Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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_    WILKES-BARRE,  PA.,  SUNDAY,  MARCH 20, 1955
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PRICE   FIFTEEN   CENTS
f f nc/'M a/f Cf Off s Sabotage' On Planes for Air Force
—<Xwn«i MMtiaa
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6 From County Sworn 4s State Deputy Attorneys
Six attomaya from Luacm* oounty, ap¬ pointed to tha atafff of Atto>mey Ganaral ot PenntyW^nK •«* ¦hown balnc •worn in aa B«w cMwty attonwya by Attorney G«n«ral Herbert Cohen In bit offlea at Harrlaburc 1,^ weed. Ijookin* an ia Dr. John L.. Dorrie, chatmian ot the Liuzerne Cbtmty Democratla Oominittee.
New deputy atitotneyi photogrrapihed taking lfi«ir   oatha    are:    left    to    rigrht.    Attorney Patrick nannery, Pltteton; Attorney Rldiard
McGuigan, city; Attorney Nevflla Aaa, Truckeville; County Chairman Dorrie; At¬ torney Henry Thaianfeld. Kln«Moii: Attanwy Maotln Cohen. Haaleton; Attoniey BaM BL Beker, Haxleton.
Attorney General Ooiien le etmwei atasdtaiv at Wa deak reading «he oatha of office to hda new deputies.
Attorney! MoOulfmn and Shaa wtB ba at¬ tached to the, Penneylvanla Workmen's Oom- peneation Board of arhlch Dr. Dorrta la chairman.
IS. PRAH IS
Contractors Ready for Great Highway Program
ATLA.NTIC Cmr. N. J. OP.-: H. A. Radzikow.kl, chief of the ^^^r"'^'"''^V' contra<:tor.are!maintenance branch ^ the It .t^.Lt .ix Wi,r^ !,"'• '" con-:reau of Public Road. i„ Wa.hing- !i-^.   ''.*..''""°!L*^°'.'.*''* *''""' o'i'°n.  •«'<1  2S  per cent of all  the
FBI Investigating; Blames Company Labor Dispute
BmMINGHAM, Ala. «IP>—The FBI Investigated Saturday the "m«- licioug aabotage" of 10 Air Force planea "that would certainly have crashed an hour after take-off."
Harry Rowland, president of Hayea Aircraft Corp., aaid control equipment that sruidei planea in flight waa tampered with. In 10 instances, after the devices had been cleared and approved both by company and Air Force inspection.
"These  airplanes could have taken  off aU right," Rowland  said, "but In an hour the sabotaged de-<^ vices, which are made of fabric,
Jet Fuel Tanker Stopped
roads during the first year of President Eisenhower'a lO-year highway improvement program now before Congress, the thirty- third annual convention of the Associated Pennsylvania Construc¬ tors was told today.
8. Howard Brqwn of GrantvIHe, Pa.,  task   force  chairman  of  the
naUon's highway rehabiliUtion costs amounting to »25,400,000,000 is incurred in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Ohio Dela¬ ware, Maryland and Weat Vir¬ ginia.
In these states, he taM, with the increases provided under the Federal   Aid   Highway   Act   and
would have peeled off gradually and there would have been per¬ sons killed had wa not datected it"
Rowland Mild *n aquiivnant had been Impounded for Investigation by the eompany and tha FBI. The damage was to ailerons, tabs and other equipment tiaed in control¬ ling planes tn flight. Blames Labor Disputa
Rowland blamed tha ¦abotage on a labor dispute between Hayes, tha Air Force's only commercial¬ ly-operated depot which modifies and overhauls planes for the gov¬ ernment, and the CIO United Auto Workers Union.
"There la absolutely no doubt about it," he said. "We never had anything like this before, just like tha telephone company never had any cables cut before the strike there." CIO telephone workers are on strike in nine aouthem states.
Tha union contract with Hayes expired March 15 and negotia¬ tions for a new agreement have been deadlocked since. However, ths  union  denied  it was  reapon-
;erty either at Hayes Aircraft or Interested as
FOR IHE STATE
Coatesville Women Has Three Children; Husband Is Physician
CX3ATESVILUB, Pa. ttP> — Mra ._   , _       ._ ^
UiiM Hill Pratt, wife of a physi-jPresident's highway program ad-lthe Morton Bill now i'n Congress,isibia or that the sabotage had elan and active In dvlc and chari-jVlsory committee, told the closingian increase in conatniction of 75'anything to do with contract ne- Ubl*   affairs   for   a   number   ofisession  of the meeting that 5,000;per  cent,   or   $1,600,000,000,   wouldigotiations,
years,  was  obosen   1966   Penn«yl-|highway    contractors    laat    yearlbe possible over 1954 levels. I    The   union   Issued   a   statement
vania Mother of the Vear Satur-jwere operating at only 46.4 pe»! He said the Morton Bill would!saying "it does not condone the «!sy. |cent of thedr full capacity. (enable   completion   of   the   entire ,4_,f_,.tion   of   aovernment   nroD-
A well-knwn clubwoman. Mra.j    Existing    highway    equipment,!interstate  highway   system   in   iq '^*'"-"^''"°"   °'  government  prop Pratt   haa   three   grown   childreniowned oi available to contractors.jyears   but the system would take   ,       i, ^ ,
snd five grandchildren.    A  grad-lwould have an additional work po-care  of  only 64  per  cent  of  the "**}!'   I!:.    "1*   „ ,^.     ,„
aat* oi Mlllersville Col)ege, she U|tential     of     about     $1,000,000,000 highway   deficiency   unleM   therei'» *"* *^^^ ***¦ ^"* "*y"« """^P- ^" ¦ past president of the Coatesville j above    the    $3,100,000,000    volumeis an increase in state and local! Wompn» ciub and served on thejOf   highway   oonstniction   accom-1 financial partiolpatfon In tha con- board of directors of the rWCA. (plished last year, he said. istructlon program.
Mra.  Pratt  founded  ths  Juniori___	
Century club here In 1928 and it went on to raise thousands of dol¬ lars for welfara At present, it la equipping and mantainlng the Chililren's    Ward    In    Coatesville; ^^ #        * f #¦ « ¦ ¦
"F^ml9«tol,« aha waspresi    Of     AUDUm     5f.     HOmC
dent of the Cheater County Feder¬ ation of Women'a cluba. Sha pio¬ neered in setting up a mobile li¬ brary for rural schools tn the county and also helped develop the Drama League.
Her son. Dr. John ft. M. Pratt Ind. la a surgeon. He was decor¬ ated twice for bravery In the South Pacific during World  War
IL   A daughter. Katherine M., Is Ernest Krute of 42 Auburn street t° ^^* cellar,  the upper floors of • teacher  .      . ...,,¦.
a projer
French families.    Another daugh- formed his mother who called flre-
ter, .Mrs. Jane Pratt Grlswold,  Ismen. DADIC   DIICIMCOCIIICM
toe mother of tw<o sons. [    Assiatant   Chief   JaoobMMi   said rAKIS   DUbllMtboMtlM
Mrs. Pratt's husband. Dr. John Engines 6 and 8 and Truck 8, re- ADC ItDf^cn T(\ QTRIIfP t M Pratt, is aouv. ta Coat..-apondlag to tha telepbona eaU ""t: UKfatU 10 blKl^t !: • '.¦'.'¦• *** founded tha Ro- and a box alarm /rom Station 122
putting tica."
a stop  to aucti  a prac-
Na Arraata Made
Tha FBI entered the Investiga¬ tion at the reque.Tt of Rowland. Jamea A. Robey, special agent in charge of tha Birmingham FBI bureau, declined comment except to say, "The matter at Hayes hasj been reported to the FBI as de¬ struction of government proper¬ ty and an investigation is being conducted." No arrests hav* been made.
Rowland said that Hayes em¬ ploys 6,000 workers. It has an an¬ nual payroll of 3S million dollars
Rowland said that in all 10 cases of sabotage, the damaged planes were C119 "Flying Box¬ cars," the Air Force's principal troop carrier and cargo craft, and B26 Air Force liaison planes.
"The sabotage occurred during one of the test periods yeaterday," Rowland related. "At the time, our supervisory personnel was off the floor. These control services had Just been repaired and would have been Installed In the next 10 daya. They had been approved by both the Air Force and our own inspectors. They were ready to go.
"Fortunately, our lngpe(;tors de¬ tected that holes had deliberately been punched in the equipment. It was malicious but I don't think the guilty parties rea^e tha seri¬ ousness of it."
Stevenson Sure Ike Will Run; Silent on Adlai
ALBANY, N.Y. <IP) — Adlai Stevenson aaid' Saturday he thinks President Eisenhower will run again tn 1966—but would not say if h« would run against  Eisenhower.
The 1»52 Democratic presi¬ dential candidate is in Albany for a weekend visit with his old friend. Gov. Averell Harrlman, Both men are mentioned as j presidential posalbilities next j HELSINKI. Finland <IP)—Own-said the crews rebellion malt* year- lers of  the  Finnish  tanker Arubaldelivery of the fuel, aa contracts^
Stevenson aaid he waa visiting jtold  Red China Saturday that  ifi impossible. the  Governor  only   becauaa  of   she   wanta  the  vessel's  cargo   of    Deunstroem   said   his   firm   hai "Harrlman  hospitality,"  but an   jet fuel she'll have to "come and,been attempting to find out whal
China Reds Told To Come Get It, But They Can't
aide aaid they would talk poli¬ tics, too.
Stevenson criticized tha State Department for releasing the Yalta Papers, paying it had created bad feelings with Amer¬ ica's allies.
get   it"   somewhere   outside   Red the Red Chinese want done wltk China's territorial waters. the disputed cargo.
American sources in Hong Kong' But the only word from Peipinf said the Chinese Communists have|S»t"'"<^ay ^as a propaganda blas« no Unker available in Far East-i^Jy «^*'e Communist New Oilna ern waters capable of handling ai"^*» *Kency charging that «»« transfer of the prized Jet fighterjAruba incident proves "the de» fuel. jperate   and   criminal"   efforts   o(
•The Aruba's owners said the! the United States to cripple inter- vessel cannot proceed to Shang-i"at'onal trade, hai or any other Red Chinese porti Doubt Fuel Transfer because the crew has rebelled Damstroem suggested a iolutteB against attempting to run the Chi-! "I'Sfht be the transfer of the Jel nese Nationalist blockade of the! f"''carjto to another tanker some- Red China i'oast. j where in international waters o« Warm. Possible Sinking the high seas. , ,     ^
XT .¦      ,. ,.   /^u-        u ..I    ^°"«   ^°"f5   Shipping   intererts
Nationalist China'has warned u^jj guch a transfer would not ba that she would seize or sink the [difficult, if the Chinese Reds had Aruba   to   prevent   the   fuel   from ^ tanker capable of taking on the
Fire Sweeps Cellar
An 8-year-old Auburn street boyithruugh partitions, but ^'ai made a visit to the eellar of his>checked before causing serious home to look for a lost toy andidamage to the firat floor, this chance visit probably saved Firemen had to use two booat- the homa from deatruction by fire er lines and a 3Vi-<inch hose line yesterday afternoon at 8:60, ac- to combat the flames fed on porch cording to Assistant Chief Ed- furniture and other materials ward Jacobson. {stored in the cellar.
The  boy,  son of  Mr. and  Mrs.'    Although the fire was confined
BRITAIN OPPOSES PUBLICATION OF POTSOAM TALKS
Fears Passages Taken from Context Distort Real Picture
LONDON ap)—Britain has told rr"„VS^"'-"r'"'i'"".r- .",'^'""m!L'^¦¦"'•¦ °' *u ^'^l"''" »"**!,'>h."h«m.l"l;.ff',LrJ*''?^m""7mnkeiEisenhower gave Congress Implied the United SUte. that the publi- ff l^T^ 'J'** wl"" "•J"'""'^, *"'°^' ^hen  >• «"tered the home ^ffered from smoke ^,^rnlng Saturday tha! he will veto cation of the Potsdam conference 1''^h!***'/"l^'"*]**  '!'"^''  '¦""*'  and   without  delay  m- damage. K was reported. Tny legislation Uiat increase, theipapers   would   be  inadvisable,  the
LilT ON BOOST OF POSTAL PAYS
To Veto Anything  , Over 7.5% Increase; Considering Others
WASHINGTON OP) — President
reaching Red air bases within range of Formosa and its off¬ shore islands.
The Aruba's crew has served notice It will not sail the tanker beyond the Nicobar Islands, off India. Gunnar Damstroem. presi¬ dent of the owning shipping line
Yalta News May Block New Parley
George Sees Frank Discussions Blocked But Knowland Wants More Reports Public
WASHINGTON <tPt —Chairman Walter F. George, D-Ga., of the Senate Foreign Relations Com¬ mittee, said Saturday publication of the Yalta Papers may prevent Russia, Britain and other big powers from entering Into future "top level" international confer¬ ences with the United States.
However. Senate Republican Leader WilUam F. Knoland, Calif, pratied the State Department for releasing   the    long-secret    Yalta
records,  and  invited   Britain  andi^V?,!!*^ *° P"' "'•** ">« '=*'"^» "' Russia to publish tlieir dkirn ver
oil.    But    they    said    the    Red'l haven't.
One well-informed Hong Kong source said "I do not know of any Polish or other tankers out here right now which the Communists could use to get hold of the Ani> ba's cargo."
English Press Convinced Churchill Soon fo Retire
LONDON (IP) _ Prime Minister Winston Churchill may retire within a month. Ix>ndon news¬ papers reported Saturday.
Half the London press and one of Britain's two Internal news agencies reported the growing con¬ viction among Conservative mem¬ bers of Parliament that Churchill now in his 81st year, has been per
tuy eiub here.
RED MARSHAL GOVROV IS REPORTED DEAD
LOmxw nn _ Deputy BtMmt
I North    Main    and    Elm    streets, I found   tha   ealW   af   the   Krute
PARIS aPV—Anti-tax erusader Pierre Poujada, Infuriated by par llamentary   approval   et   Premier
sions of wartime Big Three meet¬ ings.
George told a reporter that a top-level big power conference— presumably Involving President Eisenhower, British Prime Min¬ ister Churchill, Russian Premier Nikolai Bulganin and perhaps others—"may be vital In the months Immediately ahead to bring about peace and stability." Churchill in the past has tried ..     ,,  .^   .  c,. ..      .1.      ,... ,.,.   often to promote such a meeting,
the United  State.  th*t the pubh-ji,ut Mr. Eisenhower has been op-
posed   to   it   until   there   is   some
Office    said    Saturday!
concrete reason to believe Russia
ihoroa *a maas of flaat— and flUediFxlgar    Faure's    fisoal    program, iwiHi heavy smoke " called ywstsrday for a amaU bual-
I   Tbs   flra   bad  started   mtmwi4m 1 nessman a strtka.
^'tT. T'::^ ^tei ^y^ BjHj Graham in Scotland;
Religious Revival Better
J»<l»ra w4t« wara reportad marked 'or  death   in   Ruasla's   so-called! •loetor's  plot," died  Satitrday. Th»  death   of   the   defender   of U-ningrad   and   one   of   Russla'si^a ««    ¦* ^% #
z^J:^'^'Z^z^^i;rjThan 3-rower Conference
broadcast   monitored   here. .      ^    .       .   .. ,     ¦
Mescow  said   the  marahal  diad     GLASGOW,   Scotkind  OPV- Billy from   hundreds   of   hymn-slnging »fter "a prolonged and grave 10- Orahara said .Saturday a reUglous nret."
OwvroT •ommaaded (Sia Lenia- *rs4 front ta January, 1*48, ertmt tn* otty was saved from tha fei-
vsiMiif Nasis.
revivai could do more for world peace "than a three-power con¬ ference.
"Hie lank/ American •v»ngeUst Moetved   •   tumultuous   welcome
AetomobUes Have Become News And So They Are Treated as Such
Whataver    attractions    K *«I<1   for   noaUlglc   oldsters,   the Borae-and-buggy aga la definitely » thing of the past.
With tha fast-growing network « aKpreaswajra, super highways, Wd six-laaa tumplkas spreading JJ^th* aaUon, the automoljile ¦ becoming mora and more JJ^   to   Ws   ta   these   Unitad
« help the avaniga ear owner •JJP up this «MienttaI but often ?*lT Item »t his budget, the """"lay Independent will offer ^WR CAR beginning today. ThU ¦"'weekly eolumn presents the ~*« practical and Inexpensive ¦oortcuts to homa auto maln- WDanc*.
'"rttten by Bi^wrt ^OUR CAK Is written by Bu- ••"• Milmoe—an expert mechanic, "^•tnicbor, and writer who knows J^tomoblles like ths back of his
Milmoa has studied this eom- ;'^, "Object from every con- ^«v»bl« angle. For many years fj^ ^^ top mechanic at one of V*'^fgest ser\'lce station-garages 'New York City.
"•learned the art of passing , h's knowledge as an instruc- "* 'or one  of  the  naUon's  top-
may magazine articles, making this valuable information available tc car owners in non-technioal lan¬ guage.
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Milmoe's aim Is to keep hU column flexible, responding al¬ ways to the actual needs of to¬ day's motorists. For the moat part, ther«fore Milmoe lets his readers choose the topics on which he writes. Questions and Answers
Each column la mads up pri¬ marily of questions from readers, answered fully and accurately from Milmoe's large reserve of train¬ ing and experience. The brief essays" beginning the eoltmms are suggested larfrely by previous reader questions. Others are baaed on important new developments in the automotive world which are of vital Interest to car owners.
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^^"tf    auto-mechanic    schools.*   Follow  it every Sunday in the **«  he   ham   wrlttm   MiaMrousiSi.-n(ta]r Independent
followens, who staged an all-night
prayer   meeting    before   greeting
the train  that  brought  him here
for   a  aix-week  revival
land.
Crusade Opens Monday
All the Protestant churches of Scotland are sponsoring his "Tell Scotland Crusade," which formal¬ ly opens Monday.
Graham told newsmen he Is em- barknig on his Glasgow mission at a time when "the worid situation is little more tense," and added he believes the tension could be eased by a revival of religion In the world
"I believe that this could con¬ tribute more to world peace than anything else that could happen. In my opinion there i» still a point of contact between East and Weat," Graham aaid "That point is in the realm of the spirit.
"Americans, Rusaiana, Ohineae and Japanese have the same spir¬ itual capeuritles."
"The eyes of the Christian world will be upon ua during the next six weeks," he said, far more than during last year's London revival meetings because of In creased  tension.
Before his press conferef •, the evangelist spoke from an upstairs window at his hotel to a huge crowd aiat had followed him from the station. Tremendous Greeting
The crowd blocked rush hour traffic in ScoUand's biggest city —Including doubledecker buses bearing huga "Hear Billy Gra- bam" signs.
"I deeply appreciate your com¬ ing here today," Graham said. "We have been praying all the way across the Atlantic ... all over America millions of people are praying for you in Glasgow.
I think we will see the biggest awakening In the history of the ChriiUaa woffld hsr* te Britain.
any legislation
salaries of postal workers by more Foreign      ...^    ..~^-.,^a,i.     ,^,.     .,   „„,^ «.in,   _„„„h.
than 7.5 per cent. i night. l"*   '^^^V   ^"^   Kood-faith  negoUa-
The administration  haa  recom-i    A   spokesman   said   the   United j *'**"*¦
mended  pay   raises  of  about  6.5 States consulted the British gov-;    George said  he  fears  that  the
ernment on  the proposed  release!<=hance    for    "free of tha secret account of tha Pots-'c<'n'«'"encea at the top level" has dam conference aven before pub- been Jeopardiied by this country's
per cent for 500,000 postal workers, at a cost of about 129 miliioa dol¬ lars a year. SoiAa Want Mer«
A bill up for floor action In the House Monday would increase postal pay by 7.S per oent, at a cost of about leo million dollars. Postal worker unions and some congress¬ men have been urging a 10 per cent boost that Is estimated to cost 4t>out 175 million  dollars.
In a letter to Chairman Tom Murray, D-Tenn.. of the House Postoffic* Committee which is sponsoring the 7.6 i)cr oent raise Mr. Eisenhower indicated he would go along with that figure although he would not b • too happy about it.
But he said that "in fairness to you  and  your  colleagues  I  must ta   Soot- make it clear that additional in¬ creases would give me tha gravest apprehension."
That is about as close as a Pres¬ ident ever comes to a veto warn¬ ing.
Mr. Bisenhower vetoed a S per cent postal pay Increase last year because Congress failed to enact compensating increases in postal rates. He has proposed higher postal rates again this year, but this time did not link them to the postal pay Issue. Considera Others
Mr. B^isenhower said he Is con¬ cerned "not only because of the fiscal impact" of postal pay in¬ creases themselves, but because of the "cloje relationship" between the pay of postal workers and that of other federal civilian employees
The administration has proposed a raise averaging 5 per cent for the government's 1 million non- postal civilian workers. That would cost about 200 million dol¬ lars a year. But the general sen¬ timent in Congress—to which Mr, Eisenhower obviously  referred—Is
had contacted lawmakers advising them to hold themselves available in case of a sudden summons. Tha whips gave no explanation, he said. The British news agency, Kx- chbnge Telegraph, reflected tha growing belief that this century's most heroic figure was nearing ths end of his career which has span¬ ned 50 years and two world wars.
office,
Eden Successor
His successor Is believed almost! PILOT K Kll I FH certain   to   be   Foreign   Minister i*» imi-l.i_u
Anthony Eden.
Among those, sections of the British press speculating on his re¬ tirement, the consensus was that Churchill likely will step down for Eden sometime before April 19, when the 195S-S4 budget is to be presented.
Churchill himself was giving to the political guessers no help.    A
spokesman   at   No.   10   Downing about three miles north of here, street said the prime minister was
SABREJET FIRES-
DELAWARE CITY, Del. rtPV- An Air Force pilot was killed Sat¬ urday when his F-88 Sabrejet caught fire, crashed and burned in a marsh near here.
The plane, or a routine train¬ ing mission, had taken off from New Castle Air Base, New Cas¬ tle, Del., only about 16 minutes before    it    plummeted    to   earth.
lioation of the doctmienti on tha Yalta conference.
The latter wera released bjr Washington ever Britain's objac- tlons.
Same Objections
"Our attitude la the same •« In the case of the Yalta conference records,"  the spokesman  aaid.
"The British view is that dis¬ closure of the secret proceedings of those 1945 meetings is inad¬ visable so long as some of its par¬ ticipants are alive."
Britain also haa expressed con¬ cern that passages taken out of their context might tend to dis¬ tort    the    over-all    picture,    the
tell-all disclosura ef what was said at Yalta. He said other coun¬ tries may henceforth be "afraid'' to enter Into frank negotiations with fhs United States lest this country publish minutes of the discussions without their eonsent and without giving them a chance to "correct" the record.
The Georgia Democrat said "I regret the publication" of the Yalta Papers also because the action "might tend to promote disunity at homo when unity Is so badly needed."
Knowland's remarks were evi¬ dently prompted by British Prime
.„„,,„.„„„ .„;j Minister  Sir  Winston  Churchill's
spoKesman said. ^   ..    i,. ,.    iu      ti   o     v.i...
The Potsdam eonference of P*^**' ^^"^ ^^^.. "' ?,' Vl^* 1945 was attended by President,PaP*""' contained errors and by Truman, Prime Minister Winston '^e reported British opposiUon to
spending his weekend "quietly" at Chequers, his official country resi- oence.
He refused, as during past rashes Internationallo'   retirement   rumors,   either   to confirm or deny the reports. Commons Warned
One Tory MP, who asked that his  name  not be  used,  said  the
Churchill     and     Premier     Josef
Stalin.
Attlee Stepped In
Churchill was replaced at the conference before its end by Clem¬ ent    Attlee,    who    became    prime
the State Department's plans to publish later this year the Tehran and Potsdam records.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said Saturday, on his re¬ turn   from   a   good   will   trip   to
STUTTGART, Germany (IPI — Army authorities alerted the U. S. military mission in East Germany Saturday to aid in the search for a helicopter feared to have crashed behind the Iron Curtain with two men aboard.
A 7th Army spokesman said the mission in Potsdam will ask Rus¬ sian and local Communist, offi¬ cials for aid in locating the H13 helicopter and its occupants, an American pilot and a German ci¬ vilian.
minister   after   the   Labor   partyjCanada. that reports on the Pots-
victory   hi   the   1945   elections
The British view, and the view of a considerable number of world diplomats who have commented, holds that U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles made a grave diplomatic blunder in publishing the Yalta conference papers.
British sources expressed sur¬ prise that the United States ap¬ peared ready to "add insult to In¬ jury" by publishing papers of oth¬ er top-level war-time conferences.
SWALLOWS RETURN TO CAPISTRANO ON TIME
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO. to raise the pay of these workers iCalif. (IP) — Droves of swallows by the same percentage voted forjcame back to San Juan Capistra- the postal workers. no   on   time   yesterday   to   begin
Some senators are advocating alnesting   in   the  aave^  of the  Old general 10 per cent raise. Adobe Mission.
dam, Tehran and other wartime meetings "are In the works." But he did not know whether they would be published this year.
He said ha did not know any¬ thing about reports the British have urged the United States to hold up publication of these papers.
State Department historians said the Potsdam papers are al¬ ready in print—in uncorrected galley proof form—but that their release has not yet been cleared, even with other U. S. agencies.
The missing aircraft took offimember of the American Army" Thursday from Friedberg, lOjand "a German national who w»« miles north of Frankfurt, on aian employee of a labor serrte* routine   flight   to   Fulda,   a   city[unit."
some  12  miles  west  of   the  Iron;   The purpose of their flight Curtain.   Visibility   was   bad   and ^ not disclosed.
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Valley Scene
Big eignboard in front of Nanticoke High School adver- tiiring football eehedule that ended in November.
Wilkee-Barre man harinff te get eloee friend out of bed at i a. m. when he forgot hii> un- lieted home telephone number.
Pittston woman walking into karni''are etore with pair of roller skates and telling clerk i "My daughter a^ked me to get her ekaiee sharpened."
Two Negro boys playing eateh under South Street Bridg* during Friday's snow- talk
Air Force officials aaid the pi¬ lot, whose name was withheld pending notification of next of kin, bailed out of the craft, but "too late."
Another plane in tbe area no¬ ticed the crippled Jet's trouMa and radioed the base, but by that tima the   craft   had    crashed   em.   llM
Conservative  whips in  Commons farm of Paul E. Wilson.
fear U.S. 'Copter Crashed Behind the Iron Curtain
gale winds were blowing from Che west, leading authorities to believe the craft may have strayed over Red-held territory.
Various reports of wreckac* sighted in West Germany have been checked by the Army, so fa* without resuUi A ground pai^ was sent to Rimbach, 20 mll«ii| north of Fhlda, to check the lat* est of these reports, American and German
The   occupants   of   the   mlsslnc 'copter were identified only as "»
Aerial Sweepers
Helicopters Used to Explode Enemy Mines in Fleet's Path
MORTON, Pa. ap>—A radically-1 design helicopters which could tow new technique of naval mine-llong cables capable of tripping the sweeping operations was disclosed'exploding devices of enemy mtaee. Saturday with the announcement! A series of testi. Marting ta that heliooptem now are capable! Nov. 1962, were conducted ta the of exploding enemy mines with nojCulf of Mexico, using a PeasacU danger to the aircraft or to sur- HRP-1 Tindem Helicopter. It ¦ face vessels operating in the mine¬ fields.
The U. S. Navy began studying tha possibility of airl>orne mine¬ sweepers more than four years ago after the two lead ships of a mine-eweeping fleet were blown up within two minutes of each other off Wonsan, Korea. Heavy Casualties
found the helicopter swapt ries of minefields at speeds parable to naval veasela. The tests also demonstrated that rrtrw could be swept from heavy seae when conditions were too roucb for small surface craft. Worked Faster
In further teats, the more pow¬ erful Peasecki H-21 "workhorse" was used and its speed exceeded Records show the Navy's minejthat of the fastest mine*w««pers. force in the Korean conflict oom-| The companv said the Navy Is priaed only two per cent of the] considering the use of halicopt^n naval per»ann«l In the Far BJaat.iw, clear an Imtial path through but 20 per cent of the naval ca»-| enemy minefields so that surface ualties invoKved mine-sweeplnglghipa could explode addiUonaJ crews. I mines wtth tlie  paravanes wMeb
Feb.  1962.  Peiasecki  Helicopter;extend some ^'smn^Mt IveDk ttMti Oocvl wm •wudsd ft iiiiHi«» leiaMMt,