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Ike Demands Rocket izzle Report Journal 26 PAGES Amusements Pages 6 7 Page 4 Church Notices Page 5 Sports Pages 8 9 Supplement un Guide 88th No 12 tate journal Reno's Morning and Sunday Newspaper SATURDAY MORNING DECEMBER 7 1957 10c 15c SUNDAY AL ClO Oust Teamsters AL CIO DELEGATES MEET Hoffa Beck Veto Backed By Delegates I AL CIO Dutch Ships Ike to Attend ace Seizure NATO Session assum (IP) (See Card Page 7 Col 2) coopsra Russi LEAVES OR EUROPE WASHINGTON Dec 6 Defense Secretary Neil Mc Elroy left by plane today for two weeks in Europe where he will attend the NATO meeting in Paris Dec 16 SAN RANCISCO Dec 6 (UR) King Mohammed of Mo rocco and his entourage left to day for Omaha and a visit to headquarters of the mighty Strategic Air Command Their special Air orce plane departed San rancisco International Airport at 9:02 am after a farewell by "civic and military officials not made during the uncer tain hours following 'disclosure of his mild stroke was issued without consulting the Presi dent But his qUicker than cx pected recovery from his at tack plus his personal anxiety over the fate of the NATO meet ing led to his decision to go ahead with plans to make the trip APPEALS DECISION LOS ANGELES Dec 6 CLP) Los Angeles County Superior Judge Alfred Gitelson said today he would appeal the state deci sion which branded illegal a $300000 loan made to an invest ment firm in which he and Gov Goodwin Knight were part ners knocked cold by a falling micro phone boom on a movie location here yesterday her press agent said today She was revived with ice packs aftd apparently required no medical treatment he said may have a he said with Zsa Zsa how could you NIXON DISAPPOINTED NEW YORK Dec 6 (UR) Vice President Richard Nix on said tonight he was disap pointed at the Vanguard rocket failure but it was a military missile and this event in no way indicates lack of progress or failure in the military SIGN TRADE PACT TOKYO Dec 6 Japan and the Soviet Union today signed a trade and payments agreement and an agreement on commerce opening the way for increased Japanese Communist trade irst figures indicate highest temperature during the last 24 hours second lowest yesterday morning third rain or melted snow during the last 24 hours: Mohammed Party Leave for Omaha ATLANTIC CITY NJ Dec 6 (LP) The AL CIO conven tion today booted the Teamsters union out of the merged labor movement for failure to remove officials charged with corrup tion The convention bounced the 1500000 member union the largest in the climax to nearly a year of clean up at tempts Charges against President Elect James Hoffa REACH AGREEMENT DENVER Dec 6 Moun tain States Telephone and Tele graph Company reported today it had reached agreement with the Communications Workers of America on new contracts STRIKE CONERENCE LOS ANGELES Dec 6 (UR) Representatives of both sides in the week long bus strike which has affected some 300000 South ern California commuters agreed to a proposal by six mayors to day that they hold their first joint meeting tdday The mayors held their session this afternoon in the office of Los Angeles Mayor Norris Pdftlson It was closed to the pres ACE CHALLENGE PALM SPRINGS Calif Dec 6 (IP) Sen William Know land Republican gubernatorial candidate in 1958 today the nation was facing a great chal lenge and urged an alert pro gram to cope with Russian at tempts at world domination BERLIN Dec 6 The East German Communist gov ernment charged today that the Western Allies have forfeited their right to be in Berlin In the official 1957 yearbook of the German Democratic Re public the Reds said the United Slates Britain and rance have violated four power status by converting West Ber lin into a spy center for counter revolution against the Soviet zone By doing this they have deprived themselves of the right to stay in the divided city the Reds said SEATTLE Dec 6 (IP) Teamsters President Dave Beck struck back at expulsion of his union from the' AL CIO by saying whole operating process is in for a gigantic organizing drive to begin immediately after holi days Beck interviewed during the noon recess of his grand larceny trial here said the AL CIO action in strict contradiction to the rights granted us by During last 24 hours none July 1 to date 252 to date last ear 178 normal July 1 to date 205 Visas Granted Prisoners' Kin and retiring union chief Dave Beck formed the keystone in the AL case for ouster A nine man appeals commit tee recommending expulsion affirmed earlier findings that Hoffa and Beck both misused union funds and that Hoffa fronted for racketeers The expulsion vote followed lengthy debate and arguments that the Teamsters deserved a time to correct the abuses cited by the AL CIO The two thirds vote necessary for expulsion was clinched when the million dollar Steelworkers Union threw its weight behind the cleanup forces That put the total for ouster above the maximum required 8454489 votes cast on the basis of membership strength Immediately before the vote AL CIO president George Meany made a last minute plea to the delegates got to free rank and file Teamsters from this dicta he said Meany who spearheaded the ouster move said the was still and announced he had considered a meeting with Hoffa late last night It fell through Meany said like other attempts he made to get together with the 44 year old Detroit labor leader Meany said he still would not close off all possibilities of a meeting with Hoffq now on trial in New York City on wiretap ping charges But he said he refused to meet with the newly chosen chief under con dition that neither of them ad mit such a meeting had taken place i WASHINGTON Dec 6 (UR) President Eisenhower has de cided to attend the North At lantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit meeting in Paris Dec 16 it was learned to day Only an unexpected setback in his rapid recovery from a mild stroke or a firm veto by hip doctors could alter his deci sion to head the delega tion to the crucial cold war meeting administration officials said Reliable informants said plans are being made for the Presi dent to make the transAtlantic trip ormal announcement of his decision may be put off how ever until Wednesday or Thurs day of next week The chief doctors are expected to make their final checkup prior to the announce ment some time after Eisenhow er ends his current long week end stay at his Gettysburg Pa farm Announcement by the White House and State Department that the President would not at tend the meeting following his Nov 25 cerebral attack led to deep concern among some of the European leaders slated to at tend the meeting of chiefs of the NATO nations There was con siderable feeling that lack of his leadership might weaken the hoped for Allied effort to strengthen western scientific military and political tion in the face of space age challenge The announcement the chief executive would Delivering address to AL CIO delegates President George Meany opens second constitutional convention in Atlantic City our unions face ouster (International) ORECAST Reno: Variable high cloudi ness otherwise fair but little change in temperature Nevada: Partly cloudy north portion scattered snow flurries northeast portion fair in south person colder north portion to night uerra Nevada: Mostly fair occasional cloudiness over high ridges little change in temper ature Sunset today 4:36 sunrise to morrow 7:07 Power Lines Cut By Cuban Rebels HAVANA Dec 6 Cuban rebels blew up electric power lines in the giant Nicaro nickel plant in Ori ente Province last week in formed sources said today The sources said attack last Thursday apparently was aimed at knocking out produc tion in the multi million dollar model plant Sources in Santiago capital of Oriente said one man was killed and several others injured in three explosions These sources said they understood material damage was small Officers of the nickel process ing corporation which operates the plant disclaimed any knowl edge of the attack They main tained there has been no inter ruption in production Marine Acquitted By Court Martial YOKOSUKA Japan Dec 6 (UR) A special Navy Marine court martial today acquitted a Marine from Arkansas of charges of maltreating prisoners in the brig at the Sasebo Naval Base southern Japan News Briefs JAKARTA Dec 6 Or ders went out today to major Indonesian ports to try to pre vent the escape of Dutch ships of the nationalized Royal Dutch Interinsular Ship ping Company the Antara News Agency said The agency said two ships en route to Surabaya had tried to change course for Sin gapore but had been "prevent by Indonesian passengers It gave no details (In Paris was specula tion Dr Raden Subiandro the Indonesian foreign minister would break diplomat! tions with trip Ne' when he arrives in Jakarta He left Paris today for the Hague en route home He said yesterday Indonesia would sever relations unless Holland handed over West New Guinea) The report of action against the Dutch ships came shortly after Information Minister Su dibyo told newsmen the govern ment would not discuss pay ment of compensation to own ers of Dutch firms until the issue of Western New Guinea had been settled Sudibyo is chairman of the West Irian Action which began a campaign against the Dutch on Monday Testimony Copy Sought by Beck SEATTLE Dec 6 Dave Beck today was denied a trans script of his testimony before the King county grand jury which indicted him for grand larceny last summer and the Teamsters president exploded: "What kind of justice is The transcript was denied by Judge George Revelle who is conducting jury trial wonder people take the ifth Beck told newsmen after the morning court session only way you possibly can protect your self is to take the ifth Amend Beck pleaded the ifth Amendment numerable 'times before the Senate rackets com mittee investigating labor cor ruption last spring and summer Zsa Zsa On ilm Location BROOKVILLE Dec 6 GIVEN COMMAND WASHINGTON Dec 6 Army Secretary Wilber Brucker announced today that Maj Gen Clark Ruffner would be transferred to the 5th Army? Headquarters Chicago in April 1958 WEATHER Hoax Charge Set by Adlai WASHINGTON Dec 6 (UR) A spokesman for Adlai Stev enson today branded as an article published in the London News Chronicle un der signature The article criticized the Eis enhower plans for this NATO summit meeting and charged that the President and his staff ficed and respect and confidence of our friends for political advantage assistant Wil liam Blair said neither the Dem ocratic leader nor his staff had either written or authorized the article made months or years ago were updated and made to appear Blair said addition quotations were attributed to the gover nor particularly on the NATO meeting which he has never said to The London Washing ton representative said he has submitted to Stevenson in be half of his editors an apology for embarrassment to the Keith Kyle Washington cor respondent of the News Chron icle said News Chronicle published the article in good faith after taking steps to insure its Kyle said the article came from the British feature syndf cate A Reuters an affiliate of Reuters' News Agency He said it was prepared by Kurt Singer part time free lance writer for the syndicate who lives near Hollywood Calif Science Academy Proposed for SACRAMENTO Calif Dec 6 (UR) A national leader last night called for es tablishment of a national acad emy of science to train Ameri can youth to compete with the USSR in technological fields Richard Roudebush nation al commander of the Veterans of oreign Wars spoke before a local VW post as he began a speaking tour of California He is from Indianapolis Ind He said the proposed academy be compared with our service but that cannot agree with those who would have the government sub sidize any and all who wanted to follow this line of Cheating Charge Argued by Hotel Royal Nevada Hearing Continued Until Monday as Tempers lare By CLARK BIGLER United Press Correspondent A plush Las Vegas strip hotel yesterday stoutly denied cheating charges it had pressed to get into the open for 10 days at a gambling board hearing in'Carson City But after five hours of testimony the Royal Nevada itself sought a continuance of the gambling license revo cation hearing until Monday rather than discuss addi tional counts against the resort Saturday as the gaming control board had offered to do A board undercover agent William A Walts of Reno testi fied he had seen a 21 dealer at the Royal Nevada dealing sec onds and peeking on Aug 18 an! again Aug 26 Walts said he subsequently learned the dealer was Ernie Manuel a longtime dealer in the southern Nevada area and a former dice dealer in the Reno and Lake Tahoe re gion Two attorneys Charles Springer and Howard McKisrick who prepared the case began consideration of charges other than cheating when the board opened the sec ond session But Thomas oley Las Vegas lawyer for the hotel who pro tested strenuously Thursday when the cheating charge was not considered objected his client wanted to get the cheat matterout of the way iger quickly agreed The cheating count is one of eight charges against the Royal Ne vada? Hotel President Rich ardson 'testified his records showed Manuel actually was dealing dice on one of the two days the alleged cheating oc curred He produced work sheets showing a was dealing at the 21 table where the undercover agent said he saw a cheating game Aug 18 But under cross examination by Springer Richardson admit ted it was possible the accused dealer could have been a relief man If this were so Ahe could have been on the 21 table when the cheating was alleged Jo have occurred Richardson tes tified Walts told the board he saw the dealer peek or second card a method by which the dealer looks at the top card and then deals the card beneath it if he wants to keep the top card for about 20 times in a 10 to 15 minute period But Richardson testified he believed it would take from 30 to 40 minutes to deal 20 rounds of 21 When oley attempted to show the board ld not told anyone at the casino of the al leged irregularities Springer declared it was not board policy to off a Roman WASHINGTON Dec 6 The State Department decided today to issue passports for Red China travel to close rela tives of six Americans impris oned there The action represented a re versal of previous department policy The new decision was disclosed in a letter and press release sent to Rep Thomas Lane (D Mass) The announcement sent to Lane said: Department of Staje in view of the prolonged and tragic separation of these six men from their families despite all efforts to about their release is prepared to issue to members of their immediate families passports not restrict ed as regards travel to Com munist Rights in Berlin Declared Violated Cabinet Quarrel Imperils Regime PARIS Dec 6 Pre mier elix Gaillard failed to night to patch up a cabinet quar rel between warring Socialists and Conservatives that threat ened to bring down his month old government Officials said was no at an emergency round table conference of gov ernment parties called by Gail lard to resolve a dispute over the financial pol icy It was not immediately known whether a new concilia tory effort would be made ff Phone Tax Share Sought by States WASHINGTON Dec 6 Administration officials today studied a new high level propos al to help cut down the size of the central government by turn ing more federal programs over to the states A special 16 member commit tee of federal officials and state governors submitted the pro posal first step in a long range plan to cut up the federal tele phone tax take with the states 9 1 I SMi Nevada Reno 49 18 Austin 37 18 02 Battle Mountain 47 25 Elko 40 20 Ely 40 20 06 allon 47 28 Las Vegas 62 33 Lovelock 48 21 Susanville 49 20 Tonopah 41 13 Winnemucca 44 22 Nationally Boise 39 23 21 Boston 48 25 Chicago 54 49 01 Denver 47 31 Los Angeles 66 46 Miami 70 52 Minneapolis 30 25 New Orleans 74 54 New York 41 27 08 Phoenix 61 38 Portland Ore 57 43 81 Salt Lake City 39 26 15 San rancisco 58 41 Washington 48 24 Precipitation Data Big Missile Wrecks Self At Launching CAPE CANAVERAL la Dec 6 (IP) A Vanguard rocket exploded on its firing pad in the first attempt to fling a satellite into an orbit today de laying possibly for weeks US entry into the space race with Russia The bottom stage of the three stage rocket erupted sec onds after the firing button was pushed and months of preparation including two long ended in billows of orange flame and failure Paul Walsh deputy Van guard director told reporters at a briefing later that the thrust of the first stage loaded with liquid oxygen failed The 72 foot missile toppled eastward and exploded demolishing the first and second stage To Continue Dr John Hagen chief of the Vanguard project said in Washington that this of an individual of the missile will not prevent the satellite program from continuing on schedule Walsh said the Vanguard rose four feet off its launching pad before it collapsed and ex ploded instead of carrying the tiny satellite an estimated 300 miles into space to put it into orbit around the earth No one was injured in the ex plosion Hagen described as the publicity the launching re ceived He said he felt person ally that it should have been treated as a test and not so much but declined to say who in the administra tion decided in favor of the oth er course Hagen said the failure was mechanical not a failure of de sign He said he believed it was a failure of individual Estimates Cost The 49 year old satellite boss reluctant to discuss cost of the destruction finally said it was less than several million dollars a suggested fig ure But neither Hagen nor Walsh made a definite prediction of when the next launching will be attempted There was specu lation that it would be a matter of several weeks Walsh said the third stage of the rocket containing the baby moon was thrown safely clear when the first and second stages toppled and wfere demolished by the explosion but was probably unsafe for reuse Apparently the satellite itself a six inch sphere in the nose of the third stage was undam aged It continued transmitting its radio signal after the explo sion he said Walsh said the countdown had proceeded smoothly al though it was held up for three hours and 45 minutes by minor delays "The rocket was ignited and started leaving the pad when suddenly it he said tell you exactly what happened but the effect was we lost Newsmen at observation point's on the beach four to five miles away saw a tremendous billow of orange flame engulf the slender missile and dwarf the huge gantry crane that had just been pulled aside for the firing By Democrats In Congress 'll GETTYSBURG Pa Dec 6 (IP) A President Eisenhower ordered the Defense Department today to give him a full report as soon as possible on the failure to launch the first test satellite Press Secretary James Hagerty said the President took the step after receiving a long distance telephone report from Washington on the luckless lorida' firing from his staff secretary Brig Gen Andrew Goodpaster Hagerty said Eisenhower who first announced thht sci entists would try to put the first test sphere into an orbit around earth disappoint ment and asked the defense for a full The request went to Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A Quarles who is acting secretary in the absence of Neil Mc Elroy The latter left for Europe and the Paris NATO meeting earlier today after saying the test failure was disappointing but too surprising" Quarles issued a statement of his own in Washington call ing the misfiring regretful but incident in the perfection of the Vanguard satellite sys He said it had no effect on the military ballistic missile program which is making AILURE VIEWED AS llITWir TATIvn WASHINGTON Dec 6 (UR) Congressional Democrats ac cused the administration today of contributing to a humiliating propaganda defeat by giv ing too much advance to the unsuccessful satellite test in lorida They also predicted that fail ure of the Vanguard rocket to get off the ground would put more steam behind the drive in Congress to beef up sci entific" programs Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson (Tex) chairman of the Senate prepar edness subcommittee which is investigating these programs called for a full report on the Cape Canaveral fiasco shrink a little inside of me whenever the an nounces a great event and it blows up in our faces what happened this morning is one of tlie best publicized and most humiliating failuresjn our he said in a speech at Amarillo Tex Chairman Richard Russen (D Ga) of the Senate armed services committee agreed wit would have been better to our first trials in the middle of the night and without SOVIETS HAD TEETHING TROUBLE LONDON Dec 6 I) Western Europe expressed dis appointment at the failure of the American satellite launch ing today But American scien tists were urged to take heart The Russians probably made' a few false starts too Although rench officials termed it a serious blow to American prestige British and continental scientists said they believed the Soviets edly had teething trying to launch their first Sputnik Western scientists were quick to point out that while everj movemade by the Cape Canav eral scientists was reported to the world the Russians said" nothing until their Sputnik was in space last Octa 4 lop Ends Moon Try Publicity Hit Russ Chief Claims Rocket Down Seized Inside MOSCOW Dec 6 Soviet Party Chieftain Nikita Khrush chev said tonight that the car rier rocket of the first Soviet sputnik plunged to earth over American territory last Sunday but Americans will not jjive it up to iis Khrushchev made his declara tion to foreign correspondents at a innish embassy reception know the carrier rocket fell over the United Khrushchev said they do not want to give it back to us relied on their decency but they did not live up to it know it fell somewhere in the United States and will announce it publicly soon with a request that they return it to A reporter asked Khrushchtw whether he was serious or was joking am absolutely Khrushchev replied Asked whether he meant over the American continent the' United States itself or the At lantic Khrushchev said: It was not the but United States WASHINGTON Dec 6 (ID Dr red Whipple chief of satellite observers said to' day have no sightings or other evidence that would indi the rocket carrier of sput nik I over the USA or on American territory" I tJi tit WHY do we eat mince pie at Christmas time? uaw am jo tT 2uiznoquiXs Jses ain saoids aqj Buasatdw 11 5.