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49TH YEAR — NO. 3 — 84 PAGES
Mcmbrr Aadit Burrau of Clrrulntlona
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1954
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Crumbling Reiaining Wall on Busy Lake HighYfoy
Aa If there wasn't enough danger already on the Harvey's Lake road through the wind- in( "narrows" Just beyond Luzerne. . . .
There the atate has marked a road only 40 feet wide into What it calls a "4-lane high¬ way"—the kind which calls for 48 feet, plus ahoulders. The Lake road has no shoulders, either.
Now,   in   addition   to   all   this,   the   photo
above shows the added hazard as the inade¬ quate and cracked retaining wall crum¬ bling for years, seems ready to drop a huge slab  on  tlie  roadway  brfow.
Of course, the slab may not drop before the whole wall, shown above to be leaning, falls  in  one  big piece.
The Harvey's Lake road, on this stretch, i.s the busiest highway In this part of the state.
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Veteran Detectives Due To Testify on Sheppard
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McCarthy Must Decide To Retract or Stand
Has Until Monday To Make Up Mind; Efforts May Fail
WASHINGTON.—Sen. Joseph McCarthy, faced by the alternatives of making apologies to the men he cas¬ tigated in the Senate during his stormy career or nulli¬ fying the efforts of senators who have spoken for him in the stormy "censure" debate last week, last night faced the prospect that even if he apologizes he has no assur¬ ance that the efforts of his friends to temper the censure resolution against him will succeed.
As it is, McCarthy's friends, gauging the temper of the Senate, have given the Wisconsin senator only until tomorrow to make up his mind to retract. If he refuses to budge they will let events take their course.
The compromise most talked about would be contained In a new resolution that would condemn some acts of the senator but not the senator liimself. Some senators doubted such a move could get a majority vote. »
Sen. Everett Dlrksen -(R. 111.), most active In McCarthy's behalf, was reported busy with avowed friends of McCarthy's trying to work :>ut a resolution that might be acceptable both to McCarthy and to the senate.
Sentiment in the senate aeemed to be crystallizing since Mc¬ Carthy's undelivered speech called his critics "unwitting handmaid¬ ens of the Communists". Criti¬ cism came from the Republican and  Democratic  sides.
Sen. Stennis of Misissippi was heard with interest by both sides
and seemed to set the pattern for Democratic opinion.  Sen. Carlson, Republicaji   of   Kansas,   said   Mc Carthy had violated a rule of the Senate by his attack on the Wat kins committee.  Stennis later said to McCarthy that he did  not ob ject   to   criticism   of   anyone.   in- Continued On Page 2, Section 1
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j.state will call on veteran police investigators this week in its ef¬ fort to prove that only Dr. Sa.Ti- uel H. Sheppard could have mur¬ dered his wife.
Testimony until nbw has come from friends of the 30-ycar-old osteopath-surgeon and a young police officer, Bay Village Patrol¬ man   Fred  Drcnkhan.
Assistant County Prosecutor John J. Mahon admitted rhe slate's case rested heavily on tes¬ timony from the professional in¬ vestigators. "We hope to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that _,        . , . ... Dr.   Sheppard   did   it,"   he   said.
The subject of reorganlration of|."rhese witnesses will be our "big
pany lines will probably be touch-|grtiiiery."    We   have   some   sur-
ed off at a seaslon  presided over
Fine, Owlett, Horst To Address Council Of Republican Women
HARRISBURG <IP(— Rebuilding of the Republican party because of the defeat in the recent state¬ wide election will be discuased by state party leadera at the 3?nd annual convention of the Pennsyl¬ vania Council of Republican Wo¬ men which open* here Monday.
by Mrs. .Sara G. Leffler. Ix'banon, vice-chairman  of  the   Republican State Committee. Bent, Owlett tb Speak
Pre-Dawn Intruder
Sheppard has .said his pregnant
wife,   Marilyn.   31,   was   killed   by
, „ a   pre-dawn  intruder  last July 4.
Speakers will include GOP state He   said   her   screams    for    help
chairman Milea Horst, National Committeeman O. Maaon Owlett, and Clifton McWllliams, preaident
awoke him as he lay on a living room couch. He was attacked by the   intruder   as   he   reached   the
or   the   Young   Republicana   of;head of the stairs to her bedroom,
Pennsylvania. he   said,   and   later   knocked   un-
Other party leadera on the two-1conscious again when he grappled
day program Include Gov. John S.lwith   the  "bushy-haired"   man   on
•   "SVf oa.ii     clioCSSSWu   divorcing his  wife earlier this year.
The beach behind the home — where Sheppard says he wrestled with the intruder — showed no footprints.
Sheppard, who claimed he suf¬ fered head injuries in the scuffle, told a friend earlier this year that head injuries could be easily feigned "because there is no way to   determine   if "they're   real."
Although  several   desk  drawers had been pulled open as if a bur¬ glar had been in  the house, their contents were  not  ransacked. Heavy   ArtiUery   Due
Drenhan will resume the stand when the trial continues Monday. He will be followed by Bay Vil¬ lage Police Chief John Eaton, a 29-year veteran of law enforce¬ ment. Then the state plans to call its "big artillery:" Coroner Samuel R. Gerber, members of the Cleveland police homicide squad and officials of the police crime laboratory. All have nad extensive experience in trial tes¬ timony.
The state's final witnesses are expected to be those who will supply    the    alleged   motive,   Dr.
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Fine, and Pennsylvania's two U.S/the Lake Erie beach behind their Jfster Hoversten and Miss Susan
senators:   Edward   Martin   and:suburban home.
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V S. Sen. Karl E. Mundt of South Dakota will be the principal speaker at tha Monday night ses¬ aion.
Tht estimated 1,500 delegates to the convention will elect Mrs. William M. Roscnfleld, Towanda, as new council preaident, succeed¬ ing outgoing Mrs. Gaynelle M. Dixon, Butler, unsuccessful candi¬ date for state a-oretary of Inter¬ nal Affaira at the Nov. 3 election. New Officera
Mrs. Rosenfleld, who la unop¬ posed for the nomination, haa been a director of the council aince 1946. She ia the firat wrman from Bradford county to be ele¬ vated to tt)e top council poat.
Al! officera, except the vice- presidenta, will be new. Besides Mrs. Rosenfield, the other nom¬ inees are: for recording secretary, Kathleen E. Plyon, Ridgeway; oorresponding aecretary, Mrs. A. Hower Glick, Frackville; treasur¬ er, Mra. Ralph M. Chantler, But¬ ler.
The state contends Sheppard committed the murder after ne argued wifh his wife over atten¬ tions to other women.
The first aix witneaaes have tes tified that:
There was no evidence of forci
Hayes. Hoversten, 42, was well acquainted with Sheppard when the young couple lived in Los Angeles, and has said the defen¬ dant had "affairs" with several women. One of them. Is Miss Hayes, 24, a red-haired laboratory technician who signed a statement admitting    intimacies    with    the
ble entry into the Sheppard house. I handsome young neuro-surgeon.
President Bags Lintit
In 2 Days of Duck Hunting
TOLEDO, Ohio (IP»—President Eisenhower ended a two-day va¬ cation yesterday in which he bag¬ ged the eight-bird limit In his first duck hunting in 20 years.
The President got the limit on both days spent in the reed-cov¬ ered marshes of a private hunting preserve on the shore of Lake E^e near here. Plenty of Birds
He  bagged  the  four-bird  limit
War Vei Lei Sick Daughier Die, Dunked Son in Boiling Waier
EBENSBURG, Pa. UP —A dis¬ abled  Korean  war  veteran,  who
, refuaed to aeek medical aid for his dying two-yeac-old daughter, was in jail today charged with "dunking" bla three-year-old aon In scalding water.
The prlaoner, William G. Bell, 27, admitted to police Friday he placed his son Robert in a duffel bag and hung him from a door for four houra. He said he atruck the child on the head, back and buttocks with a atick and then dunked hla feet Iq tbe acalding Water.
State PoUce aaid "The akin peeled off Rtfbert'a legs like atockings".
Bell, the father of five children. <¦ charged with aasault with in¬ tent to kill. He alao ia under investigation for the rat poison¬ ing of hia 32-montb-olil daughter, Ruth Ann. Criea For FWod
BeU'a wife, Eileen, 28, aaid that *hen Ruth Ann cried for a ^iece •f bread Wedneaday, Robert climbed under the aink, picked up
a  piece  of  poiaoned  bread   and
save  it  to her  not  knowing  it
was poiaoned. The girl became ill and vomited.
«rs. Bell aaid ahe told her hua-
"and and he told her to give the
child milk and vinegar.
When that failed to help Mrs, Bell asked her husband to take the child  to a  doctor.
"No," she quoted her husband aa saying, "She's going to die, leave her  be." ,.    ,.     ,
Mrs. Bell said her husband became enraged when Robert took another piece of bread from a kitchen cabinet and gave him the "duffel bag treatment." Saya Thia Waa Fifth Time
She told authorities her hus¬ band had used the duffel bag to punish the children at least four times  previously.
Authorities described the three room Bell home as "complete squalor." They said two other Bell children, Lorraine, 1 Mi, and Bessie, five weeks, were suffering from malnutrition. The fifth child, Billy 6, had been placed in the Cambria County Children's Home.
Authorities said Bell received J166 a month pension for an arm wound and another $550 a month running a junk business.
Police who investigated the home found a case of milk in the baaement which the emaci¬ ated children were not allowed to drink.
"My husband won't allow me to give them milk," Mrs. Bell said, "...He says the babies are too fat now."
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within 30 minutes the first day out, but it took him two hours ard 25 minues to come back with twu mallards, a teal and a black yesterday  morning.
Mr Eisenhower also did well on land, bagging five pheasants 'rom the club's privately stocked fields and woodlands Friday and two Saturday in a short period bcfcre leaving for the airport.
The  Preaident had  aome game fowl  dressed   to  take   with   him, but didn't aay how many pheas- anta and ducks were prepared. Humphrey  Hia  Host
The President's host, TVeasury Secretary George M. Humphrey, accompanied him hunting both dH.vb and alao came back with the hmit.
Mr. Eisenhower took time out to thank a 12-year-old Toledo girl for mailing him a good luck medai Patricia Gilbert aaid she got the medal from Hopalong Caas.dy about a year .ago and wanted  the President to have  ft
The President spent part of his vacation working on a letter be will aend to the Senate tomorrow along with treaties to restore West Germany sovereignty and bring her into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The treaties will be submitted for Senate rati¬ fication next January.
10-8 Vote Signals Project to Go Aiiead; Fight Will Go On
WASHINGTON 0P> —The Sen¬ ate-House Atomic Energy Com¬ mittee voted 10-8 along party linea yesterday to let the adminis¬ tration proceed with the contro¬ versial Dixon-Yates power con¬ tract without further congres¬ sional   review.
The action, which the commit¬ tee's Republican majority rammed through over Democratic protests means that the long-pending deal can take effect as soon as the Se curitles & Exchange Commission approves  financing  arrangements.
The 25-year contract, under which the Atomic Energy Com mission will buy 600,000 kilowatts of power from the Dixon-Yates private utility combine, waa aign- ed last Thursday. By law, such long-term AEC contracts must lay over for 30 days while both houses of Congress arc in session, unless the congressional atomic committee votes to waive this re¬ quirement. This it did Saturday Free To Begin  Conatruction
Barring some unforeseen hitch in getting SEC approval of fi nancing, the Dlxon-Yatea combine is now free to begin conatruction of a $107,250,000 ateam generating plant at West Memphis, 'Ark Power from the plant will be de¬ livered to the Tennesaee Valley Authority ayatem, to replace TVA power used  by atomic plants.
President Eisenhower personally urged the committee in a letter laat week to grant the waiver and let the project get under way. rUcht WiU Go On
But Democratic opponents who were out voted Saturday aerved notice that they will renew the battle in the 84th Congress, when they will have a majority. They have indicated they will try to kill the project then by tacking a rider onto the AEC appropriation bill, forbidding the use of aay federal funda to finance the DiX' on-Yatea contract.
The committee voted the waiver after a final public hearing on the contract at which Sen. Estea Ke¬ fauver (D-Tenn) teatified in op¬ position to it. A. "Sloppy Buaineaa"
Kefauver called the contract a "sloppy bualness" which will be dragged through law courta "time and  time again."
He said last-minute changes written into the agreement just before it was signed Thuraday have cut down the poasible prof¬ its of the Dixon-Yates utility group from 43 per cent of their investment to "a mere 34 per cent."
Rep. Chet Holified (D-Calif) of¬ fered a motion,    after    Kefauver ConUnued On Page 2, Section 1
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Valley Scene
Traffic cop nteaming over double-parked ^ear     on     hiugij
,>ju.'> "''r-;'-.;ri<St;'.. .«».«#»¦ w—or- iny off when driver proved to he a stunning blonde, who flashed him n bright ."mile and moaned "Oh, I guess I'm blocking  traffic."
Trailer loaded with slate seen on Wyoming avenue, Kingston, with sign: "This Vermont Slate Is For Presi¬ dent Eisenhower's new Gettys¬ burg Home."
Veteran teamster William McTigue of the Heights show¬ ing the eops hoir to corral two ponies that fled Fo*»«ro.i/'s Store to visit Public Square.
SENATE MAY APPROVE HARLAN NOMINATION
WASHINGTON (U'l — Prospects brightened yesterday for Senate approval at thia special session of Federal Judge John Marshall Harlan's nomination to the Su¬ preme Court.
But two other major nominees of President Eisenhower may have to wait until January for Senate  confirmation.
Senate   Republican   leader  Wi! liam  F.  Knowland  said  h'e  knew of  no  opposition  so  far  to  Har¬ lan's  nomination.   If  none   dcvel ops, he said, he hopes for confir mation without debate during the current session provided the Sen ate    Judiciary    Committee   okays the  nomination  as  expected.
Last Soviet Note Believed Effort To Scare Europe
WASHE'IGTON (U')—Diplomatic officials yesterday deplored Rus¬ sia's use of sabre-rattling propaganda, including the spectre of an atomic war, if free Germany is re-armed over Communist protests.
This was partly the reaction of authorities to initial atudies of Russia's latest bid for an "all-European collective security confer¬ ence." They regarded it as an undisguised Soviet effort to scuttle the German rearmament program and frighten Europe's war-weary people.
16 Men Are Killed by Mine Blast
FARMINGTON, W. Va.. (IP)— A terrific explosion, followed by fire, rocked the big Jamison Coal & Coke Co. mine Saturday and 16 men were  believed killed.
One man working outside the mine entrance was killed by fall¬ ing debris. Fifteen maintenance workers were trapped deep inside the mine by the blaet.
Dietrict Director Clyde Riley of the United Mine Workers Health end Welfare Fund said: "We as¬ sume that all 15 men still inside the mine were killed in the ex¬ plosion."
Two reaeue teama totaling 17 men, equipped with self con¬ tained oxygen unitN, entered the mine about two and a haif mile» from the seene of the blast. But the men were foreed to return two hours later after penetrat¬ ing about 4,000 feet from the undamaged tipple entranr4>.
(.'onipany officials said the men were forced to return to replenish oxygen tuipplies after eneonntering dea^lly car¬ bon monoxide gas. The teama reported finding no trace of tlie trapped men.
-i^A* alAst RKi'ti ou^eTfniainroom- Ilkecloud of black smoke belching up from the 54,5-foot deep main shaft, destroyed a large steel ven- talating fan house and a newly- constructed mine portal, and se¬ verely damaged other outside buildinge.
The cau.se of the explosion wae not determined Immediately. Fan Houae Crumpled
First known victim was Howard Jenkins, 38, father of four children employed as a lamp man. He was standing in the fan house when it wa« crumpled by the blast, and was killed by felling debris.
The _men trapped, an estimated one and one-fourth milee inside the mine, were members of a mainte¬ nance crew. The last regular shift of about 200 men left at 11 p. m. (EST) Friday. About 400 men are employed in the operation.
Heavy emoke billowed out of the ventilating shaft about 300 yards above the portal hours after the explosion, which occurred at 1:45 p. m. (EIST). It indicated a major fire raged inside the mine.
The dense emoke kept rescue teams from entering the main por¬ tal for 2'-i hours. The rescue opera- tione were being directed by Wil¬ liam Berry, northern district in- spoctor-at-large for the State Mines Department, Near Monogah  Pit
The mine'is located In the heart of the northern West Virginia coaljWas instituted  in January of thisjeach   area   is   evaluated   on   the
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U. S. An Outsider
Under the Russian eal! for a conference to start in Moscow or Paris on Nov. 29 the United States would be invited only as an outsider, along with Communist China.
It is incredible that Soviet Pre¬ mier Georgi M. Malenkov and Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov really could hope to Hire the Western Allies into this con¬ ference and get It started only 16 days from now.
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Hen6e the Moscow note may be written off largely as propa¬ ganda.
The official U. S. position on the note may be made public soon. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his aides im¬ mediately began stud.ving the I,;..... T.I. II 'Acic IndicauoJih thty would have some early reaction of an official nature.
While no final decision has even been discussed with Allied nations American officials saw no chance of a 23-nation meeting in Moscow or Pars on Nov. 29 as proposed by the Russians.
Dulles said only last "Tuesday that he saw no use in holding new
talks with  the Kussians  as  long as    the    questions    of    European unity and free Germany's defenses were  'unresolved". Most Will Reject
The reaction here meshed with that in Ijondon where a diplo¬ matic source predicted an over¬ whelming majority of the nations jnvited to the conference would turn it down.
The note waa received here as White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said President Eisenhower plans to submit to the Senate the treaties to restore West Germany's sovere>ignty and add approximately ."iOO.OOO of her troops to Europe's defense against Communist expansion. These pacts on Germany, signed in Par¬ is on Oct. 23,  require  ratification
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targets of the latest Soviet note.
Dulles prepared for conferences Thursday and Friday with French Premiere Pierre Mendes-France. The French leader will see the President on Thursday. The latest Soviet note, the prospects for French ratification of the Ger¬ man agreements, Indochina, and North African subjects, will b discussed.
Highway Officials Well Pleased Wiih Resulis in 60 MPH Zones
HARRISBURG (PNS)—Penn sylvania highway and safety officials are iwell pleased with results being obtained on three sectiona of the state highway s"stem where speed limits have been boosted from the usual 50 miles   to  60  miles  an   hour.
See on Editorial Page today: "A Tour of Any Good Highway Shows VHiy Speed Limit De¬ bates Are liseless."
Although the legal speed limit on highways of the Keystone State   is   50   miles   per   hour,   the
Route 22 near Harrisburg, ind little over a month ago two addi¬ tional sectors were stepped up to 60  miles   an   hour   zones.
One of the new section.'* is located on the new Easton-Beth- lehem by-pass, also on Route 22 and is approximately 20 miles in length.
The other new section com¬ prises IC miles of the recently opened Schuylkill River Express¬ way entering Philadelphia.
Highway Department officials pointed out that such 60 miles a:i hour   speed   areas   are   no   longer
1953   Legislature   gave  the   Secre-'considered "experimental" and a^e tary   of   Highways   the   right   toj now  logged  as  a  regular  part  of
raise the limit to 60 miles per hour when in the opinion of the highway chief it was deemed pru¬ dent  and   advisable.
the  overall  highway  system  legal speed   network.
However,   every   possible   factor is considered before the increased
The ^irst   "high   speed"  sectionispeed limit is permitted.    In fact
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In Old Wilkes-Barre
Here is a familiar site — but — except for those whose memories skip back easily for a half century — it is not a familiar acene. However, to get the proper perspective, put yourself on Public Square, looking down the first block of South Main atreet. That is what the camera did which took the pic¬ ture ahown above, about 1891.
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Many things have gone. . . . The rows of poles. The heavy burden of crossbars and wires. The wooden awnings over the sidewalks. The dirt streets. The horse and wagon, delivery wagon.   The hitching posts.   The stepping atones.
The picture is from "Wilkes-Barre Pictorial," published in 1891 and tbe property of Kay HotUe.
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