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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
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41ST YEAR, NO. 12 — 44 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JANUARY  19, 1947
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POMO MOTHER BEARS I of a polio attack in October, ' normal daughter. A nurse at NORMAL rHII.D~PHra!y7.ed i 1946, Mrs. Grace Maier, 24, right, i left hold.s the live-pound, nine- from the waist down as a result  \ of Trenton,  New Jersey,  bore »  |  ounce baby.
Arnall Quits Georgia Fight But Thompson Takes it up
Lt. Governor Aslcs Ouster of Talmadge
Atlanta. Ga,. Jan. 18 (UP)-^Ellis Arnall retired from lhe fight for thei governorsnip of Georgia today bul M, E, Thompson, duly elected and! qualified lieutenant-governor, immediately took his place.
Soon afler he had taken the oath of office and Arnall had filed his resignation with  the State Senate, Thompson announced  tliat  he  con-| sidered   himself  governor  by  virtue  of  constitutional   succession   and I would   instruct   the   altoi^ev   general   to   ou,sl   the   "usurper,"   Herman Talmadge, by court procedure,         ;
Talmadge, who occupied the gov- j ernor's   office   in   the   capitol   ana! "constitutional     government     will the   executive   mansion   and   also soon   be   enthroned   in   this   state |
Hold Sleep Talker for    \^[ Murder of'Black Dahlia
I»s Angeles, Jan, 18 (UP)—A manhunt for the torture slayer of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, the "Black Dahlia," tightened tonight with the arrest of one suspect at Mened, Cal.
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was exercising the gubernatorial prero,gatives, refused comment. He claims to be governor of Georgia by virtue of legislative mandate based upon 6T5 writt-in votes iast for him in last November's general election.
Thompson announced that he v.'ould formally ask Talmadge lo vacate the governor's office and executive mansion. When Talmadge refu.ses this demand, he will appeal to the court,s. He couldn't do olherwi.sc,  hc admitted — "I have
and that Georgia and the people of Georgia will not give way to malice and hatred," Tho state was ruled by "anarchy" and Talmadge had staged a military "coup; d'etat," he said,
Thomp,'<on,  accepting the  role of! challenger,  said  he  will  walk   into' the governor's ofTice at the capilol Monday   morning,   meet   Talmadge face  to  face  and   demand   that  he | relinquish   control   of   the   state   to him, I
"I   have   been   sworn   in   as   act-;
no strong military force al my dis-! ing    governor,'    he    said,    "I will
IKisal,"     Talmadge   commands   the | call   on   every   department   of the ^
Stale   Police,  the  State  Guard  and   state    government    to    follow my
tho  N'.itinnul' tiiiiril '¦ instructions    iii.sofar   as    they arc
Constant Rain Flooding Soutli
Rain drenched Alabama and parls of Kentucky and Tennessee today as swollen river.s raged over their banks, flooding thou¬ sands of acres of lowlands and threatened to cause heavy dam¬ age.
The Tennessee River was re¬ ported beyond its banks almost the entire distance from Paducah. Ky., to Chattanooga, Tenn,, and the US, Weather Bureau iu Knoxville issued a flood warn¬ ing.
Weather experlH in Birming¬ ham. Ala., said Ihere would bp no letup before Monday if then, Thev reported twice-normal ra'in- fall has .saturated Alabama on I.'i of the 18 days this year for a total of .'5,41  inches,
Mcaiiwhilc. in Knoxville the Weather Bureau forecast light rains for the Tennessee Valley tomorrow. In Knoxville, rain has fallen 13 days since Jan. 1 with 5,8!> inches of rain  recorded.
LEFTISTS UNITE
Grand Mufti Says All Arabs Will Reject Any Partition of Palestine
Cairo, Egypt, Jan, 18 (UP)—Haj Amin El Musaeini, the GranU .Mufti of Jerusalem, said today that Palestine Arabs "and all Arab peoples and governments refuse to accept the partition of Palestine in any shape or form,"
Haj was interviewed on the eve of the departure of the Arab dele¬ gates for the resumption of the Palestine conference in London. All  Arabs I nlled
"The attitude of the Palestinp Arabs, as the attitude of all Arab delegations,   is   against   the   parti¬
tion," he said.
There has been.hope that a par- itition  plan, setting up Jewish  and jArab states, mighl  prove the solu- Ition of the  Palestine problem. The British  have  Ict   it  be  known   that they   will   seriously   consider   such a plan, if the Jews or Arab.^ pro¬ pose it.
j Haj, who was offered refuge In I Egypt after he slipped oul of 1 Paris last summer, was interview- I ed  at  his  residence in  Hclmieh,  a
Haj wore a blue-black gown and a white, conical turban.
He ,said the "Arab governmenfa will support the Palestine Arabs with all their force and by all means in their struggle against partition." Can  End Terrorism
Hc was asked whether he thought it possible for the British government in Palestine or tha Jewish agency to eliminate th« killings,   kidnappings    and     bomb-
suburb about   1,'5  miles  from  Cairo.lings of  the .lewish  underground
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to question Edward Glenn Thorpe, ,38, L.araniic, Wyo., cook, who sleepily mumbled, "1 forgot to cut the scar off her leg" as he rode a north¬ bound Grc.\hoiin(;  bus.   A tuttd'i actually had  been .sliced off her leg. An intensive search, however, was pressed here and al San Uicgo for  a  liandsome.  cx-marinc  knowni
onl.v as "Red." belived to be one of the last men leen with the man- crazy movie extra whose butchered body was found Wednesday in a lonely lover's lane. May  Re RIoodttains
Police asked llml Thorpe be held at .Merced a(tcr what appeared to be bloodstains were found on his sport jacket. They believed he might have been the same man, named Thorpe, who visited the mor¬ gue and viewed the torn and ripped remains of the girl before she was identified as Miss tihort, an ex- pholographcr'.s model who used to pose in lh nude.
His description tallied in sortie re¬ spects wilh the auburn-haired ex- Marine sought .IS tile last man ,«.eeii witii her, Bul homicide in¬ spectors were  skeptical.
The service discharge papers found in Thorpe's pocket were from the Army. In his wallet Merced police had discovered a San Fran¬ cisco cooks union card, dated Jan. 6,
It was on Jan, 8 at San Diego, flOO miles south of San Francisco, that the risn known as "Red" was seen carrying .Mi.ss Short's luggage o^it to s light-colored Studebaker, apparently for a trip. Both were laugliliig and joking. Seen  with  e»-'\l«rlne
The .'^aii Diego man's complete description was given police by Mrs.  Vera French  and her daugii¬
ter, Dorothy, of Pacific Beach. Oil,, who witnessed Miss Short's de¬ parture a week before the body was found.
II was the last time, so far as police could determine, that she wss seen alive. And "Red" was the last man known to have been with the "Black Dahlia" — so ci.l!ed because of her raven-black hair and her passion for sheer black dresses and stockings,
I^rfiS Angeles detectives pointed out that the man named Thorpe— who might not he the same Thorpe held in Meree<l had established a reasonable motive for his visit to the morgue. His wife had been j missing from Riverside, Cal,, he^ told police, .>lay Have Married
The girl whose beaut.v was so horribW -.nangled by a sex-maniac left behinri a tragic wartime ro¬ mance, ended by a death notifica¬ tion telegram pasted in her album, police  disclosed, .      j
.Slie had loved and perhaps been married   lo   Maj.   Matt   Gordon   jr.I of   Pueblo.   Colo,,   and   police   were i working to determine whether she ever   bore   his   child   as   she   once! claimed, j
Maj, Gordon, an Army flier, was ! killed in a crash during Army maneuvers on Aug, 10, 1945. He was the man described by the slain girl's mother, Mrs, Phoebe Short, as "the only man that I know she loved,"
Both Sides Issue Fresh Charges of Terror and Plots
Warsaw, Poland. Jan. 18. (TP) — Troop-lilled trucks, whooping for Ihe CoiniiiiinlNt - dominated government hinc, and oivilians waving red and uhit<> national flags tilled Warsaw's streetn to¬ night on the eve of parliamen¬ tary elections.
>Io(.t government and munici¬ pal etiiplo.vees reeeived notices today to asM-inlile at Hpprlfie<l |H)lnts thniiiKhoiit the elty to¬ morrow to march to the (tolls. Troops, state militia and secret police armed with tonini.vguns uill patrol the cities and villagex Sunday, during the voting of 12,(MM),000.
Ciirveriiiiieiit censor* today blanked out SO per rent of the issue of Vice Premier Stanislavv Mikolajc7>1{ s (iazeta Ludowa, organ of the opposition.
Thomp.son had been expected in some political quarters to yield to the Talmadge regime. But he took up the battle eagerly the moment it was handed to him by Arnall.
He said he intends to serve as "acting governor" until the people themselves elect their governor at the polls.
"We must end the confusion and chaos." he said. "T shall proceed as rapidly and effectively as pos¬ sible lo do just that."
In resigning, Arnall asked the people in a radio address to go to   church   Sunday   and   pray   that
supposed to, recognizing the fact that I am the acting governor of Georgia,"
Thompson snid he was in no position at present to say what will occur if Talmadge refuses to relinquish the office with the same force with which he took it over, that is state troopers and the National  Guard,
I Attorne.v General Cook announced i that he would recognize Thomp- !son as actiiis governor until and 1 unless the State Supreme Court rules that Talmadge is the right- ' ful   governor.
TO GIVE FRANCE
Approach to Little America Looks Like an Invasion Beach
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Aboard the U.SS Mount Olympus off Uittle America. Jan. ]8. lUP) —The ice-packed Bay of Whales, teeming wilh American mechanical •quipment, resembled a wartime invasion beach today as "Oper¬ ation Highjump'' pushed inland to set up a temporary Antarctic land¬ ing  base.
The attack-cargo .ship Yancey er tered the bay earlier today in the wake of the icebreaker North- wind and made fasl to the thick bay ice attached to the huge con¬ tinental icecap, Biilldozers Working
By mid-morning, the "Vancey's 80-ton crane had lowered four bull¬ dozers, two jeeps, four large trucks, one "weasel" and two large sleds onto tlie ice. 1^ An advance party already had Pclimbed the ice birrier and begun flag marking for the temporary camp silo and an airstrip for ski- piane.s. The camp will be known as "Highjumi) Base."
Bulldozers were hard at work im¬ mediately after landing, cutting a pathway through the high .ires- sure ridge of the bay ice about a rquarter of a mile from the unload¬ ing point, and timbers were readied to build a wooden bridge across a .yard-wide (rack in the ice aboul .700 yards further in Crash Survivors to Leave
Meanwhile, Adm Richard H, Cruzen, operations commander, an¬ nounced that five of the six sur¬ vivors of the Antarctic plane crash last Dec. 30 would leave shortly for the United Stales aboard the destroyer "Brownson,"
Capt, Henry H. Caldwell, of Nor¬ folk, Va., sixth survivor of the crash -will remain with the ex¬ pedition   as   skipper   of   the   sea-
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plane  tender,  "Pine Island."
II was nol immediately known when the "Brownson" would leave Little  America.
The first man ashore from the "Yance.v" was Photographers Mate Leonard Rizzola of 'yonker.s, N, Y., who also was first passenger lo fly over Little America area in a helicopter. Equipment  Pours  Ashore
Men from the Yancey wenl down a short Jacobs ladder and began digging holes for more timbers, Tlie unloading of equipment was directed by loudspeaker from tlie ship,
Seabees unloaded "weasels," equipped witn snowplows, and started building a road marked by the trail party across the bay >icc.
The tcmporar.v camp, composed of tents, will be strung along the west side of the airstrip and fuel and supply dumps will be on the north side of the camp.
Tile expedition has 7,') pyramidal tents capable of housing six men each, two IB by ."iO-foot tents which will be lused as mess halls' and storage rooms and six 17 by I'O- fool walltents which will be used for   repair   sliops.
The pyramidal tents will have wooden floors and will be heated by potbellied stoves burning diesel oil.
The "Yancey" moved up to her mooring after a 20-knot wind cleared the bay of some 30,000,000 tons of ice which the "Northwind" started cracking three days ago. Carrier on Way
The i<'e breaking job out of the way. the "Northwind" is now scheduled to stand by until Jan. 20 and then rendczvouse with the carrier "Pnilippine Sea" which is bringing ilie six twin-engined Doug¬ las transport planes for explora¬ tory  flights  from  the airstrips.
A Japanese whaling expedition west of the Balleny Islands is help¬ ing the task force aerological de¬ partment plot daily weather charts. The Japanese are sending reports four times daily which are de¬ scribed aa "well and carefully done."
"Warsaw, Poland, Jan, 18, (UP) — Poland will elect a 444-membcr Sejm (one house parliament) to¬ morrow, under American and British suspicion that opposition candidates have nol received an even break from the Communist- dominated  government  bloc.
It seems a foregone conclusion that the government bloc, com¬ posed of the Polish Workers party (Communist), the Polish Socialist party, the Democratic part.v and the Peasant party, will win all or nearly all of the seats. Charge Terrorism
Vice-Premier Stanislaw Mikolaj- czyk's Polish Peasant party (not to be confused wilh the bloc's Peasant parly) is the opposition. He has charged that his candi¬ dates have been terrorized and stricken from ballots and that the government parties have recruited support by threats of death, evic¬ tions and  firings from jobs.
His charges and reports from tlieir own representatives have deeply concerned the governments of the United States and Britain. Free and unfettered Polish elec¬ tions were guaranteed in both the "i'alta and I'otsdam agreements and the American and British govern¬ ments are afraid that these pledges havp not  been carried out.
Today, the government's security police claimed it had captured "battle orders" for a pre-election uprising in Central Poland. These orders, the police said, came from the WIN "terrorist" organization, which the government has been trying to tie to Mikolajczyk's peasant partv. Fear "CMvll War'
According to the police, the WIN organization ordered "liqui¬ dation of the most dangerous mem¬ bers of electoral commissions, the destruction of voters' lists and attacks on polling places on elec¬ tion day.".
In the same vein, the police said that an underground .newspaper i;i the   Krakow   district   had   printed (Continued  on  Page  A-14)
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FACES DEFEAT; El
General Flying From Honolulu For Ceremony
Wa,shington, Jan. 18. (UP>-Gen. George C, Marshall will be sworn in Monday as Secretary of State to administer the peaceiime foreign affairs of the nation whose mili- tar.v efforts he directed to viclory through four years of global war.
He will receive the oath of of¬ fice from Chief Justice Fred M, Vinson at 11 a. m. in President Truman's office. He will hold his first conference with the chief executive on State Departmeni matters immediately after the ceremony.    .
Retiring Secretary of Stale James F. Byrnes, other members of the Cabinet and a handful of high government officials will be present when Marshall takes the oath. In l'niform Since 1916
The new Secretary of State en¬ tered Virginia Military Academy in 1897. when he was 16. and has Ixen in uniform ever since. He is retiring as a five-star Army gen¬ eral and will be a civilian when he takes the oath. He retained his Army status while serving in China as a special ambassador.
Byrnes, forced by ill health to give up the Slate Department past, will remain a few days lo assist Marshall and then return to his Spartanburg,  S,  C, home.
One of Byrnes' last acts as Sec- (Continued on  Page A-14)
Premier Tsaldaris Loses Liberal Party; Asks Him to Quit
DIRECTS OWN RESCUE THEN DIES IN MINE
FOOD BEGINS MOVING TO LONDON MARKETS
London, Jan, 18, (UP)—"Opera¬ tions Eatables" ended today as thousands of transport workers and dockers returned to work afler an li-day strike which gave the government the worst labor head¬ ache of its 18-month career.
An eslimated 24,000 dockers, stevedores and bargemen who walked out in sympaihy with the striking 14,000 transport workers when troops were called in to move food supplies returned to piers fringing the commerce - choked Thames and resumed unloading of more than 100 ves.sela, many of them filled with food.
As the strikers reported back to their jobs, the troops, whose use as "blacklegs" precipitated walk¬ outs by some 54,000 workers, were withdrawn from London markets and returned to their "operations eatables"' headquarters at Clap- ham Common to be dispersed.
Fairmont, W. Va,, Jan. 18. (UP) — A Bl-year-old lire hoss in a mine near here, trapped between a mine engine and a coal loading (ar, directed reiicue workers loday for two hours and 15 minutes on how to release him, then died just as the.v  freed  his  body.
Officials of the Carolina Mine of Industrial Collieries Corpora¬ tion said the boss, Samuel G, Mc¬ Cormick, remained conscious throughout the ordeal while work¬ ers used blow torclie,s to cut the car away from his body. When the pressure was released, how¬ ever, he died.
PIPE BLOOD IN VEINS OF MAN SHOT IN HEART
Meridian. Miss,, Jan. 18. (UP) — Meridian physicians today piped blood leaking into a man's lungs from his bullet-pierced heart back into his veins in a scries of "trans¬ fusions."
Deputy Sheriff Russell Danner said Fred Gully, a Negro, was shot by W. T. Boyd, a local white man, afler an argument which started after Gully's truck had damaged Boyd's front porch. Medical au¬ thorities said the bullet entered Gully's heart, causing blood to leak into his lungs.
By  ROBERT VERMILLION'
Athcn.s. Greece. Jan, 18 lUPl — Gen, Stylianos Gonatas resigned as deputy premier today and took his Nalional Liberal Party out of the government, virtually insuring the fall of Premier Constantin Tsal¬ daris when he seeks a vole of con¬ fidence in parliament Monday.
The National Liberal Party had furnished Tsaldaris with his strongest support.
Gonatas and Apostol.v Alcxan- dris, a minister withoul portfolio, resigned al the same time, .\lex- andris, whose Reformist Parly has five seats in parliament, and Gonatas told Tsaldaris that jnity was impossible in Greece as long as ! he is premier. Both called on nim to resign to "facilitale this unity. Want All Represented
Bolh  men  ayain  urged  Tsaldaris i to  ask   King  George   11   to  call   in lall    part.v   leaders   in   conjunction with a meeting of the crown < oun¬ cil   of   ministers   and   to   select   a : new  government   that   will   include lall   parties  in  parliament, '    Tsaldaris   said   hc   would   make I temporary appointments to  fill  the ; two vacancies,  and  repeated  what lie said yesterda.v -   that he is de¬ termined  to  face parliament Moh- day for a "win or lo.se" vole.
Unless   there   is   some   party   re¬ alignment   Dcforc  Monday,  he can¬ not count on more tiian 153 of the 354  voles  in   parliament, I    If  he   fails   to  obtain   a  vote  of confidence,    the    constitution    pro- ' vides that the king must offer the ' premiership  to   the  next  strongest j party   in   parliament.    That   is   the ; Liberal party, led by aged Themis- i toclcs   Sofoulis,   with   47   seats.
Valley Scene
Man brushing out flouing heard with thr aid of hi.f re- flrrtioii in Public Square ehow window.
Public Square clerk trttiug tn >.'plain lo customer wh<i candii bar !,< nix centu when wraiiper is plainlji marked fire cents.
Showinti niiriiig cannot be fur nwm.i: Buckneil Ktudents hand in hand on River Common walk.
Sfirini)      weather attracliini
ihree    >ionng    girls to   .Market
Street    Briilge    to photograiih each other.
Huge, 10-wheel, CM trailer truck on South Washington street yesterdaii wifh its com¬ plete load consii'ling of one (1) tmall-size tricycle.
Await Decision of Popular Republicans Before Naming Cabinet
Paris Jan. 18 UJPi Premier- Designate Paul Ramadier an¬ nounced tonight after 24 hours of negotiations with political leaders, that Socialists, Communists and the Lefl Republican Union had agreed to join a coalition govern¬ ment.
The Popular Republican Move¬ ment, one of the three largest parties in France, was scheduled lo meet tomorrow and it was expected its decision on whether to join Ramadier's government will be made known then.
In view of the MRP's indecision, Ramadier said he would be unable to form a government until tomor¬ row at the earliest. He had hoped to announce a cabinet tonight. Took Blum's Plare
Ramadier, practically unknown in Frencli national politics, was called upon yesterday b.v newl.v elected President Vincent Auriol to form a new government after Blum refused to do so ugain be-j cause of failing health, |
With the possibility of forming! an all-Socialist government almost definitely ruled-out, Ramadier ap¬ parently was attempting to get to¬ gether a framework of Commun¬ ists, Socialists, Left Republican unionists, the Popular Republican Movement and perhaps one or two small  independent  parties.
It was believed Ramadier would try    to   work    out   some    formula which would give two portfolios to (Continued on Page A-14)
ne was giiiirdcd hy F.>;yptiHn| "Ves," Haj said "1 believe it is policemen. Arabs m all sorts ofi very po,',sible for them to eliminate costumes,   from   the   clothes     they terrorism"
wear on the desert, to sharply cut! He conferred at length with tha suits from New York and Ixmdnn, Arab delegation before it left for were  lounging  about the house,       'the  London  conference.
Army's New Flying Jeep Has Hop, Skip and Jump Takeoff
Washington, Jan. 18 (UP)—The Army Air Forces announced tonight jthat they have a new "flying jeep I plane that can take off in 600 feet I and hop over a 50-fool obstacle in the process.
The new fence-jumper plane is I made by Boeing. It has a 125-horse- power engine and seats two per¬ sons. The fuselage is a gonlola which houses a power plant, a pilot and an observer, A long boom extends back  from
the top of the gondola to twin rudder controls.
The AAF said the plane would cruise at 100 miles per hour for 2'-j hours. Belly fuel tanks would almost double that range Tha whole plane can be quickly taken apart and loaded on an army truck.
The flying jeep car be towed be¬ hind a larger plane and released in flight. I.andings and takeoffs on a cable permit operation with¬ in otherwise  inaccessible areas.
The plane is 2fi feet long and ha* a wing span of ¦Jfl feet. It is 8 feet 8'i!  inches high.
BRITISH. BURMESE AGREE ON FREEDOM
London, Jan, 18 (UPl The Brit¬ ish governmeni and a Burmese delegation have reached accord on a plan to grant independence to Burma and only details remain to be settled, it was reported today.
The talks interrupted for a week¬ end of soiial activities, will be re¬ sumed .Monday and will concern details of how to give independence lo Burma within one year.
No actual date for Burmese in- depenilence has been set, but it was reported that the British gov¬ ernment in effect has mel all Bur¬ mese demands.
Says Industry Tipped off Not to Give Portal Pays
Washington, Jan. 10. (UP)- The i lives argue that fhe portal pay suit! Congress of Industrial Organiza-1 jeojiardize the nation's economic tions charged today that some con-j foundations. Questioned about that gressmen have been tipping off I contention. Pressman said he did industrialists not to settle portal-1 not feel qualified lo answer, to-porlal pay claims because Con- j One bill before the subcommittee, gress soon would outlaw them.        | by   Sen.   Homer   E.   Capehart,   R.,
The charge was made before ajind., would outlaw most of the Senate judiciary subcommittee hyl pending suits and would establish CIO General Coun.'^el Lee Press-]„ one-year statutory limitation of man. The committee is considering ; f,iing other suits. Pressman pro- legislation to outlaw portal pav J po.spd instead a three-to-six-year claims now totaling nearly i limitation on all suits for back $.1,000,000,000, wages.
Pressman asserted that such; Pressman said the pending billa legislatioin would be unconstitu-Iwould violate Ihe Fifth Amendment tional. He said the avalanche of pay |to the Constitution, which prohibits suits filed in federal courts by CIOi taking a person's property without unions touched off by fear that due process of law. Congress would bar such claims. ij^,.^ „.^ "Actuallv" Work Charges Refusals !    R^^^,^,,^   y   Leonard   of   Detroit.
He said some large corrmrations  vice  president  of   the  CIO  United refused   to   bargain   on   the   is.sue Automobile    Workers,    said    in    a in   the   expectatimi   that   Congress! statement  filed  with   the  subcom- would act to make  bargaining un-imillee: necessary. He refused to name the! corporations.
A large proportion of the claims ,,u.,>,..«...i, jrcpresent time necessarily consum-
We   dont   deligh     in   filing   law,^^ ,„  preparing  for  work,  such  as -     Prcs.sman  told the -subcom-1 ,h„„g,„^   into  uniforms or  special
eifuipmenl. obtaining tooLs at the company's tool cribs, and setting up machines."
Time so spent," Leonard »aid, "is
suits
mittee, adding that court action is "not the solution of the prob¬ lems of union-industrial relations," Pressman conceded that portal- to-portal pay suits have been "high
ly exaggerated,"' He proiiosed that|«"''l< actually required by the job." Congress amend the Wage-rtour "This jockeying by industry be- Law to permit compromise settle-; twcen Congress and the courts to mcnl of such claims Ihrough col- [ win a decision against the work- , lective  bargaining. jers,"  Leonard asserted,  "only con-
j     Earlier in  the week  the subcom-: vinces  the  workers  that   they can- ' mittee   heard   industry   reprcsenta- not obtain impartial justice,"
FBI Rounds up Highjacking Gang That Worked Smoothly on Shortages
New York, Jan, 18. lUPt Theircleased late this atternoon when. Federal Bureau of Investigation I they posted bail, A seventh wasj announced today that it had ar-1 freed in custody of his attorney, | rested 21 members of a gang ofi The big brains of the outfit was! thieves who hijacked a halt-million 'Salvatore Imperiale, 38, also known; dollars worth of rare items rang-jas Salvatore Wcsto, the FBI said,: ing from Bibles to white shirts! Agents described Imperiale as within   the   past  year I strictly an executive,  who planned!
Known    as    the     "Westo   Gang," iand directed the robberies, !
the ring hijacked more than 301 imppriale's chief lieutenants were ^ trucks in the metropolitan area nRmed as Romeo Garfola, 36, of! during its short, lucrative life, the i Brooklvn, known as "The Judge",! ^^^    "'*''':.   ''^I'^    *l""'i   '",^'"^.^'^; i and   Fiank   Gagliardi,   39,   also   ofl
Brooklyn,   referred   to   in   certain i circles as "Frank the Wop
shirts, rugs, shoe polish, chewing gum, musical instrumenl^, cos¬ metics and - - on one occasion - a truck  filled  with  Bibles,
Special Agent Edward Scheldt,'inj cliarge of the FBI office here, said
The   21   members   were   arrested jumt   imperiale's   practice    was    to
in  a  series  of  surprise   raids   last jrive around  the city with one of
night -    20 here and one in Miami, Ihi.s   men   until   he  spotted   a  likelv
where   he   was  enjoying   a   winter [shipment,
vacation   in   tlie   sun, •^-.^        .        .u  j j « .
Different method.'^ were used for
I ^ "«'•"'¦ Heavy  Bail , various   jobs,   Scheldt   said.    Once
I     five  men,  described as the ring-  the   gang   snatched   a   truck   wilh
: leaders, were held in the unusually! $15,000 worth of scarce leather for
high  bail  of  $50,000  each  at  their|shoe   uppers   from   in   front   of   a
arraignment in federal court today, | truck  terminal.  In  that   case,  one
I Bail was set at $5,000 to $20,000 forj man started the motor without an
the others,  and  six of  them  were ignition key by deftly crossing the
wir,'s.     Another   man   sat    al   tha wheel and the truck rolled off. \'ery   Simple
On annther occasion, according to Scheldt. Imperiale fi.\ed his eya on a truckload of womens hand¬ bags. When the truck was locked in a garage for the night, one of the "Westo Gang's" men was hid¬ den behind it. At a suitable time, he opened the garage doors and let in one of the gang's drivers They made off with truck handbags ami all, with little trouble.
Once, the gang got pretty angry. It snatched a truck only to dl«- covcr it was filled wilh absorl)ent cotton, worth a petty $2,300, Tha gang just put a match to the whola thing and truck and cotton went up  in  smoke
Scheldt said the gang drove tha stolen trucks to two "drops'" in Brooklyn—one a produce market owned by Imperiale.) brother. Paul; the other a taxi and auto servica garage operated by one Bonny Todd, After the loot was unloaded, the trucks were driven to a (on¬ venient lonely spot and abandoned.
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