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50TH YEAR — NO. 40 — 66 PAGES
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JULY 29, 1956
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S!™iil?SSffeZ Andrea Doria Captain
Delayed General Alarm
Me Mining 'Dog Hole'
A Jenkins Township man, who had been operating « "dog hole" mine at Yatesville for the past four years, was found dead there yesterday morning, the victim of a rock f all. ^ .	
The victim wa.s Charles Zeski, 39, of 8 Laird St., Inkerman, a veteran of World War 2. His left leg was almost   severed   when   crushed
iPromises Bill
Wiil Take Part In Canal Talks
Murphy Takes Off After Conference With Eisenhower
s4K;.™t.f.s|To Return Pike
the body was found and cause! ¦ ^   ¦ •^•••i ¦¦   ¦   iiiw
of death, according to Dr. Ru¬ fus Bierly, Pittston deputy coro¬ ner, was "probably shock and hemmorhage."
Three or four men used crow-i bars to lift the boulder and freej the body. Dr. Bierly reported.| It weighed about one ton. |
Mr. Zeski left his home for] the "dog hole," situated at an' abandoned coal stripping ini Yatesville. at 6:30 Friday eve-; ning.    He  said  he  intended  to
To Commission
Sen. Wade Fears Cohen's Ruling Ends Responsibility
I
do some work in the hole Found by Neighbor
Mil aged parents. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ze.ski, were alarmed when he failed to re¬ turn yesterday morning. They asked a neighbor, George Smiles,  20,  of  2   Uird   St.,   to
WASHINGTON (IP)—A top U. S. diplomat flew to London yesterday to join British and French offi-1 t cials in emergency consultations on Egypt's seizure of the Suez Canal.
Robert Murphy, deputy un¬ dersecretary of state, was dis¬ patched to the British capital at the request of Britain and France and with the personal approval of President Eisen¬ hower.
He left by plane at 12:30 P. M. (EDT) after getting final instruc¬ tions from Mr. Eisenhower and Acting Secretary of State Her¬ bert Hoover Jr. at a White House conference.
Ships Go Through Canal Under Egypt Control
HARRISBURG OP)—The chair¬ man of the Senate Highways Committee said yesterday that he would introduce legislation next year to keep maintenance:No Specific Proposals
?L^^1[!H^i'7^"K*''' *°" '¦''^'' *y';i Murphy told reporters at ?h^T^?,^lV^r •"P«'"^""°" "'Washington National Airport the Turnpike Commission. jt^at he was taking no specific
i« ^ i^..« ..... vu _ ^*"- George N. Wade (R-IU. S. proposals for dealing with investigate Smiles found the Cumberland) described as .a;the new Middle East crisis. The bodv and notified authorities. I *"^'* }° everyone who is sin-;crisis was provoked by Egyptian Troopers John Harkovicz and^'^V '"'erested m the safety "nationalization" of the vital] John August of Wyoming Bar-I?' *"? turnpike" the recent rul-|canal long controlled by British •acks   together with Dr. Bierly,!"?'? <>' Attorney General Herbert|and French interests. (
Investigated and concluded thatj^f]'/'"^''*'  ""^er the  law  the     -what we are interested in,"! the victim had fired  a «tick of;"'R''Y'ay*   department is respon-^urphy aaid, "is in the impact:^,   .   .      -,,    . dvnamite   and    perhaps    more.^'^ /"-^   l","'^''^*   maintenance.:the   seizure   may   have   on   op-:fI||,l   l«   VUlit Thert was  •  lot   of  additionalj'ofition    of    future   extensions gration and maintenance of tiie 11111   IS  jlalll dynamite, as well as exploders, «"«• *0'"e other functions. ^,„,,.. ""^iVIl I   t^  «/IUIII
wher* the rock  came  down.      KiU* Responsibility
The Investigating officers also    "I am sure that whatever tor- learned that Mr. Zeski had beenitured legal construction the at- talks may lead to joint action by, working  at   the   stripping   for|tomey general  has put on the the big three Westem  powers soma time despite  the  danger law,   the   legislature   never  in-|He said the talks will be "ex- from overhanging rocks, 50 to tended it that way." Wade said.ploratory."
Says He Did Not Want To Cause Panic; Toll Of Dead at Least 25
NEW YORK (IP)—Capt. Fiero Calamai of the Andrea Doria admitted last night that he sounded ino immediate general alarm after the collision be- icause "I didn't want to cause alarm."
A short time later the Italian    Line    announced that at  least 20  persons were    killed    aboard    its    lost $29,000,000   luxury   liner.     An additional 72 to 74 persons are unaccounted for, the line said. (See related story on Page I, Section 2) A  company  spokesman   said air the known dead aboard the Andrea Doria were passengers. Five   Stockholm   crew   mem¬ bers also were listed as dead.
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The first group of ships stream through the   Suez   Canal   In   Egypt   following   President Nasser's seizure of the waterway link through the strategic Middle East.
canal. He sidestepped
questions
about the possibility the London lea '
Member of Prominent
., ... ..„..u„,. .u. «..««. .i,u. uavs   Connecticut Family
I on turnpike  can  oily result in no-ronferrina with  British  Foreign D
rin^bodv beIn? resnon.ib1e^^ l^r^^Ji"* Slvf  U^^d   ^^^^     ^MONTERFY.   Ta!.   m"
'" Hi.  '".'* 1^"^ *° "'^ ^""^ '* go-iFrench  Foreign  Minister Chris-:—An  attractive  vacation-lai
'in L.ondon for tiiree or four days
IOO feet above Few Injuries The victim apparently was on
to mine ¦ seam of coal, when "a
large boulder, probably loosened;ing   to   happen.     If   somethingitian Pineau
by the dynamite charge, fell 40igoes wrong the Turnpike Com-ipunds Are Frozen
By Army Cook
Administtation Scored By Flood for Blocking Vote on Area Aid Bill
will   blame  it  on   the  Turnpikei'"f\ f"^''^?''^ Commission  with  the  traveling'¦°"*^'^   """^''
feet, pinning his left leg. No other injuries of the body were noted, the investigating officers Mid.
The body was removed to the Kiiii Funeral home, 134 Churchipublic always the sufferer.
St   Pittston,     Funeral   services|        	
will be  held   Tuesday   moming ^^ ¦        ^^   ,. at 8:30 with a mass of requiem CZtHf  StriK^K In St CMlmlr's Church.    Inter ^*"   *»»fllt«?» ffltnt will be in parish cemetery
Only kll parents survive.
mission   will   blame   it   on   the
Department   of   Highways   and,„. .     . .    .
the   Department   of   Highwayslf'^"   ministers   had_ suggested
The   British   and   French   for-
'that
Two Folso Alarms
City firemen responded to two false alarms shortlv after mid¬ night ia the South Main St. area.
An altm from ¦ box near 153 South Main St. was found to be false. A police request for an in- nstintion of smoke at .37 Ea«t South St wicovered no fire.
Girl Twice
PHILADELPHIA    (IP—A    hit- run   motorist   knocked  down   a
Secretary of State John join them. But Dulles was on a visit to South America. Murphy was sent in¬ stead.
Britain froze $308,000,000 In Egj'ptian govemment currency ye.sterday as her first retaliatory step against Egypt's seizure of the canal.
In    Cairo,    President    Gamal
ing girl, member of a proihinent Fairfield, Conn, family, was assaulted and beaten to death yesterday by an Army cook.
Blood splattered Pfc. John Kruse Jr., 21, St. Paul, Minn., tumed himself into military police at the Army Language School at the Monterey Pre¬ sidio at 11:45 A. M., saying he had "just seriously injured a girl or beat her to death. "
He was immediately tumed over  to  Monterey  police,  who,
Calling it the "tragedy of the session. Congressman
Dan Flood of Luzerne County sounded a bitter indict-
ro.e-Tito^ thf Rf'^hlu'an .nimirif^atipn in Wn.'^hinp'ton
and in the House of Representatives for its failure to
 ^permit a vote on any bill
14-year-old giri vesterdav ,nd!'\'"^''v '^?**^'" ,'¦°*'* ^^^ crest!following his directions,' found then ran over both her legs in ?' " T™* we come and prom-|the nude body of slender, dark f!B,.ir,<, »h« .o-„- ^        ised   to  meet   ' ——    •-
Deatti Threats Sent to Nehru
2 Cabinet Members Are Also Warned
economically   di.s- areas  of  the  na-
Appointment Is Blocked By Democrats
Political Debt Paid Off Through Refusal to Meet
WASHINGTON OP)—A political score waa paid off yesterday with the ad¬ journment of Congress and as a result former Rep. Wesley A. DEwart (R-Mont) may be looking for another job.
D'Ewart's nomination as as¬ sistant secretary of the interior was blocked when his opponent in .1 l"^i Mf!n*?r'? e'ecti^n. .Sen James E. Murray (D-Mont), de¬ clined to call a meeting of the Senate Interior Committee in the closing days of the session..
It was the only case this year in which the Democratic-con¬ trolled  Congress  failed  to  ap-
NEW YORK (TPI—An East¬ em Pennsylvania couple is listed officially as missing and presumed dead in the sinking of the Andrea Doria.
The Italian line in New York last night released the names of Joseph Guzzi and his wif e, Antoinette, of Easton. Guzzis have not been seen or heard from since the liner sank off Nantucket Island Thursday moming.
The Easton couple was re¬ turning from a vacation in It(»)y their native land, when the Andrea" Doria anU the Stockholm   collided.
Their children, Anthony, Louis and Marie, had gone on the trip, but had retumed to the United States earlier.
to aid tressed tion.
De.spite the fact that the bill     o        —  -.-...       .... ,,    v .
sponsored by Congressman Floodiprove an Eisenhower appointee'bringing the total casualty ust
and Senator Douglas of Illinoisito a job of comparable impor- to  at   least  25.
had been passed by the Senate ta"ce.
only two days before, the GOP Salary Wiil Be Cut Off
leadership   refused   to   suspend    Under the law the salary of
the rules that either this bill or|an appointee to a Job which re-
any other for the purpose could | quires Senate confirmation has
be voted on.
his salary stopped 30 days after
The New York City Police De- ' partment Bureau of Missing Per¬ sons issued a list of names of 15 persons "definitely  missing" from the Andrea Doria.
An Italian line spokesman said
NEW DELHI. India dP) „„^ ^   „^„^, ^^^
—Police    have    bolstered ladministration itseif.
Among the bills refused wasthe end of the session at which
his nomination was submitted.
fleeing the scene. ,  . j  , i ,.%.  ,
Rita   Cullen    said   she   was "«*''"T.'^'°" •"" '"1"'"^ ^ith in struck by a cream-colored sedanP^'J'.   . when    she    stepped    into    the!    B/'tam street.   She   said   the   ninfnricf t a k
aggression  With Paired Anne Shay, 21, daughterthe   guards   around    Pre-     Speaking in the closing hours '"'"'" '"'*'' '"    -      -  mier    Jawaharlal    Nehru |of the 84th Congress session.
followed    France    in
motoristi'^"'""K    economic     sanctionsiinn stopped, looked out at her, andjfR^st Nasser, who promised toj^^j ^^ ^ nmet
of the Fairfield tax Assessor, be¬ neath bushes in the garden court of the historic Whaling Station
G/r/, 3, Bruially Murdered By 24'Year-Old Neighbor
then drove away, running over:Permit free access to the canal both her legs. [provided he met no westem "in  _| terference".
[Used To Pay Debts
Kruse said he assaulted the girl "after I became frightened" when she rebuffed his advances.
Two  "statutory  instruments" S^^S^nn^'Sed^'jIt^ 2VJ^t issued  by  the  British  Treasury!^n.^''^P*°" 5"°*t^J.^,/''l^^^ office froze Egypt's $308,000,000i200 PO""d Army cook as saying. n/^nnH   .,tariir,n   k,!,.,..^.   ...Kj^v,     The  soldier said  he  met  the
EHvm used "for oavmenT or«ir' =>' « ^^'^'^^ P«"°""e' dancejharastrians, of central India, ffi incun-ed in oX coun "" « downtown Monterey ball-! who want full control of the frie   as we las Britain  Another/"".'"   ^^'^'^^y  "'^ht.  Miss  Shayicity.     It   was   a   Maharastr.an •
It was possible the adminis tration would keep D'Ewart on in hopes a Republican Congress
there    were    no    known    dead
and two of his cabinet ministers as the result of anonymous death — threat letters, it was disclosed yesterday.   •
Leading New Delhi newspa¬ pers said the letters threatened assassination unless the central govemment gives up control of the city of Bombay.
The press reports indicated the letters were sent by the Ma-
Congressman Flood said, in part! T°^^^r^^ ^^^"[^'^ next year   or
ope
cfl
that Democrats would relent. There is precedent for that ar¬ rangement in which once-re¬ jected nominees eventually werei was confirmed and their back salary paid.
There was no immediate in¬ dication what course would be taken
i instrument of
froze the
arrived   here
LAKE ORION, Mich (IP^A "neighbor," held bv ,„„„,„ Policf during the all-night search for a missing LakelBritain
Orion child, confessed yesterday to the brutal slaying French  controlled "su'e'z'ca'naiii^' Allentown. Pa., and Rachel
- ¦    • companv, a freeze similar to one'Anderson. 20. of French  Town,
announced, in France. Friday.       f^- J-   She had planned to stay
I session.
of three-year-old Martha Little
The confession c a m e*. from Howard W, Moore, 24. after tht child's body, clad only in • Uttered blouse, wu dlfcovtred eariier in a hav field seven miles from her Lake Orion home.
Police   said    the    confession oains over car radio to some 150
In addition, the British orders cut off privtte Egyptian bank balances in Britain running into
the   assets   inl^'"'''^^"   "ere   Friday   with   two|Nathuram Briti.sh    and:^°"ese chums, Carolyn Kuebler.lnated Mahatma Ghandi in
¦  "   "   "Were Aides of Ghandi ,., ^     . ^, ,.
Another Maharastrian tried toP^"/" »' Disharmony kill   Nehru   last  year  near   thei.   ' regret that in these,closing
700 Evacuated During Storm
only bvernight before motoring on to San Francisco to visit friends there.
near Pontiac with t girl who re sembled Martha.
Police said Martha was a very:"'"'"'0"s of pounds." friendly  child  and   had   talked:    The govemment sum tied upj^ Pj«ffcfi   Aiprvt^m with strangers despite wamingsequalled  the  estimated  net' in-j" rOII5fl  Alirilldl by her parents jcome  of  seven  vears  of canal i. .   ,        -       ^   ,
More   than    300   police   and'operations.    If   maintained    for;|_(|f|a   Jf)  AUStria
)»m /.Mi —u'" "" '"'"" '""tVolunteers started a search for long,   it  could   shatter  Nasser's!
«w oriicers as they scoured the the giri  Fridav night  when her:announced plan to use the canal:    VIENNA (IP—Four Polish air n Jf 'S*"* '"'¦ telltale clues.|father,   Joseph   Little,   reported I revenue to fi uakiand County Deputy Sher-lshe had disappeared. $1.3   billion   high   dam   on   the
ihn »•>«." ^"""'^ ^^'^ bodyl^ake Closed iNile    at    Aswan     The    United
•rout 20 feet off the highway.!    Dragging      operations     were!States   and   Britain   have   with- "i« girls skull had been crushed, started on Lake Orion at 4 A. M.i drawn   offers   to   help  him  get
tion Minister Abul Kalam Azad received recent threatening let¬ ters, the reports said.
Nehru, Pant and Azad are the .,       ,, ,     .       "big  three"  of the  ruling.Con-
reported i revenue to finance his dream of force pilots flew over the Irong-egg   Partv   and   were   trusted
I.. ,   un.„_   u:-u   . ... Curtain to freedorn in the West|fie„ie„ants of Ghandi.
in  two  planes within  hours  of
Mr. Speaker, I take this time to bring to the attention of the house, to the more than 100 members of the House who rep¬ resent areas classified as dis¬ tressed economic areas in 15 states in the nation, and at the same time to bring this matter to the attention of the people in my district, as well as the people in other congressional districts' suffering   acute   unemployment,!
r-r^A....   ...h..  oc.<,..,ei   and   fo   all   the   people   in   thej
Godse,   who  assass,-|^„^^^^y_j^g   ^^^^J^   ^^   ^^^^',
^^""••'"- WHEELING,    W.    Va.    (IP)
More than 100 flood-weary fam¬ ilies were evacuated from their homes last night as storm lashed the district for the third successive day.
Hard hit were the Wheeling Out-of-Pike area, a fasl; ^nable residential district, and the nearby, communitie.i of Elm Grove and Triadelphia. Areas Bill to be called up underj Authorities said the sudden suspension of the rules prevent-icloudburst    sent     the     Middle
Nagpur airport in Madhya Pra- ^O""  of  this  session  of  Con H».h   He was caught and sen-l8ress, I must strike this note of
d6sh   *ix-  w»»*^ i.«»f^>.v «-.— »,*... .
fenced to seven y«ars in jail. disharmony. But strike it I ,» -J X, 1. .t ««¦ • .„ must, because the failure of the Besides Nehru  Home MinisterLj^i„J3j^^j.„„   and   the   Repub-
P™'"l:^!lLl'''lK.f. ..tv, J A't^Hi'ican leadership of the House to * * "      " '"'"    "   agree by unanimous consent to
permit   the   aid   to   Distressed
apparently with a  bloody beer Bottle found nearby. Clothing Scattered
Pirts  of   her   clothing   were »found ao-feet away.
Police have not revealed de-
The lake was closedithe dam started.
yesterday
to fishermen and swimmers toktronger Measures Expected
make   the" dragging   job   more
complete.
Little told police Martha, one,,,_„„„„, of six children, was playing in i'l. "^^"^ the sand box at the side of her'    ^ '
Sources said the freeze was a
preliminary     step     and     that
measures    would    be
The
each, other  yesterday.
Two Poles landed their single- engined training plane in a meadow near Krems, 40 miles northwest of Vienna, 2 Land in Woods ' The two other crash-landed their twin-engined Soviet plane
ed the passage in this session of that Bill. The Douglas-Flood Bill introduced last year in the Sen¬ ate by the distinguished senator from Illinois, Mr. Douglas, and by myself in the House and with many bills for the same purpose introduced  by dozens of mem
Wheeling Creek and Big Wheel¬ ing Creek swirling over the banks and into homes tn low- lying areas.
Officials said the storm dumped nearly an inch of rain on the district between 5 P. M. and 6 P. M. EDT.
tells of Moore's confession. Thelhru "'whe"n h.^r,'™'; h«m«"'fr«ml    Diplomatic  sources  said that ^n was picked up when he was 1),°"^ Yi'.'\'!f TUl^^'^^AT^if  Nasser  chooses  to   retaliate ¦een washing "brownish stains" gas™-      ^^'^^ and hands at a
h«Jiad scratches on his neck      '"nift   »»,„  ia«<   .*,»,»  ko  ..«ii»j ' "^Nasser made a triumphal  re-were    identified   by   police   as!fi7st""town  in  ifommunis^t  terri-imajority  leader,   the  gentleman!were derailed nwr^here yester-
"    ine   lasi   iime   ne  caiiea j^^^,,   ^^^^  j^   Cairo  yesterdav|Bogdan Biskupski, 21, and Karotitory. was cut off in 1949 when|from   Massachusetts,   Mr.   Mc-I^ay  and  nine  of  them  caught goi   no.f^pi.^   Alexandria  where  he  an-|Krug,    30,    both    of    Warsaw.iCzech   soldiers   ripped   up   the Cormack,   and   the   Speaker   ofifire.
Hmes   (hfnnp   th^   n^vt   thrAi'"^^'"^^    ^^e    fund    freeze,    hejmiles south of Vienna, several I crossing point here. |    I immediately moved and ob-
hnnr's tn m«i?» c,,^ .h« .„.. .f ill I ^ould limit the use of the canalihours later. i    Highwav  and  rail  traffic  be- tained the con.sent of the major-
there "'",by British vessels. I    The  first  two  pilots  to land|tween Schirnding and Eger, the.ity leadership of the House, the
Czechs Making Ready To Reopen Border
SCHIRNDING. Germany OPI—ibeVs from'both sides of the aisle, West German border police re-j ggy, Mr. Speaker, such a bill ^_ ___  _ .^        .|   J
ported that the Czechs are fill-^ parsed theSenate two days agoj 15 PRR Cars Derailed
At Ft. Washington
FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. (W—Fifteen cars of a long Penn¬ sylvania  Railroad  freight   train
ing   in   ditches   and   rebuildingi^jth » 60-30 vote, in  a woods  near the town  of customs houses m an apparent; Kirchberg    Am     Wechsel,     5()|fnove    to    reopen    the    border^Met ppposition
most of'pr h"*   said   he   spent; about   8:30   P. most of Friday night in a tavemjanswer.   Little
with
M.,   he d   he  scoured I
among the Andrea Doria's 572- man crew.
The operators of tlw lost $29,000,000 luxury liner announced their latest casutty figure shortly afler the ship's captain said no general warn¬ ing to passengers was sounded immediately after the ship rammed fatally In a heavy fog Wednesday night because "I didn't want to cause alarm." General Announcement
Captain Piero Calamai said that when a general announce¬ ment Was made asking passen¬ gers to go to their muster sta¬ tions, it was made in Italian, although more than 400 of the passengers were Americans.
Crew members were ordered to give all further instruction.^ in both Italian and English, he said.
Italian Line officials, who had been pouring all day over lists of passengers who were aboard the liner when the collision occurred, said two bodies had been accounted for and that 18 other persons were presumed dead on the basis of eyewitness accounts.
Hopes were high for the safety of at least some of the 72 to 74 other persons still un¬ accounted for. however. Differ¬ ent officials gave the different figures, but all agreed that some and perhaps all of these persons were survivors who left New York piers as soon as rescue ships docked.
Calamai, 58-year-oId veteran seaman, told the story of the loss of the $29,000,000, three year-old pride of the Italian merchant marine for the first time at a news conference at the Italian Line office here.
He was flanked by two Amer ican   attorneys,   who  explainer questions   to   him   and   helpet (Continued on Page 2. Sec. 1)
said th.l ,-^' ^*^^*''' Po"ce;the neighborhood for about ar w»n^7.itT^*'^. ' ^^P*""' he ihour before reporting his daugl. _  *"" *t«drive-in   restaurant'ter missing.    *^       *
^oynesburg Prays for Rain; Tradition Dates Back to 1875
sonti^ residents of this •outh west ern     Pennsyl-
^n prayer  last   night-for
29^! J^**^- Sunday, July "riinv "i* *?*"'» traditional w?i?J.**7- A downpour Wreets'"''^«"^«»'"'^"8
Kc^°J'^l?V^ carefully kept 29th of \* 1^". '"'^'^'^ °" the 71 out V'Jl'' '" Waynesburg '*_M»t of the past 79 years.
to l87-!*n "¦?<''tion goes back
^US Bill A^'^^ *'''''y«"'
Ine S . f ' '^"'^o" was wait- merulL '*'^«'"- Allison corn- was 1,°?- ^^^ ''^o^Rht that thlt y^ear      «   "'^   ^"™''"
'¦It's durn funny, but it P'led.    Afways   does   on
tion with a clear, dry day. Only eight times since has Waynesburg experienced a dry day on July 29.
nounced Thursday night that Egypt was seizing the canal and would take over the canal company operations. Every¬ where on the trip he was met by cheering crowds of Egyp¬ tians.
Epidemic of Polio Feared in Chicago
CHICAGO   (IP —Some  52,000
Chicago   mothers   were    urged
yesterday   to   launch   a   second
United States tomorrow, it was!march    on    polio   as    Chicago
German Air Force To Get U. S. Planes
MUNICH, Germany (IP)—West
r,;rrLrJ.JA u , u    iGermany's new air fSrce will re-
n,?iv h« Z ."^ ^^^?u' /°*"l   ceive  its first  planes from the Daily has continued the local i-        - - *^
custom   of   betting   "cynical
doubters" a hat that the rains
Police said they requested poli¬ tical asylum.
Police said they did not know the names of the other two Polish airmen. Both were sta tioned at the Senlo Airport near Warsaw.
will
farmer   re-
the
29th of July-
^Vay'nesbuThas^V^^'y   ?"' ••ecords   h^^        ^*P^ careful
'¦ wr«,'^w"^. ">"   Mother
wouldn't  apoU  tradi-
NajUir,
will come. He has won from such notables as Jack Demp¬ sey and Bob Hope.
This year John has made a trick bet with the head of the Scot Clans of Western Penn¬ sylvania—Dr. William McClel¬ land of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County's coroner.
Daily wagered a miner's helmet that it will rain Sun¬ day. "McClelland wagered a Scotch tam o'shanter it will not rain on the day of the Scottish picnic, Aug. 4. Mc¬ Clelland said the clans have had fair picnic weather for 48 out of 59 years.
Late odds favored McClel¬ land. At midday, the skv had tumed a "horrible" blue which seemed to confirm forecasts for a "dry weekend" for WajAtesburK.
announced yesterday. I headed into the crucial week in
A  number of Mark IV Har-|its bat  e to head off a threa vards    and     1-18-C    two-placejtened , )lio epidemic.
trainers will be handed over at nearby Erding Airfield
L
GAR's Last Man, Reported ^Poor"
DULUTH, Minn. (1P» — The Union Army's last surviving Civil War veteran, 109-year- old Albert Woolson of Du¬ luth, was reported in poor condition in a hospital here last night.
41ospital attendants said Woolson slipped into uncon¬ sciousness early yesterday. He has been in an oxygen tent the past several days.
The old soldier has been hospitalized on several occa¬ sions in the past year for treatment of lung ccmgeation.
The drive to include 500,000 children before the peak polio season arrives in early August appeared to be making headway as emergency clinics were jammed with thousands of youngsters.
rails and dug ditches across the the House, the gentleman fromi
pavement.
Valley Scenes
West Side youth quettioned about gcratehts on ths tvin- dows of his home admittinff he heut been showing off "mother's real diamonds" to a group of friends.
South Wilkes-Barre father forced to call televisicn sta¬ tion to convince young son that cavalry troop in film program wasn't at tocal sponsor's store.
Clerk in dog department in eity store admittijig "I don't know anything about dogs, I usually work in jewelry" when queried about the proper food for a puppy.
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Texas, Mr. Rayburn, to have this bil] called up in the House! under the suspension of the] rules. Mr. Raybum and Mr. Mc¬ Cormack advised me they would do so, if the gentleman from Massachusetts. Mr. Martin, the minority leader, would agree.
I immediately contacted the two gentleman from Pennsyl¬ vania, Mr. Van Zandt and Mr. Fenton, and enlisted their aid in view of the fact that both
Mr. Van Zandt and Mr. Fentoni vvu.muiuiUK ui """x-j^j^,,^ , , authority onlj represent such distressed eco-,mation should be subject!serves to demonstrate to wha' nomic areas, and each had in-|to appeal to the courts and the extent executive department! troduced similar bills this year.jburden of proof should be on'and agencies will go to restric The bills introduced by Mr. Van the official who seeks to keep ior withhold information. Zandt and Mr. Fenton were the|it secret, the Government Op- 'Novel' Attitude administration bills to meet this,erations Subcommittee said in "Slowlv, almost imperceptl problem,   and   were   introduced its first interim report. bly.   a   paper   curtain   has   de
House Group Denounces Government Secrecy
WASHINGTON dP^—A House subcommittee Inves¬ tigating suppression of public information reported yesterday a "paper curtain" of secrecy has descended over the federal government and it is up to Congress to break it down. # ————
Withholding   of   infor
immediately after President Eis¬ enhower, in his message to Con¬ gress, urged the passage of this legislation.
I was advised by the gentle¬ men from Pennsylvania, that an Assistant Secretary of Com¬ merce,
scended  over  the  federal  gov emment.    Behind   this   curtail
The subcommittee, headed by Rep. John E. Moss (D-Cal.) said
the   "most   flagrant   abuse"   ofi lies an attitude novel to demo
secrecy is the use of President Icratic  government,  an  attitud*
Eisenhower's May 17. 1954, let- which  says  that  we,  the  offi
ter to Defense Secretary Charles cials. not you. the people, wil
A. Wilson instructing Wilson toidetermine how much you are t(
Mr.  Corwin,  stated the withhold   information   from   a be told about your own govern
administration would not accept Senate committee which inves-jment.
2Ithe Douglas-Flood Bill. I talked tigated    the    Army - McCarthy     "The
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8iMr.   Weeks," on   the   telephone General Use iany one administration  or an;
6iimmediately,     acquainted     him!    '-It  seems  inconceivable  that;one party. It has developed ove lOjwith   the   situation   as   I   have|l9 government departments andj* 30-year period. 7|outlined   herein   above,   and   hejagencies  would  cite  this  letter     The    subcommittee    will    re 81 said he would dispatch his as-i«s a shadowv cloak of authoritv!sume its hearings in September
e paper curtain, now man; i layers thick, is not the fault o
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91 sistant,    Mr.   Mueller,    to
Capitol at once, to discuss the
matter at  my  suggestion with
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the to restrict or withhold informa-;Am ong major investigation tion from the Congress and thejstill to be made are the infonna public" it said tion policies of the Justice am
"This  flimsy  pnt«xt  of  so-iSUle departments.