Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 1

News I Briefs NAMED TO BOARD SACRAMENTO March 29 (IP) Dowd of El Centro a con sulting engineer for the Imperial Irrigation District today was named to the Colorado River Board by Gov Goodwin Knight SALISBURY RESIGNS LONDON March 29 Lord Salisbury often called most powerful man in re signed from the cabinet today be cause he opposed the release of exiled Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus It was the biggest public split in a Conservative British govern ment since Anthony Eden walked out on Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain before World War II over the Nazi appeasement is sue REVEAL CHEAP MISSILE CHINA LAKE Calif March 29 (IP) An ultra high velocity rocket missile that costs only $150 and is capable of knock ing out a $10 million atom bomber has been added to the nations stockpile of weapons the Navy announced today The new missile named the Zuni was developed by the bureau of ordnance at this desert test station and is designed for both air to air and air to ground attack REGULATE SPEED SACRAMENTO March 29 (UR) A measure to set the statewide speed limit at 65 A miles an hour reached the halfway mark in the state legislature today The assembly voted 56 18 to pass the bill to the senate A few minutes earlier the low er house "beat down an amend ment by Assemblyman Bruce Allen (R San Jose) which would have permitted the highway pa trol to use radar to enforce the new limit PILOT PARACHUTES ESCALON Calif March 29UR) a Navy jet pilot parachuted from his crippled 4D Skyhawk pilot 17000 feet over San Joaquin Valley today touching off a com plicated four way rescue opera tion when he was erroneously re ported badly hurt The flyer Lt Cmdr Patrick Cunningham 32 of Chula Vista Calif was finally returned to Moffett Naval Air Station more than two hours after the bail out where doctors said he apparently suffered a minor back injury and shock SCATTER LEALETS TAIPEI ormosa March 29 (UR) Nationalist Chinese planes flew over the Communist held China mainland last night for the third time this week spraying tons of leaflets over six provinces an Air orce communique said today TO CONTINUE PATROL UNITED NATIONS March 29 The United Na tions is making plans for its emergency force to patrol the Is raeli Egyptian border for a period of up to four years an authori tative source disclosed tonight REWARD POSTED PASADENA Calif March 29 (IP) A reward of $i000 was post ed today for information leading to the finding of eight year old Tommy Bowman missing for six days and last seen in the rugged Arroyo Seco area WEATHER irst figures indicate highest temperature during the last 24 hours second lowest yesterday morning third rain or melted snow during the last 24 hours: Reno 59 4S 10 Minneapolis St Paul 43 30 Chicago 52 34 01 Boise 58 43 09 Portland Ore 59 47 39 Los Angeles 76 57 Phoenix 81 51 Salt Lake City 64 41 San rancisco 61 53 13 Denver 65 30 Boston 44 39 New York 52 40 New Orleans 72 52 Miami 74 64 Precipitation Data During last 24 hours 10 July 1 to date 401 to date last year 963 normal July 1 to date 556 ORECAST Reno: Mostly fair and cooler Nevada: Scattered showers in the northeast portion cooler in the northern portion Sierra Nevada: Partly cloudy with snow in the higher eleva tions warmer Sunset today 6:21 sunrise to morrow 5:46 Herblock Herblock one of the foremost cartoonists joins the Journal Sunday ollow him daily on the editorial page EIGHTY SEVENTH NO 108 Jfcbaim journal Largest Morning and Sunday Newspaper ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 23 1870 PHONE A 3 4121 RENO NEVADA SATURDAY MORNING 10c DAILY 15 SUNDAY ON NEWSSTANDS Journal Amusements Pages 6 7 Classifieds Pages 12 13 14 Journal Sports Pages 9 10 Social News Page 5 Editorial eatures Page 4 Dally Comics Page 15 SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY House Sidetracks US Economy Drive AL Cid Orders Beck To Trial Battle Rages Over Budget In Congress GOPzSouthern Bloc Join in Wielding Economy Ax WASHINGTON March 29 (UR) The House temporarily side tracked its economy drive today to increase funds for a pet con gressional project federal grants to states for rural library service It voted 94 to 71 to uphold the action of its appropriations com mittee in raising to $5 million President $3 million request for the program Nearly all Democrats present voted for the increase May Be Restored The action came as the House continued work on Mr Eisen $29 billion budget for the Departments of Labor and Health Education and Welfare It has voted tentatively to cut the bill by $155 million plus a $203 mil lion cut ordered by the appropria tions committee However Rep John ogarty (D I) floor manager of the bill said he and his supporters wefe determined to restore some of the tentative cuts He said their drive would start next Tuesday or Wednesday Rep Gordon Canfield (R J) told his colleagues they have been making cuts in Mr Eisen $718 billion budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 Request Slashed He said $276 million out of total claimed reductions of $802 million in money bills handled so far in volve such things as veterans pen sions and grants to the states for the aged He said these payments must be made sometfme Meantime the House appropria tions committee ordered a $14 719600 reduction in Mr Eisen request for $207249600 to run the District of Columbia in the new fiscal year This would be $5723079 less than was provided this year Russ Deliver Note to Danes COPENHAGEN Denmark March 29 UR) The Soviet Union handed a note to the Danish government tonight In formed sources said it was to one delivered earlier this week to Oslo warning against al lowing NATO bases on Norwe gian soil (A Stockholm dispatch said the Soviet also handed a note to the Swedish ambassador in Moscow tonight denouncing a recent statement that no Swedish intelli gence activities were being car ried out in the Soviet Union It also renewed charge that Sweden was conducting espionage on Soviet soil) Bandits' Victim Said Abandoned TEHRAN Iran March 29 (CP) A pretty American woman kid naped by primitive bandits ap parently has been killed or aban doned to die in a vast mountain ous wasteland a United States official reported today from search headquarters Clark Gregory director of the International Cooperation Ad ministration' (ICA) mission to Iran said there is only a 50 that blonde Mrs Anita Carroll of Issaquah Wash is alive not with the men but we do not know whether she is with their women or even wheth er she is he said they have killed her" ic AUSTRALIA VISIT PEARL HARBOR March 29 (UR) Twelve warships of the Pacific leet headed by the air craft carrier Bennington will visit Australia late next month and early in May to participate in the celebration of the 15th anniver sary of the Battle of the Coral Sea Egypt Claims Suez Control Cairo Gives Notice To UN US WASHINGTON March 29 (UR) Egypt has served notice on the United Nations and the United States that it proposes to operate the reopened Suez Canal by itself without interference from any foreign nation But IJgypt said it will respect terms and of the 1888 Constantinople Convention guar anteeing freedom of navigation through the canal It said dis putes over the treaty may be re ferred to the International Court of Justice The Egyptian position was set forth in a memorandum to the United Nations earlier this week Copies were sent to the United States and six other nations A text made available here to day said flatly that the canal be operated and managed by the autonomous Suez Canal Autho rity established by the govern ment of last July 26 The authority is an all Egyptian agency Although Western diplomats still are studying the Egyptian memo they did not appear en thusiastic Some said it appears to conflict with Western demands that the operation be from the politics of any one nation They also noted that Egypt ig nored some Western proposals for the establishment of an inter national agency to operate the canal 1 Overhauling Urged or News Agency WASHINGTON March 29 (UR) Sen Henry Dworshak (R Ida) called today for a complete hauling and of the United States Information Agency especially its overseas news services Dworshak told a special Senate committee on foreign aid that the agency in effect is competing with American wire services abroad He said its is en tirely too much like the product of an American Press Association The Idaho Republican said the government agency should get out of the press association business and rely more on the established private wire services SEEK VICTIMS MEXICO CITY EXPLOSIONS i A Mr' Mr Mini i Digging through rubble after two explosions razed Mexico City fireworks factory rescue work ers seek victims of blast which killed atleast 11 left 100 injured Note body of victim at center Windows one mile distant were shattered (International) Machine Guns ire On Israeli Train Tension Mounts Along Border Zone UN Said of Gaza TEL AVIV Israel March 29' (UP) Machine gun fire from Jordan territory raked an Israeli freight train on the border railway between Bedera and Rosh Haayin last night an Israeli military spokesman announced today The scene was only 10 miles from Kalkila the Jor danian fortress destroyed by Israeli troops a year ago after similar attacks across the frontier The area is one of most vulnerable points where the Jerusalem Haifa skirts close to the armistice line The spokesman said auto matic weapons was directed from the or a strongpoint of Talkarem There ere no casualties he said In Jerusalem Joseph Tekoa director of armistice affairs in the Israeli foreign office charged that troops of the United Nations emergency force (UNE) have lost control of the Gaza border to Egyptian police stationed there Plan Opposed Congressional Heads Confer With Ike WASHINGTON March 29 (UR) President Eisenhower ran into major Democratic and Republican opposition today to his plan to let the President assume his duties in case of serious illness Under the plan the President would decide if he is unable to continue the duties of his dffice If he were unable to make such a decision the cabinet would do so Speaker Sam Raybum told newsmen after a White House conference on the subject that not enthusiastic about a law or any amendment on this sub ject gotten along for 168 years and I think many bad things have happened Rep red A Keating (N Y) ranking Republican on the House judiciary committee said he does not favor the cabinet plan He said he would propose creation of a commission drawn from the three branches of government to determine a disability Israeli considers this a grave development" Tekoa de clared Big Airplane Labor Council Cracks Down On Teamster Hoffa Enters Plea Of Not Guilty To Bribery WASHINGTON March (UR) The AL CIO executive coun cil suspended Teamster President Dave Beck from its leadership today and ordered him to stand union trial for "bringing the labor movement into In an extraordinary two hour meeting the labor high command also ordered an in vestigation to determine whether 1540000 member Team sters Union is dominated by rupt The crackdown was the first ever directed at a member of the council composed of the AL CIO president secretary treasur er and 26 vice presidents includ ing Beck AL CIO President George Meany said the action was unanimous Could Be Expelled It came after Beck powerful leader of the biggest union had refused to answer Sen ate rackets committee charges that he have misappropri more than $322000 in Teamster funds Beck an AL CIO vice presi dent as well as boss of the Team sters was not among the 21 council members present at the meeting He protested last night that Meany gave such short no tice that he was deprived of his right to attend trial which could lead to his expulsion from the of labor was set for May 20 It appeared certain to spark a new struggle within the' AL CIO leadership The council reacted swiftly to warnings that labor must its own to help combat a drive for anti labor legislation in the wake of the Senate hearings Sen John McClellan (D Ark) head of the special com mittee which aired the alleged misuse of Teamster funds called the action com He said evidence collected by Israeli intelligence shows that has made the UNE a failure by a conscious policy of perverting its tasks and turning it into an effective valuable weapon in (Egyptian President Gamal Abdel) The armistice affairs director cnarged that soon atter tne UN force arrived in Gaza it was in violation of terms of the General Assembly resolution which specified the task was to ensure free passage through the Suez Canal Explodes in Air SKIATOOK Okla March 29 (UR) A large airplane believed to be a military craft exploded in the air and crashed southeast of here today and first reports said at least one man was killed Authorities said the plane be lieved to be a jet possibly collided with another plane before crash ing one half mile southeast of this northeast Oklahoma town which is about 15 miles north of the Tulsa Municipal Airport is very encouraging to the committee that this great labor organization has not only adopted codes of ethics but is evidencing in this fashion its intention to en force he said Pleads Innocent In other offshoots pf the com inquiry: Teamster Vice President James Hoffa pleaded innocent in federal court to charges he tried to bribe a committee inves tigator to slip him information His trial was set for May 27 in Attorneys Argue Thunderbird Writ Supreme Court Expected to Deliver ormal Ruling Within Month CARSON CITY March 29 A district court in junction prevented the tax commission from closing the Thunderbird hotel for at least a six month pe riod hotel attorneys told the state supreme court today In one of the longest oral arguments in the high history attorney Richard Blakey of Reno said the question before the justices was simply whether the injunction was proper Gambling licenses held by Marion Hicks and former Lt GrOv Clifford Jones in the Thunderbird casino were or dered revoked effective June 1 1955 if the two men did not dis pose of their interests They were not ordered out of the hotel land lord corporation however The revocation order was issued by the tax commission April 25 1955 on grounds the two men were unsuitable to hold gambling licenses This was based on a commission contention they had permitted eastern gamblers George Sadlo and Jake Lansky to hold secret financial interests in the casino Sadlo had loaned Hicks $160000 shortly after the lush Las Vegas strip hostelry was completed At the time of the commission in vestigation two years ago it was discovered that Lansky owned one half of the loan Hicks who along with Jones was present in the court has con tended throughout the lengthy litigation that he had no idea whatever that Lansky owned any portion of the loan Shortly before the revocation order would have become effec tive District Judge Merwyn Brown of Winnemucca issued the injunction preventing the com mission from carrying out its revocation edict This was appealed by the com mission to the supreme court morning session was devoted to case presentation by contending attorneys An unu sual afternoon session of the court found the justices questioning randsen Loomis and Charles Springer representing the tax commission and Blakey closely on two basic questions: 1 Was the lower court em powerd to issue injunction staying the tax commission order pending a court review of the action? 2 Could reasonable men be ex pected to reach the conclusion of the tax commission when con fronted with the evidence con sidered by the agency? Loomis and Springer contended the injunction was not proper They argued injunctive relief is riot a form of review and the gaming control act stated clearly commission orders were effective until reversed by a court of com Down Payment Rate Reduced Decision to Benefit Home Buyers WASHINGTON March 29 (IP) President Eisenhower today ordered a two per cent reduction in the minimum down payment on HA financed homes The move out into effect Im mediately by the ederal Hous ing Administration is intended to ease credit requirements for prospective home buyers The down payment on homes costing less than $9000 was re duced from seven to five per cent The reduction on homes costing more than $9000 was from 27 to 25 per cent Earlier a House banking sub committee voted to made it easi er and cheaper for veterans to buy HA financed housing Specifically it voted to give the administration authority to re duce down payment cn HA housing for veterans to 2 per cent on the first $9000 of ap praised value and to 10 per cent on houses valued above that Mr Eisenhower also an nounced that ederal Home Loan Bank Board regulations will be modified to enable insured sav ings loan associations to buy into mortgages originated by other insured associations The White House said this rule would relax the restriction on most associations that they in A vest in mortgages or homes lo cated within 50 miles of their principal office Portland Mayor ights Charges PORTLAND Ore March 29 (IP) Mayor Terry Schrunk said today he did not intend to resign because of bribery and per jury indictments brought against him and that he would seek im mediate trial my intention to carry on The Trouble Comes Closer MEMO TO CAESAR A Lenten Story By KEN WOODMAN Pilate sauntered into his quarters in the palace at Caesarea and asked her to dis miss the maids When the women had gone he stretched himself full length on a couch and cushioning the back of his head on his arms inquired of Claudia: new dear? sick of reviewing court cases listen ing to appeals from soldiers and calling tax collectors to task for gouging the populace Tell me some Claudia drew up a chair be side him and lilted the band from her head so that her gold tinted hair fell loosely about her shoulders know any news just weary of everything about this barbarian to take a trip to Alex you No would like to go bet ter than I but it be a very good time with trouble brewing betweeft the Nazarene preacher and the local Claudia sighed' al ways something when we want to get away If it the Naza rene' something else Why you get Caesar to recall us to Pilate laughed aloud connived and prodded and helped me get this I did of Clatidia admitted I was afraid send you off to Gaul or Germany or even Britain to do some more fighting This is cer tainly better than Pilate grunted his agreement the Claudia sat up suddenly of the Nazarene reminds me the serv ants say he is planning to go to Jerusalem If he does there will be a gigantic welcome for him sure The people have been secretly beseeching his apostles to get him to come there It is almost time for their great an nual feast you Pilate raised his arm and let it fall across his eyes in Jerusalem The trouble comes He got up and strode out of the room District Court here but may be postponed Harry Reiss a New? York Teamster official was arraigned here on contempt of Congress charges growing out of his re fusal to answer questions before the Senate permanent investi gating subcommittee He also pleaded not guilty Committee members scoffed at plan to set up a million dollar publicity program to the true about his union McClellan said Beck save all that money by telling the truth Beck repeatedly invoked the fifth amendment against self in crimination as a witness before the committee this week This brought him into conflict with the AL CIO code of ethics which holds that any union official should give a full accounting oi: his stewardship Meany told reporters use of the fifth amendment was one of the indications of He also cited statement on a television pro gram that he had borrowed $300 000 to' $400000 from the Team sters without interest PORTLAND JOLTED PORTLAND Me March 29 (UR) A house rocking earthquake fumbled through a section of this city today petent jurisdiction But Blakey argued the issue be fore the court was whether reversal of the order was He declared the hotel would have been closed from May 31 until Dec 17 1955 if the injunction had not been issued The justices indicated there was a question as to whether adequate evidence had been presented for the commission to take the action it did Loomis said he felt reasonable men would have reacted in the same fashion as the tax commis sion in view of the evidence be fore the agency But Blakey replied this question had been answered in? the district court insisting the lower court should not be overlooked by the justices in reaching their verdict Acceptance of the commission contention the district court ac tion should not be considered would set a dangerous precedent Blakey argued It would say in effect finding of the court shall enjoy no presumption of cor Blakey took issue with what he described as a commission attempt to show that gambling is a bad thing something that is He added it were inherently wicked and evil the legislature would abolish There was no indication when the supreme court would rule on the question but a decision is not expected for at least a month my he said to serve the peopleof Portland who elect ed Schrunk was in his office for "business as today real he said who is going to run Portland Big Jirti Elkins and his cohorts or Mr John Public and the officials he The Multnomah county grand jury returned a total of 115 in dictments yesterday against Schrunk district attorney Wil liam Langley Clifford Ben nett operator of a night club and police officer Richard Sutter White House Press ollows President At Slower Speeds GETTYSBURG Pa March 29 (UR) President Eisenhower arrived at his farm today for a quiet weekend after an 80 mile drive that was less eventful for him than it was for the news men Three cars of reporters and photographers who accom panied him from Washington were stopped by police for speeding you slow down the the reporters' asked i got four bodyguards with the policeman re plied I.