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51 ST YEAR ~ NO. 40 — 74 PAGES
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1957
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2 YOUNG BOYS SLAIN BY SADIST
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Truck Union, AFL-CIO Split Drawing Near
Still Doubt Whether Teamsters Will Be Ousted or Pull Out
Railroad Crewmen Saved From Death iDulles'Study Because They Were Not on Schedule |0f Arms Talks
Series of Delays Proved Godsend, Hero Explains
By JAME.S COCCO Staff Writer
"Lucky we were late." sairl Rohert Hoban, hero of the g-i^fantic cave at Coxlon on Thursday.
"If it happened an hour soon- The split between the parent er.'' *ireused the 40-year-old rail- orRanir-ation and the big truckiroader. M wouldn t have bee^n drivers' union widened with able to see because of the dark- thcse developments:
WASHINGTON (IP)|
—Chances that the Team- .ster.s Union will be thrown out or will pull out of the A1-1.-CIO before the year is over increased yesterday.
they'd   never   have
AFl.-CIO sources Indicated that Teamster Vice President James F. Hoffa, who appeared to have fhe insidf track for the union presidency soon to he vacated by Dave Beck, would be unacceptable as head of an AFL-CIO union.
A Teamsters spokesman said his union's executive board won't be able fo attend a hearing before the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee next week on corruption charges against the union.
Hoffa and supporters from three of the Teamsters four divisions started a campaign to seek repudiation of the AFL-CIO's policy against use of the Fifth Amendment by union officials fo avoid testi¬ fying in congregational in¬ vestigation of labor corrup¬ tion.
AFL-CIO President George Mcany and the AFL-CIO F.fhical Practices Committee were said to be disappointed reform forces among the Teamsters couldn't force a house-cleaning.
ness   and found us"
Modestly handing to Lady Luck a lot of the credit his own bravery and quick think¬ ing earned, that was how Hoban summed up his exper¬ ience when  interviewed  yester-
|day at his home at I27!,2 Searle
1st., Pittston.
Mohan's alertness was credit¬ ed with the saving the lives of
jthe   five-man   switching   crew.
I He spotted the giant hole just in time to shout an alarm. Fie and three co-workers jumped to safety as the engineer moved into "reverse and halted clear of the crater.
Hoban. a veteran of 115 years on the railroad, explained that a series of delays during the crew's shift had placed them behind schedule.
The train of coal cars with Hoban on the end started to move along a siding at the yard as dawn was breatting after a delay of about two hours.
"It was just light enough to see the hole," he recalled.
"At first I thought il was a shadow across the tracks. Then I saw it was a hole—thought the whole yard disappearad!   For a
Is Top Order
President Directs Him to Get Data On London Meeting
Charred, Mutilated Bodies of Sroffiers Are Found Near Pool
BROCKTON, Mass (UP)—The charred, mu¬ tilated and bound bodies of two young brothers were found in a public pai'k under a pile of burn¬ ing branches yesterdav, the victims of a sadistic killer.
¦ The voungsters, John Logan, 12. and his ^^^"^ ^ ? ^^ 9^^ *-* ,^ *^* brother" Paul, 10, who had been missing since v;..'n'*f r,...^iH"'.5r;:f'''i'i<'y «-hen they went for a swim, were found lary of .Slate John Fo.s ler face down about a yard apart near a large pond. Dulles to flv to london tonight:Their bathing suits had been stripi>ed from their ir^emtalks^an t 'ated Tom ^odies, their wHsts had been bound with clothes- threatened deadlock or collapse, line I'ope and one of them had been hacked with
A White House announcement, Ij^  J^nife echoed    by    State    Departmenti^.       ,^    '   i-  j      d jy
spokesmen,   .said   Dulles'   unex-*-^!!  "^^/^  I naer  ooay u     •    i    j
pected trip does nof mean either     far keys on a rinjr were bencalh one hoy.«? body, a -breakthrough" or a "break-     The youngster,"!, of Stouffhton, JIass., had been mis.^-
inj? after their father took thom to the P. W. Field Park, which i.s guarded l)y eigiit lifeguards and park
 ^. police.
Late Friday their clothe,';
down" is near in the long search for a disarmament formula.
Dulles will make a "personal review and judgment " of the big disagreements between Russia and the West and the lesser isj sues among the Western Allies on how to make a "first step" toward checking the arms race, administration spokesmen said. ¦, A-Tests Big Problem |
However, informed sources^ added that it was increasingly apparent that early hopes of agreement with Russia are being destroyed by Russia's refusal to link a proposed nuclear test sus¬ pension with more fundamental and complicated first-step dis¬ armament moves.
The West refuses to stop test¬ ing atomic weapons without as surance that Russia will join in a broader and workable system
Trainman Robert Hoban. 40, of 127"i Searle St., Pittston, hero of Thursday's cave-in at the Lehigh Valley Railroad vard al Coxton, relaxes In the livingroom of hia family home with two of his five children, Bobby and Betsy, twins.—(Photo by Lukasik)
Blast Evidence Found in Plane
BARSTOW. Calif. (IP)— A blasting cap and evi¬ dence of a small e.xplosion were found on an airliner from which a heavily-insured passenger was presumed blown when a mysterious blast oc-, -iirred in flight Thursday, the FBI said vesterday. 1
Nearly three mnnfh* ago the^n^fnent I couldn t believe my rommittee made it clear that Ihfjo^" ,*yf*   ,   . ,.    ,.   .
rramsfers would have to get rid!. Asked what was his first ac-
of Beck and Vice Presidents' "o"'u""''^" '"'T'if^' ' i""'"^*' Frank Brewster of Seattle and,"" 'l^* ^^r and benan shoutingi Sidney   Brennan   of  M-eapolis-^^-v "^^      '   -'^-n ^^^^^^^
12 '\"^V"r;'^ '*n ?r'' " nr i,„mK'" wrong as we usually don't- fhr; AFL-CIO. All three .st.U hold|^a^.p ,  i^^tp^^  1,^^ ,,,3,;' 1
nfuce   although   Beck   has   a"-lather Killed on Railroad announced  he will  not  seek  re ,    „ ,.,,p   ,^3,^   ^^^    ^^   immedi-' election  at  fhe unions Sept. .50 gtely, but by then  Ihe two end convention. cars were on the way down the
hole.  I uncoupled them and they fell  all   the  way  down  with  a large crash.  Then the train was moved off to a safe distance." Hoban'*  brush   with  death
recalls that his father, Rich¬ ard Hoban. was killed while a railroad freight conductor at Laceyville in \3''.'i.
''Sure railroading is danger¬ ous work, but  it's d  wonder¬ ful   job.   I   couldn t    imagine  I doing   anything  else,"   Huban  ; asserted. ]
Hoban, who  was  hospitalized!
with  a  broken  right  hand   last
Winter in an accident while at;
work, said railroad workers have
_.,.,., to expect trouble.   He  recalled:
The   body  of  the   pajssenger, j,^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^.^^ forced to leap!
from   the   top   of   a   runaway 1 .    . J (freight     train.      "There     were
area late yesterday and was un-^^oken bushes all around me,", dergoing   painstaking   examina- |,g reflected tion to determine the cause of lauded by Crew Membera riea h and whether any traces of     ^,.^^   members  of  the   train explosive powder could be found praised Hoban's alertness. 1 hey "" ,    included   .lohn   Sauers,   Duryea,
Hand Mangled the engineer; Arnold Lmbleton,
The body was reported gen- Philadelphia Ave., West Pittston erally intact except for a man- conductor; James A. Hughes. 44, gled left hand, with parts of itjWashington Terrace, Pittston, torn off. Ifireman;  and William Sweeney,
The twin engine Western Airipjttston, trainman. Ime Convair, with a jagged hole Hoban, a talented vocalist, is orn in its fuselage at fhe lava- married to the former Betty Bil- torv section where Binstock had bow of Pittston. Besides twins, been at the time, made a safe Bobby and Betsv, they have emergency landing with 12|three other children. Gail, Linda other pa,ssengers. Ann and Tommv.
Evidence of Blast |    The   subsidence   had   already
.Iohn F. Malone, agent in'swallowed up nine cars left on charge of the Los Angeles FBI a siding when Hoban's tram office, said an unexploded blast-ladded two more gondolas fo the inc cap was found in the lava- chasm. A total of 18 more gon- torv, with what appeared fo be|dolas were added to the hole burned toilet tissue and evidence bv railroad officials who decided
Editorial
Now Lei's Make Sure Another Mess Can'i Break Out in the Police Depi.
jeweler   Saul was found in
F.   Binstock,   62. a desolate desert'
There was unmistakable relief in City Hall last week when the last two suspended policemen resigned and made unnecessary the hearings aimed at removing them irom the force.
After all, ihe entire affair resulted from charges that four cops had con- pired to steal from central city stores and when the case went to court these charges, though made by the police department itself, could not be substantiated.
That in itself was a serious indict¬ ment of the department and then, dur¬ ing the trial, it was made quite evi¬ dent that city policemen, if ao In¬ clined, are so unsupervised on duty that they have time and opportunity to do all sorts of improper things.
All that is over and, with the in¬ credible laxity and carelessness so demonstrated, fhe big job now is to institute some violent reforms in the Wilkes-Barre Police Department.
First of all there just has to be a reassignment of duties and an end to having almost everybody on day side. . . , Some of the others will have to go on night shift even if they are good producers on election day.
The absolute waste of some of¬ ficers will have to be ended.
Then, the city must get pati>olmen back On the beats—in the residential area as well as in central city.
There is also the matter of the police cruiser cars, which don't cruise any more.
They rest, with the men assigned to them, at police station until AFTER something has happened.
We come now to a couple specific jobs which have been disgracefully neglected.
Steps must be taken by the police to eliminate some of our worst nests of rampant and brutal hoodlumism before a murder is committed. . . , The River Gammon is one of these places.
Just assigning men won't be enough, either, as the court trial proved.
It's hard to believe there had been such a complete lack of such super¬ vision, which is an elementary re¬ quirement.
Nor is this too much to ask.
Wilkes-Barre people are paying nearly half a million dollars a year for their police force and they def¬ initely have not been getting their money's worth.
Palace Guard Kills President Of Guatemala
Found To Be Red; Armas Gave Country Democratic Regime
GUATEMALA   CITY,
;ind half eaten lunches were found beside the Ellis Brett Pool in the park by th« father after they failed to come homo. Police, believing the bf>ys had drowned, ordered the pool drained. Volunteers Aid Search
A search of the park was ordered after the pool w^s found empty. Volunteers, in¬ cluding police and firemen fanned out over a dense-wooded area.
Volunteer Fireman Robert .T. Gould nearly stumbled over the bodies when he went to investi¬ gate some smoldering brush. The youngsters' unclothed bodies, ¦   by   18-foot-long
of controlled and inspected dis-Guatemala <IP)-A  palaceiShes     w^re    found    lying
armament   Russia insists that to gua,.^^      identified     as     alabout a yard apart.
tie m nuclear stockpi^ con rols^i^^^     a.ssassinatedL They    were    badly    burned,
missile control, arms reductions, open-skies in¬ spection plans and other com¬ plex steps will mean a long de¬ lay in starting the temporary ban on bomb tests.
The UN disarmament sub¬ committee must report to its parent    body    next    week    on
President Carlos Castillo Armasj^°"'*'.,^*"l
wifh two shots from his sentry rifle in a darkened palace hall-| way Friday night. He then com-j miffed  suicide. j
The 43-year-old President whOj rescued Guatemala from Red rule in 1954 and eave the coun- progress of the London talks.:"'-^. ''^ /j"^^ ''^/"y democratic The talks could continue afterT^^^^-f^'" ^'^f'^ f, ^^^ ^'^« "^ the report is filed, however        l'^'* *'"^ ^-^^''^-^ «f'" " ^'"^ '^-
boys were cruel   and
Police said the the victims of a sadistic killer.
The boys' mother, Mrs. .lean L. Logan, 36. became hysteri¬ cal when told of the deaths. She swayed and grasped one of her teenaged daughters for support.
"I want to die'." she said. Her husband, an engineer, said
State Department officials said|e^Pl^xh^"Ath''Ji''^L^*f^H^PH*'/n''h^ to«k 'he youngsters to fhe the J,ondon negotiations are noti^ff !l J''^ °*''*'^ "''^ '"''sed in p^^, j-^^^^y ^nd gave them hus running out of time. The United ",.        , . ifare. He .said they promi.sed to
States,  they said,  is willing to!""*''* '"voIved \come home on the early bus.
continue the  talks  so  long  as    At daybreak, First Vice Presi-iFinds Clothing there  is any hope of reaching fent   Iu[s   Arturo^ Gonzalez-Lo-| agreement. '"       """"   "*' ''"
He said he returned to the pez, another anti-Communist, as-lpool when the boys failed to sumed the presidency and the'come home. He found their cabinet ordered a state of siege.{clothes neatly fold«d at the edge Gonzalez-Lopez appealed for or- of the pool, der and indicated that othersj The Logans have two ofher had been involved in the assas-jchildren. Ruth. 17. and Ann, 115. sinafion, 1    Police  said  the  bathing  suits
Castillo and his wife had just had    been    stripped    from    the left  his  bedroom  after  the  re-jbodies.   They  lay  in  a   burned ception   shortly  after  9   P.   M.'patch of grass a  few yards to and   were  walking  toward   the the side of a path, palace dining room. ;    Plymouth  County   Dist.  Atty.
BELLEFONTE    Pa    (If) Four     Romeo Vasquez Sanchez was John   R.  Wheatlev  ordered   po-
persons were killed' and twoif" g^ard duty in the hallwayilice to pick up all known sex children iniured critically yes-i'^^^ing to the dining room. As'offenders. He barred newsmen terday m a head-on automobile|"ie ^l^V^^"l ^"'^ '''^ "^'I^ aP-|[''0'" ^^e scene and ordered po- coliision on a mountam road foached, Vassquez suddenly'lice not to move the bodies until near here I turned ouf fhe light and raised arrival    of    State    Pathologist
State police said a car operat-ihisseini-automatic rifle. He fired^George Katsas. ed by .lack A. Lighf. 19. Centre;'^'*"* '" ^"e dim light. Hall. Pa., rammed an auto driv-jGuard Kills Self
4 Die in Crash at Bellefonte
inVE DIE IN CRASH
WATERTOWN. Wis.
indicating  "fhe possibility of a sm^ll explosion."
Binstock,    of    Canoga    Park f'alif    had   insured   ' .$123,000   with   two
that method was the best, way to begin filling in the area. Otherwise, it was estimated that
himself   forj.30,000 cubic yards of fill would
flight   poli- be needed
cies. one of them containing a'    The area where the .settlement
suicide clause, when he boarded; occurred is about equal distance
the plane at Las Vegas, Nev., foand a quarter of a mile from fhe
return home from an excursion Susquehanna   and    Lackawanna
flight.    The   blast   occurred   47|Rivers.  The  general  area   with,
minutes   after   takeoff   as   the familiar Campbell's Lodge'in thei of    expenditures    dun
plane flew  at  10,000 feet over'background. was once a favorite!'^¦''5-57    fiscal    period
the California de.scrt. Indian camping ground "Pr^m UarrUhnro" «n
Smith Charges Leader Creates Financial Chaos
Clear Day Tomorrow Will Spoil Annual Fesiival ai Waynesburg
WAYNESBURG, Pa, OPi— Residents of this farming cen¬ ter in the rolling hills of S o u t hwestern Penn.sylvania will bet you doughnuts or dollars it will rain here to¬ morrow.
The odr;*. are with the na¬ tives. Ram has fallen here on .luly 29 for 12 of the past 80 years for which records have bsen kept. The tradition stretches even farther back.
The day has become one of festivity for the townfolk. They began gathering in the communiiy square, which dales back fo colonial times, al midnight to await fhe rain thev fell certain would fall. . On a hot ,lulv 29 in post- Civil War davs." Wavnesburg druggist Bill Aiisson wa« talk¬
ing to a farmer from nearby Wind Ridge aboul the drought which gripped the area.
"It's a darn funny thing, but it'll rain today," the farmer declared. "It always does on July 29."
Within a few hours a shower hil the town. Alisson noted it in his day book. The first miss was in 1880. When the druggist died, his brother. Ab, took over the keeping of the record. ^
In 1927. druggist Byron Daily became the official "rain day" observer. He started the custom of betting a hat that il would rain on that day. He lost only once, in 1930, the first dry July 29 in 50 years.
Dat'y's hrotlfer. Iohn, now c^riei an Lh« tradition.
HARRISBURG  (Il*t—State to the general  fund  under  law Auditor    General    Charles    C.Iwill  be squandered in the next Smith   yesterday   accused   the few month.s," .Smith said, administration of "deliberately"!    Meanwhile,   Republican   State withholding  a  final   accountingjchairman     George     I,     Bloomj during     theicharged Shapiro's plans to firei (Seelnumerous   welfare   workers   toi From Harrisburg" on Editorial!compensate   for   budget   reduc-i Page) tions   was   "a   lol   of   political;
Smith   said  he  was  "still   in [hocus-pocus. " |
the dark" on how much it costisees Vacancies Created to  run   the   Commonwealth  al-:    g,^^   ^^,j   j,^^  f,^,^^^  ^^^^|
announced "without rhyme or reason" and could only hurt the state's   mental   health   program.
He asserted Shapiro wanted to "create a lot of job vacancies to be filled next year when Gov. Leader plans to run for the U.S. Senale."
though the last biennium ended May 31, nearly two months ago.
"There can only be one rea¬ son for this long delay." Smith charged.
"Gov. George M. Leader is permitting the Welfare Depart¬ ment to run up bills against fhe last biennium appropriations long after the lawful authority to do so has expired. Called Financial Chaos
The auditor general, who has
iclashed   frequently   with   Wel-,Amu.sement  Four
fare   Secretary   Harry   Shapiro ^^^^^^ ^^^^ j^^^^^ ^j^^^^^ |over  how  the  department  was gg^^^.^ ^    1,51,       ..Two spending its appropriations, said|Citv Hall News ....Three
¦I defy anyone lo find out Just classified   Six
jwhere   the   state   sUnds  fman-county ^ews Three
cially right now." Crossword Puzzle. ..One
"Unless this intolerable situa- Drew Pearson Three
ition is brought to an end, mil-1 Editorial   Three
llions  of  dollars  of   unexpended Frank Pripp Three
funds which should ba isiurned House Doctor .....Six
Cause of Coxfon Cove No Mystery To Mine Workers
What caused the cave Thursday morning at the Cox¬ ton Yards, Lehigh Vaiiey Rail¬ road, may have elements of mystery to many folks, but not to some employees of the Kehoe-Berge Coal Co. They offer this explanation: Coal is being mined in the No. 52 slope of the sixth vein of No. 10 Tunnel, under Cox¬ ton Yards. There is, accord¬ ing to one miner, a rock cov¬ erage of about 20 feet, with about 80 feet of sand over that. Mining was done on a IS-degree pitch and when the rock crumbled and the sand began to move, the result was the big cavein.
en bv David Immel. 28  Rebers-I    The   hawk-nosed,   niustachedj    ""'^'V^.**^;- "''•,'I^-^i';*
President  pitched  to the  floor.'Pf;„'°"*'^° ^"^^"   „j!,* T!S
men,     were     killed     yesterda.v
when two cars crashed head-on
at  a  curve  several   miles west
of here.
The accident claimed the lives
burg. Pa., in an attempt to pass another vehicle on Route 95 about 13 miles east of here
Killed   were    Light date,   Kay   I     Breon
pit Another soldier on duty  heard, the   shots   and   raced   to   the! and   hisiscene.   Before   he   could   reachj" IS.   also Vasquez, the guard killed him-
Rebersburg. and Itnmel and his self.     .,,.., of all the persons in both oars,
wife. Glad.vs, 2/.    Two children     Officials   checked   his   papers .pf,g      were no witnesses
in the Immel car were taken toand said documents showed him! '    "	
Centre Counfy Hospital here to be a long-standing member of' with multiple injuries. Theirithe Cjuatemalan Communist condition was listed as critical.   (Continued on Page 2, Sec  1)
Pay INfore for Worse
Smokers Wasting $200 Million On Filter Cigarets Each Year
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WASHINGTON OPi — The chairman of the House sub¬ committee which has just completed an investigation of cigaret filters .said smokers "have been wasting their money" buying filter-type varieties.
Rep.   John   A.   Blatnik,   D.¬ Minn.,   said   .smokers   "might just  as well  be smoking the unfiltered cigareis" A Lot of Money
Blatnik said his House sub¬ committee's inquiry showed smokers are getting just as much tar and nicotine from the new filter-tip cigarets as from the regular size plain- tip variety. But he said • smokers are paying close to 200 million dollars a year extra for filter tips.
Moreover, he told the United Press, advertisers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars during the last four years to promote filter-tip cigarets, but smokers got a t)etter tobacco for less money wilh fhe old unfiltered variety.
Blatnik's government oper¬ ations sub-committee con¬ cluded six days of hearings on filter-tips and the cigaret smoking-lung cancer contro¬ versy.
Blatnik .said he believes "people will go on smoking" despite reports thai cigaret consumption is a cause of lung cancer.
But he expressed confi¬ dence a  "way out'  can  lie 1
found to give them better health protection. One way, he .said, would be to find some agent that would "neu¬ tralize " substances in tobacco tars believed responsible for causing lung cancer.
Another way, he added, would be through use of to¬ bacco producing less tars and development of better filter¬ ing processes.
Valley Scenes
Four prominentht displaytd clocks in the Kingston Cor¬ ners area rendivg .1:10, H :iO, T.-O.") and 7 :S0 the other wght irhen the correct ttwe unt 9:0.5.
Late-uorking Pittstnn resi¬ dent skippuirj supper t/> dash on turnpike to gel to Phtlheg night gome nnd then discov¬ ering nt Allentown he hai forgotten tickets — nnd then dashing bcn-k nnd forth ngatH and only missing ont tnntnjr.
Xntiticoke police elerk in¬ vestigating crash nt rtn.r of Citji Hall and finding kit own cnr hnd been th* targit of a hit-run driver.
Pity the Poor Expressmen When Two Pet Pooches Got Exchanged
WASHINGTON (IP—A cos¬ mopolitan pooch named Jerry, bound here from Germany, got out of his crate lasl week for a quick stroll en route.
At the same time, an equal¬ ly cosmopolitan pooch named Punkin, bound for Albuquer¬ que, N. M., from Germany, got out of his crate for tlie same necessary purpose But They Looked Alike'
Both dogs, pets of military personnel who have returned from overseas, were of mixed ancestry heavily laced with beagle. They looked much alike. .And there's the cause of it all.
When six • year - old Peter Welling opened Jerry's crate here, Punkin arfed and wagged his tail at him.
"It's not my dog at all." Peter wailed.
A similar distressing seen*
took place at the home ot Lt. Charles W. Gay in Albu¬ querque.
Peter's father. Col. A. C Wellington, told Railway Ex¬ press to take hack Punldit and  produce Jerry.
At the same time, he hegui trying   to  trace   Gay.   whose name   appeared   on   Punkin's collar. Everybody Happy
"It was a catastrophe." Wellington said. "Then things got worse. On Wednesday Peter's pet turtle. Pares, died."
But Friday nig'ht everything was all right
Jerry arrived by plane from .Albuquerque looking thin but happy. Peter shouted and threw his arms about him. Jerry pointed his snoot sky¬ ward and howled ecstatically
"Doggone," said the colonel
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