Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

              XEco"0"iy Congress Kills Forty Fort Dike Project
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Approved by Truman and Eisenhower
Ex-Cong. Flood Urges Demand on Sens. Martin, Duff To Restore Plans
The •conomy-bent House «j>pro- prlationi committee at Waehinj- ton yeeterday deleted the Truman md Eisenhower approved $975,000 SwoyervUle-Forty Kort dike proj- •rt and this brought an angry proteet from former Congreseman DfttUel J. Flood, eponsor of the BifMure. He «atd the "exiating J16 million dike eystem here ia Mally defertive as long aa the Swoyerville-Forty Fort link ro¬ ws ina Inconniplete." ^gked whether the project may o« restored when the money meMure Is called up for Houae debate Tuesday. Flood aaid "not a chsnee' and offered the auggee- tlon that county residents waste no time demanding of U. S. Sen¬ ators F,dward Martin and James Duff that "the project be re¬ stored."
The House committee In yester¬ days action proved it was being more economical than President Eisenhower intended because it approved only $398,884,100 for rivers, liarbor« and flood control, which Is $80 million less than Presdlent Eisenhower asked and 1282 million <or 39.fi per cent> less than former President Truman had requested. Would Tom plete Job
The Swoyenille-Forty Fort proj¬ ect Is one link In the overall |5 million West Side flood control project which would finally com¬ plete the harnes.sing of the Sus¬ quehanna River in the entire Wy¬ oming Valley area.
The link thrown out by thei House committee yesterday would j have extended along the river j fi-om the mouth of Abraham's! Creek at Forty Fort to the north-1 ern boundarv of Forty Fort Alr-j port   at   Wyoming  borough   line, j
"Certainly    if    Luzerne    county! haij a member on the appropria- ^^___^___________^______^._
titins committee thia never would j-,    j      ,.,|      .     „.     __i.   t»       ± hsve happened," the former Con- KedS   dIOCK   SllOrt   KOUtC Rres.stnan  said.   He  was  a   senior jtiember of the Houae  appropria¬ tions  committee   at   the   time   he vrns   defeated   for   re-election   by Concrressman    Edward   Bonin   of Hazleton.  who  was  not  available for comment last night. Pushed by Tniman
Flood   said   the   "whole   picture!    OSLO,   Norway—A   giant   Nor- tniut   be   known"   to   renlire   the wegian airliner took off Saturday
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U.S. Has Not Promised To Recognize Red China
MATT CVETIC
Man Who Was Communisi for FBI Will Speak ai Nanticoke Saturday
Matat Cvetic, who In real life played the leadUng role In the exciting book, motion picture and rad>io eerlee, "I Was a Com¬ munist for the FBI," will be principal speaiter at the 25th annual Memorial Day services to be held Saturday morning at 11 by Nanticoke Poat 390 of the American Legion.
Nationally known as America's top undercover agent, Mr. Cvetic will also appear on looal TV and raddo that day.
Hts principal address of the day will be delivered at the McGregor Sportswear grounde, Washington and Walnut streeta, where a platform will be constructed In a few days. Cvetic, a native Pennsylvanlan of Slovak parentage, will dedicate hia talk to the Korean War dead.
Sfafe Deparfmenf Denres Deal for Peace in Korea
WASHINGTON—The State Department on Saturday- said the United States has made no promi.se.s to recognize Red China should an "honorable" peace be secured in Korea.
The unequivocal statement strengthened this fifovern- ment's opposition to diplomatic recognition of the Com¬ munists.
But it dramatized one of the major difficulties President Eisenhower will encounter in forgoing Big Three poTTcies toward Russia and Red China when he meets next month in Bermuda with the British and French leaders.
The British aro expected to carry through their diplomatic recog¬ nition of Communist China with moves to back its admittance to the United Nations if a truce is gained in the Korean War.
Daniel A. Poling, Protestant Church leader and editor of The Christian Herald, said Friday night that "responsible quarters" in L.ondon recently had told him of a U. 8. promise to recognize Red China if a Korean peace were achieved.
"There   is   no   truth   In   It,"   a
Operate on Siamese Twin As Other Lies Beside Her
state Department spokesman said yesterday.
Although officials were reluc¬ tant to discuss policiee toward Red China during the current critical state of Korean truce talks, they made It clear that the United States had no plana to recognize Red China or aupport that government for UN member¬ ship in the wake of an armistice.
President Eisenhower and Sec¬ retary of State John Foster Dulles in publio have skirted definite commitments despite strong pres¬ aure from Congress to speak out against recognition of a UN aeat for the Reds.
Stats Department officials said.
meanwhile that the new Korean truce proposals would be rea.dy for presentation to the Commu¬ nists at the meeting scheduled for Monday, Korean time. Last- minute talks on details were held with representatives of other na¬ tions fighting in Korea.
At the Bermuda meeting, Mr. Eisenhower also will face prob¬ lems In quelling rising "British- French optimism over chances that the Big Three meeting will clear the way for a later confer¬ ence with the Soviet Union on ending the cold war. London re¬ ports said Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was expected to (Continued on Page A-2)
Flying over Top of World From Europe to Tokyo
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Iln    New    York    said    the    plane
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LONnX>N -- Prime Minisier,»'»" Permission to fly the shorter Winston Churchill will press S'^' <^"^'» ~"'« •*="">» «'*'"'"• President Eisenhower at Ber- The plane, the DO«fi Hjalmar muda next month for a broad i Viking, carried 61 persons Inolud- Ipfonnal meeting with Soviet; ing 40 members of tbe Norwegian ft»d«rs to determine the ainoer-jfleld hoapital, a erew of 10 and Ity of the Russian "peace offen-iJohan Nerdrum, managing diroc- slvt," Informed aourcea aaid yes-j tor of the "Region Norway" of terday. the SAS.
Cnurchill left London for fourj it took off at 10:05 a.m. (8:08 dayt at hig Chart well home when a,rn. BDT) for the 6,683 nautical he will plan his "grand «trateg>'" mile trip via Greenland, Alaskai for the big-three Bermuda meet-;and the Aleutians. It is due in ing,  the  sources  said. (Tokyo about 7 p.m. Monday EDT.
Before he loft London he called! The SAS plane was chartered a spetial cahinet meeting for|by the Norwegian defense mini- Wednesday   afternoon,    when   hcijtrj'  to  carry  relief  personnel to
Will lay  his   plans   for  the   talk* before his ministers. Jf    the    meeting    with    Soviet
the Norwegian mobile field hospi¬ tal in Koresi. Stops are sched¬ uled at American Air Force bases
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agreement, Churchill would favor! Scandinavian Airlines explaln- abandonlng further discussions,ied that the shortest route from the sources said. |Europe to Tokyo would lie across
Million Pouring Into London For Holiday, Coronation Sights
IX)NDON  - An     estimated     1,-1 phers and portraits of their queen 000,000 tourists have began  pour-leither  In  their windows  or overj ing  into  I>jnclon   to   observe   the their doors
Salvation Army
BUENOS AIRES—The Na¬ tionalist Liberating AUIance yesterday asked President Juan D. Peron to order the Salva¬ tion Army dissolved in Argen¬ tina and called for its Investi¬ gation by CJongress.
One of the Nationalist groupa supporting P«ron, the Alliance described the Salvation Army as a foreign institution which slyly apreade 4ootrlnea contra¬ ry to national untty.
Meajvwhfle, the e7-year-old Orculo De Armaa (gun club) joined the 75-year-old Jackey Club and two private aviation clubs in the list of wealthy or¬ ganizations planced under gov¬ ernment control.
Under a bill passed by con¬ gress virtually without debate, the government took over horse racing In Argentina, dissolved the Jockey Club and seized Ita racing tractea.
Whltsun holiday week-end and prepare for a week of gay cele¬ bration pticc'diiig the coronation of Queen Elizabeth U.
rhrongs of sightseers from all parta of Britain, the Common¬ wealth,    (he    United    States    and
Siberia, "but aa long as the Rus¬ sians do not permit any foreign commercrial flying over their ter¬ ritory, this route ia out of the question."
*To make a shortcut from Ja¬ pan to Scandinavia without fly¬ ing over Russian territory, the route has to be laid across the Arctic to Alaska and from there via the Aleutians to Japan. This route could have been flown a long time ago by commercial air¬ craft, but the long distances be¬ tween airports In Europe and Alaska restricted the payload con¬ siderably,"  a spokesman  eaid.
"However,   when   Thule   airport
Gay Mood ^jwas  finished   In   1952  new  possl-
The city was 'Ji ;^Jf*y^*_\,';;'5^°; bilities suddenly opened, and the
northwest passage to Japan seem¬ ed worthwhile exploring for com-
1UL01ECKTHC0STU.S. LIVES
Chamber of Commerce Says Labor Secretary Offers 'Shocking' Plans
WASHINGTON—UP—The U. S. Chamber of Commerce reported yesterday that Secretary of Labor Martin P. Durkin has recom¬ mended to the White House changes which the chamber said would "wreck' the Taft-Hartley law.
In a special bulletin to Its members, the chamber published what it said was a complete list of Durkin's proposals for amend¬ ing the controversial act. It aaid theee would come aa "« chock" to management. Closed Shop I>egalitr
As previously reported, one of the recommendations listed by the Chamber calla for legalizing the closed shop and all other forms of union security contracts now ban¬ ned   or   restricted   by   the   Taft-
BOSTON—A large tumor was removed from the abdomen of one Siamese twin on Saturday while her sister lay anesthe¬ tized on the operating table be¬ side her.
Margaret and Mary Gibb eame through the 2H hours of aur¬ gery in "excellent condition" al¬ though hoth suffered the usual post-operative shock.
The fibroid tumor waa re¬ moved from Margaret by famed surgeon Frank H. Lahey, who described his patients as "really remarkable and charming sis¬ ters."
"Mary was very co-operative," he   said,    "She   waa  only  wor¬ ried for Margaret." 41 Ye^irs Old
At 41, the Gibb sisters are be¬ lieved to be the nation's oldest Siamese twins.
Dr. Lahey said there was no evidence of malignancy In the tumor, first detected In 1946 when Margaret  underwent gall
bladder operation. He expected the sistera to recover normally, barring complications. They wiil atay at New England Deaconess Hospital about two weeka.
It took the surgeon an hour to prepare the alsters, who are joined at the base of a common lower apinc. Because they are joined at an angle. Dr. Lahey had to strap Mary with adhe¬ sive tape to an extension on the operating table and then tilt the table to keep Margaret level during surgery. Both Anesthetised
Both sisters had to be anes¬ thetized because they share a common blood system. If only one were administered the pena- thol and ether. It would have amounted to a half-dosage for both.
Although they bave separate nervous systema except where they are Joined, Dr. Lahey said Mary would suffer post-opera¬ tive ahoek aa much aa Margaret
because of their common blood stream. Mary would not have suffered any pain even if sho were not anesthetized, he said.
Dr. Lahey said the sisters, who toured as circus and stage at¬ tractions before retiring several years ago to their mother's home In Holyoke, have two blad¬ ders, two wombs, two colons, and one rectum. They have separate upper spines, which join into a single st)inal column and cord at hip level. Doctors  Welrome Study
The girls two times In the hospital have afforded doctors rare opportunities to learn more about Siamese twins, Dr. Lahey aaid.
"Anything you put In one — auch as morphine or a dye —• very quickly shows in the blood¬ stream of the other."
He said they eat about the same amount even though Mary Is plumper than Margaret and different In appearance.
Do We Gei Only a New Patch?
Senate Group Blames Truman Administration; Kefauver Doubts Finding
WASHINGTON —¦ Continuous shortages of aome ammunition types cost "a needless loss of American lives" on Korean bat¬ tlefields. Senate investigators as¬ serted yesterday.
Four of five members of an armed aervices sub-committee, headed by Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me.t, sided with re¬ tired Gen. Jamea A. Van Fleet, who touched off the Inquiry by charging the ahortagea existed during all the M months he com¬ manded the U. S. gth Army In Korea.
The report signed by the four —Mrs. Smith, Republicans Robert (3. Hendrickson (N.J.) and John Sherman CJooper (Ky.) and Dem¬ ocrat Harry F. Byrd (Va.)—eaid the supply situation was serious as   late   as   last   November   and
Hartley law
The Chamber of Commerce said! December. Durkin    had    given    the    White;Kefauver Doubtful House a set of proposals for spe-!    The  fifth  sub-committee  mem ciflc     amendments     along    with more general comments on other provisions and a list of proposed
days, instead of the SO-day period of grace allowed by the Taft- Hartley law for union ahop con¬ tracts
since the war. Colorful uniforms of commonwealth and colonial troops attracted attention, and the bright summer clothes of vis¬ iting  Americans  offset   the   duU-
"lany other nations almost  stop-lnes.s of London dress,
mercial use."
ped traffic as they filled the etreeta to look at coronation dec¬ orations.
Workmen Hurry
Workmen hurried construction of stands and put up the last ban¬ ners and buntings of gold, seariet, hlue and royal purple along Pic¬ cadilly. Pat' .\fall and other sec¬ tions of the coronation parade route.
Shopkeepers and householders everywhere   tacked   up   royal   cl-
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There were two happy develop¬ ments:
1.—Costume experts have dis¬ covered among Westminster Abbey vestments what is be¬ lieved to be the oldest identifi¬ able coronation robe of a British king. It is the brocade mantle worn by King Jamea II at his coronation in 1685.
2.—The House of Commons an- noiinced that the Prime Minister of Malta will witness the corona¬ tion in Westminster Abbey. Malta's officials felt hurt when they received invitations which they considered unsuitable to Malta's position.
Almost 2.000 tourisU, mostly vromen, waited outside Bucking¬ ham Palace for hours Friday night hoping for a glimpse of the young queen even though police had told them repeatedly - - wouM not leave.      '
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Valley Scene
LittU girl being forced to •fond on ttool at fountain to reach top of htr ie* oream *oda because, <u the taid, he glait %vat to biff.
Pr(»ninent Old River Road resident hanging tereent on front poreh and, just at he reached high with one, having hit pantt fall down.
Hanover township policeman on new ttatt highway at Sans Souei latt Sunday evening VMiving elenehed fist at motor¬ ist whe, on pulling out of line to patt, taw oop and pulled right heuik in lint again.
amendments which he opposed.
Besides legalizing the closed shop, the Chamber said some of Durkin's other recommendations would:
BuUding Practices
1—Allow building Industry em¬ ployers to make pre-hiring union shop contracts requiring new em
State Tax Maneuvering Guessing Contest Now
But GOP Disagreement Has Put Democrats In Powerful Position
ber. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D- HARRISBUR(3—The offer ot Tenn.), filed a minority report, ft?"**' Speaker Cliarles C. Smith He said he agreed with "much '"¦' Phila.) to bring the Demo- o fthe factual Information" buti"^^ '"to conference with the said   the   majority   subscribed   tol9*^P to put over a tax program
some "sweeping generalities" and arrived at dubious conclusions.
Kefauver challenged the state¬ ment that many Americana died "needlessly." He aald It was based "on conflicting testimony by va¬ rious generals."
The majority put the blame on
ployes to join unions within seven ^^^    Truman    administration.    It
mentioned no individual by name in this connection but said "the President, the Satte Department, the Secretary of Defense, the Sec
2.-Scrap the provision requir-l^gta^y „, j^e Army, the National ing non-Communist affidavits igggyyity council and the Joint from   union   officials   seeking   to chiefg of Staff miscalctilated the
use   National   Labor   Relatione Board  machinery. Bargaining  Representation 8. nRepeal the provision barring (Continued on Page Ar2)
aggressive    designs    of    Interna¬ tional Communism." Supply Improving At    a    news    conference,    Mrs. (Continued on Page A-2)
Reefs Start Land Reform And Opium Grab in Laos
HANOI. Indochina—The C:!om- munlsts yeaterday announced a sweeping land reform prograni In invaded Laos deaigncd to win sup¬ port of the peasants for their "Free Laos" government and gain control of valuable opium stocks.
The "Free Laos" government radio announced promulgation of the land reform law In the 18,000 aquare miles of the Invaded king¬ dom they won almost without bloodshed from French defenders.
All land held by "French colo¬ nials, reactionaries and Viet Nam businessmen" will be confiscated, the Ineurgent radio aald. Cattle, fawn equipment, and aeeda alao win be aelied.
•nie   radio   aald   raguriy   that
land, animals and equipment would be redistributed on an "equitable" basis, but did not say when.
"Thus will be given a new drive to production and a new vigor to tbe  resistance,"  the  radio  said.
While no mention was made in the announcement, Indochinese experts said the Reds would gain valuable stocks of opium—worth its weight in gold in Fer Eastern trading.
In   Viet   Nam,   meanwhile,   the
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Truce Talks Resume After Eight Days; War Tempo Rises
TOKYO, Sunday—North Korean Gen. Nam II, chief of the Com¬ munist truce teem, charged that the United Nations wants "direct forcible retenslon" of Korea War prisoners.
Nam's blast was broadcast by radio Peiping as Lt. On. William K. Harrison, senior UN truce del¬ egate, prepared to fly to Korea from Tokyo with a detailed and "final" proposal for settling the Korea prisoner of war i.ssue. Ne¬ gotiations reopen at Par.munjom tomorrow after an eight-day re¬ cess.
The Red general labelled as "absolutely unacceptable" a UN proposal for releasing North Ko¬ rean prisoners in South Korea if they refuse to return to Com¬ munism. Doubts Reluctance
He blamed the United Nationa for the nearly two-year prolonga¬ tion of armistice negotiations and said It Is "unbelievable" that Al¬ lied-held prisoners should not want to return home.
"The United Nations alleges that there are captured personnel of our side who refuse repatria¬ tion," Nam's statement said. "This Is unbelicveable. It Is par¬ ticularly in complete violation of ithe   Geneva   Convention   and   In-
TAFT LEAVES HOSPITAL;
FOUND NOTHING WRONG it'eTnaTiirarprrcti;;:
WASHINGTON—Senate Repub-     He said "an armistice In Korea Taft  *0.) *^'l'   ^^   realized   immediately"   if
lican leader Robert A checked out of Walter Reed Hos pital yesterday afternoon and-his office reported physicians could find nothing wrong.
He entered the hospital Wednes¬ day for examinations because he haa been suffering paina in his hip.
The senator will leave today for his home at Cincinnati. He has speeches scheduled Tuesday at Union College, Barberville, Ky., and Tuesday night at Cincinnati. He expects to return to Washing¬ ton on Wednesday or Thursday.
for the  state has  brought a v* riety of reactions.
Here are some of them:
1. —JWith such a amall margin and the party badly apllt, the Re¬ publicans have no control and just must deal with the Demo¬ crats,
2.—GOP legislative leaders are determined there will be no more marathon sessions and wil! prac¬ tically capitulate to the Demo¬ crata in preference.
8.—The move puts on the spot the handful of Republican rebels who have been blocking all efforts so far . . . They will be given the choice of going along or letting the Democrats run thinga.
•4.—rlt actually is a plan to re¬ vive the salea taut since the Demo-, crats will go along only on whati^i^e  had  been  carried  away  in  a is to their advantage, thus forcing:car.   authorities   said  yearterday. the   reluctant   GOP   membera   to     Beveriy  Kay  Bradley,  24,  told
the United Nations agrees to hand over all unrepatrlated prisoners to a five-nation neutral commis¬ sion as proposed by the Com- munists.
He said the five nations—in¬ cluding Ownmunist Poland and Czechoslovakia—must be allowed to bring armed forces into South Korea and they must "be free from the control of the United Nations commend in taking over custody of the prisoners of war and preventing disruptive activl- (Continued on Page A-2)
Tot Found in Michigan Swamp Was Kidnapped, Left io Die
MEJNOMINEJE, Mich.—A Httle (holding her captive and left her girl found lying unconscious in iin the woods a few hours be- a awamp after having Ijeen miss- fore she waa found." the aheriff Inf for 49 hours told her mother said.
back the tax to avoid a complete political   catastrophe.
One man'a guess la as good as another aince, in kind of leader-
her mother ahe was taken "in a car to a house." Sheriff Edward Reindl said her statement sup¬ ported  the  theory  that  ahe   waa
less session as this one has been, t kidnaped and  then  left to die in no one ever really knowa what Is ithe wooda.
going to happen But   her  story  waa   Incomplete
Actually,    thinga   change   aoibecauae doctors gave her a aeda- rapldly   tiie   whole   group   never tlve. can  catch up  at the  aame time,!    Beverly   vanished   before   noon
which ia one reason why there always are some members of the majority party voting against what thejr own head men are doing.
aiore "Hodge-Podge" The Republican leadership prob-
Wedneeday and was spotted Fri day by a Coast Guard helicopter pilot. She waa lying in a swamp in   the   upper  Michigan   wooda  a her
"And I don't think the someone meant her to be discovered." Reindl said a search party passed the spot where Beverly waa found only three hours before the hell- copter spotted her. One of the searchers said he looked at the exact spot where the chll# later was found. Dry Unsoiled
The sheriff said Beverty'a elothea were dry and her ahoca were unsoiled, although she sup¬ posedly wandered through storm- lashed marshlands after her dis¬ appearance.
The   wooda   are   Infested   wfth
mile     from     her    grandmother's vlcloua    swarms    of    mosqultoea, house. Riendl    said,    but   Beverly   "had
She was flown  here fro^m Car-[hardly a bite on her."  Moreover,
ably will  be  able to lay about a bondale, Mich., and was reported ihe said,  she waa  unscratched  by
dozen proposed new or increased|.•resting   quietly"   in   St.   Joseph's!brambles.
taxes     before     their     Dr>iocraticiHospital. She was clad in red underpants
Communists  stepped   up  pressure counterparts when the Jo      effortIxot Wandered Away and T-shirt when found. Her blua
on tfae Bo-called Indochinese Mag-i begins.    Although no fina. action     Reindl said it was "Impossible" jeans were lying five feet away.
Inot Line guarding the approaches was   taken.   House   leaders   dis-1 [hat the child wandered into the     "
to the rich rice bowl of the Red cussed     one     proposed     "hodge-1 dense woods herself.
IRver delta and Hanoi Itaelf. |       (Continued on Page A-2) "It looks as if someone had b-^en
Reindl said the little girl was found lying behind a stump which "concealed her alroo&': completely."