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fate Warm Tf rf Find Cily Edition Tartly cloudy and warm with possible showers. Low, 62; high, 86. Siiii-lrlt'sranh Year IWtatatr Ofttrt af 41 Vlrnt Xewtpapcr Went of the Allpghenle VOL. 37 NO. 5 TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1963 In Three Sections SEVEN CENTS JQUVL AMI lyilrlrlajiE 7 The Justice, at 64, Takes a 3rd) Bride Rebels Land 77iree Nuclear Powers Sign Ban Barr Seeks To Avert Picketing Negroes' Protest At Apartments' Site Set for Tomorrow By HERBERT G.

STEIN FOM-Gtuttt SU 9 Wrtltf Efforts were begun by Mayor Joseph M. Barr's office yesterday to avert, if possible, a picketing demonstration now set for JFK Asked For More Help Here Scranton Sends Military Offieials To Gieck Disaster By JIM LINTZ Fl-Citt Suit Writtr Federal aid was offered yesterday to sections of Allegheny County caught in the whiplash of an erratic weekend storm which acted like a tornado. Owners of wrecked property can apply for low-interest federal reconstruction loans, On A-Testing U. 5., British and Soviet Foreign Affairs Chiefs Express Hope Of More Steps to Lasting Peace By HENRY TANNER Ntw York Tlmt Niwt Srvlct MOSCOW, Aug. 5 The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed a test ban treaty today at a ceremony that was both solemn and joyous.

Then, led by Premiere Khrushchev, they strode into one of the Kremlin's most glittering ballrooms for a reception, as a Soviet band played Gershwin's song that begins with the words, "Love Walked the mood of the day which (A) U. S. Supreme Court Justice Douglas and the former Joan Martin, who is 23. justice Douglas, 64, Carries Girl of 23 In Haiti, Siays Report Gen. Cantavc, 250 Officers Move On Cap Haitien Pictures and map on Page 4.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Aug. 5 (AP) A small invasion force of exiled Haitian soldiers commanded by Gen. Leon Cantave was reported to have landed today on Haiti's North Coast just west of the Dominican Border. The immediate objective appeared to be capture of Cap Haitien, Haiti's second city. The ultimate goal would be overthrow of the Haitian dictator, Dr.

Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier, bitter foe of the Dominican govern ment and thorn in the side of the United States. Sources in Santo Domingo said on the basis of radio and other reports the Duvalier gov-ernment in Port Au Prince, the Haitian capital in the south, had acknowledged the invasion was under way. The force was described as well armed and trained for guerrilla warfare. Radio Station Held By nightfall the Citadel radio in Cap Haitien was still in the hands of the Duvalier regime. But there were hints between music programs that the Invasion was progressing.

It said the U. Dauphin Sisal plantation was being cleared of American families. It lies near the reported Invasion spot at Fort Llberte, about 15 miles from the Dominican border. Haitians living in the Do- (Cont'd on Page 4, Column 2) PlaneMissing OnKoreaLine SEOUL, Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 6 AP) Six American soldiers have been missing aboard an Army light air plane since Sunday, a UN command spokesman said to day.

The possibility that the plane was shot down by Com munist North Korean gunfire was being considered, said the spokesman, despite the fact there have been no reports of gunfire along the eastern sec- tor of the demilitarized rone between North Korea and South Korea. The plane took off from an airstrip about ten miles east of the zone. The L-20 type plane, as signed to the U. S. Army Ad visory Group, took off from an unimproved airstrip near Kansogn-ni on the east coast of Korea, 90 miles northeast of here, and presumably headed southwest, the spokes man said.

Twice-Divorced Jurist Takes Bride For Month Honeymoon in Mountains BUFFALO, Aug. 5 (AP) Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 64 and twice divorced, today married Joan Martin, a 23-year-old government worker, in a simple church ceremony. Douglas and the slender, brown-haired Miss Mar Judge Hester Resigns, Sets Way for Deal 4-3 Common Pleas Slate Now Assured In Fall Election By PAT O'NEILL Pott-GiHttr Slid Wrltr Judge John P. Hester resigned yesterday from Allegheny County Court.

His resignation made by letter to Gov. William W. Scranton, makes possible completion of a Democrat-Repub lican deal whereby Democrats will get four of the seven Common Pleas judgeships to be voted on in next fall's elections. Judge Hester, a Democratic nominee for Common Pleas Court in the elections, now is expected to be appointed to the post soon by Gov. Scranton.

McCarthy Next in Line Hester, who lives in Whitehall, is 48. He was named to County Court in 1960 by then Gov. Lawrence and was elected to a full 10-year term in 1961. It is also expected that Gov. Scranton will name City Councilman Charles D.

Mc Carthy, a Democrat, to fill the vacancy left by Hester on County Court. If the appointment of McCarthy comes soon, he will run in the fall for election to a full 10-year term in County Court. A law enacted in Harris-burg last week raised the number of Common Pleas judgeships here to be filled in next fall's elections from four to seven. Under the bipartisan deal they would be filled this way: Two of the seven are filled already, since Common Pleas Judges Loran L. Lewis and Walter P.

Smart, Democrats, won both party nominations last spring. Four of the seven would go to Common Pleas Judges Anne X. Alpern (Dem.) and Gwllym A. Price Jr. County Court Judge Hester (Dem.) and Attorney Arthur Wessel Jr.

'The seventh judgeship (Cont'd on Page Column 8) --AKOclilfd rrau Wirtphoio Employment Reported Up WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (AP) Moderate improvement in local labor market conditions which has prevailed for several months continued in July, the Labor Department reported today. The department's Bureau of Employment Security said July figures on the labor supply in 150 major areas showed only three reclassifications and all in the direction of lower unemployment. In June 15 major areas were shifted to new classification categories of lower unemployment. In July two areas Altoona, and Huntington, W.

Ky. moved down from a group with unemploy ment ranging from 9 to 12 per cent of the local work force to the group containing 6 to 9 per cent joblessness. The improvement at Altoona resulted in large part, the bureau said, from increased activity in the areas railroad car shops. The bureau's figures showed 38 major areas classified as centers of substantial unemployment, the lowest total since July 1960. A year ago, 48 major areas were in this category.

tomorrow morning by Negroes who are protesting alleged job discrimination at a Lower Hill construction project. Aides of the mayor, it was learned, were trying to bring the two sides together in advance of the' demonstration but the efforts were without immediate success. Separate Conferences The mayor's aides, however, talked separately with Byrd R. Brown, president of the Pittsburgh Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who called the demonstration, and with officials of the Navarro contractors for the Washington Plaza apartment project where the picketing is to take place. The apartments are being built across from the Civic Arena, on Center Avenue.

Police to Be on Hand Brown told a rally of 1,500 Negroes Sunday that he wanted them to turn out at 8:30 a. m. tomorrow to picket the site in what he said would be the first of such discrimination protests. Meanwhile, Police Supt. James W.

Slusser said he was preparing to have (Cont'd on Page 8, Column 6) BibleReading Made 'Must' MONTGOMERY, Aug. 5 (AP) The State Board of Education today ordered the Holy Bible read daily in all public schools in Alabama as a part of a course of study. A recent Supreme Court decision barred Bible-reading and recital of the Lord's prayer in public schools as part of required classroom exercise. It did not rule out Bible readings as part of a course of study. In a separate resolution, the Board of Education denounced the Supreme Court ruling as a "calculated effort to take God out of the public affairs of this nation." Gov.

George Wallace, who introduced the resolution to make Bible-reading a part of the course of study in Alabama schools, promised that "if this is ever challenged while I am governor and the courts rule that we cannot read the Bible in some school, I'm going to that school and read it myself." Comic Dictionary CHATTERBOX A woma'n who spends half her time telling you what she has told others, and the other half telling others what she has told you. Mrs. d's whereabouts could not be learned. The report of the 43-year-old Ford's friendship with Mrs. Austin appeared In the Mirror, the World-Telegram Sun and the Journal-American.

The newspapers said the couple met more than a year ago at Maxim's in Paris while attending a party honoring Monaco's Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. The Mirror described Mrs. Austin as a "complete Continental but as simple and natural as an American. The Journal-American said the eotinle been seen' together in various New York restaurants' and called their (Cont'd on 8, Column 6) Storm areas plan rebuildingPictures and story on Page 1, Section 2. it was announced by the Small Business Administration.

In addition, Gov. Scranton asked President Kennedy to make other federal aid available to victims of the Saturday night storm. DiMKter Area Ruling The governor sent military and Civil Defense officials for a first-hand look at stricken areas, and John Sullivan, County Civil Defense director, asked the State Civil Defense Council to declare the county a disaster area. It already has been so classified by the SBA through which the federal loans may be obtained. To insurance firms, already receiving claims and braced for the deluge, it is a "catas-trophe area." In Carnegie, one of the stricken communities, police were making a door-to-door canvass, asking residents and businesomen the extent of their damages, with an eye to federal aid.

Meanwhile, there, as In Glassport, Clalrton and other stricken area communities, the grueling job of cleaning up and restoration was under way. Duquesne Light Co. and Bell Telephone Co. were struggling yesterday through barriers of wreckage to restore service to all buildings capable of receiving it. Concentrate On Clalrton Six Duquesne Light crews were concentrated in Clalrton, the power company's "worst area," and some of Carnegie was still without electricity late yesterday.

A Duquesne Light spokesman said some customers in the storm-struck communities might still be without power today. In the McKeesport-Glassport area, 520 phones were still "out" late yesterday, and temporary poles were being placed to restore some of this service. Telephone crews were working only on a dawn-to-duk basis, a spokesman said, because of the danger Involved In the wreckage. About 25 Carnegie residents were still without phone service last night. In classifying the county as a disaster area, the Small (Cont'd on Page 8, Column 2) hit the airport.

At 9:20, the power went out, and so did the radar. Miss Kenny Isn't sure what happened to the line then. The power went off, and on Intermittently. But her last glimpse of It showed It extended down to the Glassport area. At that time It had developed an eastward branch.

The final position of the line, which had to be drawn from memory following its appearance, corresponds closely with areas of major destruction. What did Miss Kenny see on the radar screen? Was it hail, rain, wind or something as yet unknown? "Even (Cont'd on Tage 8, Column Right In." The song summed up from the start of the courtesy call at 9 a. m. to the end of the gala reception just before nightfall was filled with firm East-West handshakes, warm smiles, friendly jokes and toasts to "peace and friendship" drunk in sparkling Soviet champagne. Gold-Trimmed Chairs The signing of the word treaty banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, outer space and under water, took barely five minutes in Catherine Hall, a vaulted white marble hall in the Kremlin's grand palace.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home sat in gold-trimmed chairs at an oblong table as they affixed their signatures to three copies of the document. Watching the signing were about 70 Soviet, American and British dignitaries led by Premier Khrushchev. United Nations Secretary General Thant stood next to the premier. The Soviet group included Leonid I.

Brezhnev, president of the Supreme Soviet, and practically all the key leaders of the Soviet government with the exception of First Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan, who is ailing. The large U. S. delegation included Adlai E.

Stevenson, chief S. representative at the U. and Senators J. W. Fulbright, George E.

Aiken, Leverett Salton-stall, John J. Spark-man, Hubert H. Humphrey, and John O. Pastore, D-R. I.

The other Americans present were William C. Foster, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Glenn T. Seaborg, chairman of the Atomic Commission; Arthur (Cont'd on Page 4, Column 2) RRs, JJnion Renew Talks WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (AP) Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz announced to night arrangements for two joint meetings the first in weeks between railroad and union negotiators in the deadlocked work rules After morning, afternoon and evening sessions at which he prodded both sides in a new attempt at a negotiated settlement in the four-year long dispute, Wirtz said the joint sessions would be held tomorrow.

Asked whether any real progress was made in today's session, the secretary replied that the setting up of the joint meetings could serve as an answer. 5 Children Die As Auto Burns ELFROS, Aug. 5 (AP) Five children of Mi-. and Mrs. Harry Katuski died Katurriav niffht in the flaminer wreckage of the family car.

Katuski and his wife rescued their four other children. Another auto struck the Katuskis' car from the rear, knocking it into a ditch and overturning it. Katuski helped his wife from the car and then noticed smoke pouring from it. The ouple rescued four children, aged six years to eight months, the front seat but by then the heat was unbearable. The five children in the back died.

They ranged In age mm two to 11 years. Multi-Million Mill Planned By Ludlum Oxygen Converter Steel Plant Set For Bracken ridge By ARTHUR R. FRIEDMAN Poii-Gitrtii Builnni Editor Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation took a preliminary step yesterday toward construction of a multi-mil- lion-dollar basic oxygen con verter steel plant at Its Brackenridge works. If oxygen steclmaking is realized at the upper Allegheny River plant, it will be the fourth such plant to be established in the Pittsburgh district. Jones Laughlin Steel Corporation led the way toward oxygen steelmaking here several years ago with a plant at Aliquippa.

Two others at Monessen for Pittsburgh Steel Company and at Du-quesne for United States Steel Corporation are under construction. May Add to Capacity meanwhile, is reported giving consideration to adding (Cont'd on Page 4, Column 3) Bandits Stab 45 to Death BOGOTA. Columbia. Aug. 5 (AP) Bandits stabbed to death 45 persons today after dragging them from vehicles snared in an ambush on a country road in Caldas Department (state), a government spokesman reported.

Emilio Vallejo, secretary of public works in Caldas Department, said the bandits ambushed three truckloads of road workers and a passenger bus, then took the victims to an abandoned farmhouse where they were knifed to death one by one. There were only two survivors, said Vallejo, from the 30 road workers on the trucks and the 15 male passengers on tlje bus. Captivity Causes Whale to Drown PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5 (AP) A whale drowned yesterday in his pool in the Aqua-rama. The victim was Brigus, a male ten feet six inches long.

And how does a whale drown? Aquarama Curator Don Wilkie said Brigus had trouble controlling his breathing because of nervous stress Induced by his capture in North Atlantic waters, his flight from Newfoundland Saturday and the effort to adjust to his' new surroundings in the. privately owned aquarium An autopsy louay that the whale's blow hole, supposed to stay closed under water, had opened and was filled with watefc Partly Cloudy, Warm Day Due tin were wed in Buffalo Unitarian Universalist Church then left for a month's camp ing and hiking in the moun tains of Montana and Wash- ington. Divorced Last Week Douglas second wife, Mrs. Mercedes H. Douglas, 46, won an uncontested divorce last week from Douglas on grounds of cruelty.

The associate justice's first wife divorced him in 1953. Miss Martin was graduated from Allegheny College at Meadvllle, last year. A faculty member who declined to be Identified said she met Douglas In 1961 when he was at the college to give a lecture. According to the source, a faculty member introduced her to Douglas because she was interested in his writings and planned to do her senior research project on his political philosophy. She later did the project.

After graduation in June 1962, Miss Martin worked until last March as an adminis- (Cont'd on Page 8, Column 6) 3 Eleetrocuted On Illinois Farm MITCHELL, 111., Aug. 5 (AP) Three youths were electrocuted in an accident on a farm near here this afternoon. The dead were identified as Richard Slemmer, 17; William Shatz 16, and Bill Henry, 20, all of Glen Carbon, 111. State police said they and four other youths were working on the farm of Vernon F. Miller, moving irrigation pipe from one ditch to another.

Police said they apparently raised a long section of pipe and it came in contact with power lines above. Today' Topic Is Teen Topics A series of stories on silly and serious doings of teenagers, including their jokes, their summer jobs, their fads, their vacations here and abroad, begins today. See them twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. TODAY on PAGE 15. IS Ford's Separation Far Storm's Wavy Line Puzzles Weather Men Radar Picked Up Bright Thread Before Glassport Was Hit; Seldom Ever Seen From Being a Model Motor Magnate's Name Is Linked To Italian-Born Sophia Loren-Type Warm and partly cloudy, with a chance of showers and thundershowers is the forecast for today by the U.

S. Weather Bureau. After a comfortable overnight low of 62, the temperature Is expected to reach a high of 86 today, Inside Pages Astrology 25 by Goren 28 Harold V. Cohen 12 Comics 28 i Deaths 24 Editorials 10 Financial 31, 22, 23 1 Ann Landers 16 Marriages 8 "Obituaries 24 Parents Ask 14 Radio-TV 29 "Sports 18, 19, 20, 21, 26 Theaters 12, IS Want Ads 24, 25 prear.ier Wo men's 14, 15, 16 POST-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Home Delivery 2631311 Want Ads 2631201 Map and picture on Fage J. By HENRY W.

PIERCE Poft-Ctt SUS Writer "What hit Glassport?" weather men are asking. Saturday night's savage storm showed up on radar screens as a mysterious, bright, wavy line the like of which has seldom been seen. The strange warning appeared shortly before the storm lashed the Glassport-McKeesport area. Radar ob server, Frances Kenny, man-1 ning a screen at the Weather Bureau's office at Greater Pittsburgh Airport, noted its appearance at 9:07 p. m.

It snsked its way from a point I west of Curtisville down to about Duquesne. At 9:16 p. the NEW YORK, Aug. 5 (AP) Henry Ford II, whose separation from his wife was announced over the weekend, was linked today by three New York newspapers with an Italian-born I rcee, whose former husband now is dead. The woman was identified by the newspapers as Mrs.

Christina Austin, who once was married to British naval officer William Austin. She was described by one report as a "Blonde Sophia Loren-type." Neither Ford nor his wife, Anne, who announced the separation through an attorney in Detroit, was available for comment Ford was reported route to Europe. 2631100 either Depts..

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