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World Ban Is Favored In Ending Bomb Tests
75 Senate Witnesses Also Favor Ban Against Missiles, Surprise Weapons
WASHINGTON (IP) — A Senate subcommittee on disarmament reported yesterday that 75 witnesses who appeared at its hearings favored ending atomic and hydrogen bomb tests through international agree¬ ment. «	
The non- government witnesses also agreed gen¬ erally that "all weapons of mass destruction should be eliminated
FBI to Disclos* Aotopsy Results; Mother Collapses
HAMDEN, Conn. (IP)— .Mni. Eleanor Ruotolo col- ^^^
lapsed   yesterday   at   the'and     prohibited."    They    aUo^,   -^ burial   of   her   slain   six-lwould extend the  International t\L   r|A|MA««Wn4f* week-old daughter, the third In-;ban  on  weapons  to testing of ||l    l/CfllULrdl^ tJnt uhe has lost in four years.|inter-continental    hallistir    mi.. ^ ¦    ¦^WiiiWl*! M»«#
Cynthia Ruotolo. found float- ¦""  —'   -*—' init in a plastic hag in a reser- roit fiva days after ahe disap-
Smear Tactics
IIAMDEN, Conn.  (W — A theory   that   m   nhorU   dark- I skinned woman kidnaped six- I weel(-nld Cynthia Ruotolo from her carriage at a depart¬ ment store blew up last night when the woman under ques¬ tioning proved to police she >»as carrying her own bifant when seen In the store.
Police said tne woman, who was not Identified, had wor¬ ried ever since the baby dis¬ appeared by eyewitness re¬ ports that a Bwarthy, darlt- halred woman may have talten the child.
.Seven persons who had told police of seeing the woman were called to police head¬ quarters. They Identified the woman as the one they saw, thus eliminating her as a poi- (ibla suspect, police said.
IScored by GOP
Nixon Should Get Everyone's Sympathy Now, Brown States
WASHINGTON OP)
More Troops Are Sent To Race Rioting Zones
Guardsmen Prepared to Protect Students
peared from her carriage in a Sejs Roebuck department store, was buried in a patch of yellow wild flowers as the FBI sought to determine what killed her.
Authorities itept doggedly It their investigation of the week-old mystery, still labeled u a kidnap-murder. The FBI was preparing an autopsy re¬ port, which authorities said would be announced tomor¬ row.
Mrs. Ruotolo, who took Cyn¬ thia on  the  fatal   outing,   col
ballistic mis¬ siles and development of new "surprise" weapons.
The   subcommittee   reported their  dtand   in  an  interim re¬ port Aslcs General Agreement
President Eisenhower has held it would be foolhardy to stop testing atomic and hydrogen weapons in the absence of some general agreement on disarma¬ ment. And Republican leaders have attacked Democratic presi-,—\Vhite House Press Sec- dential candidate Adlai E. retary James C. Hagerty Stevenson for proposmg thatjyesterday cited former ^nn ^rh^.T„'a"'.rh%«J!f"*"*"iPfeside"t Truman's n ewe.t tion to haltmg such tests j "buck-passing"   charge   against
The  witnesses   endorsed   Mr. President   Eisenhower  as   "one Eisenhowers   plan   fpr   mutual of  the   reasons"  why  Republ aerial   inspection  to  prevent  a!cans   have   assigned   a   truth surprise    attack    and    recom-lgquad   to   follow   Mr.   Truman mended that it be carried out byi around the country, the United Nations j    jj^^^^y   told   reporters   that
They agreed with administra-1Mr. Truman's charge, and other tion witnesses that stockpile nu-recent Democratic criticiama of clear weapons cannot be de-;Mr. Eisenhower, "will be an- tected by any Inspection system i swered in the campaign—with now known. facts."
The subcommittee, headed by] With President Elsenhower Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-land Vice President Richard M. Minn.) said developments in Nixon spending a quiet week- ma.ss-destructlon weapons haveiend before launching their offi- both  hindered  and he!p>ed dis- cial re-election campaigns, Hag-
Monday Test Day' In Bitter Battle Over Segregation
STURGIS, Ky. (IP)—National Guard officials pre¬ dicted last night that Monday would be "test day" in the bitter school desegregation battle here and at nearby Clay and used the peacefulness of the weekend  ___<j tocomplete plans for han¬ dling any trouble.
armament methods.
S. Carolina Girl 'Miss America'
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. lapsed into the arms of her hus-id?)—Marian   Ann   Mc-
A Kentucky National Guard tank stands in front of the Sturgis, Kentucky, High School. Negro  (tudenti at Sturgii and  Clay,  Ky.,
stayed home because of unfriendly crowds ground the schools. A group of newspaper¬ men were chased out of Clay.
erty and  Rep.  Clarence Brown
ni-Ohio) carried the ball for the
GOP in replying to Democrats
who   already   are   campaigning
vigorously.
Charges Smear Tactlci
Brown, vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, accused the Democrats erf re¬ sorting to smear tactics "be¬ cause they have no issues."
"President Truman Is smear-
lapscu iniu inw Bims ui ner iius-iiu ^-— x^l n i i a ii    i-mii    a.*!.- .                    oreat   nrp«lripnt   find
band. Stephen, 3X as the tinyl^nig^ht. Miss South Caro-I other Democrats are smearing
roffm was lowered Into a graven        »                                             : ^i^^  President  Nixon  at  thS
In the children's section of St ""«.   '"st   nignt   won   me   mie, _,„„„„, h«« should have mardi  Cemetery   in   nearby of Miss America of  1957 over^ J^^^ ™°!^«"' ^e 'hould have
a field of 50 beauties in Con-i Brown.
vention Hall.                               ! ..j^^.^ j^ ,j^^ ^ ^^^,1 ^„y ^^,
htl^ttends Funeral
iwpo, who earlier had de-
Six Capitol Probe Groups Set for Work
Red Strategy, Taxes,
TV Monopoly, Ballot
Spending on Agenda
WASHINGTON (IP) —Six congressional groups start new investigations or resume old ones this week, producing the most activity at adjournment
No >^ccfdent In Mine Since Back in 1928
JOi-lNSTOWN, Pa. (IP—The Pennsylvania Bituminous Safe¬ ty Association yesterday pre¬ sented its merit award to the Harmon Creek Coal Corp. for a "no accident" safety record stretching back to 1928.
Louis E. Evans of Edinboro, deputy secretary of mines and president of the association, made the presentation to Sales Manager .lames R. Wilson and Walter Robertson, superin¬ tendent of Harmon Creek's Florence mine at Burgetts- town.
Margo Lucey. Miss District of ing  t,, jrop a  Flying  Fortress jthe  Capitol   since Columbia, was second. iwith a pea-shooter. The Ameri-i50 days ago.
In third place was Anne^can pub^c, I am confident, willj The committees will inquire Stuart Aria!. Miss Alabama.;"'" "K^^J'.^''"' ""ything-into such diverse matters as .^ .   goes-to-win tactics election-year   campaign   spend-
There were  no  announcements!    Mr. Truman, in a speech herejhig, Soviet strategy, taxes, lob-
New Haven
Fatbti
R dsreiTthe dead child was not his and that he would not at¬ tend the funeral, carried his moaning wife through a cluster of curiosity seekers and police
* He't«>l{^her to the police car!°" fourth and fifth or any break- Friday night, accused Mr. Eisen-jbylng. the possibiiitv of monop- that had carried them to the down on the judging from there-1hower of playing "the old Army oly in the television industry, cemetery and they were drivenlon down. game of passing the buck.   He '    - -- —
to the  home   of   friends   with!    Miss McKnight  is  a  blonde,;*f'f^»'f„f»''^n^* -h,, TuC"
stvle home was occupied only,..medium- complexion. She hails- " "^ successiui, bvFBI agents. ' from Manning, S. C.
Also among the five finalists;    Hagotry said the speech was
I Squad Follows Truman
.State's"  Attorney     Abrahami'¦"¦""*"¦"¦"¦'''"¦^¦•, UUman, who is directing the in-, . ^'fo thnrtrv hpforrm'idni'^ht'a Rood example of why Repub-jof an elections subcommittee in ^'llTat ttSm^tm'Jasiwe'rBa^K^'fge^^^^^^^ Chfrman  Leon-quin-   into   campaign  contribu
u^ri^inl r.^ .^Jrt^rfirh^m! Arizona, and Mary Ann Mc-"<» W Hall recently announced working on a report of a chem-1_ mu. K«nta< iformaUon     <rf     a     Republican
Ical analysis of Cynthia's vital j Grew. Miss Kansas. ^ I "truth  squad"—a  flying  squad
organs,   which   were   removed     When the new queen accepted;^ jj^j^.^^^ ,^^^^^3 ^j^,.
after   the    body    was    found a large gold trophy, a symbol of;,        ^^    Tr.,rr,^   d Thursday. |the dream of young  Amencan,^^    ;
There  was   a   bruise  on   the!womanhood, she said: icharges
head of the partly decomposed! "I can never thank each of' Mr Truman left by plane for bodv, but authorities did not;you enough. Who could have Kansas City after paying a visit know whether it waa the causei thought this could happen to,to the First Baptist Church of the baby's death ime'   I will do everything in my where he worshipped when he
Truman   during and     answer
the his
For   the   third   time   In   her power to be a deserving repre- (Cmtinued on Page 2. Sec. I) isentative a* Miss America.
lived in the White House.
Record Low
Hard Coal, Bituminous
Have Expansion P/ans I Due Today
NEW YORK. W—The nation's based on reports ot 79 bltuml- bituminous coal industry in thei nous     organizations     operating next five years  will  spend asUll mines producit^g 164,248,000 ^luch as $1,500,000,000 for new tons in 1956, or neariy one-third , Equipment  and  facilities   alone of   the   industry's   anticipated IJP   order   to   raise   production total for the year. iT'i^acity almost 150 billion tons $5,500,000 In Anthracite iiv 1960, a Coal Age survey re-     In anthracite, it is noted, no vealed yesterday. great change is anticipated, with
|v1he   study   of   the   McGraw-jfour     producers,     representing fmi   publication   discloses   the one-fourth of all anthracite ton- //Mustry's plans to match pro-nage,   expecting  to  spend  $5,- ductive   capacity    against    the 500,000 in the 1956-1960 period, rapidly  rising   market   deqiand     Coal age said heads of the 79; ff"' coal. Ibituminous groups reporting  in!
Bllllon-Ton Goal 'the survey were virtually unan-'
The 1956-1960 program. It imous in forecasting a good notes, is but the first stage of future for the industry. • 20-year Industry expansion They see, the magazine re-i '"»t is expected to push bitumi- ported, "A firm, rising demand nous output to a billion tons or for coal, primarily as a result of more Ijy 1975—more than dou- growth in the utility, steel, gen- "ip expected 1956 output. leral industrial and export mar-
Projections in the survey are keU."
^'7/ Use Pipeline to Transport ^oft Coal from Mine to Market
PITTSBURGH. Wi— F u 11- «Mle tests of the nation's first commercial pipeline for the transmission of coal, will ««t under way soon in Ohio, the United Press learned yes¬ terday.
Construction of the unique hne, which will carr>' coal i^'« miles from southeastern "hio to the Cleveland area, "W Is reported approaching Mmpletion. Full operation »*aits the finish of a series "eporT^"' ¦"°''*''"K to field A Longtbne Dream nrni . multi - million - dollar Proiect, fulfillment o^ i long- 'if".e dream of coal wMl
^ 'ver fine-sized  < ed
*>th water from t: -e-
*owi   mines   of -h
Consolidation Coal C. he
Uhnf . •''¦'="¦'<' nener.-Uing Vt?n- ?f Cleveland Illuml- "a^ng Co.
th,, "¦9<'"»oUdated     started '"fi  protect   ¦ *">r!d-wide *«e   oo
In   l<)49   after  a
study    of   work
pipeline   Uansmie-
sion of coal dating back to the turn of the century. A small pilot operation was completed at Library, Pa., in 1950.
The following year, Pitt- Consolidated completed a demonstration - sized system near Cadiz, Ohio. After four more years of atudy, work was started on construction of the giant commercial line. Enters Into Contract
Pitt - Consolidated already has entered into a contract with Cleveland Illuminating to deliver over a 15-year pe¬ riod 18,000,000 tons of coal through the pipeline from its Georgetown workings, which rank among the biggest com¬ mercial mines in the world.
The coal will be washed and crushed to fine sizes and then mixed with water to form a "slurry," which is moved through the pipeline under pressure from pumps. At Eastlake. special equip¬ ment will extract the coal from the fluid mixtur*.
Temperatures below normal are predicted for today, accord¬ ing to the Weather Bureau at Avoca Airport. Some modera¬ tion is expected by tonight but normal readings are not due until later tomorrow. There was frost in the moun¬ tains last night end the bu¬ reau forecast a low of 38, a new record, for this moming. A high of 70 has been fore¬ cast for today.
Readings yesterday mom¬ ing at the airport showed the mercury down to 42 before sunrise, with places like Bear Creek and Glen Summit reg¬ istering 38, High was 64 at 1:30 yesterday afternoon.
REBELS -TOSS BOMBS
NICOSIA, Cyprus (ffi—Eight Cypriot rebels shot It out with British troops in a gunfight at a police station In Kyrenia yes terday.
The rebels, apparently mem bers of the EOKA pro-Greek underground, tossed three bombs into the police station, charged in during the confusion and scooped up a quantity of arms.
Finds Yugoslavia Swinging to West
ATHENS, OWo (IP—Ohiio Uni¬ versity President John Baker, just t>ack from a tour of Yugo¬ slavia, said yesterday he found "widespread understanding and appreciation" of American aid there.
Baker spent five weeks in Ge¬ neva, Switzerlai 1, as U. S. re¬ presentative to the United Na¬ tions «^r nomic and Social Coun¬ cil befure visiting the Slavic country.
He said he found many unde¬ veloped areas, both industrially and agriculturally, but said Yugoslavia appeared to be "emerging from  its  problems."
"I definitely gained the im¬ pression that Yugoslavia con siders itself a part of the W«st,'
IWMdd.
156 MPH Winds Rip Okinawa
U. S. 'Typhoon-Proof Structure Damaged
NAHA, Okinawa (IB—
A   typhoon   battered   this
strategic   U.  S.   military
.bastion for 12 hours yes-
will testify at the opening terday with winds that reached
156 miles per hour.
One U. S. military policeman was known dead. He.was elec¬ trocuted while touching an elec¬ tric fan during the storm.
Complete details of a damage
and casualties were delayed as
a  result  of  a  communications
blackout caused by the violent
rector of the largest resistance violent winds of Typhoon Emma.
and tbe collision of two big air¬ liners over the Arizona Grand Canyon.
Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler and his Repub¬ lican counterpart, Leonard W. Hall
Adlai Says GOP Shuns Farmer, Small Business
'Party of Bigness' Termed 'Calloused' To Present Plight
COLUMBUS, Ohio (IP) —Adlai E. Stevenson charged last night that the Republicans have adopted the attitude that the family farmer and the small businessman are "obsolete."
The Democratic presidential candidate lashed out at the Eisenhower administration for treating the farmer with "Cal¬ lousness" and small business as "a neglected stepchild."
Stevenson said in a speech before the Ohio State Demo¬ cratic Convention that the GOP the spokesman for the rich
Nasser Agrees To Meet Again On Suez Issue.
No Chances Seen
That He Will
Change His Stand
CAIRO (IP)-1-The five nation Menzies committee agreed yesterday to make one   last   attempt  to  get
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel j watches   the   vanishing   family Nasser   to  accept   international ifarm and the squeezing out of
IS
and the powerful." "As the party of bigness, it
Kentucky State Adj. Gen. J. J. B. Williams, in charge of fhe National Guard units here, said "We think Monday, when the Negro kids may attempt to come to school again, will be the test day of this whote af¬ fair."
The children and their fami¬ lies indicated strongly that at least part of them would be back Monday if they were given protection.
Additional Guardsmen Called
It appeared there would be lots of National Guard help, wilh another tank battalion or¬ dered to nearby Camp Breckin¬ ridge for standby duty. It will reinforce the battalion already camped in the Sturgis High School yard and will bring the total Guard strength in the area to 800 officers and men.
Nine Negro children managed to spend their first day in school here Thursday after bein escort¬ ed through an unruly crowd by police and Guardsmen. But they failed to retum and brave the crowd Friday.
Four of the nine said yester¬ day they would retum to school Monday, despite the expected crowd and threats that their fathers would lose their jobs in nearby coal mines.
Two Negro children at Clay, some 11 miles from here, also attempted to attend school there on Friday, but were turned away by another hostile crowd.
The mother of the two, Mrs.
tion expenditures. To Hear Director
The House Committee on un- American Activities will offer as a competing attraction testi¬ mony on "Soviet strategy" from a foreigner who is billed as "di
behind   ^e   Iron
organization Curtain."
The witness will be Ernst Til- ertor of "The Fighting Group Against   Inhumanity."   He   was
business with Httle con-l James Gordon, said yesterday cera and no distress," Stevenson I tj}«y would be back Monday "if said. rhey get protection.'
Stevenson   came   here   fromj Both Towns Peaceful Springfield,   111.,   where   he   at-1    She said "I have no intention tended a "homecoming" in the: of turning back Monday if I am state capital where he served as given protection. But I have no
control  of the Suez Canal.  It|small was virtually certain he would refuse again.
During a marathon meeting with his advisors, Nasser sent worid to the committee that he would agree to meet with it again.
Nasser prepared hii answer yesterday to a committee mem¬ orandum drawn up under the direction   of   Australian   Prime
Minister    Robert    G.    Menziesjij "hreatening to'wTpe'ou'rthe!^'"?""'^ ^'^^ which .sources said singled outjfamily farmer . . . the backbone the major point in the dispute—|of  American   society.' whether Egypt or a group of na- ^used the GOP of
governor   from   1949   to   1953. From here, he planned to fly to New  York  to  get  set  for  an eastern swing next week. Crisis on Farms
intention of taking my two chil¬ dren out to let them mob them." Both town* were peaceful and quiet yesterday, but the National Guard still camped in the high
Stevenson said here that there f^°°^  /ard   here,   with   three is a "crisis on our farms, whichIt^anks^standmg men aclngly
tions wili run the waterway.
The committee, after a two- hour meeting at the Australian legation, sent the memorandum to Nasser with a request for a last-gasp meeting which will be held Sunday.
Cairo Radio said the meeting
15 Inchea of Rain
The storm, worst to hit this island In memory of its oldest residents, covered military and
__       .     civilian    installatione   with    15  „
flown to Washington Thursday jj^^g,  ^ ^.^^  gy^.^ ,  24-hour| would be held et the president's
and is the first of • series ofj period   in   downpours  that  cut palace.
overseas witnesses the commit- u^g   knives   under   the   terrific; Spokesmman Deniei Report!
wind pressure. |    Committee   spokesman   Noel
Winds built up to 140 miles Deschamps    denied    "wild   re an hour according to U.S. Army
meteorologists. A civilian weath¬ er station measured one gust at
156 miles—the maximum on the
wind gauge.
Headquarters Damaged The "typh(x>n proof" Ryukus
Command     Headquarters     suf-
fered   damage.   Partitions   and CLEVELAND,  O.,   (IB — Adm. windows splintered in the wind. Arieigh   Burke   chief  of  naval Warehouse   hoofs   flipped   high operations,   said   yesterday  the (njo   j^e   air.     Flimsy   civilian
shacks crumpled.   Lowlands
tee plans to bring here In quest of data on "international CcHn- munist atrategy and tactics."
Sixth Fleet Standing By
flooded    under    the
U. S. Sixth Fleet was, standing
by in the Mediterranean to keep
close watch on Suez Canal de- ^ins. Automobiles wem flipped
velopments. jj,^   tiddlvwinks
The admiral, here to address ^V^^ ^ ,H^i.,„. ..« ,., h^»<: the Naval Reserve Association,j„]?'r/"fi^J'^,L°'^* 1.„E/°*h said there were no plans to send ^'^'P'^ !™"'v.^*iL''*^"*'n..» other Naval units because "the '^o*'"^!   ""   '^"''"'   ^''  """
ports" that the talks which be¬ gan last Monday had collapsed.
But the committee sources said the group is sticking to its demand for international con¬ trol as outlined in the plan put forth by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Nasser has flatly rejected this, and the Egyptian press said yesterday he would not change his stand.
The committee was expected
He ac- 'defeatism" toward this.
The administration "has de¬ cided that lower prices mean less production and if this also means bankruptcy for a lot of family farmers, well they are obsolete or beyond salvage any¬ way." he said.
Stevenson quoted a Republi¬ can candidate for Congress from Illinois as saying two weeks ego that  the  GOP  platform   "faces
.said the Guard would remain as long as was necessary. State po¬ lice withdrew all but a handful of men over the weekend, but are due back in more force be¬ fore Monday moming.
torrential jto leave tomorrow for London where Britain already has vir¬ tually   written   off   the   Cairo
the   Kadena   Air  Base
Sixth Fleet is now ready for aitything it may be celled upon to do." The main combat ele¬ ments of the Sixth, two aircraft carriers and two cruisers, are now at Sardinia.
Burke said the Navy did not consider itself Involved  in anyiBoy Baseball Fan situation  in   the  Mediterranean       ' which would require a ahow of palis From Stands force.
area.
Most of the 40,000 Americans and 600.000 Okiriawans took to storm shelters. Their precautions were expected to hold down the casualties.
3 GUNMEN HELD
. CHICAGO m — Police last night jailed three gunmen who boasted they had kidnapped a motorist and carried out a string of robberies In three states.
One of the trio. Onward Rus sell, 25, of Marion, Ohio, said they planned to hold up a Chi¬ cago   bank   Thursday.     Russell
PHILADELPHIA (IP — A 15 year-old Plymouth, N. J., boy was injured yesterday when he fell out of the upper stands at Connie Mack Stadium.
Jerry Berosh tumbled 40 feet into the first base line box seats following the baseball game be¬ tween tne Phillies and Pitts¬ burgh Pirates. He landed just behind the Pittsburgh dugout.
Dr. Thomas McTear,  Phillies
told police they already had team phvsician, treated Berosh studied the floor plan of the in-]at the scene. He was later ad- tended bank which he Identified imitted to Temple University as the Merchants National on'Hospital, where hia condition the city's West Side. was listed as fair.
700 Stay-aways Warned
MATOAKA, W. Va. (IP—The Mercer County school superin¬ tendent gave parents of 700 children boycotting county schools over integration until "next week" to get their chil- vjv^. .»...,.... .„^_ dren back to school or face pos- the'economic'facTthVt the small,''W" legal action, farmer is becoming obsolete."! "I hope the situation will re- Aides said this remark came "o've Itself over the week-end," from Edgar A. Jonas, Chicago. W. R. Cook, the superintendent, an   ex-congres.sman. *aid.   "If it doesn't we'll have
c. _   —.»»„....<   .   f,.^.A to take some action.
Stevenson   espoused   a   food^ stamp plan for the needy to help;    Cook said West Virginia law put farm  surplus to use.   This requires children from seven to
16 years to attend school. "We are obligated to enforce that law, and we will," he said.
previously has been endorsed by his   running   mate.   Sen.   Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. World Food Bank
He also recommended an "ex¬ panded" school milk and lunch program and "a world food bank." ||^*||        T
There Isn't any sense in I>ay-| |%|f|S    f VfO
PlaneCrash
talks and was  reluctantly  pre-iing for it and piling it up when
paring to take the issue to the United Nations
LONDON  (m  —  French  Pre¬ mier Guy Mollet will join Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden here _, . . ,^„^^ nin tomorrow to hear a report on ""'=" '"'*^ "'" the Cario Snez talks. It was an nounced yesterday.
it "couldn't cost any more to use!    CHESTER, It," he said of surpluses. jwere    killed
Stevenson again outlined his aim to "stabilize farm income at full parity levels."
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Section Pagel
Amusement    Four
Around the Town. .Three
Better English Two
City Hall Newi ....Two
Classified   Six
Count\ News Two
Crossword Puzzle ..Six
Drew Pearson Three
Editorial   Three
Frank Tripp Three
Horn* ct Week ...Six
Section Page
8-9 How Can I ? ? ?...Four 2
71 Look and Leam ....One 12
4 Obituary  One 8
elPolitics   Three 6
l-SlRadio    Two 11
'7!Robert C. Ruark ...Three 7
2 State Capital Two S\
6:State Newi  Two 9
8:SporU  Three 1-5
7JTV   Four 8
2-4IWomen's Section ..Four 1-7
Valley Scenes
Thre« yourtff m^le "gpot- teri" at aircraft warning tower near Court Houxe training their binoculars on three pretty girl attaehe$ entering Court Htuse.
String of Christmas light* aglow Wedne^ay nigflt on 4Jld Rivtr Rd. apartment hous*.
Ten-year-old shoe shine hoy entering H otsl Sterling, checking shine box, ordering first class lunek and select¬ ing L. Verne Lacy of the architect firm to be his com¬ panion for luncheon conver¬ sation.
The Rev. Jule Ay ers of Wilkes-Ban-e's First Pres¬ byterian Church, hearing man told in Dallas restaurant that there were no wore eopiea of the New York Times, helping out by presenting his copy, which he had bought that morning in Vermont and which had travelled some 800 miles bsfore r*aehing itt final deattnation.
In his Springfield, III., talk, Stevenson said Congress should give high priority to a bill to "help communities with chronic unemployment to help themselves," spon¬ sored by Sen. Paul H. Doug¬ las (D-Ill.) and Congressman Daniel J. Flood of Wllkes- Barre,  Pa.
Pa. (TO—Two men yesterday when their single- engined plane stalled shortly after takeoff tnd crashed in an open field near the Delaware County Airport.
State Police Identified the vic¬ tims as John P. Pirson, 39, own¬ er and pilot of the craft, of Media, Pa., and a passenger, Alfred Smith, 41, of Berwyn. Airport officials aaid the plane was tuming at about 300 feet in the takeoff pattern wh«i
Stevenson said there are "serl-i its motor quit. The creft ous pockets of depression" ini crashed neariy a mile from tha ¦many" industrial and miningi^jrt and burst into flames areas and the Douglas-Fiood billv. . u ,
should be "one of the most im-lf^'remen from nearby communi- porunt items on Congress! ties extinguished the blaze, but agenda" when it reconvenes,    'the bodies were badly burned.
ThouqhttuI V^ilkes-Barre Visitor Finds Huckster's Horse Unkind
Seeing a horse along the street these days when the faithful steeds have been re¬ placed by motor vehicles is rare, and it tempted Joseph Lavelle, Newark, N. J., to be a little friendly to the animal. That proved a mistake.
Lavelle, visiting his sister at 392 Hazle St., Wilkes-Barre, yesterday afternoon, tried to feed the horse some grass and almost lost his forefinger. This report of Officer Anthony Gil¬ bert telli the itoryi
"Detailed to Wyoming Val¬ ley Hospital to Investigate horse bite. Joseph Lavelle, Newark. N. J., lald he wu visiting his sister and vai feeding a * huckster*! horse some grass when the horse bit his forefinger.
"Owner of the horse, ,Shit>- ble Alexander, 92 Loomis St. was notified to inform police headquarters if anything hap¬ pen! to the hone." I
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