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^^iPOTi mmm ¦nmr- trnfm w ::«:: SUNDAY INDEPENDENT V Cloudy, Mild Highest 66 to 70 Monday, little change 51ST YEAR — NO. 29 — 88 P.iGES Mrmber Audit Boreaa of CircolaHna WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1957 TNITED PREHS ^ Wir. New. SerTlc. fT PRICE 15 CENTS May Ceren^ony oi Wyom/ng Seminory j4 Inj^^gjj j^^;| f rOUCf ChotgeS |ln Plymoutli Collision Agamst Beck Are Seen Possible by McClellan Seven Tots Die When Blaze Sweeps Home Three Sisters and Two Brothers Are Among the Victims STRATFORD, Conn. (IP> — Sevpn childron burned lo death and five other per.son.s were injured la.st iii'.lit when fire swept theirj thiee-slory frame house. Five of the dead were thc children of Mr. and Mrs. Martin^ Davis who occupied the second floor of the buildinp. They werr- Benjamin, fivef Jeanette, three: Cieorge, two and one-half; F.\f Ionia, 18 months and Patricia,, eiphl months. lhe other two victims were the children of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Martin, They were Rus¬ sell, five, and Doreen, three. A brother. John, 17 months, and a .sister, Sandra, two weeks old, were injured but not seriously. Their mother. Mrs. Cecelia Martin, 32. and her mother-in- law, Mrs. Rita Martin, fil, Ws- tcrville, Maine, who was visit- inp, were reported In good condition at Bridgeport Hospital. Freight Hopper Fined For Scaring Trainman Cubs Say Motlier's Day Witlt Flowers These are scenes from Wyoming Seminary's colorful ceremony »f the crowning of the May Queen yesterday on the campus of the West .Side School. The top photo is the procession ot^^ queen and h^p* • attendants. Left to right are Judith 6f|fei!«.«JQail Funke, Ellen O'Connell, Claire Threthaway and Gail Hutcheson, May Queen, The bottom picture shows Miss Trethaway placing the crown on Miss Hutcheson.—Photos by Bert Husband) For Spain PITTSBURGH, dP—A Toledo,! Ohio, seaman who hopped ¦ D2««2II*« ^\XA freight train and frightened aX^|flfllO ^^f f brakeman into jumping off was'" ¦¦¦¦¦¦^ '^ fined SIO for trespassing and committed to jail for 20 days. It all began when Lewis Har¬ rison, 24, sneaked aboard a Bal-i ni^nriTK nv>\ r\,.^i...A timore & Ohio freight near Con-' C^'tiUl A tl^) — UU.Sted nellsville, Pa., and looked for a ex - President Gustavo place to sit. When he entered r. • n- -n r\ j . t> ihe la.st diesel engine, an un- I^o.ias Pinilla fled to Ber- idrntified brakeman ordered him milda .vesterda.v on his to leave wav to exile in Spain. The five- Harrison refused and the ione.|j,a„ ^i Gail Hutcheson Crowned Queen imaginary Cruise Program Highlight Gail IJiitchcson, 17-year' Two-Year-Old Boy Starts Car Which Damages Front of Kingston Building Four persons were in¬ jured in a two-car, head- on crash last nigrht at 7:30 at North and West Main Sts., Plymouth. In another West Side mishap, the two-year-old son of a-city jeweler was hurt when he en¬ gaged the automatic transmis¬ sion of his father's parked car and the vehicle crashed into a Kingston building. Injured in the Plymouth acci¬ dent were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wil¬ cox of 191 Canal St., West Nanticoke, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reese of 24 Smith Row, Plymouth Township. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox were taken to Merry Ho.spital, Wilkes- Barre, in the Larksville ambu¬ lance. Mr. Wilcox was treated! for multiple lacerations and dis-; charged. His wife, Edith, 52, was admitted for observation after being treated for injuries to her right hand and head. Mr. and Mrs. Reese were tak¬ en to Nesbitt Memorial Hospi¬ tal, Kingston. Mr. Ree.se, 44, was treated for abrasions of the side and his wife, Gertrude, 45, suf¬ fered abrasions of the chin and a fracture of the left wrist. Both were discharged, j Plymouth Police reported Mr. and Mrs. Reese were passeng¬ ers in a car driven by Robert T. Johnson, also of Smith Row, Plymouth Town.ship, Building Damaged The Franconi Auto Parts building at .584 Market St., Kingston, was considerably dam¬ aged last night at 8:20 when hit by an automobile acciden¬ tally set in motion when the owner Thomas Van Scoy. promi¬ nent local jeweler, left the vehicle to U'p a telephone at Market and Wright Sts. He left his two-year-old ,son,| BAGHDAD, Iraq (LP)—The kinfir.s of Saudi Arabia Thomas, Jr., in the auto and it'and Iraq met vesterdav to end a blood feud and ally PniU''thTTh'^ ^^La !l'r^/!°"itheir oil-rich lands more closely with the West in the Police that tne youngster acci- „ j,t-> l- jc- i. io dentally stepped on thi acoelera-jface of Egyptian and Syrian overtures to Russia, Mrs. Joseph P. Frail, second from right, flashes the kind of Mother's Day smile that 87 other mothers of l-orty Fort Cub Scouts will flash this morning. She is receiving a potted plant from her son. Cub Scout Donald Frail, as Mrs. Ira B. .Smith, den mother, and •Cubmaster Lee Sunday look on well pleased with their project. A month before Mother's Day, the 88 Kings Saud, Feisaf Meet To Herald a Realignment Of Mid-East With ^ t'.^e tor of the car which has automa tic transmission causing the ve hicle to move west on Market St. Before Mr. Van Scoy could get out of the telephone booth and into the car, it went up the street, over a curb and into the front of the Franconi -Building, causing considerable damage to both the building and auto¬ mobile. The boy was taken to Nes- ¦¦- -- --, ,, ii.oi, i..ilitarv junta that succeed-i ,, , , , .. - , u-.. .« ¦ , ., .it railroader—fearing for his wallet ed him appealed to foreign gov-,old daughter of iMr. and ""^ Memorial Hospital for treat and watch—leaped. The brake-grnments for recognition. iMrs. A. F. Hutcheson, 253 ""^"^ ^^ lacerations and contu rnTvj;re^':hea"d.'RSd Poli'c^: 'n^,^^„«„ .\'To*i\,.1a.^t;rilL'd^f'"'"^' '^^"'^ ^!.^-'J^^'^^^-^- sted Harrison near McKees.,H?,^>'at.on^ at^Ro.a,^ Ull^m^^^^ TyTueen^t^^o^r^ American and other arrr port, Pa. low of 50 Due In Area Tonight Cloudy skies and mild tem¬ peratures are expected to pre¬ vail over the area today, wit|i occasional rain and a chance of a few thundershowers both Sunday and Monday, the US. I "leather Bureau at Avoca re¬ ported last night. The high temperature ex¬ pected both days is 6.5 to 70 degrees, while the low, ex¬ pected tonight, is .50 to 55. Rain was experienced in Various parts ot 'he region yesterday but only a trace was recorded at the Weather Bureau. The precipitation was not sufficient to bring the amount of rain now required for the outset of the growing sca.^on. his government. A score of per¬ sons were killed in the fighting that accompanied the overthrow of the president. sions of the forehead Patrolmen Joseph Straub and Gus Oliver investigated. The Van Scovs reside at Box 374, RDl Wilkes-Barre. Mr. Van ful ceremonies on the school's back campus yesterday after-,„ , . ^ , noon, Scoy s store is situated at The tall, auburn-haired senior. South Mam St., city. 52 Pearson Exposes Teamsters' ^Raid' How a lOOyear bus con¬ tract in Chicago was lost to a' man who had neither 'ousses nor men to drive them. . . . How he "raided" the Team¬ sters Union for drivers. . . . How he loaned money to Dave Beck's No. 1 man, Jimmy Hoffa. ... These things are told, not at a Senate investigation hearing but in the Washington Merry- Go-Round column of Drew Pearson on the Editorial Pag« of the Sunday Independent today. Prober Cites Union Chief's Own Writing WASHINGTON UP) —Chairman John L. Mc¬ Clellan of the Senate Rackets Committee said yesterday that Teamsters Union President Dave Beck, "in a characteristic display of greed and avarice," may possibly have violated the federal mail fraud law. The Arkansas Democrat also predicted that federal tax authorities, who have already I obtained an indictment against I Beck for alleged Income tax Ipvasion, will want to determine whether profitable deals de- -rribed in the committee's cur- lent hearings were "reported" —and taxes paid on fhem." I McClellan mentioned the fraud possibility in discussing with newsmen testimony that Beck, trustee of a special fund lor the widow of his best friend, made $5.500 selling mortgages to the trust. The senator did ¦lot elaborate. I Show Text of Letter The testimony Included the text of a hand-written letter in which Beck urged the widow, Mrs. Raymond Leheney, to go ahead with the mortgage deal. The letter did not say Beck would profit from it. "The treatment he (Beck) accorded the widow of hit dearest friend is, it seems, typical of his dominating I characteristic of greed and avarice," McClellan said. "In the area of federal law violations," he added, "in the case of his breach of trust in the deal he made with Mrs. T.e- heney, there is the possibility that the letter he. wrote her would come within the.federal <;t.itu'e of using the maui to de¬ fraud." Commenting generally on the hearing on Beck, which were r« * T T » rt rr^ .resumed Wednesday, McClellan DALLAS, Tex. (IP) —Isaid the testimony showed clear- New flash floods, Uiling^l " " i"":*'!!'' K*'!.l'''"«\'^i" ' * show — that Beck has wholly members of Cub Pack 123 of Forty Fort Presbyterian Church voluntarily took on ex¬ tra cho'es to earn sufficient money to pur¬ chase flowers for their mothers. The boys were assisted In selecting and purchasing the floral tributes by John Mat¬ tern, a florist, and Rev. Dr. Joseph L. Weis¬ ley, pack chaplain and pastor of Forty Fort Presbyterian Church.—(Photo by Paul Bieley) Texas is Hit BxJei^jQDds Six Rivers Rampage After Cloudbursti Western diplomats pre-|up with such suddennessibreached his trust" as Teamster dieted the meeting wouldifrom rains of nearly seven''^''^'''''^"* ""'^ ** trustee of the herald a shift of Middle Eastl inches that they washed motor-"""'""* ^""'^^' powers Into a new alignment. jsts from highways, struck cen- Hearings a Continuation King Saud of Saudi Arabia'tral Texas last night. i Beck, McClellan said, was One 21-month-old boy was Government offices and thedressed in a white gown of ny-i property of Rojas supporters in lon eyelet and carrying red various cities were destroyed by mobs celebrating the "revolu¬ tion." The ex-president, accompanied by nine relatives, left Bogota secretly in a special Air Force roses, was attended by a court of four. The court, ail seniors, were dressed in light blue gowns and carried nosegays. The girls were Claire Trethaway, Gall Funke, Ellen O'Connell and Va//ey Woman, f 04, Dies C54. The Ai^y detailed a •'"'^'"i George. strong guard to escort him to ., Also attending the queen were the airport flower girls Sandra Charles and The four-engined plane stop- i'ifl'i^^',:?",^"'* ^%^'; ''"'"" ped off In Kingston, .Jams1ca;To^*Sr'''^;^!,t,P'' ^rtZ.;n. Refuel. The deposed distator re-^.-^ c'^'h r^i^ -. h. fused to t*k to newsmen in the f[°^' l7,ulLJl^LA^lt It B,;,;^i, ^...¦i^.^....... ^^i^.,,, .throne at the north.*end or the ritish Car Dbean colony. u.-i, .,„-,.,... i j u,. „i- „ ¦' Iback campus reached its climax Rojas landed in Bermuda at,when Miss Trethawav placed 1:25 P. M. He told newsmen heithe crown on the queen's head. planned to stay there for three Miss Hutcheson, one of thc or four days and then go on to Spain, where he will stay in¬ definitely. Wheelchair Trip of Aged Woman Brought to End by Kind Salesman .lACKSONVILLE, Fla. (IP— A .59-year-old crippled woman, who was too proud to ask for help, hoarded a train yester¬ day to complete the L'^OO- nule trip she began in a wheelchair. Mrs. Eva Lambert, victim f>f multiple sclerosis, set out Wednesday, hoping to trundle her wheelchair to her native Vermont. Thanks to a travel- ins salesman, however, she Will make the long journey by train. A bent little woman with graying hair and glasses, Mrs. • LatTibert, a widow, was deter- Jmined to visit a sick brother I«t Arlington, Vt. Lack of funds i precluded a trip by train or , bus, so she decided to make jthe long journey Inherwheel- ¦ chair. Had Travelled 50 Miles With her two dogs, a cat, a Bible and $10 In cash, Mi;«. Lambert left Jacksonville (early Wednesday, guided by a road map. She had logged 50 miles, most of it by two auto¬ mobile rides, when she was seen by James Wolhouse, a salesman from Birmingham, Sdich. Wolhouse urged Mrs. Lam¬ bert to return to Jacksonville with him, promising to buy her a train ticket to Vermont. Il took him an hour to per¬ suade the widow who at first said she was reluctant to lose the mileage she had accom¬ plished. Besides furnishing a train ticket for Mrs. Lambert. Wooli house also promised to see that the two dogs and cat were shipped to Vermont. Had No Choice Mrs. Lambert and her hus¬ band operated a news stand m Jacksonville for years. When he died three years ago, she decided to return to Ver¬ mont. "I wasn't afraid to make the trip," she said. "Some¬ times we just don't have any choice and must go ahead and do what we have to do." Yesterdav, as she prepared fo board the train for Ver¬ mont, the little widow ex¬ pressed her deep gratitude to Woolhouse. "His mother should cer¬ tainly be proud of him." she said "He it an A-No. 1 young man." most popular and attractive queens to grace the Seminary campus, takes a leading part in many school activities. A su¬ perior academic student, she was captain of this year's out¬ standing varsity hasketball team and holds varsity letters for field hockey and cheerleading. Will Enter College Gail, who hopes to enter! Goucher College after gradua-| tlon, is a past president of the Adelphia Society, secretary of the "W" Club, vice president of the honor court and a member of the Blue and White Commit¬ tee and the activities board of the annual. ANNA NAVROTH Mrs. Anna Navroth, believed,viously for treatment of injuries The 1957 May Queen and heri to be the oldest person in thislsuffered in a fall at home, court were entertained on an region, and possibly the state,, .Mrj. Navroth. affectionately hour-long imaginary Summer|died at Nanticoke State Hos- known as "Babka" Navroth the neighborhood, was born Pbland and came here at the age of 28, residing In Nanticoke ever since. She was a member and Arabia after World War I, Ceremonial Greeting Both monarchs made a cere¬ mony of their meeting,, Saud. in flowing white Arab robes,, was greeted by Feisal and Crown Prince Abdul Hah wearing field marshal uniforms "at Baghdad Airport, The 22-year-old Feisal warm- Iv embraced and kissed the cheeks of Saud, 34 years his .senior. Thousands Jam Streets They drove in a carriage drawn by six white horses to Feisal's palace through streets jammed with cheering Iraqis and bedecked with the green and white Saudi flags. Saud was expected to spend three or four days here in dose conference with Feisal and his premier, ,NUries Said, on their mutual position as oil-rich coun¬ tries in the turbulent Middle Ea.st. Hussein May Join There were rcporLs that .lor- dan's 22-year-old King Hussein, fresh from beating off a leftist and pro-Syrian attempt to over¬ throw him, might join the two monarchs. Hussein and Feisal are cousins Jn the Hashemite dynasty. Observers here said that Iraq, a member of the anti-Com¬ munist Baghdad Pact, and Saudi Arabia, which subscribes to the Eisenhower Doctrine, might forge a new defense alignment against Communism which in¬ directly would be opposed to thej leftist brand of Arab neutrality fostered by Egypt and Syria. and a retinue of 80 flew to Baghd.id for conferences with; .;,p- jnto"cow "Bavou'' th"r^iliave used his position "and the Iraq King Feisal. The trip was^^,"^// f^"^ Golinck about 15f«'"^"dous powers reposed in it the first by a Saudi monarch^ ^'^^' '^^mh of Waco andit" f"^ther the financial gain and 0° ^b?tter1,u'a,!;e'lt'af sle^re^""-"^^'^^^ ^renuf mV. Tn^^f^ of hin,self and his family from'the'fa'crthal Saud'SerlJi^^^ -'ames Green, Fort ^"^ "^ain friend, that he de- ousted Feisal's grandfather from ^5''"i' .^'^"^ rescued by boat after they and two others grabbed onto trfees. The Department of Public Safety at Waco said at one time eight persons were left hanging on to trees as a mighty surge of water from Cow Bayou and nearby Bullhide Creek swept over U.S. Hiphway 77. Wide Area Affected The flash floods in central ¦Texas followed new and con¬ tinuing cloudbursts over a wide area of Texas that sent at least six rivers charging to dangerous' __ ^t m m new heights; washing out »' D%m g §%^mrw%m%g%m railroad track between two ap- 0 Jf VffUIIIVwl proaching trains. disclosed In the testimony to sired to favor." McClellan described the heai^ ings as "a continuation of what was indicated In the previous hearings with respect to Mr. Beck's sense of responsibility—' or lack of responsibility to the trust repK>sed In him." Tax Policy Is Attacked Workers Reach Trapped Miner WASHINGTON, ilP — The Chamber of Commerce of tha United Stales reported yesterday the Eisenhower administration is collecting and spending taxes at a higher rate than any adminis- RICHWOOD, W. Va. W-A '"''°" '" ^' ^' ""'""">'¦ spokesman for the Donegal Coali '"^ ^^"^ '^at by the end of Co. near here said last night "seal year 1968 next .lune 30 that "within.a matter of hours";"«^he administration will have William CikRichmond, 38-year-icollected mot^ taxes than did the whole Truman administra¬ tion which lasted 7'4 years." J. Kirk Eads, manager of tha .seven children and all but given Chamber's Department of Taxa- t . J u J . jtion and Finance, sad tnt rec- up for dead, had communicatedi ^ collection "Is not the whoi. with rescue workers late yes-;j^„^_,j represents only collec ^''"^y- Itions by the federal government. The miner, who was trapped if we add collections by state about 10 P. M. Wednesday, toldiand local.governments we find the workers that he thought he that almost $1 out of every S3 was in good condition, but thati of national income is taken to one leg was badly hurt. 'run our governments." 38-year-, , , , -,- old miner, trapped by slate since '"^ ^""'^ Truman Wednesday should be free. He said Richmond, father of , cruise through Europe and the plui last nighl at 8:30 at the Caribbean where native dancers performed for the queen. The program featured Scot¬ tish, Dutch and French dances, a tumbling exhibition with a Calypso therhe and sailor drills and marches.- The entertainment was climaxed by a dance de¬ picting a Spanislh bullfieht per¬ formed -by Dina Raker and Josia MIeszkdwski- ! Section Page The dancers included Alta Lou I Amusement Kour 10-11 Hall, 'Jackianne Beattie, Mari-i Around the Town. .Three anne Tinsley, Mary Jo Brown,; Betttr English Two Mariellen Daw, Diane Ringwa,{City Hall News ... .Five Valerie Edmunds, Barbara Johns, I Classified Six Barbara Cooney, Marjorie Dou-,County News Five maux, Mary Jane Koster, SusanjCrossword Puzzle. ..Six Davis, Rochelle Haines, Marjory i Drew Pearson Three Davis, Marion Stevens, Jane| Editorial Three Collins, Susan Yocum, Nancy j Frank Tripp Three (Continued on Page 2, Sec. 1) Houso Doctor Six. age of 104. She resided with her dau'-ghter, Mrs. Joseph Wodyka, 124 West Bfoad St., Nanticoke, and was admitted toione of'the founders of St. Stanls, the hospital t||o v4eeks pre-l (Continued on Page 8, Sec. 1) |n Valley Scenes Tight Blue Jeans Look Silly; Principal Orders Boys to Dress INSIDE THE INDEPENDENT Shoe sliiiie ho/i utiiiggling hnnir In.ti night tn the Heights n e r t io n burdened dou n ivitk hin ghine. box, por¬ ted plant!f and big bo.r, of randii—o»// getting free lift from Mother's Dny-minded taxi driver. How Can 1 ???....Four 2' 9 Look and Learn ....rwo 6; 9 Obituary One 8i 2 Politics Three 8| 1-6 Radio Four 10 3i Robert C. Ruark ...Three y 6, State Capital Five 4 8 State News Five 5 8! Sporta .Three 1-6| a; TV Four 10 41 Women'i Section ..Four 1-8 Crndflu ronalriirtrd .itnnd Section Page | for rurnl mailbox in Ba«k ^fountain carriiing »ign, "No comments, please." Newspaper printer, uith do-it->iourself desires, return¬ ing to paint store after bar¬ ing dumped eoutents nf one, ran all nver hiinxelf an/l being asked bit elerk, "Did .von mnnnge tn get any of it on th* walltf" W.ASHINGTON OPI—-A sub¬ urban high school principal has declared war on tight blue jeans. He doesn't go for tight white T-shirts either. "They're indecent," he said. "And they don't look neat." The principal — Samuel J. Coffey of nearby Fairfax, Va. —opened ho.stlllties on tight blue jeans Friday by sending home from school about 40 tightly blue-ieaned boys. •Si'ly Things' 'A few were wearing those silly things down on their hips," he said. "And those T- shirts are undershirts. "They were a crummy-look¬ ing bunch," Moreover, Coffey said, the whole business was a conspix- acy—the boys decided in ai-i vance to wear the jeans and T-shirts to school on the sama day. Not Funny "A hair-brained idea," tf»e principal said. "They thought it was funny until I called them all out of class." He said he told them "Stu¬ dents should come to class neatly dressed to boost school morale." "I told them they lookwl like scarecrows," he .said. Coffey said whal he thinks about boys in tight jeans goes double for girls. "Only 1 don't have any trouble with the girls," he said. "They even come and ask me If they can wear loOM jeans oa a picnic" I f I I 4 I ¦ J
Object Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Volume | 51 |
Issue | 29 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1957-05-12 |
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Month | 05 |
Day | 12 |
Year | 1957 |
Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Volume | 51 |
Issue | 29 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1957-05-12 |
Date Digital | 2011-12-29 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
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Contact | For more information, please contact the Osterhout Free Library, Attn: Information Services, 71 S. Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Phone: (570) 823-0156. |
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Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Full Text | ^^iPOTi mmm ¦nmr- trnfm w ::«:: SUNDAY INDEPENDENT V Cloudy, Mild Highest 66 to 70 Monday, little change 51ST YEAR — NO. 29 — 88 P.iGES Mrmber Audit Boreaa of CircolaHna WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1957 TNITED PREHS ^ Wir. New. SerTlc. fT PRICE 15 CENTS May Ceren^ony oi Wyom/ng Seminory j4 Inj^^gjj j^^;| f rOUCf ChotgeS |ln Plymoutli Collision Agamst Beck Are Seen Possible by McClellan Seven Tots Die When Blaze Sweeps Home Three Sisters and Two Brothers Are Among the Victims STRATFORD, Conn. (IP> — Sevpn childron burned lo death and five other per.son.s were injured la.st iii'.lit when fire swept theirj thiee-slory frame house. Five of the dead were thc children of Mr. and Mrs. Martin^ Davis who occupied the second floor of the buildinp. They werr- Benjamin, fivef Jeanette, three: Cieorge, two and one-half; F.\f Ionia, 18 months and Patricia,, eiphl months. lhe other two victims were the children of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Martin, They were Rus¬ sell, five, and Doreen, three. A brother. John, 17 months, and a .sister, Sandra, two weeks old, were injured but not seriously. Their mother. Mrs. Cecelia Martin, 32. and her mother-in- law, Mrs. Rita Martin, fil, Ws- tcrville, Maine, who was visit- inp, were reported In good condition at Bridgeport Hospital. Freight Hopper Fined For Scaring Trainman Cubs Say Motlier's Day Witlt Flowers These are scenes from Wyoming Seminary's colorful ceremony »f the crowning of the May Queen yesterday on the campus of the West .Side School. The top photo is the procession ot^^ queen and h^p* • attendants. Left to right are Judith 6f|fei!«.«JQail Funke, Ellen O'Connell, Claire Threthaway and Gail Hutcheson, May Queen, The bottom picture shows Miss Trethaway placing the crown on Miss Hutcheson.—Photos by Bert Husband) For Spain PITTSBURGH, dP—A Toledo,! Ohio, seaman who hopped ¦ D2««2II*« ^\XA freight train and frightened aX^|flfllO ^^f f brakeman into jumping off was'" ¦¦¦¦¦¦^ '^ fined SIO for trespassing and committed to jail for 20 days. It all began when Lewis Har¬ rison, 24, sneaked aboard a Bal-i ni^nriTK nv>\ r\,.^i...A timore & Ohio freight near Con-' C^'tiUl A tl^) — UU.Sted nellsville, Pa., and looked for a ex - President Gustavo place to sit. When he entered r. • n- -n r\ j . t> ihe la.st diesel engine, an un- I^o.ias Pinilla fled to Ber- idrntified brakeman ordered him milda .vesterda.v on his to leave wav to exile in Spain. The five- Harrison refused and the ione.|j,a„ ^i Gail Hutcheson Crowned Queen imaginary Cruise Program Highlight Gail IJiitchcson, 17-year' Two-Year-Old Boy Starts Car Which Damages Front of Kingston Building Four persons were in¬ jured in a two-car, head- on crash last nigrht at 7:30 at North and West Main Sts., Plymouth. In another West Side mishap, the two-year-old son of a-city jeweler was hurt when he en¬ gaged the automatic transmis¬ sion of his father's parked car and the vehicle crashed into a Kingston building. Injured in the Plymouth acci¬ dent were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wil¬ cox of 191 Canal St., West Nanticoke, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reese of 24 Smith Row, Plymouth Township. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox were taken to Merry Ho.spital, Wilkes- Barre, in the Larksville ambu¬ lance. Mr. Wilcox was treated! for multiple lacerations and dis-; charged. His wife, Edith, 52, was admitted for observation after being treated for injuries to her right hand and head. Mr. and Mrs. Reese were tak¬ en to Nesbitt Memorial Hospi¬ tal, Kingston. Mr. Ree.se, 44, was treated for abrasions of the side and his wife, Gertrude, 45, suf¬ fered abrasions of the chin and a fracture of the left wrist. Both were discharged, j Plymouth Police reported Mr. and Mrs. Reese were passeng¬ ers in a car driven by Robert T. Johnson, also of Smith Row, Plymouth Town.ship, Building Damaged The Franconi Auto Parts building at .584 Market St., Kingston, was considerably dam¬ aged last night at 8:20 when hit by an automobile acciden¬ tally set in motion when the owner Thomas Van Scoy. promi¬ nent local jeweler, left the vehicle to U'p a telephone at Market and Wright Sts. He left his two-year-old ,son,| BAGHDAD, Iraq (LP)—The kinfir.s of Saudi Arabia Thomas, Jr., in the auto and it'and Iraq met vesterdav to end a blood feud and ally PniU''thTTh'^ ^^La !l'r^/!°"itheir oil-rich lands more closely with the West in the Police that tne youngster acci- „ j,t-> l- jc- i. io dentally stepped on thi acoelera-jface of Egyptian and Syrian overtures to Russia, Mrs. Joseph P. Frail, second from right, flashes the kind of Mother's Day smile that 87 other mothers of l-orty Fort Cub Scouts will flash this morning. She is receiving a potted plant from her son. Cub Scout Donald Frail, as Mrs. Ira B. .Smith, den mother, and •Cubmaster Lee Sunday look on well pleased with their project. A month before Mother's Day, the 88 Kings Saud, Feisaf Meet To Herald a Realignment Of Mid-East With ^ t'.^e tor of the car which has automa tic transmission causing the ve hicle to move west on Market St. Before Mr. Van Scoy could get out of the telephone booth and into the car, it went up the street, over a curb and into the front of the Franconi -Building, causing considerable damage to both the building and auto¬ mobile. The boy was taken to Nes- ¦¦- -- --, ,, ii.oi, i..ilitarv junta that succeed-i ,, , , , .. - , u-.. .« ¦ , ., .it railroader—fearing for his wallet ed him appealed to foreign gov-,old daughter of iMr. and ""^ Memorial Hospital for treat and watch—leaped. The brake-grnments for recognition. iMrs. A. F. Hutcheson, 253 ""^"^ ^^ lacerations and contu rnTvj;re^':hea"d.'RSd Poli'c^: 'n^,^^„«„ .\'To*i\,.1a.^t;rilL'd^f'"'"^' '^^"'^ ^!.^-'J^^'^^^-^- sted Harrison near McKees.,H?,^>'at.on^ at^Ro.a,^ Ull^m^^^^ TyTueen^t^^o^r^ American and other arrr port, Pa. low of 50 Due In Area Tonight Cloudy skies and mild tem¬ peratures are expected to pre¬ vail over the area today, wit|i occasional rain and a chance of a few thundershowers both Sunday and Monday, the US. I "leather Bureau at Avoca re¬ ported last night. The high temperature ex¬ pected both days is 6.5 to 70 degrees, while the low, ex¬ pected tonight, is .50 to 55. Rain was experienced in Various parts ot 'he region yesterday but only a trace was recorded at the Weather Bureau. The precipitation was not sufficient to bring the amount of rain now required for the outset of the growing sca.^on. his government. A score of per¬ sons were killed in the fighting that accompanied the overthrow of the president. sions of the forehead Patrolmen Joseph Straub and Gus Oliver investigated. The Van Scovs reside at Box 374, RDl Wilkes-Barre. Mr. Van ful ceremonies on the school's back campus yesterday after-,„ , . ^ , noon, Scoy s store is situated at The tall, auburn-haired senior. South Mam St., city. 52 Pearson Exposes Teamsters' ^Raid' How a lOOyear bus con¬ tract in Chicago was lost to a' man who had neither 'ousses nor men to drive them. . . . How he "raided" the Team¬ sters Union for drivers. . . . How he loaned money to Dave Beck's No. 1 man, Jimmy Hoffa. ... These things are told, not at a Senate investigation hearing but in the Washington Merry- Go-Round column of Drew Pearson on the Editorial Pag« of the Sunday Independent today. Prober Cites Union Chief's Own Writing WASHINGTON UP) —Chairman John L. Mc¬ Clellan of the Senate Rackets Committee said yesterday that Teamsters Union President Dave Beck, "in a characteristic display of greed and avarice," may possibly have violated the federal mail fraud law. The Arkansas Democrat also predicted that federal tax authorities, who have already I obtained an indictment against I Beck for alleged Income tax Ipvasion, will want to determine whether profitable deals de- -rribed in the committee's cur- lent hearings were "reported" —and taxes paid on fhem." I McClellan mentioned the fraud possibility in discussing with newsmen testimony that Beck, trustee of a special fund lor the widow of his best friend, made $5.500 selling mortgages to the trust. The senator did ¦lot elaborate. I Show Text of Letter The testimony Included the text of a hand-written letter in which Beck urged the widow, Mrs. Raymond Leheney, to go ahead with the mortgage deal. The letter did not say Beck would profit from it. "The treatment he (Beck) accorded the widow of hit dearest friend is, it seems, typical of his dominating I characteristic of greed and avarice," McClellan said. "In the area of federal law violations," he added, "in the case of his breach of trust in the deal he made with Mrs. T.e- heney, there is the possibility that the letter he. wrote her would come within the.federal <;t.itu'e of using the maui to de¬ fraud." Commenting generally on the hearing on Beck, which were r« * T T » rt rr^ .resumed Wednesday, McClellan DALLAS, Tex. (IP) —Isaid the testimony showed clear- New flash floods, Uiling^l " " i"":*'!!'' K*'!.l'''"«\'^i" ' * show — that Beck has wholly members of Cub Pack 123 of Forty Fort Presbyterian Church voluntarily took on ex¬ tra cho'es to earn sufficient money to pur¬ chase flowers for their mothers. The boys were assisted In selecting and purchasing the floral tributes by John Mat¬ tern, a florist, and Rev. Dr. Joseph L. Weis¬ ley, pack chaplain and pastor of Forty Fort Presbyterian Church.—(Photo by Paul Bieley) Texas is Hit BxJei^jQDds Six Rivers Rampage After Cloudbursti Western diplomats pre-|up with such suddennessibreached his trust" as Teamster dieted the meeting wouldifrom rains of nearly seven''^''^'''''^"* ""'^ ** trustee of the herald a shift of Middle Eastl inches that they washed motor-"""'""* ^""'^^' powers Into a new alignment. jsts from highways, struck cen- Hearings a Continuation King Saud of Saudi Arabia'tral Texas last night. i Beck, McClellan said, was One 21-month-old boy was Government offices and thedressed in a white gown of ny-i property of Rojas supporters in lon eyelet and carrying red various cities were destroyed by mobs celebrating the "revolu¬ tion." The ex-president, accompanied by nine relatives, left Bogota secretly in a special Air Force roses, was attended by a court of four. The court, ail seniors, were dressed in light blue gowns and carried nosegays. The girls were Claire Trethaway, Gall Funke, Ellen O'Connell and Va//ey Woman, f 04, Dies C54. The Ai^y detailed a •'"'^'"i George. strong guard to escort him to ., Also attending the queen were the airport flower girls Sandra Charles and The four-engined plane stop- i'ifl'i^^',:?",^"'* ^%^'; ''"'"" ped off In Kingston, .Jams1ca;To^*Sr'''^;^!,t,P'' ^rtZ.;n. Refuel. The deposed distator re-^.-^ c'^'h r^i^ -. h. fused to t*k to newsmen in the f[°^' l7,ulLJl^LA^lt It B,;,;^i, ^...¦i^.^....... ^^i^.,,, .throne at the north.*end or the ritish Car Dbean colony. u.-i, .,„-,.,... i j u,. „i- „ ¦' Iback campus reached its climax Rojas landed in Bermuda at,when Miss Trethawav placed 1:25 P. M. He told newsmen heithe crown on the queen's head. planned to stay there for three Miss Hutcheson, one of thc or four days and then go on to Spain, where he will stay in¬ definitely. Wheelchair Trip of Aged Woman Brought to End by Kind Salesman .lACKSONVILLE, Fla. (IP— A .59-year-old crippled woman, who was too proud to ask for help, hoarded a train yester¬ day to complete the L'^OO- nule trip she began in a wheelchair. Mrs. Eva Lambert, victim f>f multiple sclerosis, set out Wednesday, hoping to trundle her wheelchair to her native Vermont. Thanks to a travel- ins salesman, however, she Will make the long journey by train. A bent little woman with graying hair and glasses, Mrs. • LatTibert, a widow, was deter- Jmined to visit a sick brother I«t Arlington, Vt. Lack of funds i precluded a trip by train or , bus, so she decided to make jthe long journey Inherwheel- ¦ chair. Had Travelled 50 Miles With her two dogs, a cat, a Bible and $10 In cash, Mi;«. Lambert left Jacksonville (early Wednesday, guided by a road map. She had logged 50 miles, most of it by two auto¬ mobile rides, when she was seen by James Wolhouse, a salesman from Birmingham, Sdich. Wolhouse urged Mrs. Lam¬ bert to return to Jacksonville with him, promising to buy her a train ticket to Vermont. Il took him an hour to per¬ suade the widow who at first said she was reluctant to lose the mileage she had accom¬ plished. Besides furnishing a train ticket for Mrs. Lambert. Wooli house also promised to see that the two dogs and cat were shipped to Vermont. Had No Choice Mrs. Lambert and her hus¬ band operated a news stand m Jacksonville for years. When he died three years ago, she decided to return to Ver¬ mont. "I wasn't afraid to make the trip," she said. "Some¬ times we just don't have any choice and must go ahead and do what we have to do." Yesterdav, as she prepared fo board the train for Ver¬ mont, the little widow ex¬ pressed her deep gratitude to Woolhouse. "His mother should cer¬ tainly be proud of him." she said "He it an A-No. 1 young man." most popular and attractive queens to grace the Seminary campus, takes a leading part in many school activities. A su¬ perior academic student, she was captain of this year's out¬ standing varsity hasketball team and holds varsity letters for field hockey and cheerleading. Will Enter College Gail, who hopes to enter! Goucher College after gradua-| tlon, is a past president of the Adelphia Society, secretary of the "W" Club, vice president of the honor court and a member of the Blue and White Commit¬ tee and the activities board of the annual. ANNA NAVROTH Mrs. Anna Navroth, believed,viously for treatment of injuries The 1957 May Queen and heri to be the oldest person in thislsuffered in a fall at home, court were entertained on an region, and possibly the state,, .Mrj. Navroth. affectionately hour-long imaginary Summer|died at Nanticoke State Hos- known as "Babka" Navroth the neighborhood, was born Pbland and came here at the age of 28, residing In Nanticoke ever since. She was a member and Arabia after World War I, Ceremonial Greeting Both monarchs made a cere¬ mony of their meeting,, Saud. in flowing white Arab robes,, was greeted by Feisal and Crown Prince Abdul Hah wearing field marshal uniforms "at Baghdad Airport, The 22-year-old Feisal warm- Iv embraced and kissed the cheeks of Saud, 34 years his .senior. Thousands Jam Streets They drove in a carriage drawn by six white horses to Feisal's palace through streets jammed with cheering Iraqis and bedecked with the green and white Saudi flags. Saud was expected to spend three or four days here in dose conference with Feisal and his premier, ,NUries Said, on their mutual position as oil-rich coun¬ tries in the turbulent Middle Ea.st. Hussein May Join There were rcporLs that .lor- dan's 22-year-old King Hussein, fresh from beating off a leftist and pro-Syrian attempt to over¬ throw him, might join the two monarchs. Hussein and Feisal are cousins Jn the Hashemite dynasty. Observers here said that Iraq, a member of the anti-Com¬ munist Baghdad Pact, and Saudi Arabia, which subscribes to the Eisenhower Doctrine, might forge a new defense alignment against Communism which in¬ directly would be opposed to thej leftist brand of Arab neutrality fostered by Egypt and Syria. and a retinue of 80 flew to Baghd.id for conferences with; .;,p- jnto"cow "Bavou'' th"r^iliave used his position "and the Iraq King Feisal. The trip was^^,"^// f^"^ Golinck about 15f«'"^"dous powers reposed in it the first by a Saudi monarch^ ^'^^' '^^mh of Waco andit" f"^ther the financial gain and 0° ^b?tter1,u'a,!;e'lt'af sle^re^""-"^^'^^^ ^renuf mV. Tn^^f^ of hin,self and his family from'the'fa'crthal Saud'SerlJi^^^ -'ames Green, Fort ^"^ "^ain friend, that he de- ousted Feisal's grandfather from ^5''"i' .^'^"^ rescued by boat after they and two others grabbed onto trfees. The Department of Public Safety at Waco said at one time eight persons were left hanging on to trees as a mighty surge of water from Cow Bayou and nearby Bullhide Creek swept over U.S. Hiphway 77. Wide Area Affected The flash floods in central ¦Texas followed new and con¬ tinuing cloudbursts over a wide area of Texas that sent at least six rivers charging to dangerous' __ ^t m m new heights; washing out »' D%m g §%^mrw%m%g%m railroad track between two ap- 0 Jf VffUIIIVwl proaching trains. disclosed In the testimony to sired to favor." McClellan described the heai^ ings as "a continuation of what was indicated In the previous hearings with respect to Mr. Beck's sense of responsibility—' or lack of responsibility to the trust repK>sed In him." Tax Policy Is Attacked Workers Reach Trapped Miner WASHINGTON, ilP — The Chamber of Commerce of tha United Stales reported yesterday the Eisenhower administration is collecting and spending taxes at a higher rate than any adminis- RICHWOOD, W. Va. W-A '"''°" '" ^' ^' ""'""">'¦ spokesman for the Donegal Coali '"^ ^^"^ '^at by the end of Co. near here said last night "seal year 1968 next .lune 30 that "within.a matter of hours";"«^he administration will have William CikRichmond, 38-year-icollected mot^ taxes than did the whole Truman administra¬ tion which lasted 7'4 years." J. Kirk Eads, manager of tha .seven children and all but given Chamber's Department of Taxa- t . J u J . jtion and Finance, sad tnt rec- up for dead, had communicatedi ^ collection "Is not the whoi. with rescue workers late yes-;j^„^_,j represents only collec ^''"^y- Itions by the federal government. The miner, who was trapped if we add collections by state about 10 P. M. Wednesday, toldiand local.governments we find the workers that he thought he that almost $1 out of every S3 was in good condition, but thati of national income is taken to one leg was badly hurt. 'run our governments." 38-year-, , , , -,- old miner, trapped by slate since '"^ ^""'^ Truman Wednesday should be free. He said Richmond, father of , cruise through Europe and the plui last nighl at 8:30 at the Caribbean where native dancers performed for the queen. The program featured Scot¬ tish, Dutch and French dances, a tumbling exhibition with a Calypso therhe and sailor drills and marches.- The entertainment was climaxed by a dance de¬ picting a Spanislh bullfieht per¬ formed -by Dina Raker and Josia MIeszkdwski- ! Section Page The dancers included Alta Lou I Amusement Kour 10-11 Hall, 'Jackianne Beattie, Mari-i Around the Town. .Three anne Tinsley, Mary Jo Brown,; Betttr English Two Mariellen Daw, Diane Ringwa,{City Hall News ... .Five Valerie Edmunds, Barbara Johns, I Classified Six Barbara Cooney, Marjorie Dou-,County News Five maux, Mary Jane Koster, SusanjCrossword Puzzle. ..Six Davis, Rochelle Haines, Marjory i Drew Pearson Three Davis, Marion Stevens, Jane| Editorial Three Collins, Susan Yocum, Nancy j Frank Tripp Three (Continued on Page 2, Sec. 1) Houso Doctor Six. age of 104. She resided with her dau'-ghter, Mrs. Joseph Wodyka, 124 West Bfoad St., Nanticoke, and was admitted toione of'the founders of St. Stanls, the hospital t||o v4eeks pre-l (Continued on Page 8, Sec. 1) |n Valley Scenes Tight Blue Jeans Look Silly; Principal Orders Boys to Dress INSIDE THE INDEPENDENT Shoe sliiiie ho/i utiiiggling hnnir In.ti night tn the Heights n e r t io n burdened dou n ivitk hin ghine. box, por¬ ted plant!f and big bo.r, of randii—o»// getting free lift from Mother's Dny-minded taxi driver. How Can 1 ???....Four 2' 9 Look and Learn ....rwo 6; 9 Obituary One 8i 2 Politics Three 8| 1-6 Radio Four 10 3i Robert C. Ruark ...Three y 6, State Capital Five 4 8 State News Five 5 8! Sporta .Three 1-6| a; TV Four 10 41 Women'i Section ..Four 1-8 Crndflu ronalriirtrd .itnnd Section Page | for rurnl mailbox in Ba«k ^fountain carriiing »ign, "No comments, please." Newspaper printer, uith do-it->iourself desires, return¬ ing to paint store after bar¬ ing dumped eoutents nf one, ran all nver hiinxelf an/l being asked bit elerk, "Did .von mnnnge tn get any of it on th* walltf" W.ASHINGTON OPI—-A sub¬ urban high school principal has declared war on tight blue jeans. He doesn't go for tight white T-shirts either. "They're indecent," he said. "And they don't look neat." The principal — Samuel J. Coffey of nearby Fairfax, Va. —opened ho.stlllties on tight blue jeans Friday by sending home from school about 40 tightly blue-ieaned boys. •Si'ly Things' 'A few were wearing those silly things down on their hips," he said. "And those T- shirts are undershirts. "They were a crummy-look¬ ing bunch," Moreover, Coffey said, the whole business was a conspix- acy—the boys decided in ai-i vance to wear the jeans and T-shirts to school on the sama day. Not Funny "A hair-brained idea," tf»e principal said. "They thought it was funny until I called them all out of class." He said he told them "Stu¬ dents should come to class neatly dressed to boost school morale." "I told them they lookwl like scarecrows," he .said. Coffey said whal he thinks about boys in tight jeans goes double for girls. "Only 1 don't have any trouble with the girls," he said. "They even come and ask me If they can wear loOM jeans oa a picnic" I f I I 4 I ¦ J |
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