The News-Star from Monroe, Louisiana • Page 1

Northeast Louisiana's Major Center Of Activity Monroe and West Monroe serve as the educational, cultural, sports amusement and training center of Northeast Louisiana. Today the Twin Cities stand as one of the Mid- major points of activity. Tftlonroc Ttrtus-Sthr Northeast Louisiana's Afternoon Newspaper Since 1891 VOL. 150 Full Associated Press, United Press Leased Wires MONROE, LOUISIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1954 Newsphoto Service by AP, NEA The Weather LOUISIANA: Partly cloudy with widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers this afternoon tonight and Saturday. Gentle to moderate southerly winds on the coast.

PRICE FIVE CENTS Five Bandits Rob Junta And Rebels 60 Persons Sign Pact; Agree To Root Out Reds SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) Rebel chief Carlos Castillo Armas and government boss Col. Elfego Monzon signed a peace pact here today ending two week-old civil war. They pledged a continuing fight to wipe out communism in that Central American nation. The treaty provides for a new five-man military fourth government this with Monzon as top man. the other members include Castillo and one of his aides and two ministers in Monzon's outgoing regime.

Authoritative sources said this arrangement would continue for 15 days, after which the junta will elect a chief. The agreement was signed at 4:45 a.m. in the ceremonial hall of El presidential house Heard Given Contract For New School Jesse F. Heard and Son, Monroe contractor, was awarded contract before ambassadors and represent- for the construction of the Bern- atives of a dozen countries and the stein Park Elementary School Vatican. It proclaims a total cease- building on a 20-acre tract on Tich- fjre jn Guatemala, cli road.

The revised bid of this Castillo's followers invaded their firm was for $-10 215. he build- homeland from neighboring Honing wil be completed July 1, 1955. duras on June 18 yowi to and will comprise a highly unique throw the Communist SUpportcd structure for This firm Rovernment of president Jaeobo base bid was Afbem, Arbenz resiSncd The winning bid was the lowest iast Sunday and a cease-fire fol- of all submitted. Others were as iowed on Wednesday. The junta follows: (base bids) E.

O. which replaced Arbenz after his Coley Const. South- resignation was in turn replaced eastern Const. T. J.

by group. Owen, Don Baxter, Salley, J. A. Harper, llarry Carpenter, R. J.

Jones and Sons, W. G. Haynes, $179,210. The revised bid called for two ad- ditional rooms. The building will be of one-story and will have nineteen classrooms, so that the original enrollment at 30 in a room will be such" as to pr accommodate 570 children.

But it provided: Is possible state the architectural 1. rebel forces will be firm of Smith and Padgett, which incorporated into the regular army designed and will supervise con- ranks for a triumphal entry into struction, to add rooms to the build- Guatemala City, ing w'hich is of a single story and 2. The junta assumes all Icgis- will be 410 feet in length. lative and executive powers as well A California style of construction as supreme command of the army is to be used. There will be ceram- and will rule by majority decision, ic tile used in the rooms in place of 3.

The junta will consider vvheth- plaster. Floors of asphalt tile, win- er to abolish or suspend in part dows of aluminum and window the present constitution openings to the north for each room and Castillo will cancel at once One feature will he a covered all decrees issued by his provision- k- arcade provided as each room will al regime. open on this feature so that when 4 national elections will be it is rainy, boys and girls will piay caned as soon as a new consti- under cover and will not muddy tution Is promulgated, school room floors. Heating of the rooms will be radiant nature. The exterior of the building will be of artistic brick.

The 20 acres that the parish school board has acquired, will be sufficient to give playground space for children of all grades and will permit building construction that may be added in the future. Architect Merle Padgett states In addition to Castillo and Monzon, the new junta will be composed of Maj. Enrique Oliva, defense minister in insur- bers of government Foreign Minister Col. Mauricio Dubois and Defense Minister Col. Jose Luis Cruz Salazar.

Other terms of the agreement Secret Police Capital City Of Guatemala Horrible Scene GUATEMALA (AP) Handkerchiefs to their noses, a lonjr line of men, women and teen-agrers filed past a row of mutilated bodies in tropical capital today. The smell of death was overpow'- ering as the curious populace lifted the lids of the crude wooder coffins to peer at some of those the new military government says were tortured to death by deposed President Jaeobo Arbenz dread secret police. Some of the lookers fainted. Others vomited at the stench. Most fled.

In the small, plaster-walled room in Guatemala morgue a statue of Christ loomed behind the coffins, candles burning at its side. The gruesome display was part of the drive by new government against Arbenz's Communist backers, who sparked the terror wave which preceded his downfall and who now are reported stirring up peasant opposition to his conquerors. In the weeks just before and after Col. Carlos Castillo army of exiles invaded from neighboring Honduras, the police rounded up hundreds of anticommunists and opponents of Arbenz's red-backed regime. Of those picked up, the bodies of some 60 so far have been brought to the battered and broken by police torture.

Six of these, brought in yesterday from the little village of Villa Lobos, were typical. After several days of working over by the police, they were machine-gunned on June 24 and left in a shallow grave. All were men. Their bodies were purple from beating, slashed and cut by floggings. Eyes were gouged out and teeth wmre kicked in.

The (Continued on Second Page) House Votes 58-41 To OK Right-To-Work Kennon Ready To Sign; 17th State For Law Bold Daylight Raid Nets Nearly $50,000 For Masked Robbers CHICAGO robbers, armed with a machine gun, shotgun and pistols, took almost $50,000 in a bold daylight holdup of the Ashland State Bank today. Bank officials at first estimated CHURCHILL WELCOMED Sir Winston Church' is greeted by Sgt. Allan Ross of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at La Guardia Field in New York as he steps from plane which brought him from Toronto. Less than an hour later he boarded the Queen Elizabeth for sea voyage to England. Churchill conferred in Washington with President Eisenhower and in Toronto with Canadian officials on world strategy.

(AP Wirephoto) Earthquake Leaves 22 Philippino Dead 22 persons were reported dead in a strong earthquake which The new' junta reportedly will fly to the Guatemala capital at 11 a.m. tomorrow to take over. The signing ceremony climaxed two days and nights of negotiations (Continued on Second Page) Man Standing Up Dead Apparently that the ground is well shaded and Not From Monroe lends easily to artistic effects. Late News Flashes Drobny Is Champ WIMBLEDON, England Jaroslay Drobny, 32-year-old exiled Czech now living in Egypt, won the Wimbledon singles championship today by defeating 19-year-old Ken Rosewall of Australia, 13-11, 4-6, 6-2, 9-7. Six Killed UTICA, N.

V. jet plane loaded with ammunition crashed into an automobile and two houses today and six persons were reported killed. The body of a man found dead in Jackson, Thursday which bore the name and address of R. M. McLendon, of 811 Wilson street, was not McLendon, residents at that address said Friday.

The aged dead man was found propped upright on crutches in a Jackson hotel and papers on his body bore the names of George Brown, 81. of Tallulah, and that of McLendon. He had been dead several hours of natural causes. Residents of the 811 Wilson street address said they had contacted R. M.

relatives and that he is alive and in Monroe. It was not explained how his address came to be on the dead man. Two Calculator Machines Worth $800 Are Stolen Two calculator machines valued at a total of $809 were stolen from an automobile in Monroe late Thursday, and police were attempt! ing to locate them Friday. The machines were reported stol- en from L. H.

Stickley of 619 Splane, West Monroe, who said they were taken from his 1952 convertible sometime between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday. Stickley, an employe of the Monroe Calculator Machine Co. at 414 Louisville, told officers the two machines were in the back of his 1 automobile wher he was returning from a service call in Tallulah Thursday afternoon.

He said he stopped the car in the 2800 block of DeSiard street about 6 p.m and returned later to find them missing. One machine was valued al $350 and the other at $450. Chief of Detectives Hugh Tolbert said the less expensive machine was model LA7-160, with serial number 643494, and the other was Model CST- 8 with serial number I 603563. MANILA and scores were injured today jolted the central Philippines. The provincial capital of bore the brunt of the quake and a police official there reported 20 persons were dead and enormous property damage.

Two others were killed at Legaspi City to the north. Capt. lsagani Abella, commander of the Sorsogon constabulary garrison radioed police headquarters here: "Twenty persons believed dead this capital alone. Property damage enormous. Concrete fence around our camp and our radio transmitter station totally wrecked.

Our Headquarters badly damaged. Eighty per cent of the old buildings in Sorsogon, a city of 26,000, were destroyed Philippine News Service said. The towering steeple on a Catholic cathedral toppled. Communications with the area, on the southeastern tip of Luzon, were disrupted. Meager reports were relayed here from a ship in Sorsogon harbor.

Huge landslides were reported between Sorsogon and Albany province to the north. The Philippine Red Cross office here said field reports described the quake as the strongest ever to hit Sorsogon province, a rich copra producing region of almost 300,000 persons. It reportedly lasted 80 seconds. OUTLAW PARTY BATON ROUGE bill outlawing the Communist party and any subversive group in Louisiana won final legislative passage in a unanimous House vote today. Sen.

Dayton McCann's bill, approved 69-0, was sent to the governor's desk. College Bond Revenue Bill Gets Approval By ED PRICE News-Star Legislative Correspondent BATON ROUGE. July 2 bill permitting Northeast State College and other state schools to issue revenue bonds for dormitory construction received final legislative approval this morning and was sent to Gov. Kennon for signing. The measure, adopted unanimously by the house today, permits bonds for dormitories and other revenue producing facilities to be funded by rentals for other income they produce Rep.

Kenneth Cagle of Lake Charles explained the bill will make it easier for schools such as Northeast and McNeese State to construct new' dormitories. No opposition was voiced in debate today, although the bill met a litHe trouble in the senate earlier with opponents claiming it would result in higher dormitory fees. The house also unanimously passed Sen. James bill to permit towns incorporated since 1950 to obtain a share of the state cigarette tax. The bill now goes to the governor.

proposal to change the method of calling sewer district elections in municipalities ran (Continued on Second Page) BATON ROUGE (AD Louisiana was expected to become the 17th state with a right to work law today when Gov. Robert Kennon signs the bill banning compulsory labor union membership. Kennon said yesterday he would sign the measure shortly after a 58-41 House vote completed the turbulent passage. Few measures have raised such a storm in the Legislature. All 99 House members were present for the final action.

The Senate gave the legislation 22-12 approval after record-breaking 26-hour committee hearings and hours of debate. The House held nine hours of committee ses- I sions and debated the bill for 4V4 hours. Lt. Gov. C.

E. Barham signed the bill last night in open Senate session, but House speaker Clarence Aycock must sign the bill in the House session today before Kennon can complete action on it. The measure will take effect 20 days after adjournment of the Legislature. In contrast to the stormy Senate sessions, the House considered the measure calmly. The crowds aiong the rails in the House with the temperature nearing 100 listened quietly, with no demon- stration from either side when the final vote came.

Representatives said 16 state troopers, in plain clothes, were assigned to the chamber, mixed in with the audience. In the Hectic debate, the proponents beat down amendments to: 1. Make it apply only to ers. Defeated 58-40. 2.

Submit the bill to the voters in the fall general election, De! feated 52-45. 3. Save the union shop, but quire a two-thirds secret vote and have workers ballot again every five years. Defeated 55-40. 4.

Exclude railroad workers from the act. Defeated 55-41. Even before the bill came up for consideration, the argument started. Rep. Horace Lynn Jones of Calcasieu Parish offered a reaso- lution calling for both proponents and opponents of the measure to file detailed expense statements and to delay consideration of the measure until the statements were filed.

He suggested that right to work be taken up Monday at 10 a.m. The House refused 59-37 to let (Continued on Second Page) the loot at about $25,000. but later reported an audit showed $46,878 was missing. The gunmen wearing black stockings with eye-slits over their heads, charged into the bank through a side door a few minutes after opening time, menaced bank employes and then vaulted over counters into the cages, Mrs. Anderson dropped with both hands on the holdup alarm, but the robbers were gone within minutes.

The bank, on Chicago's south side at 9443 S. Ashland Ave. is onlv a short distance from the busy Beverly Hills intersection of 95th Street and Ashland Avenue. Four gunmen ran into the bank while the fifth stood guard outside with the maehinegun. The gunmen forced Eugene F.

Cronifi. the bank president, two other'men and five other employes to lie on the floor during the Tax Overhaul Bill Nearing Final Passage WASHINGTON (AP) Weary senators, a marathon session behind them and promise of a three day holiday ahead, gathered for a quick push to final passage today of the administration's disputed tax overhaul bill. Leaders on both sides predicted the remaining half-dozen or so amendments would be disposed of in short order. Several senators said they planned to vote against the giant 10 Uf1, One of the men carried a brown tax revision measure on final passage. But its approval, pretty much in the form sought by President Eisenhow'er, seemed assured.

Members were saddened by the death of 76-year-old Sen. Hugh Butler of Nebraska, announced in the canvas bag for the money but dropped a package of 100 $1 bills in his hurry. Mrs. Anderson said the gunmen in a green Cadillac that was spotted at the bank vesterdav the place over. Big Holiday On July 4 Planned As the Fourth of July holiday week end neared Friday, Monroe residents apparently were planning to put it over with a bang.

Commissioner of Streets and Parks Wayne Huckaby said Friday morning all of the fire pits and tables at Bernstein park have already been reserved through Monday, which will be observed as a holiday. The commissioner also said swimming pools at both Forsythe and Casino parks are being cleaned and readied for a big week end. chamber just before the Senate gang apparently looked wound up 13 hours of debate at midnight last night. Butler was the second-ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, hich wrote the Senate version of the tax bill. At 11 p.m., half an hour before Butler died of a stroke suffered Wednesday night, Sen.

Bennett R- Utahi said the long debate on the tax bill during the w-eck probably had contributed to Butler's collapse. Sen. Long revived the m- (Cotulnued on Second Page) Western Electric, Union Officials Try To Compromise NEW YORK Electric Co. and union officials may meet today to try to end the day- old coast-to-coast strike by telephone equipment installers. Officials of District 10.

CIO Communications Workers of America, called the walkout, yesterday and by noon most of its 17,000 members were idle. The dispute over higher wages, contemplated transfers and grievance procedure could cripple the Bell Telephone System in 44 states and the District of Columbia if the union throws picket lines around telephone exchange buildings. Western Electric is the manufacturing arm of the Bell System. Telephone operators in Texas walked off their jobs yesterday in a number of cities, honoring the pieketlines. Operators were reported out at Dallas, Austin San Antonio, Houston, Mexia, Fort Worth.

Mineral Wells, Abile and Lubbock. Union leaders have announced they plan to delay nationwide picketing until Tuesday, but also indicated the plan was "subject to With 80 per cent of the phones on the dial system, the full impact of the strike on local telephone users would not be felt for some time. Top Allied Leaders Resigned To Losing Big Block I WASHINGTON iff) Top Allied leaders are resigned to losing a i great block of lndo-China to the Communists. The shooting war was around Hanoi and peace negotiations bo- tween French-led forces and the i Communists have gone beyond the point where the United States can influence them decisively. The issue of Red Chinese bids for recognition and for United Nations membership is expected to press hard upon the heels of any lndo-China settlement.

With Moscow needling, this is- 1 sue promises to make grave trouble among the United States, Britain and France in the fall. Other forces, too, are working to pull the Western Allies apart despite the emphasis placed here this week on what Sir Winston Amusements 8 Churchill called an unbreakable Classified 13-15 Comics .......................................................12 is exactly a week now since Editorial 4 Churchill flew into Washington by Radio-TV 8 his own request to talk, alongside Society 6-7 Foreign Secretary Eden, with Sports 10-11 President Eisenhower and Secre, tary of State Dulles. PREVENT FOREST FIRES It has been an intensive week KEEP LOUISIANA GREEN in other ways. Talks on the South- Ellis Accuses FRENCH SETTLEMENT, La. B.

Ellis, candidate for U. S. Senator, today charged that his opponent. Sen. Alien Ellender, had once publicly advocated "throttling the Loyalty Transcript WASHINGTON, July The transcript of loyalty hearings on Dr.

Ralph Bunche, American Negro in the United Nations secretariat, has been sent to the Justice Department for any action it deems warranted. Where To Find It 'east Asian crisis have been held by Dulles with Foreign Minister Richard Casey, New' Ambassador Leslie Munro and foreign minister. Prince Wan Waithayakon. The situation has been touched upon in official British American statements, in a Churchill talk and in an Eisenhower new Conference. The conclusions stated above have been drawn from an analysis of all these developments, and from many talks with knowledgeable diplomatic sources.

The ability of the free world to meet the Communist threat inside lndo-China appears not to have been materially increased. efforts to get going at once on a collective defense for Southeast. Asia remain frustrated and frozen some thought is now being given to trying to change this situation. There is among officials of the Eisenhower administration an obvious feeling that general relations with Britain are for the moment a little better, but do not show very much improvement in basic ways. There has been no evidence i of any gleeful shouting on the part of any of the people who have participated in the extraordinary diplomatic activity.

The situation may best be seen in the light of two or three recent incidents. On March 29 the American government, through a speech by Dulles, issued an emergency call for "united to halt Communist expansion in Southeast Asia. Privately, officials were talking in terms of intervention in the lndo-China war. France and Britain were cool. In mid-April Dulles flew' to London and Paris.

On his return home, he thought he had agreement to have a conference and begin drawing up a 10-nation Southeast Asian pact. A bitter controversy with Eden arose when the British blocked his plans for a meeting a few days in advance of the Geneva conference. Britain wanted no part of such a move before Geneva. She promised to explore it when peace negotiations were ended. Since that time U.

S. policy has been stymied. For various reasons it proved impossible to set up an alliance without Britain A few weeks ago it appeared that Geneva would fail to get peace. But then a French government upheaval and certain Communist maneuvers caused the British, French and others to take more hope. Meanwhile, Churchill had sent word he wanted to come to Washington.

Also, five Asian India, Pakistan, Burma and at Colombo and discussed the twin problems, as they see them, of Western colonialism and international communism. They tended to split betw'een the Western and Communist sides. Just before coming to Washington. Eden suggested a nonaggres- sion system which would involve Western countries and Red China in guarantees to secure the safety of lndo-China. This was an obvious bid by Britain for the support of India and if possihle, countries the British knew would never join in a Southeast Asian anti-Communist pact.

Another development parallel with the Churchill talks here was the visit of Red China's premier and foreign minister, Chou En-lai, to Pandit Nehru on his way home from Geneva, la all these matters lmUaUvc seemed to rest with the French in trying to get an lndo-China peace, w'ith the British in trying to find a new' approach to the Asian problem, and with Red China in trying to woo Nehru out of his chosen neutralism into a friendlier attitude toward Peiping. Some of the nations most friendly to the United States in the Southwest Pacific-Southeast Asia area are distressed by the wav things have gone. The recently re-elected Australian government has hardened its position on Southeast Asia and now is urging action much faster than is Britain. New' Zealand seems to have taken the same position At a meeting here Wednesday, representatives of Australia, New Zealand and the United States expressed appar- etly a carefully selected word with the Churchill Eisenhower agreement that plans for a collective Asian defense should be pressed forward. But among themselves they agreed upon, and announced, a "need for immediate Diplomats say the Philipi pines and Thailand feel the same way about it.

Secretary Dulles has before him a plan to go ahead quickly and create some kind of a coalition by common understanding or agreement among nations willing to cooperate and to do so with or without Britain. Eden has taken the position it will require a long time to work out a treaty. Even when Indo- Chinese peace negotiations have taken a decisive turn, perhaps within the 18 days. American authorities are not sure how enthusiastically the British will act on a security system. For that matter, some of the best informed and most astute U.S.

authorities are not sure how quickly this country can move either. Watching parts of lndo-China "go down die as the saying is, the government clearly lias been of two minds. Some authorities like Dulles (at least last Marchi and Adm. W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I felt the United States had to intervene lo save lndo-China.

There were others who talked strongly and publicly about the possible need for intervention, among them Senate Republican Leader Knowiand 1 (Continued an Second Fige) Rayville Man Is Slugged, Robbed By 2 Men Here Two unidentified strong arm bandits were reported early Friday to have knocked unconscious and robbed of $130 a 27-year-old Rayville motorist who offered them a ride in his automobile in the 2700 block of DeSiard street. According to police reports, T. C. Boyer of Rayville called the police station about 4-30 a.m. frona a telephone in the 1500 block of Siard and reported he had been robbed.

Investigating officers who met Boyer said he told this story: He was driving down DeSiard street about 3 a.m. Friday when two pedestrians wearing khaki clothes hailed him. He stopped to pick them up. As he did, he said, they opened the door, grabbed him, and hauled him to the ground, apparently knocking him unconscious. When he awoke, he said, the two men, his wallet, $130 and some private papers were missing.

Officers said he drove back toward town on DeSiard and telephoned police from the 15G0 block. He said the money was in $20 and $10 bills. He could give no description of either of the men, police said. Three Rescued From Drowning in Bayou Here A near tragedy was averted shortly after 12 noon Friday when two unidentified women and a man who went to their aid were I from drowning in Bayou DeSiard behind Grocery in the 4200 block of DeSiard street. According to a witness who did not know any of those involved the two women were attempting to swim to a float in the middle of the bayou when they discovered they could not make the float or get hack to shore.

The witness said a bystander went into the wafer after the women, but also became tired. Then, the witness said, several other persons standing on the shore nearby went to the aid of all three and brought them in. The identities of those involved could not be learned immediately. Possible Rain In Afternoon Is Seen A scattered thundershowers was forecast for the Twin Cities area Friday afternoon, but I apparently was unlikely. A spokesman for the C.

A A. here said the forecast shows skies are to be partly cloudy most of the afternoon, with rain possible. High temperature for the morning was 94 degrees at 11.30 a.m., and the low was 76 degrees at iabout 4 a.m..