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Kingston Boy Reported among Prisoner Dead by Reds :i A Paper For f-The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT Sunny, Warm Highest Today 75 to SO Monday: Sunny, Mild 47TH YEAR — NO. 42 — 58 PAGES pA«AH •( CinalaMMS WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAr, AUGUST 16, 1953 truiTun PRES!« PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Two Models of Proposed Wilkes Hall A U. 5. Agrees to Include Russia in Far East Talks structure with four winga and assembly hall would cost college about $lJSOOfiOO. i British Insisting Parley Is Useless Without Soviets UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., (LP)—The United States ha.s a^eed tentatively to a United Nations proposal to in¬ clude Russia in the Par East political conference, in¬ formed sources said yesterday. Th« U. S., it was learned, will oppose a similar bid to India. The disclosure came after the 16 nations whose troops fought for the UN in Korea met for three hours at the American delega¬ tion headquarters Saturday to iron out British nnd American dif¬ ferences over Invitations to those two countries lo attend the forth¬ coming conference. The political meeting on the Far East was set up by the Korean armistie agreement. Lodge Sees Agreement Model of building icith only one wing and lawn apace would cost about $1,000,000. Big Assembly Hall-^Ari Museum on Building Program To Fill School's Needs While also Serving Communiiy American Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge jr., fianked by British Min- i.ster of State Selwyn Lloyd and French Deputy Minister Maurice Schumann told newsmen after yester.days meeting: "We ara rapidly approaching an area of very complete agree¬ ment on a great number of im¬ portant subjects." The conferees will meet agsUn thia afternoon. Lodge confirmed that the 16- natlon group was working on mors tlian one resolution dealing with the composition with the Far Bastern "Korean Peace" parley that is to ba held by Oct 27. According to Informants, one would be sponsored by all or most of the 16 Allies and name the six to 10 nations among them I who should represent the UN' i I III I .The construction of a huge as ^mbly hall and ant museum that ^will cost upwards to $1,.')00,000 was announced yesterday by Dr. Eu¬ gene 8, F^ley, president of Wilkea College, as being on the future building program f6r the community Institution, Announcing the plan« for the "Wilkee College ait Tomorrow," r>r. Farley said, "It always has heen the policy at Wilkes Col¬ lege to project our planning into the future. The gymnasium waa constructed in 1850, but was plan ned four years earlier." As is the case with all WUkes facilitie«, the new b u 11 d i n g— when It becomes a reallty-^wlU be open to community use, accord¬ ing to the college president. Art Museum Included The exact location of the new structure was not disclosed by Dr. Farley, but It to expected to be cloee to tha present college prop¬ erties. Under consideration are two plans—one coating a million dol lam and the other a million and a half. His announcement stated, "At the present time the college feeli the need of a large assembly hall whloh will not only serve the col- lego but alao benefit the commu¬ nity. In conneotion with the as¬ sembly hfiJl it Is believed that it may be well to Insnitute an art museum and to provide facilities for other community agencies (Continued on Page A-2) 114 MILLION m^''^^ o" ««5 R-v-se Quake-Torn Greek Towns 1 T OF PA. SALES TAX Wording of Law Producing Many Glaring Inequities HARRISBURO (m—lt may cost as much a« (14,000,000 to adminis¬ ter the stsute's new one per cent sales tax—4>etter than 11 per oent of the $129,000,000 the state ex¬ pects to collect front It ever a 21- month period. The 19M Legislature earmarked 110.000,000 for salariee and ex¬ penses of the small army of new state employee* which will be needed to keep ths tax machinery In running order. The Revenue Department now Is marshaling the force It will need. Ij» addition, the retailers who collect the tax are authorized to retain three per cent of the cqllec- tlone to offset the bookkeeping costs they Incur. This could amount to almost $4,000,000. Regardless of how closely the department detaila the items which come under the tax, retail¬ ers are expected to run Into a ho«t of piroWems in so-called "bor¬ derline" caaes. For Instance, Justice Depart- (Contlnued on Page A-2) ATHEINS, Greece (IP)—Fires fed by stockpiles of olive oil raged through the devaated cities of Greece's western Islands as Am¬ erican and British navy teams rounded up the dead and helped survivors of the worst earthquake in modern Greek history. BuUdoBers landed from war¬ ships crunctied through tha rub¬ ble, clearing debris and opening fire lanes. One huge each* of olive oil was moved out of danger of new fires which were eating their way back over stretches of ruins already blackened by aeLrller flames in the dty of Zante. Week ef Qinkea "Kie rescue work went on In devastated towns on the islandti of Cephalonia, Ithaca and Zante, where the week-long quakes have left an estimated 1,000 dead, 4,000 injured, and 100.000 homeless and destitute. United Press staff correepon- dent Robert Masel flew from London to Zante aboard a naval plane. He reported that the an¬ cient capital of that island U a "dead city." "Great fissures are gougegd in its pavements. Raw earth scars the surrounding hills where ra¬ vines have been torn into the landscape and whole sections of hill siloed away." Admiral Report* Adm, J. H, Caasady, command¬ er of the U. e. Sixth Fleet, re¬ ported from the cruiser Salem ly¬ ing off the port of Argostolion that the situation there was "still serious." But he said British and Amer¬ ican shore parties were making headway against blocked roads, fires and the threat of wholesale (Continued on Page A-2) 2U.S. T SOVIET BORDER Eddie Dowling Plans Reproduciion Of Holy Land of 2,000 Years Ago NE!W YORK (IPk -A permanent reproduction of a portion of the Holy Land of 2,000 years ago in which tlie drama of Jesus Christ would be enacted year after year is the latest plan of £kldie Dow¬ ling, noted actor and producer. The project, to be called Holy Land, U.S.A., prol>abiy will be estaiblished on a mile-square site near Jack»onville, Fla., where temperature and terrain are sim¬ ilar to the original, Dowling said. For AU Sects Dowling, revealing the plan in the current issue of the Catholic Digest, said the $2,000,000 project fn Today's Classified , Issue Kditori.il IVature Page !*'()vies Obiiuarv Kiidio Snriul ft Television . . B—11 B—8 B—9 f>—« A—2 C—7 O—I .. . B—I O—8 will ba non-sectarian and porters already include persons of many religions. The producer aaid he anticipated no trouble in rais¬ ing the money once the stoek sub¬ scription ll opened to the public. The physical struoture will be a reproduction of a sort of eom- poalte Bethlehem, Jerusalwn and Nazareth, with the ancient type of homea and roads and shops. Peo¬ ple wearing ths dress of the pt- riod will go about the traditional activities while Holy Land, U.S.A. is open to visitors, who will pay a nominal entrance fee. Reacting Nativity Included wil! be an amphithea¬ ter .leating 5,000. Here the drama of the Nativity and the Passion will be enacted by professional players for 120 performances from the Christmas season to Easter. Admission to the performances would be scaled at movie prices, Dowling said. The producer has selected two (Continued on Pags A-l*) HEIDEaJEiSRG, Germany «P>— Two American officers landed their light plane by error in the Soviet zone yesterday and are presumed to be held by the Rus¬ sians, it was announced here yea terday. U. S. Army headquarters dlS' closed that tha two officers, both captains, were assigned to the Finst U. S. Infantry Division They were flying an L-19 liaison plane from Aschaffenburg to Bamber, overshot the sonal boun¬ dary and landed In the Soviet area about six miles northwest of the border town of Hof. Offlclals of the Flr»t Division which is on maneuvers in the area, said the plane was on "a routine flight within the division's area of responsibility." Th* officers have not returned and it was assumed they ara be¬ ing held by the Russians. A •UP^ i spokesman said he "assumed" the ' Russians had been asked for their release. Reds Call New Strikes In France Fight Bacl<-to-Work Move by l\lon-Reds Wlio Started Stril<e But Lost Control countries that waged the Korean campaign against Red aggres¬ sion. The other two would be indi¬ vidual resolutions naming Russia and India to attend. Ending IJ. S. Opposition Reliable sources said the com- monwealth-Eropean supporters of a UN bid to Russia had forged a resolution they believed the U. S. would vote for—thus apparently disposing of the chief issue about standing between the U. S. ind its major allle.s. But they ad.ded that the U. S atm opposed India and that the new Delhi government might withdraw if it saw it could not win support from the U. S. nnd Russia. The U. S. was believed to command the votes needed to kill any bid to India. The U. S. .always has favored (Continued on Page A-2) T F FOR E. GERMANS |T0 TAKE CONTROL OF U. S. ILITARy Bradley Gives Oath To Adm. Radford, Chairman of Staffs WILL CONTINUE U. S. Replenishing Stocks of Packages; Reds Purge Unions BERUN (IB—The first phase of ths American-backed food pro¬ gram for EJast Germans ended yesterday after 2,600,000 eastern residents had picked up Eisen¬ hower food packages. About 100,000 picked up packag¬ es yesterday. The program Is scheduled to re¬ sume Aug. 27, although British and American diplomats were re¬ ported seriously divided on the Bradley Active 42 Vears WASHINGTON (IP) — A new team of admirals and general."! moved Into the nation's military high command yesterday with in¬ structions to take a "new look" at the entire defense setup. To the pinnacle of the military structure as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff went Adm. Arthur; ed W. Radford, !57, first Navy man ever to hold the job. PARIS aP)~The Communists called new strikes yesterday in an t'ffort to block a back-to-work movenent by other unions and eventUEiHy force Premier Joseph Lanlcl lo resig.-,. The Cf.inmunists ordered its pflwcrful metallurgical union to go on .-ilt-down strikes Monday when the metallurgical induatr>, largest in France, returns to work after the annual August holiday, Non - Communists union chief meanwhile made their first move to seek a compromise with the government since they began a wave of strikes 11 days ago that paralyzed most of the nation. Fear Communist Tlireat Socialist and other non-Com munist unions who actually began the strike movement conferred privately and unofficially with government representatives t o head off the Communist threat. Maurice Ferrl, minister of posts, telegrams and telephones, the firat industry hit by strikes, reported the back-to-work move¬ ment was growing hourly, and said it proba'aly would end Mon¬ day in two departments. Bmile.? H u g u e s, information minister, reported that limited P90tal savings service would be available Monday and that tiie Paris subway system operated at 30 per cent of normal holiday service yesterday. Hugues said the cabinet "ardently desi^rs a batter distri¬ bution of the tax burden." one of the main sources of worker dis¬ content. He said it would soon begin a high-level study of how best to reform the tax structure of France, where last year fewer than 1,000 persons paid an income tax on earnings above $10,000, FWe-Saving Rejected However thp government show- no .ligns of agreeing to face Sgt. M. J. Kasarda Never Knew He Won Hero's Silver Star "He died without ever knowing that ho won the Silver Star fof bravery undt-r fire," Mrs. Mary Kasarda of 382 Winola avenue, Kings* ton, said last night of her son. Army Sgt. Milton J. Kasarda, 26, wh« was listed yesterday by the (^nununists as having died whil* in • Korean prison camp. In uniform since March, IMS, when he was drafted for World War II duty, Sg^t. Kasarda went to Korea in July 1950 and was re¬ ported missing in action four months later. The Defense Department Sat¬ urday made public the names of 210 more Americans—all Arm.v men—reported b.v the Communists to have died while in Korean prison Camps. Mrs. Kasarda said sh* last heard from her son early in No¬ vember 19S0—he was reported missing on Nov. 26, 19iS0. He was cited in September 19©2 for the Silver Star for bravery under fire and th* medal and citation were sent to his mother. Third Time In Facifie When he was sent t« Korea, ft was his third tour of duty in the Pacific. Mrs. Kasarda said her aon waa sent to Korea from New Mexico, where he had been serving with an Army medical unit at a hos¬ pital. When he was honorably dis¬ charged after Worid War n duty in the Pacific, he returned home for a short visit and then re-en- iisted in the Regular Army. His father, the late John Ka¬ sarda died in 1942. Besides his mother, he is sur¬ vived by three brothers, Air Force Capt. John Kasarda, a veteran of 11 years in the Air Force and now stationed salesman SOT. ^vaJtoJi i kasarda Donald, a junior at King's Col¬ lege; four sisters, Elizabeth and Wilma, both in New York City, and Mary and Dorothy, both in Dallas, Tex. Incidents leading to Kasarda'a being cited for bravery occurred while he waa serving as a medi- _^ cai corpsman with the 38th In- in Forrno'sarisdward," a Gantry Regiment of the Second In¬ for Motor Twins, and] (Continued on Page A-2) 5 from Pennsylvania Among 75 Americans Freed by Communists By LEROY HANSEN i Americans freed yesterday: PANMUNJOM, Sunday Aug. 16! P^c- Ward L. Emmons, La Paa, (IP)—Seventy-five more AmerJcansi^"^- came back from Communist pris-L.^pl. Jon S. Funderburk, Salemn, merits of the program Program WHl Proceed The British have advised a go- slow policy and th* French have been cool to the program. The official Ameriean attitude Is that no difference exist and that the program will resume on schedule when stocks hav* been replen¬ ished. Oommunist East CSernxany, fac¬ ed by growing unrest throughout -saving suggestions such as prom-l ising to pay atrU-.ers for dfys missed or to recall the N3tion,a" Assembly to debate the Laniel economy degrees, Paris and olher major cities the oath to Radford at a brief, . ,, ., . . , ^¦. . . , . ceremony In the Pentagon office "'''''<^ «« "'""• 'nhabitants joined The retiring chairman, Gen Omar N. Bradley, leaving active duty after 42 years, administered , ,'¦ ... , . , .u- _„fu i„ v.Af^^A .. . K,.i=fI looKed like ghost towns mean- of Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson. An hour later. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway was sworn in as Army chief of staff, succeeding Gen. J. Lawton Collins. foreigners in clearing out. Mil¬ lions south weekend calm in the countrj' but a score of packed trains ran the international routes to Spain. Italy, Switzer¬ land. (Jermany and the Channel ports. Catholic Union men were at the controls. An all-time record numher of automobiles left Paris toward the on camps today to raise the total of GI's freed in Korean prisoner exchange over the 1,000 mark. The American-s. part of a con¬ tingent of 41:.' UN prisoners re¬ leased by the Reds today, appear¬ ed well. They shouted and waved Mo. Cpl. Paul S, Gray, Fariabult, Minn, Pfc. Sherwood D. Hulon, Latta, S. C, Pfc, Hugh G, Manaway, Owens- boro, Ky, J , , , . , , , , . ¦¦ Cpl. Frank F. Effinger, Lin- and leaped briskly from theirlpojj, jsj^yj trucks as they arrived at free-j pj^. .i„h„ Chonia jr., Co. G, dom gate. ! ,,th Regt., 24th Div.; father. Another 437 American soldiers. John Choina, Box US. Morgan, released earlier in the 12-day-oldi Pa. operation "Big Switch." sailed from Inchon this morning aboard a troopship bound for San Fran- CdI. .loseph J kirk. N. Y, Pfc, Roy J, Lashia, Moroczka, Dun- Wausau, Adm. Robert B. Carney will be the Soviet lone, meanwhile beganjsworn In tomorrow as chief ofj a purge of 6,000,000 trade union|naval operations to succeed Arm.' members to crush resistance to|Williain M. Pechteier, thus com-l .., . , , Communist rule in industry. jpleting installation of Presldent^,^^^-^,^'^;;' fiances one six-lanc|g^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^.^g Herbert Warnke, head of the I Ei.senhower's new defense team. "Free German Trade Union Fed-1 Gen. Nathan F. Twining took eration," blamed work stoppages I over as Air Force chief of staff of more than 300,000 trade union when Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg Cisco after a H-hour delay caused Wis. by arrny red fape, ' ggt. John G. Johnson, Laporte, Tod'ay's exchange brought to ind. 1,032 the number of Americans! Pfc, Lawrence E, Bridgewater, released thus far out of 3.313 pro-i LoogooCee, Ind. mised by the Communists. The Cpi. Jesus Ayaia-Morales, Gua- overail number of Allied return-lyama, Puerto Rico. members on an underground or- 'ganization and ordered strike leaders from their jobs. Workers "Misled' Warnke speaking in East Ber¬ lin said 300,000 workers were mis¬ led by a Fascist underground and struck in June. Tens of thousauids of others struck this month to protest a Communist blockade of free American food In West Ber¬ lin. In addition to food and labor retired June 30, The four—Rradford, Ridgway, Carney and Twining—fell heir im¬ mediately to a task set down for them months ago by Wison. Wil-| son said he wanted them to goj over "the entire defense picture." Not Retiring { As a five-star officer, the lastj of the Worid War Il-createdl group in active command, Bradley! cannot retire. Technically, he is' on active duty here out, without Nightclub, re.staurant and the-i^.^" "f the returning Allied sol- ater owners reported an almo'^t'^"^"^ T, ^'¦'"«'': American and complete lack of bOsines-., R^.lSouth Korean in the last group berto Rossellini's "Europe ,M"|shouted and waved as they pulled played to an a.,idi»n e of sev..n "P ^^ '^^^.f^";" S'^,'?.' , , ,_ ^, , _ . ... One British soldier had an arm (Continued on Page A-14) Ij^ ^ .n^g ^„^ ^ad to be helped [from his truck. Some South Ko- jrep.ns in the first group were so I sick and emaciated they had to jbe carried on a stretcher. ll addition to ''.^e Americans, 75 Britons and 262 South Koreans came across the line to freedom troubles, the Communists were assignment. He was the first hit by mass desertions from their I chairman of the joint chiefs, tak- poiice army. The West Berlin city,ing over in 1949 when the post government said a record num-i was created, and served two two- ber of 296 Communist police de- .vear terms by former President serted to the west the first half' Truman's appointment -- under of Augrust. I (Continued on Page A-14) Valley Scene A ini'i/lli'-af/ed lad;t rrossinff Public Sqiiare. explaining tu ker iwo elderli/ friendn all i^ke wav Ik "is a man about i.5— a millionaire.'' Cpl. William D wood, Calif, Pfc. Charles C. Branch, S, C. Pfc. Donald W, Nederhoff loway, Minn. Cpl, Martin A. burprh. Pa, PFC Merlin A, ville, Wis, PFC Richard H. Vetter, Co. E .Sfth ReKt 'Jnd Div: mother, Betty Vetter, 005 Bushkill street, Ea^^on. Pa. (Continued on Page A-14) Martin, Ingle- Shaffer, Early Hol- Mros, jr., Pitta- Meyer, Logans- Woman Calls Help Againsi Robber, Neighbor Kills Husband in Dark KNOWLAIVD WARNS U. S. WILL GET OUT OF UN IF CHINA COMES IN SAN FRANCISCO (IP)—Sen. William F. Knowland warned the free world if any moves are made to bring CJommunist <3hlna into the United Nations, he will call for Senate adaption of a resolu¬ tion declaring "the United Statea will get out" of the U. N. The Senate majority leader said If Red China waa "allowed to shoot its way into membership in the United Nationa," it would be "a violation of every moral prin¬ ciple in the U. N. charter." "If other nations try to vote Communist CMna. In," he said, "I shall proceed to move a reso¬ lution which I have already intro¬ duced In th* U, S. Senate." Central city husineanman aad clerk caught in elevator be¬ tween floors for an emburras- ing half hour. ^ HOU.STON, Tex. dPt-A house-i She asked Mr.« .^Vtmstrong to wife who thought she heard a Call police and left. Armstrong prowler in her home early yester- quickly loaded his ,12-gauge shot- day summoned a neighbor who gun and walked into the yard. H* ¦5hot and, killed her husband think- spotted a figure carrying a flash¬ ing he was the "burglar". j light in the front bedroom of his The 22-year-old mother of twoj neighbor's hou.se. Tlie room was small children was so distraught dimly lighted by a small night men and finding three reading police still did not have a com-i light above the cribs of the two while fourth ]ieeled potatoes 'plete pioture of the slaying nearlyiMoore children, the youngest only for nearby diner. ;1? hours after it happened. (eight days old. i:iiiiM» to Talk a . -j ,. . Justice of the Peace Dave , '^'¦"Vl"'°"f, '^l-^ . I'*! ""umfl (wr,... ^...>...« „,..«,. .Thompson said he would have to '^¦¦•^"> Mrs. Moore s frigh that sh* dered distribution of gamma glob- . .. .„^..^,. .„„,. ., ^q . I,.,,. , pcmiM ACI «'ait until Mrs. Cloras C. Moore. ^'^» »'""« *'*^'' '^e children and ..,._ ii..,ii_.* t-. !,„„._^i,.,u ....,<» tie countys quota or uo ai-|yy||_L KbJUIN ArL, n,- h„,..„„,if» ..,.. .v,i_ ,» t,ii, he State Tightens Rules For Polio Jnjections PITTSBURGH (IP)—The state | Dr. Williams iss Jed the ruling'"! Health Department yesterday or-jafter he learned tliat 65 per centl CARPENTERS UNION Rolling Mill Hill TV dealer discovering dead mouse in Si-t after toiling two hour.'^ to •nuke repairs. ^ , Official of citif firm check¬ ing up laat night on hie watch- ready has been used, although the peak of the polio season has not yet arrived. Confusion In Regulation* City health department officials, who have been handling distribu¬ tion of the serum, had complained that it was being wasted through a loophole in regulations. They had interpreted the. state rules as permitting administration of the housewife, was able to talk "r, 'j*'^ ^\ '^! ^'?"uf- 7^* "*"* before he could decide whether,*"' ^'^"^ '" '^^ "»*" »'<*«¦ any charges would be filed. She; Moments later, he said, Mr*. CHICAGO (tP)-George Meany.^as under sedatives at the home: Moore came from the hous* president of the American Feder- ^f relatives, jsereaming, "Oh mv Ood my hu»- atlon of Labor, predicts that the as best as could be determined, band has been shot," Carpenters Union will come back Mrs. Moore a%voke about 4 a. m.' . , ., , . .. into the AFL. and thought she heard a prowler.! A"Parent!y Moore had been "There was no aound reason" She woke her 22-year-old hus- "l*"!,'"*^ * room-by-room searcli for the 750,000-member carpenters band, a Marine veteran of the!°' '"^ house. union to withdraw, Meany said. Korean fighting, who told her to: Moore's mother told police her He said the union will reilizc slip out a bedroom window and "l^^Shter-in-Iaw said she was so this and "sooner or later" come run next door to call police, I excited about the burglar she for- MEANY PREDICTS ulin limited to household asso¬ ciates of polio victims in Allegheny county. Dr. A. M. Williams, stata health officer for the county, issued new ruTes under which the scarce anti- polio serum will virtually be limited to members of the vic¬ tim's family. Prolonged Contact Administering of CJG to play¬ mates of children who contract polio will be halted with few ex¬ ceptions. Youngsters who have GG to youngsters who happenedi back. He wouldn't attempt to, Donald R, Armstrong. 29. the S^t to tell Armstrong her husband, stayed in the same home with a|to have some contact with a vic-jsay when, however. neighbor, said Mrs. Moore ran too. was in the house, polio victim for 12 consecutive|tim shortly before the outbreak' Meany spoke al a news confer- into the breezeway of their home.i Police Chief Jack OBrien of hours before discovery of thejof the disease. This includedience that wound up a week-Ion? roused him, then whispered toithe suburban Bellaire community disease can get the serum as welljcasual contact on a street or-meeting of the AFL Executive "come protect my babies, there'slfound no trace of an actual prow- as members of the household. (playground. iCouncil. a burglar in our house." lier.
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
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Date | 1953-08-16 |
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Day | 16 |
Year | 1953 |
Volume | 47 |
Issue | 42 |
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Kingston Boy Reported among Prisoner Dead by Reds
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A Paper For f-The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
Sunny, Warm
Highest Today 75 to SO Monday: Sunny, Mild
47TH YEAR — NO. 42 — 58 PAGES
pA«AH •( CinalaMMS
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAr, AUGUST 16, 1953
truiTun PRES!«
PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
Two Models of Proposed Wilkes Hall
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U. 5. Agrees to Include Russia in Far East Talks
structure with four winga and assembly hall would cost college about $lJSOOfiOO.
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British Insisting Parley Is Useless Without Soviets
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., (LP)—The United States ha.s a^eed tentatively to a United Nations proposal to in¬ clude Russia in the Par East political conference, in¬ formed sources said yesterday.
Th« U. S., it was learned, will oppose a similar bid to India.
The disclosure came after the 16 nations whose troops fought for the UN in Korea met for three hours at the American delega¬ tion headquarters Saturday to iron out British nnd American dif¬ ferences over Invitations to those two countries lo attend the forth¬ coming conference. The political meeting on the Far East was set up by the Korean armistie agreement. Lodge Sees Agreement
Model of building icith only one wing and lawn apace would cost about $1,000,000.
Big Assembly Hall-^Ari Museum on Building Program To Fill School's Needs While also Serving Communiiy
American Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge jr., fianked by British Min- i.ster of State Selwyn Lloyd and French Deputy Minister Maurice Schumann told newsmen after yester.days meeting:
"We ara rapidly approaching an area of very complete agree¬ ment on a great number of im¬ portant subjects."
The conferees will meet agsUn thia afternoon.
Lodge confirmed that the 16- natlon group was working on mors tlian one resolution dealing with the composition with the Far Bastern "Korean Peace" parley that is to ba held by Oct 27.
According to Informants, one would be sponsored by all or most of the 16 Allies and name the six to 10 nations among them I who should represent the UN'
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.The construction of a huge as ^mbly hall and ant museum that ^will cost upwards to $1,.')00,000 was announced yesterday by Dr. Eu¬ gene 8, F^ley, president of Wilkea College, as being on the future building program f6r the community Institution,
Announcing the plan« for the "Wilkee College ait Tomorrow," r>r. Farley said, "It always has heen the policy at Wilkes Col¬ lege to project our planning into the future. The gymnasium waa
constructed in 1850, but was plan ned four years earlier."
As is the case with all WUkes facilitie«, the new b u 11 d i n g— when It becomes a reallty-^wlU be open to community use, accord¬ ing to the college president. Art Museum Included
The exact location of the new structure was not disclosed by Dr. Farley, but It to expected to be cloee to tha present college prop¬ erties.
Under consideration are two
plans—one coating a million dol lam and the other a million and a half.
His announcement stated, "At the present time the college feeli the need of a large assembly hall whloh will not only serve the col- lego but alao benefit the commu¬ nity. In conneotion with the as¬ sembly hfiJl it Is believed that it may be well to Insnitute an art museum and to provide facilities for other community agencies (Continued on Page A-2)
114 MILLION m^''^^ o" ««5 R-v-se
Quake-Torn Greek Towns
1
T OF PA. SALES TAX
Wording of Law Producing Many Glaring Inequities
HARRISBURO (m—lt may cost as much a« (14,000,000 to adminis¬ ter the stsute's new one per cent sales tax—4>etter than 11 per oent of the $129,000,000 the state ex¬ pects to collect front It ever a 21- month period.
The 19M Legislature earmarked 110.000,000 for salariee and ex¬ penses of the small army of new state employee* which will be needed to keep ths tax machinery In running order. The Revenue Department now Is marshaling the force It will need.
Ij» addition, the retailers who collect the tax are authorized to retain three per cent of the cqllec- tlone to offset the bookkeeping costs they Incur. This could amount to almost $4,000,000.
Regardless of how closely the department detaila the items which come under the tax, retail¬ ers are expected to run Into a ho«t of piroWems in so-called "bor¬ derline" caaes.
For Instance, Justice Depart- (Contlnued on Page A-2)
ATHEINS, Greece (IP)—Fires fed by stockpiles of olive oil raged through the devaated cities of Greece's western Islands as Am¬ erican and British navy teams rounded up the dead and helped survivors of the worst earthquake in modern Greek history.
BuUdoBers landed from war¬ ships crunctied through tha rub¬ ble, clearing debris and opening fire lanes. One huge each* of olive oil was moved out of danger of new fires which were eating their way back over stretches of ruins already blackened by aeLrller flames in the dty of Zante. Week ef Qinkea
"Kie rescue work went on In devastated towns on the islandti of Cephalonia, Ithaca and Zante, where the week-long quakes have left an estimated 1,000 dead, 4,000 injured, and 100.000 homeless and destitute.
United Press staff correepon- dent Robert Masel flew from London to Zante aboard a naval plane. He reported that the an¬ cient capital of that island U a "dead city."
"Great fissures are gougegd in its pavements. Raw earth scars the surrounding hills where ra¬ vines have been torn into the landscape and whole sections of hill siloed away." Admiral Report*
Adm, J. H, Caasady, command¬ er of the U. e. Sixth Fleet, re¬ ported from the cruiser Salem ly¬
ing off the port of Argostolion that the situation there was "still serious."
But he said British and Amer¬ ican shore parties were making headway against blocked roads, fires and the threat of wholesale (Continued on Page A-2)
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Eddie Dowling Plans Reproduciion Of Holy Land of 2,000 Years Ago
NE!W YORK (IPk -A permanent reproduction of a portion of the Holy Land of 2,000 years ago in which tlie drama of Jesus Christ would be enacted year after year is the latest plan of £kldie Dow¬ ling, noted actor and producer.
The project, to be called Holy Land, U.S.A., prol>abiy will be estaiblished on a mile-square site near Jack»onville, Fla., where temperature and terrain are sim¬ ilar to the original, Dowling said. For AU Sects
Dowling, revealing the plan in the current issue of the Catholic Digest, said the $2,000,000 project
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will ba non-sectarian and porters already include persons of many religions. The producer aaid he anticipated no trouble in rais¬ ing the money once the stoek sub¬ scription ll opened to the public.
The physical struoture will be a reproduction of a sort of eom- poalte Bethlehem, Jerusalwn and Nazareth, with the ancient type of homea and roads and shops. Peo¬ ple wearing ths dress of the pt- riod will go about the traditional activities while Holy Land, U.S.A. is open to visitors, who will pay a nominal entrance fee. Reacting Nativity
Included wil! be an amphithea¬ ter .leating 5,000. Here the drama of the Nativity and the Passion will be enacted by professional players for 120 performances from the Christmas season to Easter. Admission to the performances would be scaled at movie prices, Dowling said.
The producer has selected two (Continued on Pags A-l*)
HEIDEaJEiSRG, Germany «P>— Two American officers landed their light plane by error in the Soviet zone yesterday and are presumed to be held by the Rus¬ sians, it was announced here yea terday.
U. S. Army headquarters dlS' closed that tha two officers, both captains, were assigned to the Finst U. S. Infantry Division They were flying an L-19 liaison plane from Aschaffenburg to Bamber, overshot the sonal boun¬ dary and landed In the Soviet area about six miles northwest of the border town of Hof.
Offlclals of the Flr»t Division which is on maneuvers in the area, said the plane was on "a routine flight within the division's area of responsibility."
Th* officers have not returned and it was assumed they ara be¬ ing held by the Russians. A •UP^ i spokesman said he "assumed" the ' Russians had been asked for their release.
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