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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
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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-
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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.
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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"
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