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Serhan Case Report to Be Offered Governor A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT Cloudy, Mild Highest Today 48 Monday—Cloudy, Some Rata 52ND YEAR — NO. 8 Mmnber Andit Bor«»aa 9i ClrcuUtioa WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY DECEMBER 15, 1957 Wlr« >'«w* SerTlct PRICE 20 CENTS 83 ARE ROUNDED UP IN RAIDS ON FIVE LUZERNE COUNTY HORSE BETTING SPOTS State, County Officers Join in Staging Cleanup ~ ~ |2 Estabffsftmenfs All Calm After Troopers Near aty Haii LeaveCityGambling Dens ^'"^"^ ^^""'^ ^'* By JAMKS D. COCtO Staff Writer DISLIKE CAMERAMEN—: The prin- *c i p a 1 R taken in raids on top horse race betting establishments were camera shy when they appeared before Justice of the Peace Wil¬ liam H. Roberts of Kingston last night. At the left .To.seph Sheer- an, identified as a key-man in area Rambling activities, makes a hasty exit. In th« center picture Lewis A. Moyer of West Wy¬ oming is seen departing after being freed on bail. With him is State Trooper Roy Peters. Making good u.se of their big hats in the picture,at right, are Anthony Dominick of West Pittston and •Joseph A. Evans.of Avoca. In the background is Justice of the Peace Roberts. (Photos hy Paul Bieley and George Chukinas). Investigation Tells What Is Undone in Murder Case, Points Out Laxities Here Visitor Is Grayer, Thinner Paris Greets Liberator Eisenhower; President 5eis Tone for NATO Talks ^ PARIS (IP)—President*^ Eisenhower, who liberated In the conclusion of the report of the special ^^^^^ isTars^ago. cam^ investigator from the famed Charters Associates back yesterday to lead the At- on what has heen called the "Serhan Murder lantic alliance against the chai-i Case" there is a summary. It has two objectives. One is intended to show why so many mur of "despotic" Commu- lenge inism. The President said the Com- Imunist threat would be met "effectively and in unity." 5 Bloomsburg Area Men Are Burned in Explosion At two central city gam¬ bling hou.ses three hours after State Police raided the estab¬ lishments, one located a half block from City Hall, and the other one long block away, the "backrooms" in each were something like the night before Christmas when "all through the house, not a crea¬ ture was stirring not even a mouse . . ." Yuletide shoppers were at¬ tracted by toy and souvenir window displays at Barre Cut-Rate, 7 F.ast Market St., unaware that a few hours earlier the store was the scene of a "gambling raid." A red-green neon sign out front blazed, "Coal Novelties, Greeting Cards and So\ive- nirs." Inside, a lady pur¬ cha.sed a Christmas card and a salesgirl assisted a gentle¬ man shopping for a toy. At Merchants Smoke .Shop, 84 East Northampton St., the usual late afternoon "trade" treked into the small and nar¬ row • establishment. They in¬ cluded cigarette, soda and ice cream purchasers, and a har- rassed gentleman Inquiring about comfort facilities. None seemed aware of the State Police visit in mid-afternoon. Light Tumed Out The "backrooms," targets of the raiding troopers, were empty and dark at both en- I tablishments. This was in ; contrast to the scene at each j when State Police arrived and i began recording the names of i visitors. Owners of both stores were taken away by the troopers and business was being man¬ aged at each by "a friend. ' The "friend" and two sales girls at Barre Cut-Rate were nied they were in the store at the time. One of the sales¬ girls did say, "I'm going home" The friend, who did not identify himself, said he was summoned by the owner after the raid to watch over the store. "Volunteer" Takes Over The "friend" at Merchants Smoke Shop said he had been ill for a week and just stopped by when the State Police ar¬ rived. He volunteered to man¬ age the store in the owners ders jfo unsolved in Luzerne Countv and the' in a 700-word arrival speech other-more specific-provides definite ^fi^^-^^^^ l^olflZJ^o^n^,^]?. tions as to what remained to be done to lead to morrow, he offered the worried a possible solution of the Serhan case. :^^f-- .."^ ItToped"^^ It gives also some possible reasons why this His voice was vibrant and roud case has not been solved bv those who had a partlaf he spoke at oriy Airport. He , , . .... ¦ 1 stumbled only twice over words in such investigation as was made. i_the only outward sign that Because of that, because of its importance to thejmight be attributed 'to his mild people and because il believes ALL this information!stroke suffered less than three should V)e made available to the people (with some ofi^^'' '' ^P" ii being of a nature which forbids its publication in a I'¦»«='"8 "'*«'=''«"" ^ , ^ newspaper) the Sunday Independent will endeavor to^^^.^'t -/"^^--^^of'her.^^^he see that it gets m the proper hands. Five Columbia County men were burned, four criti¬ cally, last night at 7 when trapped in a cinder-block service station that was destroyed by flames. The men were admitted to Bloomsburj: Hospital where the condition of four* was de.<»cribed as "veryphoenixville, suffered minor serious." burns of the face. ! They w«r« identified as; Gas Tank Explodes P.S.T.. and Reck, dressed George Warden, address un- According to State Police, the in a brown suit, accepted the known; James Campbell, RD 4 f're started when a gas . - - . . Bloomsburg; Clyde Ikler, address developed m a sedan •'eing-"^ f-^com^-nt.^^^^^^^ Ho/teCf Hy Staff Writer Horse race betting was dealt lis most seri¬ ous blow in Luzerne County history yester¬ day afternoon at the completely in the dark when „4,.„i._ _f •» „ !,„„ <•;,.. asked about the raid. All de- Stioke ol i when flVC key betting establish¬ ment s simultaneously were raided by state- county police details. .\rmed with warrants, naming all the big names in the local bookie syndi¬ cate, the details took into tow what they termed "10 principals" and took the names of 73 frequenters. The principals, all of absence. About a dozen men whom were released after posting $."ino bail before Justice of the Peace Wil¬ liam H. Roberts of Kinjrs- ton, were: Joseph "I.lttle Mozart* Sheeran of 117 North Main I St., city, who was Identified by authorities as a "key man In area gambling." Andrew Conigllaro, alias I Andrew Candell, alias "Big Andrew," of Nuangola. j Lewis A. Moyer of 428 I Holden St., West Wyoming. VIncenzo DeCintlo, fl5 Lin¬ coln St., city. Joseph Epstine, 292 South Franklin St.. city. George Karazia, alias George Brown, alias Brownie, of Georgetown. Anthonv Dominick, 3 2 4 Warren .St., West Pittston. Joseph A. Evans, 922 Clark St., Avoca. John Wovnoski, alias John Krick. of Prospfct St., Nanti¬ coke. Miss Julia Wolosonovltch, 259 East Broad St., Nanticoke. were reported in the back room when the troopers hit. "The troopers took names of everyone, even those who.just came in to buy a pack of cigarettes," he said. "They should have left the ordinary customers alone " The hack room, with ample table and chairs, was empty. The "friend" also com¬ mented, "the place has a stamp and still it was raided." He referred to the federal $50 stamp required by gamblers. He added that the State should legalize horse racing. "Every weekend thousands of Pennsylvanians go to oiit-of- .state race tracks." Then he added, "Besides, there's no money in it nowadays around ' here." ! Dave Beck Found Guilty Of Embeizlentent Charge SEATTLK (ir^l)ave Beck, president of the giant 'The S IfeT'^taged wuh- Teamsters Union, yesterday was judged guilty by ajout the knowledge of local po- jurv of seven men and five women of embezzling $L-i''^^ officials in Wilkes-Barre, 900 obtained from the sale of a union-owned Cadil lac. ^?r,'5"^5;.,r^!,'.l"*" .^.^.l ^Y."\'L*: The jurv returned its«> verdict at 12:02 P. M., Citrus Sale unknown; and Raymond Hen- lubricated men shall continue to live injdrick Jr., RD 1 Numidia roorT'^*' freedom and in dignity or Wiiiiam D. Schell, RD 1 whether they are to become| mere vassals of an all-powerful state." "The heads of NATO arei meeting in this beautiful Paris to analyze the challenge we now face," he said. "We shall when a gas leak verdict calmly. Pressed by ncws- in a sedan being '^^" f""" comment, the portly The cars gas tank „„, g, 3,, in the lubricating meet it, effectively. We shall meet it in unity." Thinner, Grayer He re-stated the belief upon which NATO was founded that the Western nations sought their own security "and above all . . . peace with justice and with honor." It was an older, thinner and grayer Eisenhower who landed | in a cold, raw wind at Orly Air¬ port. It was his first visit to Paris in the five vears since he To that end it is being offered to the Hon. George M. Leader, Governor of Pennsylvania. A letter to the (iovei-nor from the publisher of the Sunday Independent will make that offer. Can Reach Proper Hands This, it has been concluded after serious consider* tion, is to make certain the rej^ort—for whatever it may be worth—gets into tlie proi>er hands. If it can accomplish anything in this case, it will have met some success and if it accomplishes anything to prevent future outbreaks of crimes of violence in Luzerne County it will succeed be.vond the fondest hopes of the Sunday Independent. In previous weeks the report of the special investi¬ gation of the Rita Serhan case, made b.v Henr^^ J. Olenzak of Charteis Associates, has shown three things: No. 1.—11 might not have been a murder. No. 2.—It might have been made to look hke a murder. No. .3.—Practically the whole load of local in¬ vestigation was piled on the group least equipped and expected to do the work—the Wilkes-Barre Police Department's detectives. Now what? . . . What can be done to .solve this crime and to improve our crime detection agencies so that they will be prepared to cope with the future? The Next Development Unless as appears extremely hkely since the State \^^ presidential plane "Co-'PeS". 426 Owen St.. Swoyerville. Pohce really made no mvestigation and the distnct lumbine r- nosed down at 8:531 All three vehicles were towedj attorney's county detective practically none, the wholelA. M. (EST). Serhan case is to be dropped, there are some exceedinglv! The plane nosed up to the important things which still can be done. " apron where President Rene They should be done to solve this case, which:^"*^ ^"*^ '^^^ Western digm- LAKELAND, Fla. (ffl — The Barre Township. Two or the establishments raided in Wilkes Barre arp within a block of City Hall and police head- qu.irters Both the county and state po¬ licemen who participated in the raids said they were conducted after several days of painstaking preparation on direct orders not a word, ask me 10,000 questions and you'll get w-irvi i i-ii^L< na un 1 nr the same answer" in a '^- ' /- ' '''""^ District Attorney Albert H. The four men, who were cri- .lury foreman Charles Hick- '^'"'''°' ^"'¦"' '-""i"i"'sion has Aston, tically burned, wwe standing Unj;, Bellevue, Wash., said the "et up machinery to halt all All of the warrants carried hy around the car. .jurors took otilv one ballot and citrus shipments for seven davs '*"" raiding parties were signed Schell, who arrived to pick up spent nearly alt of their deliber-to prevent the sale of fruit dam- '^^ u^'^^ County Detective Jo- .- - ,a station wagon being repaired, ation time "weighing evidence."! . ¦ , ^_-.i,., tt;n non non "''"^ " Miller. ' |was standing m the doorway be- Beck's chief attornev, Charles ^'^'^'^ '" ""^ "^^^ " »S0.f>O''.0f«' I fk A_„ f*m.».J^ tween the office and lubricating S. Burdell, said he would imme- "¦ef-^e in \mi nr I r/lvn ¦¦'""" ^^^ kicked out a plate fliajely file a motion for a new rhe action is expected to III W VMI wlUiJII iglass window that enabled all triil and if a new trial were create a severe shortage of 'to flee the blazing building. denied he would then appeal to; graoefruit and tan2e- Three young persons wer«! i^, service station ooerated'''^ "*'«^ ''^"P''*'"^'' ^ourl. orangv.s. grapefruit and tange injured last night in a three-u^^/^! J^T^^,!,;}^,^'^"'rX?\^^^ The jury delibernted 8 hours nnes throughout the country car collision near the MoonliteH^l^.^^k j'InJ^^^ ¦« minutes hefore advising during the Chnstmas holidavs, Drive-In Theatre in West Wvo-i"tiT ?^L B^^m?;, L ""^^ the judge at 11:19 A. M. that it ming. Each of the injured was ""''' ^'""^ Bloomsburg. ^g,, ,^3,,,,,,, j„ ^^jj^, in a different car. Son Found Guilty Admitted to Nesbitt Memorial » » II ^ Yesterdays verdict was hand (Last Sunday the Indcprnrl- ent featured a story in which Lu/erne County's role In the gambling business was out¬ lined and it was pointed out that a Wilkes-Barre location was the headquarters for horse race betting Information.) The raids were planned tnd 1 Hospital, Kingston, was Domi-| nick Mairra Jr., 18, of 640 Tunk¬ hannock Ave., Exeter. He suf¬ fered lacerations of the chin. He was a passenger in a car 108 when citrus sales normally reach their peak. | The immediate effect of the'?'^'"'^'"^tt''^^»y ^^."'''J^^* Police Detective Victor Nielsgft Chief County Detective Vallev/ Sr"^n^Q ^^ ''""'" '" ^^^^'^ George H. Re-ighoruge is expected to hit the ' "V V alley •JV-CI ICO ivelles Superior Court, the same' ''"" court wjiere a jury last month Used car tiUrsnian tiUiiiy nrqunivtanres of tvnys tn dis- Iserved as NATO commanderldnve" by Francis S. Groslki, And it was 1.3 vears since the'^'"coln .St., Exeter. iAugust dav. 1944, . when Yte Miss Sandra Cherba. 16, ofi freed the citv from the German;RDI, Pittston, driver of another army. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the Pres¬ ident suffered no ill effects from the airport ceremony and the l.'l-mile drive to the U.S. Embassy, despite the weather. vehicle and Francis Stanulis, 20,, of ,309 Kosirk St.. Swoyerville,! were treated for injuries and discharged. West Wyoming Police saidj Stanulis was a passenger in an' outomobile driven by John Che-1 from the scene. ffuise jinnr paint jobs on rnrn and then quickly nffilinq, "Hut vt nfifr do thot nt nur plaff!" Two dninkx with nut Ihouf/ht in mind—to htiy n pnrakfft ns a Christmnf prfstnt nnd then hartny thf thing esenpe on Ihem tun hloekn from the pet shop. Ashley hunter telling of a buck he shot in the moun¬ tains, "It ain't much of a deer, but tht rack i» nice." found Beck's son. Dave jr.,; probably pay much higher prices ficial. guilty on two counts of grand for the Florida fruit reaching Sheeran, markets before the disas- the 'key who was tagged u man " in the local horse-betting setup, was taken Foster Section Page , , J , -, _.. _ , , ... , . itaries including John stai-ted when Mrs. Rita Serhan was found lying dead, Dulles were waiting in a pool of blood, in her combination store and home at premier Gaillard welcomed Amusement Four 262 Stanton St., Wilkes-Barre, on the morning of the ^'resident in a brief speech Around the Town... Three April 7 1957 receiving him "on the soil you Better English Two There is a still more important reason. Ih"°^'^ ^*"' '^' '°*' y°" ""ce City Hall New, Five ,,„ ., •. • 1 J u i u JU- ill iioeratea... Classified.... six While it is bad enough to have this case as still one The people of France wel-1County Nev ? Five more unsolved capital crime which .seems to prove that come you with joy," Gaillard Crossword Puzzl«...Six you can "get awav with murder in Luzerne Countv,"**'? . , .. „ ^ Drew Pearson .Three V, ,.,, lu • I 'In his reply, the President went Editorial Three there^is .still something else. , out of hi. Vay to praise France Frink Tripp Thre. Thll II the matter of protection for th« p«opl«,—unhappy over U. S. armt nhip-House Doctor Six (Continued >¦ >>'ag« i, S«c. 1) mtata to Tunisia. Homaoftb* Waak.. Siz > ^ INSIDE THE INDEPENDENT Section Pa'ze larceny ahso involving the sale the TeamsfJrfunim'""''*"' *" **'* '^°"^ '^'"'' ^^^'- *"*» ^"^ C'"' '"to custody at the Barre Cut Both cases grew out of inves- f""""'* *"<^ Texas fruit. (Continued on Page 4, Sac. I) ligations instigated by the Senate ¦ Rackets ('ommittee The inves¬ tigation of Beck's financial af¬ fairs by the -Senate group caused a King County grand jury here to looK into the situation. The, grand jury indicted the Becks last Summer \ Beck also faces trial nextl April on Charles of federal in-i come tax evasion Authorized Car Sale The case went to the jury at! .3:34 P M. (P.ST) Friday after a; last ditch attempt bv the defense' to gain a mistrial fizzled out. The jury deliberated for 6 10 How Can I ??? Five 7!Indoor Gardening.. Four 9 Look and Learn One 6 Obituary One 1-4| Politics Three 7 Radio Four 1 Robert C. Ruark Three 61 State Capital Five 6|StateNews Five 7: Sports Three 2 TV Four 2. Woman's Section... four igihours and 16 minutes Friday .^'night and finally retired at 11:15 7 P. M. The jury resumed its de- S liberations yesterday morning, (j The teamsters president ad- K) mitted he authorized the sale of 7 the car and that the money was g placed in his private bank ac-j 9 count However, the defense con-| 1-5 tended the money was used by! 11 the union for political contribu-j 1.9 tiona. I 1.500 Reported Killed By Earthquake in Iran TEHRAN, Iran ilP—The governor of Hamadan Provinca reported yesterday 1,100 persons were buried in the town et Farsanj alone by Friday's earthquakes in northwest Iran. The United States moved to send imnwdiate aid to Iha stricken area The provincial governor said 200 bodies had be«o ra- covered in Farsanj, hardest hit of an estimated 60 towna and villages Reports of dead in the region ranged up to 1,500. but communications were shattered and there were no official estimates. Tehran press report claimed 800 persons known dead. The newspapers .said 1,250 persons were injured and between 40.000 and ."iO.OOO persons were made homeless Clark Gregory, director of U. S. Point F'our tecMical aid mis.sion to Iran, flew over the quake area yesterday to mak* a preliminary estimate of the damage to pav* the way for immediate Amencan aid. The provincial governor of Hamadan reported to Interkir Minister Ali Jalai that Farsanj. a town of several thousand farmers and villagers, had been leveled by the quake. He said tha disaster was compounded by freezing weather. i
Object Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Volume | 52 |
Issue | 8 |
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 | 1957-12-15 |
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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Month | 12 |
Day | 15 |
Year | 1957 |
Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Volume | 52 |
Issue | 8 |
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 | 1957-12-15 |
Date Digital | 2011-12-27 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | image/tiff |
Digital Specifications | Image was scanned by Backstage Library Works. Archival Image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from film at 300 dpi. The original file size was 33016 kilobytes. |
Source | Microfilm |
Language | English |
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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. |
Contributing Institution | Osterhout Free Library |
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 | Serhan Case Report to Be Offered Governor A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT Cloudy, Mild Highest Today 48 Monday—Cloudy, Some Rata 52ND YEAR — NO. 8 Mmnber Andit Bor«»aa 9i ClrcuUtioa WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY DECEMBER 15, 1957 Wlr« >'«w* SerTlct PRICE 20 CENTS 83 ARE ROUNDED UP IN RAIDS ON FIVE LUZERNE COUNTY HORSE BETTING SPOTS State, County Officers Join in Staging Cleanup ~ ~ |2 Estabffsftmenfs All Calm After Troopers Near aty Haii LeaveCityGambling Dens ^'"^"^ ^^""'^ ^'* By JAMKS D. COCtO Staff Writer DISLIKE CAMERAMEN—: The prin- *c i p a 1 R taken in raids on top horse race betting establishments were camera shy when they appeared before Justice of the Peace Wil¬ liam H. Roberts of Kingston last night. At the left .To.seph Sheer- an, identified as a key-man in area Rambling activities, makes a hasty exit. In th« center picture Lewis A. Moyer of West Wy¬ oming is seen departing after being freed on bail. With him is State Trooper Roy Peters. Making good u.se of their big hats in the picture,at right, are Anthony Dominick of West Pittston and •Joseph A. Evans.of Avoca. In the background is Justice of the Peace Roberts. (Photos hy Paul Bieley and George Chukinas). Investigation Tells What Is Undone in Murder Case, Points Out Laxities Here Visitor Is Grayer, Thinner Paris Greets Liberator Eisenhower; President 5eis Tone for NATO Talks ^ PARIS (IP)—President*^ Eisenhower, who liberated In the conclusion of the report of the special ^^^^^ isTars^ago. cam^ investigator from the famed Charters Associates back yesterday to lead the At- on what has heen called the "Serhan Murder lantic alliance against the chai-i Case" there is a summary. It has two objectives. One is intended to show why so many mur of "despotic" Commu- lenge inism. The President said the Com- Imunist threat would be met "effectively and in unity." 5 Bloomsburg Area Men Are Burned in Explosion At two central city gam¬ bling hou.ses three hours after State Police raided the estab¬ lishments, one located a half block from City Hall, and the other one long block away, the "backrooms" in each were something like the night before Christmas when "all through the house, not a crea¬ ture was stirring not even a mouse . . ." Yuletide shoppers were at¬ tracted by toy and souvenir window displays at Barre Cut-Rate, 7 F.ast Market St., unaware that a few hours earlier the store was the scene of a "gambling raid." A red-green neon sign out front blazed, "Coal Novelties, Greeting Cards and So\ive- nirs." Inside, a lady pur¬ cha.sed a Christmas card and a salesgirl assisted a gentle¬ man shopping for a toy. At Merchants Smoke .Shop, 84 East Northampton St., the usual late afternoon "trade" treked into the small and nar¬ row • establishment. They in¬ cluded cigarette, soda and ice cream purchasers, and a har- rassed gentleman Inquiring about comfort facilities. None seemed aware of the State Police visit in mid-afternoon. Light Tumed Out The "backrooms," targets of the raiding troopers, were empty and dark at both en- I tablishments. This was in ; contrast to the scene at each j when State Police arrived and i began recording the names of i visitors. Owners of both stores were taken away by the troopers and business was being man¬ aged at each by "a friend. ' The "friend" and two sales girls at Barre Cut-Rate were nied they were in the store at the time. One of the sales¬ girls did say, "I'm going home" The friend, who did not identify himself, said he was summoned by the owner after the raid to watch over the store. "Volunteer" Takes Over The "friend" at Merchants Smoke Shop said he had been ill for a week and just stopped by when the State Police ar¬ rived. He volunteered to man¬ age the store in the owners ders jfo unsolved in Luzerne Countv and the' in a 700-word arrival speech other-more specific-provides definite ^fi^^-^^^^ l^olflZJ^o^n^,^]?. tions as to what remained to be done to lead to morrow, he offered the worried a possible solution of the Serhan case. :^^f-- .."^ ItToped"^^ It gives also some possible reasons why this His voice was vibrant and roud case has not been solved bv those who had a partlaf he spoke at oriy Airport. He , , . .... ¦ 1 stumbled only twice over words in such investigation as was made. i_the only outward sign that Because of that, because of its importance to thejmight be attributed 'to his mild people and because il believes ALL this information!stroke suffered less than three should V)e made available to the people (with some ofi^^'' '' ^P" ii being of a nature which forbids its publication in a I'¦»«='"8 "'*«'=''«"" ^ , ^ newspaper) the Sunday Independent will endeavor to^^^.^'t -/"^^--^^of'her.^^^he see that it gets m the proper hands. Five Columbia County men were burned, four criti¬ cally, last night at 7 when trapped in a cinder-block service station that was destroyed by flames. The men were admitted to Bloomsburj: Hospital where the condition of four* was de.<»cribed as "veryphoenixville, suffered minor serious." burns of the face. ! They w«r« identified as; Gas Tank Explodes P.S.T.. and Reck, dressed George Warden, address un- According to State Police, the in a brown suit, accepted the known; James Campbell, RD 4 f're started when a gas . - - . . Bloomsburg; Clyde Ikler, address developed m a sedan •'eing-"^ f-^com^-nt.^^^^^^^ Ho/teCf Hy Staff Writer Horse race betting was dealt lis most seri¬ ous blow in Luzerne County history yester¬ day afternoon at the completely in the dark when „4,.„i._ _f •» „ !,„„ <•;,.. asked about the raid. All de- Stioke ol i when flVC key betting establish¬ ment s simultaneously were raided by state- county police details. .\rmed with warrants, naming all the big names in the local bookie syndi¬ cate, the details took into tow what they termed "10 principals" and took the names of 73 frequenters. The principals, all of absence. About a dozen men whom were released after posting $."ino bail before Justice of the Peace Wil¬ liam H. Roberts of Kinjrs- ton, were: Joseph "I.lttle Mozart* Sheeran of 117 North Main I St., city, who was Identified by authorities as a "key man In area gambling." Andrew Conigllaro, alias I Andrew Candell, alias "Big Andrew," of Nuangola. j Lewis A. Moyer of 428 I Holden St., West Wyoming. VIncenzo DeCintlo, fl5 Lin¬ coln St., city. Joseph Epstine, 292 South Franklin St.. city. George Karazia, alias George Brown, alias Brownie, of Georgetown. Anthonv Dominick, 3 2 4 Warren .St., West Pittston. Joseph A. Evans, 922 Clark St., Avoca. John Wovnoski, alias John Krick. of Prospfct St., Nanti¬ coke. Miss Julia Wolosonovltch, 259 East Broad St., Nanticoke. were reported in the back room when the troopers hit. "The troopers took names of everyone, even those who.just came in to buy a pack of cigarettes," he said. "They should have left the ordinary customers alone " The hack room, with ample table and chairs, was empty. The "friend" also com¬ mented, "the place has a stamp and still it was raided." He referred to the federal $50 stamp required by gamblers. He added that the State should legalize horse racing. "Every weekend thousands of Pennsylvanians go to oiit-of- .state race tracks." Then he added, "Besides, there's no money in it nowadays around ' here." ! Dave Beck Found Guilty Of Embeizlentent Charge SEATTLK (ir^l)ave Beck, president of the giant 'The S IfeT'^taged wuh- Teamsters Union, yesterday was judged guilty by ajout the knowledge of local po- jurv of seven men and five women of embezzling $L-i''^^ officials in Wilkes-Barre, 900 obtained from the sale of a union-owned Cadil lac. ^?r,'5"^5;.,r^!,'.l"*" .^.^.l ^Y."\'L*: The jurv returned its«> verdict at 12:02 P. M., Citrus Sale unknown; and Raymond Hen- lubricated men shall continue to live injdrick Jr., RD 1 Numidia roorT'^*' freedom and in dignity or Wiiiiam D. Schell, RD 1 whether they are to become| mere vassals of an all-powerful state." "The heads of NATO arei meeting in this beautiful Paris to analyze the challenge we now face," he said. "We shall when a gas leak verdict calmly. Pressed by ncws- in a sedan being '^^" f""" comment, the portly The cars gas tank „„, g, 3,, in the lubricating meet it, effectively. We shall meet it in unity." Thinner, Grayer He re-stated the belief upon which NATO was founded that the Western nations sought their own security "and above all . . . peace with justice and with honor." It was an older, thinner and grayer Eisenhower who landed | in a cold, raw wind at Orly Air¬ port. It was his first visit to Paris in the five vears since he To that end it is being offered to the Hon. George M. Leader, Governor of Pennsylvania. A letter to the (iovei-nor from the publisher of the Sunday Independent will make that offer. Can Reach Proper Hands This, it has been concluded after serious consider* tion, is to make certain the rej^ort—for whatever it may be worth—gets into tlie proi>er hands. If it can accomplish anything in this case, it will have met some success and if it accomplishes anything to prevent future outbreaks of crimes of violence in Luzerne County it will succeed be.vond the fondest hopes of the Sunday Independent. In previous weeks the report of the special investi¬ gation of the Rita Serhan case, made b.v Henr^^ J. Olenzak of Charteis Associates, has shown three things: No. 1.—11 might not have been a murder. No. 2.—It might have been made to look hke a murder. No. .3.—Practically the whole load of local in¬ vestigation was piled on the group least equipped and expected to do the work—the Wilkes-Barre Police Department's detectives. Now what? . . . What can be done to .solve this crime and to improve our crime detection agencies so that they will be prepared to cope with the future? The Next Development Unless as appears extremely hkely since the State \^^ presidential plane "Co-'PeS". 426 Owen St.. Swoyerville. Pohce really made no mvestigation and the distnct lumbine r- nosed down at 8:531 All three vehicles were towedj attorney's county detective practically none, the wholelA. M. (EST). Serhan case is to be dropped, there are some exceedinglv! The plane nosed up to the important things which still can be done. " apron where President Rene They should be done to solve this case, which:^"*^ ^"*^ '^^^ Western digm- LAKELAND, Fla. (ffl — The Barre Township. Two or the establishments raided in Wilkes Barre arp within a block of City Hall and police head- qu.irters Both the county and state po¬ licemen who participated in the raids said they were conducted after several days of painstaking preparation on direct orders not a word, ask me 10,000 questions and you'll get w-irvi i i-ii^L< na un 1 nr the same answer" in a '^- ' /- ' '''""^ District Attorney Albert H. The four men, who were cri- .lury foreman Charles Hick- '^'"'''°' ^"'¦"' '-""i"i"'sion has Aston, tically burned, wwe standing Unj;, Bellevue, Wash., said the "et up machinery to halt all All of the warrants carried hy around the car. .jurors took otilv one ballot and citrus shipments for seven davs '*"" raiding parties were signed Schell, who arrived to pick up spent nearly alt of their deliber-to prevent the sale of fruit dam- '^^ u^'^^ County Detective Jo- .- - ,a station wagon being repaired, ation time "weighing evidence."! . ¦ , ^_-.i,., tt;n non non "''"^ " Miller. ' |was standing m the doorway be- Beck's chief attornev, Charles ^'^'^'^ '" ""^ "^^^ " »S0.f>O''.0f«' I fk A_„ f*m.».J^ tween the office and lubricating S. Burdell, said he would imme- "¦ef-^e in \mi nr I r/lvn ¦¦'""" ^^^ kicked out a plate fliajely file a motion for a new rhe action is expected to III W VMI wlUiJII iglass window that enabled all triil and if a new trial were create a severe shortage of 'to flee the blazing building. denied he would then appeal to; graoefruit and tan2e- Three young persons wer«! i^, service station ooerated'''^ "*'«^ ''^"P''*'"^'' ^ourl. orangv.s. grapefruit and tange injured last night in a three-u^^/^! J^T^^,!,;}^,^'^"'rX?\^^^ The jury delibernted 8 hours nnes throughout the country car collision near the MoonliteH^l^.^^k j'InJ^^^ ¦« minutes hefore advising during the Chnstmas holidavs, Drive-In Theatre in West Wvo-i"tiT ?^L B^^m?;, L ""^^ the judge at 11:19 A. M. that it ming. Each of the injured was ""''' ^'""^ Bloomsburg. ^g,, ,^3,,,,,,, j„ ^^jj^, in a different car. Son Found Guilty Admitted to Nesbitt Memorial » » II ^ Yesterdays verdict was hand (Last Sunday the Indcprnrl- ent featured a story in which Lu/erne County's role In the gambling business was out¬ lined and it was pointed out that a Wilkes-Barre location was the headquarters for horse race betting Information.) The raids were planned tnd 1 Hospital, Kingston, was Domi-| nick Mairra Jr., 18, of 640 Tunk¬ hannock Ave., Exeter. He suf¬ fered lacerations of the chin. He was a passenger in a car 108 when citrus sales normally reach their peak. | The immediate effect of the'?'^'"'^'"^tt''^^»y ^^."'''J^^* Police Detective Victor Nielsgft Chief County Detective Vallev/ Sr"^n^Q ^^ ''""'" '" ^^^^'^ George H. Re-ighoruge is expected to hit the ' "V V alley •JV-CI ICO ivelles Superior Court, the same' ''"" court wjiere a jury last month Used car tiUrsnian tiUiiiy nrqunivtanres of tvnys tn dis- Iserved as NATO commanderldnve" by Francis S. Groslki, And it was 1.3 vears since the'^'"coln .St., Exeter. iAugust dav. 1944, . when Yte Miss Sandra Cherba. 16, ofi freed the citv from the German;RDI, Pittston, driver of another army. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the Pres¬ ident suffered no ill effects from the airport ceremony and the l.'l-mile drive to the U.S. Embassy, despite the weather. vehicle and Francis Stanulis, 20,, of ,309 Kosirk St.. Swoyerville,! were treated for injuries and discharged. West Wyoming Police saidj Stanulis was a passenger in an' outomobile driven by John Che-1 from the scene. ffuise jinnr paint jobs on rnrn and then quickly nffilinq, "Hut vt nfifr do thot nt nur plaff!" Two dninkx with nut Ihouf/ht in mind—to htiy n pnrakfft ns a Christmnf prfstnt nnd then hartny thf thing esenpe on Ihem tun hloekn from the pet shop. Ashley hunter telling of a buck he shot in the moun¬ tains, "It ain't much of a deer, but tht rack i» nice." found Beck's son. Dave jr.,; probably pay much higher prices ficial. guilty on two counts of grand for the Florida fruit reaching Sheeran, markets before the disas- the 'key who was tagged u man " in the local horse-betting setup, was taken Foster Section Page , , J , -, _.. _ , , ... , . itaries including John stai-ted when Mrs. Rita Serhan was found lying dead, Dulles were waiting in a pool of blood, in her combination store and home at premier Gaillard welcomed Amusement Four 262 Stanton St., Wilkes-Barre, on the morning of the ^'resident in a brief speech Around the Town... Three April 7 1957 receiving him "on the soil you Better English Two There is a still more important reason. Ih"°^'^ ^*"' '^' '°*' y°" ""ce City Hall New, Five ,,„ ., •. • 1 J u i u JU- ill iioeratea... Classified.... six While it is bad enough to have this case as still one The people of France wel-1County Nev ? Five more unsolved capital crime which .seems to prove that come you with joy," Gaillard Crossword Puzzl«...Six you can "get awav with murder in Luzerne Countv,"**'? . , .. „ ^ Drew Pearson .Three V, ,.,, lu • I 'In his reply, the President went Editorial Three there^is .still something else. , out of hi. Vay to praise France Frink Tripp Thre. Thll II the matter of protection for th« p«opl«,—unhappy over U. S. armt nhip-House Doctor Six (Continued >¦ >>'ag« i, S«c. 1) mtata to Tunisia. Homaoftb* Waak.. Siz > ^ INSIDE THE INDEPENDENT Section Pa'ze larceny ahso involving the sale the TeamsfJrfunim'""''*"' *" **'* '^°"^ '^'"'' ^^^'- *"*» ^"^ C'"' '"to custody at the Barre Cut Both cases grew out of inves- f""""'* *"<^ Texas fruit. (Continued on Page 4, Sac. I) ligations instigated by the Senate ¦ Rackets ('ommittee The inves¬ tigation of Beck's financial af¬ fairs by the -Senate group caused a King County grand jury here to looK into the situation. The, grand jury indicted the Becks last Summer \ Beck also faces trial nextl April on Charles of federal in-i come tax evasion Authorized Car Sale The case went to the jury at! .3:34 P M. (P.ST) Friday after a; last ditch attempt bv the defense' to gain a mistrial fizzled out. The jury deliberated for 6 10 How Can I ??? Five 7!Indoor Gardening.. Four 9 Look and Learn One 6 Obituary One 1-4| Politics Three 7 Radio Four 1 Robert C. Ruark Three 61 State Capital Five 6|StateNews Five 7: Sports Three 2 TV Four 2. Woman's Section... four igihours and 16 minutes Friday .^'night and finally retired at 11:15 7 P. M. The jury resumed its de- S liberations yesterday morning, (j The teamsters president ad- K) mitted he authorized the sale of 7 the car and that the money was g placed in his private bank ac-j 9 count However, the defense con-| 1-5 tended the money was used by! 11 the union for political contribu-j 1.9 tiona. I 1.500 Reported Killed By Earthquake in Iran TEHRAN, Iran ilP—The governor of Hamadan Provinca reported yesterday 1,100 persons were buried in the town et Farsanj alone by Friday's earthquakes in northwest Iran. The United States moved to send imnwdiate aid to Iha stricken area The provincial governor said 200 bodies had be«o ra- covered in Farsanj, hardest hit of an estimated 60 towna and villages Reports of dead in the region ranged up to 1,500. but communications were shattered and there were no official estimates. Tehran press report claimed 800 persons known dead. The newspapers .said 1,250 persons were injured and between 40.000 and ."iO.OOO persons were made homeless Clark Gregory, director of U. S. Point F'our tecMical aid mis.sion to Iran, flew over the quake area yesterday to mak* a preliminary estimate of the damage to pav* the way for immediate Amencan aid. The provincial governor of Hamadan reported to Interkir Minister Ali Jalai that Farsanj. a town of several thousand farmers and villagers, had been leveled by the quake. He said tha disaster was compounded by freezing weather. i |
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