nf crying and periods of silence. Asked about her plans, particularly. If, she planned: to he Philippine Islands with her notlier, the young mother said, '1 want to stny near my iius- )und." Later, she.said "I don't hink so." She said she plans lo. visit Ron- ald's' grave "as soon-Mis I can" --and broke again in tears.

ASKED HOW felt during he trial, Lydln sobbedj "I was hlnking of him all the'tlme." Another reporter asked the same question, and she answered, "I'll icvcr forget Wilh reporters crouched aroijnd' icr in hqr neat, pink-painted cell, occupied a-chair before a covered with gifts and a box of letters received during her slay in the jail. Most of: Ihe items on the tablo and nearby wall were covered with religious items and books. A box was filled with some 500 she hart received from all over the United States and tho Philippines. One of Lydia's friends pointed Mil that the box contained a number of When con- 'ronled with this, Lydia cried, 'Yes but I don't want them. want my husband." TEARS running down her face, collected on her chin at times and dropped on the black dress she was wearing In mourning.

It was pointed out she will wear he mourning color for at least one year from the date of death of her husband. Lydia still clutched in her hand, inside a handkerchief, a set religious medals. One of which she held during the course of the trial, was sent to icr by a French war bride who ilso had marital trouble. In the centei of the room was a typewriter on a small stand. A cot and another stand with jiven her as gifts, completed the 'urnishings of the spotlessly clean quarters.

AFTER THE interviews, Lydia stepped outside the jail where several hundred persons were Applause greeted her as she stepped outside the door with her two attorneys A number of encouraging remarks were shouted .0 her from the crowd. Photographers took pictures. As she stood on the jailhoiisa steps, a setting sun was beaming directly on her. Its soft beams ol (Continued on Page 3, Col. 2) On Inside Pages Classifieds Editorials 6 Financial -12 Hospital Sports Theatre Women's Section Deaths Herbert..