Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

              sociation yesterday at Hotel Sterling shown at left. State and national officers appear in the center. Seated, left to right, John i. Meikle, Mooseheart, III., supreme councilman; J. Jack Stoehr, Pittsburgh, Pa., past director general; Otto W. Meyere, Mooseheart,
!ni., membership enrollment director. Standing. Ellis L. Keller, supreme councilman; Chester B, Steffen, state director; Stanley Evans, Wilkes-Barre lodge governor, and Walter A. Sipell, state association presi¬ dent.
Officers of the women> auxiliary, shown at right, are Hazel Hummel, Northumberland, Pa., grand re¬ gent: Zola Kenne.v. Chicago. III., grand recorder, and Mildred Petroziello of Wilkes-Barre, general chairman of women's activities during the convention.  _
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49th YEAR — No. 36 — 60 PAGES
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-Human vs. I.^gal Rights
Whai CAN Be Done Aboui Damage From Mine Caves? ... Many Angles
\lf anything can be done in \he law¬ making department about auch home- wrecking things as the Forty Fort mine caves, the recent subaidence couldn't have come, at a better !ime.
A lairly-evenly-divided Legiilotura is in aefaion, witb both parties bidding for iavor at coming elections which also can proT«t the great benefits of an evenly- i'i/idled electorate.
So far, Iwo efforts are under way.
Qne would penalize mining companies which damage the surface.
The other would have the state com- panacrte those whose properties are wreck¬ ed by uuch industrial damage.
And while it always is recalled that the la»t ^ime this state passed a law on mine caven it was upset fay tho United States Supreme Court, it also must be kept .in mind ih<A was quite a few years ago, in 'a different era and, most of all, a vastly changed group of jurists sits now on the high tribunal in Washington.
Thar* are two distinct sides to \he ques- timi. . . .
On the one hand, strickly legal and with {ill humanity and compassion elimi¬ nated! the coal companies, as matters now eiaa^. are no^ responsible.
4iter  all—it   can   bo   shown—all   ihis ce property has been sold WITHOUT
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mineral  rights.  ... It is understood  the coal below wili be mined.
And this con be considered at least to imply that one builds on that surface prop¬ erty at one's own risk.
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But that's not all.
There are human rights, too.
The mining firms could not exist if they did not have people—with human rigMs— working ior them.
These people also have to live here. . . . And they live in communities which now form a large share of the mines' market.
Don't they deserve consideration?
Then, what if they suffer as a result, not of merely an accident or "act of God," but because of improper mining, careless mining or the kind of mining which seeks mostly to grab the. easiest money and get out.
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All of these things must be considered.
Then there is one more thing. . . .
Maps to show what mining is being done—so that such as these recent caves may be avoided by municipal insistence on safety—ore supposed to be studied by borough officials every three months.
But, according to reports from Forty Fort, officials of that town haven't seen any, or asked for any, for three years.
Why?
Traffic Death ToU at J06 In Record Holiday Travel
49 Others Also Killed As Toial Reaches f 55
CHICAGO (lP)--The death toll mounted slowly but surely early today as millions of Americans took to the highways for the long July ,5 week-end.
A    United    Press    count<^___	
some 28 hours after the holi-i   .„   '        .u   v   ¦.   ..,.
.„„ 1 „ „ „4. c T>   A*   m -J "Slam on the brakes," he urged
day began at 6 P M. Friday He warned that the worst m«y showed 106 traffic deaths, be yet to come, when early va- 18 drownings, one dead in alcat'oners   start   returning   home
plane crash and 30 miscel-i*'*"^ **'"f\,^»""   ^. ^
{„_-, ,,„   ,, Lt„   f  til     Soldiers at Fort Dix, N. J., were
laneous   deaths   for   a   total ,hown movies entitled, -Coffin on
of   JO,^. I Wheels," "Drunk Driving," "Traf-
The National Safety Council had I fic with  tlie Devil" and "Wanton
eatlmated  that  380  would  die  inj Murder"  before they were issued
trafHc from 6 P, M. Friday to mid-itheir week-end passes.
night tomorrow. j    In   Indiana,   the   Federation   of
The    council    also    estimated  [Women's Clubs conducted a "chin"
that  an  all-time  record  of 40,- i telephone    call    campaign.    Bach
000,000 vehicles would be on [member     called     four     persons,
move during the holiday ;)eriod.
The 106th traffic deat'i last year was not recorded until mid-morn¬ ing Sunday, Indicating this years toll was climbing far faster than in 1954 when 324 persons were killed.   The   all-time   high   for   a
warned them to drive carefully, and asked that each call four others with the same warning, Hot Weather In Bast
Hot, muggy weather gripped the eastern two-thirds of the na¬ tion.   Widely   scattered    showers
Torrid WSVe |>4//entown Man \% Slated /<
To Continue r* '^®*^ '"®*"'®'^ ®' Moose.-f In Tliis Area ''""''"^* ^"''^''"'^ ^*'"'«**
MToman MmMi Big JheH Paid Ex-Husband Blackmail
LANGAeTKR, I'a. «tP)—A 44-year-old woman bookkeeper adanlbted reaterday tftUng $100,000 from her employer diirini; th* laat elgftt years to pay btackmaii to a fonner huatoand ahe had married sectwt- ly, according to pollc*. ^ 	
Mrs. Kathryn Rita ria».sel, wife*      ~ ~~	
of Edward Hassel, a refrigerator repairman, was held without bail on charges of larceny by an em¬ ployee, fraudulejit conversion and conspitacy.
Her secret former husl^md, John F. Huber, 49, cf York Rn 7, and his father. Kntnk, 70, a oity custodian at th(» Old Citv Hall aullding hare, lOao were held without baj. Employee SO Taeta
Mrs. Haasel, a bookkeeper for M yeata at the Darmstaetter Store, a large appUanoa anH var: ety store, and tba two other sus- Pecta were arrested ,ln an alley •>ehlnd the Old aty Ha 1 when ahe went to paaa her fan er hus¬ band another $200 he dc .landed, police aaid. The ex-huabt id wa* taken into custody wlie« h« ac¬ cepted an envelope whioh ictually
then  went  into  the  building  and arrested his father.
A discrepancy was noted in the store's books last week by Paul Bertz, a certified public account¬ ant, during a regular audit. After conferences with police and store officials, Mrs. Hassel was arrested and the trap waa laid for the other two suspects.
8e«retty Married
Mrs. Hassel said khe met Huber in 1940 and married him in 194S. She »«.i(j she bccarr.,; prcgiioni 'oe¬ fore and after the marriage and each time he performed abortions on her. She said they never lived together and that their marriage waa kept a secret.
Mrs. Hassel said her preaent husband, whom ahe married five years   ago.   knew   nothing   about
conUined    only    $38.    DrteoUves the   embezzlement   or   blackmail.
Indian ltop& Trick in Reverse— Gorden Hose furrows fnfo Lown
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IXJWNEY. Oallf. <V>—An ama¬ teur prospector usel a geiger counter yeeterday In am, attempt to aolve the mj-stery of tho dkMp- pearing garden hoae which has atumped geologists by bunnwlng 17 feeet straight down lato the ••rth in a Downey front j»rd,
eonatruction electrician Olann Sanders of nearby Asuaa look his scintillator to the home oC tmch «nvar Goerge Dj Pww. paked It jnto a two-foot diameter taUe dug In the lawn where the boeela <Hs- »PPearin» and teunedlaUlyW a reading. {
However, hia belief thatj aome ¦"known metal of radtos^Uvity •ifht have cstuaed the api phenomenon proved unfoi Saunders u^y reported theiraad- ^ "wa« juat that of tha tiraea JJ^ On the end of the ili«tle
1 #"^1.^*** ¦*'«' ^f- I*"^ <^'H^«>'' iru.rV* «*o'oKy department |$the JtaJIfornia InaUtuta of Tieotoi
admitted   the   diaapp<)K|teg
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"But I can tell you this," Camp-' bell aajd. "If that waa my hose, I'd start digging and find out what'a on the other end."
The hose, of the ordinary half- inch plastic garden variety, began its atrange descent i'nto the ground two daya ago at the Di Peso's home.
Di Peso tied the loose end of the hoae to the bumper of hia car, put the auto in low gear and pul¬ led away. The reault: The hoae broke about five feeet from the bumper and another 18 Inchea dla- apppeared  Into the ground.
Dl Peao looped the end of the hose around a ateel faucet and drew it tight. The next morning the hoae was alll I being aucked Into the ground and the ateel pipe was atarting to bend.
Represesitativeg of the Downey Water Co inapectisd the l.oae and contested they alao weri ^rmped
They said them had keen no oil wells or sump holes in the area prior to tha building of the Pi Peso bouse. ,
Eden Approves 3'Poini Plan To Bring Peace
LONDON (IPi—Prime Minister Anthony Eden yesterday ap¬ proved British plans for a three- point "package" cold war settle¬ ment to be proposed in the high- stake negotiations with the Rus¬ sians at Geneva.
Informed sources said the three- point plan provides for German unification, linked with arrange¬ ment for disarmament by phases and Ijocarno - type guarante-s against aggression on Germany or Russia.
Eden discussed final arrange ments with Foreign Secretary Haroid MacMillan in his ccntrj' residence at Chequers before Mac- Millan's departure for the Coun-i cil of Europe sesaion in Stras-| bourg.
Informed sources said the Brit¬ ish blueprint center* around Ger¬ man re-unlfication as the first nd most essential step toward end' ing the cold  war.
May Limit DIsarnuiment
Failing thia, it envisions a lim¬ ited disarmament settleme it with the Russians, the sources said.
The British proposals will be concerted with American and French plans by a Big.Three co¬ ordinating experts group in Paris next week.
Foreign ministers of '¦he United States, Britain and France will put their final seal to the master plan In Pans. .Iuly 16. just "lefore the Geneva Summit parley three days  later, officiais aaid.
't>n July 16. they will Infon.i NATO members at the Council of Ministers meeting In Paris of their over-all plan for uie talks with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bul¬ ganin and Foreign Minister y. . Molotov.
three-day   July   4th   holiday   was jwere forecast through the holiday 356 in 19,W. 'period. Ninety-degree weather was
Ned H. Dearborn safety councill commonplace, and many points ini president,   said   so   far   the   deathiColorado and Texas reported 100 rate   was  below the  council's  ad-1degree readings, vance estimate of almost five V'i    The hot weather lured miliions hour,  but he warned that It wasjto   beaches,   picnic   grounds   and running  ahead of last year. 'ball parks.
Jailing of Cis Abroad Checked By House Croup
WASHINGTON (IP)—Chairman J»mes P. Richards said yesterday the House Foreign Affairs Committee will investigate whether U. S. troops abroad are being jailed unjustly for violations of foreign laws.
The South Carolina Dem-<|,	
ocrat   told   a   reporter   the
committee wants to get "to the bottom" of charges raised during House debate on President Eisenhower'.s foreign aid and compulsory imilitary reserve bills. He said hearings will start within two weeks.
The United States has so-called "status of forces" agreements with countriea where U. S. troop* arc stationed. The agreemen'te provide that the GIs shall be subject to thc laws and courts of the country to which they are assigred.
Rep Frank T. Bow fR-Ohio) told the House an American ser¬ vicemen faces pos.sible execution by guillotine for certain offenaee in France. Deprived of RighU
"Imagine an American soldier wearing tlie uniform of this coun¬ try under the pressure that be might be guillotined," he said
Men drafted into miiitarj' serv¬ ice and sent abroad are deprived of their constitutional rights when subjected to foreign courts. he said. Bow promised to eubmit "testimony and facta that willl as¬ tound this country.
Baseball Fan At Ripe Age, 101
MILWAUKEE (UV-Mrs. Mary Thomipson related Friday how ahe became interestad tn baae¬ bali at the -I^pa c:    ¦•'^ .rf, 101.
"Th* kiu» got me intereeted last year," she •-"'. ,
"Hie "kids" re her aon «,nd daughter.   Earl   Thompson.   85,
kd Mrs. Nallie Ri&barda, 80.
French Sei To Pull Out Of yiei Nam
PARIS <IP» — Frenoh 1 . emier Eidgar Faure aaid yesterday that France is ready to withdraw 'ts forces froan ' uth Viet I'am on the request of Premier Ngo Dinh Dlom's government.
Faure nruade the pledge to Nguy¬ en Huu Ohau, Diem's special rep¬ resentative to French-Vietnamese talks that ended here Saturday.
The premier's office said Faure reaffirmed a <ieclaration made ly former Premier Pierre Menues France last year during the Geneva truce talks.
Mendes-rrance then sadd that France "promises to witilidraw her troops from the territory of south Viet Nam'; .>n the request of the government  of  Viet  Nam,"
Gan. Charles Dp Gaulle ha»i rec ommended bluntily that F'ano should ptill out of south Viet N<i«n unless the government could make the "Frenoh  "respected" in S*ig
Rep.    Hamer    H.    Budge    (R.-jon and couH make tthe Americana Idaho)   said  7,400  offfenses  havei "act like thty were our allies" in
been committed in the past few years againat the laws of other nations. In 178 of them, he eaid. there wae a jail sentence. As of
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Offieiala of Diem'g govarnment havi; said th-'y want the Fr*n«h representatives to ba an amibajaa'
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Yesterday's weather, hot¬ test of the young Summer season, sent the tempera¬ ture soaring to an official 89 degrees in Wyoming Val¬ ley without coming close to the official high tempera¬ tures the Weather Bureau recorded for the date. Simi¬ lar hot weather, with scat¬ tered thundershowers, is ex¬ pected this afternoon and evening and again on Mon¬ day.
Residents who constantly wiped perspiration from their brows while wondering about possible re¬ lief over the long Fourth of Julyi ^holiday week-] end, may find! comfort in the fact that the record high for yesterday's date was 98 degrees recorded in 1901. It was atill hotter on .Tuly 3 and 4 back in 1911. The temperature climbed to the 99 degree mark on both daya. Then, too, yesterday'a 89 de¬ gree high reading wasi't the hot¬ test this year. Similar conditions prevailed in advance of the Siim-i mer season. An official 89 degree t^^ reading was reported June 18 by the  Weather  Bureau.
The weather expected over the Fourth was yesterday described by Meteorologist Thomas E. Wahl of the U. S. Weather Bureau at Avoca Airport aa "real Summer weather." It will be the kind of weather, Mr. Wahl said, that is positive to send people "out on toe roads" seeking relief from the heat of cities and towns. Many already have departed to spend the holiday season at lakes and rivers in the mountains. Others are at the seashore for the weekend.
Regional bus lines, Frank Martz Coach Co., Greyhound Lines and Capltol Trailways — pressed all rolling atock in service to trans¬ port people who wanted to be traneported Friday and yesrterday. Scores of extra drivers were atil- ized for the extra schedule*. In addition, chartered busses will be busy today and tomorrow, taking people to outings in many scat¬ tered points of the region.
Residents who like their weather on the cooler side are aesured by the weatherman that some relief from hot and humid conditiona Is on the way and may arrive aome time tomorrow. A cool front com¬ ing southward between the Hud¬ son Bay area and the Great Lakes Region is expected to bring slight¬ ly lower temperatures and less aticky weather.
There la a poeaibility, however, that temperaturea may move Into the 90s thia aftemoon.
Berwick Woman Crooned Queen During Pageant
Nearly 2,000 Moose delegates, lodge members and friends are enjoying the holiday week-end in Wilkes¬ Barre, the host city for the 18th annual convention of the Eastern Pennsylvania Moose Asaociation. The vis¬ itors from 75 lodges will wind up their three-day session
  tomorrow night.
Today's ses.sion will be highlighted with a Presi¬ dent's Banquet tonight St Hotel Sterling, the conven¬ tion headquarters. The dele¬ gates will greet a new pre.sident. He is Thonuui Dougherty, niember of the Catasaqua Lodge,^ Allen¬ town. Dougherty will aut*: ceed Walter A. Sipel, beth town.
Dougherty's nomination prfsidency will be presented ' delegates at a final buainesB ai^^ j.sion   this   morninfj   at   the   H|>tel .SlerUnK. Other new officer.'^ wilj^be: first vice president, CSiarles ha user. Darby: second vice pt idfnt.   .lohn   Drucis,   Mt.   Car ithird  vice  president.  Alfred  BVe- land, Bloomsburg; prelate, Wllanfei Crow,   Middletown;     sergeant-at* i arma, William Beers, Quakertown. Tonight's   banquet   will   feature a talk by Congressman Danial J. Flood.   Siper,   the   retiring  preai¬ dent,   also   will   speak.   J.   Jack Stoehr,   Pittsburgh,   past   director general, will be toastmaster. Inspect Central City
The viaiting Moose, conspicuous by their souvenir hata and red and blue-ribboned badges, formally opened their convention yevsterday and then proccedsd to tako ttvat the town.
The Central City shopp)-.g dis¬ trict proved to be their first choice Local  businessmen  met the chai- leniicc and overwhelmed'he visitora with a display of local hospitality. ResUurants   and   other   businea* places banncrefl welcome signs The   vlsitom   comprised   sev¬ eral large delegations, the larg¬ est  reported  to  be  a  group ef more than 300 from     Philadel¬ phia. Large delegations also reg¬ istered    from    Hanover    and Vork. The delegates arrive*! Iqr plane,  bus,  train  and  antocne- blles.
The   Moose   T-odge   ot   Wflkae- Barre,   the   convention   host,   *»- ported   about   150  memteera  wara on  hand to welcome the viaitora. . In   addition,  other  county  lodcas ] (Continued on Page 2, Section 1)   •
MRS. EDNA BECK
Hotel Rcdington's Victory Ball¬ room was thc setting last night of the highlight of the Women of Moose's annual three-day con¬ vention—the  Coronation   Pageant
Despite soaring temperatures outside, the delegates — many of whom arrived in busses from Hazelton, Freeland and adjoining localities just before the cere¬ monies began—their escorts, guests and members of thc Men of the Moose attended the crowning of Mrs. Edna Beck of Berwick as "The Queen of Sponsors." During the past year, Mrs. Beck spon¬ sored more than 80 new members in her chapter.
The formal ceremonies com¬ menced when Frieda Klinger, clad in a colorful white robe en¬ tered the ballroom. She was fol (Continued on Page 2, Section 1)
Convention Sidelights
Joseph McHaie, Wilkes-Bar.-e Lodge, chairman .^f the registra- tiona committee, waa on Juty for 48 consecutive hours, tending to the needs of the visitors.
JIust aa viaiting delegates drop¬ ped in at the looal Moose Home, the juke box broke down. Dave livingstone, a member ot the lodge, entertained by pla.ving the bones, much te the delight of the visitors.
Valley Scenes
Citu bowler flipping on West tide aileya, falling flat on his faee and giving two yov.ng Uidiet tie wa* inatrueting cause for laughter.
''at ron   in   eittt   store   eom- that   after   sea   food *d in establts>iment it ounces »h»rU
Zola Kenny, grand recorder, traveled aill the way from Moose¬ heart, 111., to be present. Ohicagi. which she le<t Friday, was mucn cooler  than  Wilkea-Barre.
Frances CJhonisler of Yi Ruth I. Price of Harrii themselves cool during from t'he Hoti    Stor Redington. by stopping drugstore to have a "cO( looked more like teen' visiting dignitaries.
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T^ robe that (^een EXtasi 9iiK" wore laat niirht was ao heavy ttwt the youngaters who wouM ordi¬ narily carry her tradn bad te be rapiaced by teenagara — brawn.
The   visiting   delegntae leave Wiilcea-Barre srith n mjing.   naici    Dompewt.' was   uttered   rrprntifilHf III iing the
Celia   Druzba  of fcrrived yesterday
Judge Thcmas M. !.*¦ '-!.  local jurls<t,   stirred   hia audit ice  with lan irvspiring speech on che weWara Iwork done by the Mooee. He s-poliie' to har cliagris lat   tha   Friday   n*g»it  cc-'-*?i!i' r> iag tbe wron^p, I claaa    oeratnenlea   wt   tftia   n.. ^ta*! "
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