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52ND YEAR - NO. 11
Member Aad!t IkirMMi of CftrciUatloB
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1958
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Here is a Photo Record of $1 Million Blaze Which Claimed Two Lives in Beririck'S Business District
ARMY RESEARCH CHIEF TO RESIGN
Berwick Firemen Press Search for 2nd Victim Of SLOOOMO Blaze
(Photos by Jack Fowler)
Red hot debris continued early today to thwart ef¬ forts of firemen working under the supervision of Deputy State Fire Marshal Donald Unger to try to recover the bod^ of a second victim of a blaze which
left $1,000,000 damage in^^^	
its wake in Berwick's busi¬ ness district yesterda.y.
As midnig-ht passed, pamper apparatus was still pouring tons of water into the charred and twisted ruins of the conflagra¬ tion that claimed two lives, levelled Hotel Morton and two adjoininf; buildings and exten¬ sively damaged 10 other busi¬ ness establishments in the cen¬ ter of the thriving Columbia County Community. j
The fire started soon afier 2 A. M. and raged out of con¬ trol until 6:30 A. M. with 12S firemen from 10 companies of surrounding towiM fighting the blaze In below-freezing weather.
The njins continued to smol¬ der last night and it may be sev¬ eral dtys before a full scale in¬ vestigation can get under way.
Harris SamMl Brown, 61, an yngbieer of American Car ¦nd Foundry Plant, Berwick, a roomer at Morton Hotel where ' the fire originated, was killed when he leaped from a third floor window as firemen were climbing a ladder to rescue him.
Frank Hugh Fuller, 83, re¬ tired ACF employee. Is miss¬ ing and presumed lost In the fire.
a  resident''y""^*'^^*' i^' transport
Anti-Recession Edwardsvjlle Native
Measjires Seen |3 Bggten to Death Not Urgent Now
Fulbright Confident Expanded Munition Plan Will Meet Need
WASHINGTON (IP) —Chairman J. William Fulbright of the Senate Banking Committee said yesterday he sees no immediate need for legislation to ward off a depression oi" runaway infla¬ tion.
The Arkansas Democrat con¬ ceded, however, that "no one knows" what might be neces sary in the months ahead.
"I don't know whether we might be headed for a real re cession or whether we're in for more inflation," he told the United Prws. He added that "I
A 42-year-old Edwardsville native, who left here in 1939 to join the U. S. Army, was found brutally beaten and stabbed in t>e back last Saturday night in a parking lot at San' Francisco, Calif.    He died
without    regaining    con-<g^	
sciousness in a hospital.
Report Nixon Assigned Navy Jet Is Denied
Secretary Claims Mulrooney Charge Is 'Without Facf
have a feeling the expanded rc- W A S H I NG TO N (lP)iarmament   program,"   with   em-
 fjjg   ^jj.   Fores   vester-fP*'^^'* ""   missile  development,
j„,, J ;  J JJ. u„„ „.'.,•„..,«J and other government activities
day denied it has a.ssigned|_,^^^ ^^ ^^"^ ^^^^ ^^^^^3,
one of its new KCl-3.5 .iet\
high
way   program,   "might   tend   to
transport-Unkers to Vice Presi-itake    up    the    business    slack
dent Richard M.  Nixon  for his | somewhat
personal  use.
It said reports that it had done so are "entirely without fact."
The victim waa Benja¬ min Rogers, a veteran of 17 years Army service. He had resided in San Francisco since he was discharged from mili-'ofj" stab'waund tar^   service   in   December   of ^^.k^^ ,„ 3,^^^
No   motive  for  the  fatal   at-;    Rogers attended Edwardsville
"unconscious from the lot rid¬ dled with injuries and his fea¬ tures distorted 'with bruises. He had a large puncture in the back   which    offered   evidence
Long Distance Plione Strike Is Threatened
Operators Ready To Walk Off Job If Talks Bog Down
The denial was issued after Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney wired Defense  Secretary Neil  H.  Mc-
from  San   Francisco  police  by his  brother,   Edward   of  Plym
terment in the National Ceme
outh, Benjamin was picked up tery, San Francisco.
Charles Black,  7
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Have Tools Needed
They also should tend to less¬ en unemployment somewhat, he said.
Another member of the bank¬ ing   committee.   Sen.   John   Ji Elroy asking "by what authority|Sparkman (D., Ala.), agreed with the Air Force could furnish thelFulbright that no legislation  is
Vice  President with  the  latest,!needed. \ m^      t*d* f    ^P      If        I ^#%
most expensive and most urgent-     "We've got all the tools need- l#^l|*|^^l     gttlK    J Oti      20'
NEW YORK (IP) —Ne¬ gotiations committed to anj all-out effort to avert a; nationwide telephone strike: resumed contract bargaining yesterday,   with   long   distance
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tack   was   determined   by   San Borough Schools and worked in or^ratorsp^^^
Francisco police.   They are still a bakery before enhstmg in the [^e p"bhc on a moment s noUce
conducting an investigation  butJArmy.   He  was   m   both  World ^  the  talks  bog  down.
have not been able to find anyiWar 2 and the Korean War with!    The   management   and   labor
witnesses an artillery unit and saw actionjgroups  kept in  touch with one
UncnnsciouB   When   Found '" Africa, France, Germany and I another    by    telephone    during .
"r^ not knoW whethr? ^ l'"**''^  ^^^'^  ^'""''^  *'°""  ^ ^'^^
ers was attacked on the Darkine'    He was married to the former!cussion of propo.sals and coun-
10;   or the^dv "dumped' ther^lJan«    P^itre,    of    Washington, ter-proposals made last night. ^^_,^^^   ...,...„,..„   .^u-
after he was leift for dead. TheiD. C, and they resided in San A total of 25,000 members of olai Bulganin s barrage of P^ce\^.^^^^ ^^^ *^^^ overhaul Edwardsville man was discov-1 Francisco the past year. Besides; the AFL-Clp Communications talk proposals, informed sourcesLj j^ ^^-^^ (,^j».j ^f ^^^jf pred   lying  unconscious   on   the his wife and brother, Edward ofi workers of America are in vol Asked whether this brought ent-
lot bv a motorist who sum-IPlymouth, another brother. Wil- in the dispute with the Amen-| His decision, expected to be jcism or influenced his decision moned   police. jliam  of Bridgeport,  Conn.,  sur- can   Telephone   and   Telegraph'made soon, may settle the clash to retire,  Gavin  said,  "I don "t
Rogers was rushed bv ambu-fvive. Co. .,     .       , .    between Secretary of State Johniknow that had much tn do with
Iance    to    Central    Emeri?ency!    While   re.siding   m   Edwards-     A  strike  by the union,  auth-Foster Dulles  and  disarmamentlit •• Hospital,   San  Francisco,   whereiville,  Rogers was a member ofiOnzed   to   begin   at   any   time adviser   Harold   E.   Stassen   oni    Prurkpr   made   niain he died soon after having beenlSt.   Mary's   Uthuanian   Church, union   officials   give   the   word, when and how to seek an East- Unitpd    PrPss   that admitted. Kingston. Iwould    cripple    long    distance west truce in the arms race.
According   to   word   received _ Funeral    services   were   held service   across   the jriation   as|Q„||e, Drafts Reply
Gavin Wants to be Free To Give His Own Views On Military Problems
WASHINGTON (IP)—Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin, the Army's chief of research, yesterday abruptly decided to quit the Army and be "freer to write and talk" about the nation's defense needs.
 — ^    Army Secretary Wil ber
M. Brucker promptly de¬ nied that Gavin had been fired or criticized in any way for his recent proposal to dras¬ tically reorganize the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Gavin  told  the  United  Press he   plans   to   retire   from   the Army  in  March.  He  will  then joe 51  years old, he said, and will   have  completed  30  years in the military service. Brucker Not Happy WASHING TON (IP),    Brucker   said   that  he   hoped President Eisenhower is I Gavin  would  change  his  mind studying  a   "positive"   re- and remain in the Army.
ply to Soviet Premier Nic-L °«^'" '"f""''^ t^^^f'^^ ^i°l^ *^ ' 'the   Senate   Preparedness   Sub-
Ike Is Studying Reply to Reds
Draft by Dullet Being Reviewed
Friday in San Francisco with in-jwell as service to foreign coun
Eisenhower May Cancel
ed"   if   the   administration   will '
at   the   hotel,   suffered   severe     The Oklahoma Democrat said "^'^ them, he said,
burns from the waist up and is in   a   statement   that   allowing:    Sparkman, aKso a member of
In  Berwick  Hospital  in  critical""'
condition.
Firemen Treated
Nixon  to  use  the  KCI35  as  a!'he     House-Senate     Economicj
"cross-country  taxi"  would   be "extravagant    and    dangerous." Also admitted to the hospital | He said he doubted the Strategic and reported as fair last nightl Air Command had a "sufficient were Mrs. Elle Clewell, 78, hotel I supply"   of   tankers   to   afford
Cites Big Work Schedule
Committee,    said    farmers   and, _    „         „	
small businessmen are the prin-| GETTYSBURG, Pa. (LP) — The White House said cipal sufferers so far in the yesterda.v that President Eisenhower may be forced businjess slump and legisiaijoni^ u ^ff pj^ns trf make a major political speech in may be needed to help them. But >•      «  ^ . •>       i-
making one available to the \'ice President. '
Used by LeMay
guest, and Acele Thomas, 25, a student at University of Maine, an overnight guest at the hotel while en route back to school from his home in Virginia.
A number of firemen suffered;..„,^.„,„,;„„  fii„i„..   „_ ^
CUU and bums as well as smokeLu°"*«i»''°"„"j»^^. «" .«^?^ inhalation and were treated on!** j"*^ P'"!^' ^'^'l'' has been thA «r*na Stationed in Washington for sev-
."   f^! .   „,. . eral weeks. It is the same KCI35
Started in Kitchm in which Gen. Curtis E. LeMay,
Flames first broke out In the|Air Force vice chief of staff, kitchen of Morton Hote^ Front|reccntly made a record-setting and Market Sts^cros.s the alley fught to Argentina.
from the $500,000 Fratema   Or-     w„ „..  ... .     ,.
der of Eagles Building. accorxl-L^.''"'^'*®^ said Nixon should ing to reports.  The hotel, withi^/J^f"^ "IllSL"'! y°^l 28 guest rooms, was completely^ •^'"•"« propolter-dnven mil- gutted.   Hazleton  Fire  Co.  de-^^^ planes, molished the front of the struc-!    "« also took a verbal swipe at ture. a brick wall, by using «|President Eisenhower for claim long boom and pulling it down.ling *« he "economy-minded," yet The other open side fell in a having at hia disposal an array
he added that strong administra¬
tion action to spur housing and
highway programs, plus an eas-
_.     ..    „ . ^    „ ,   .    . ing of credit restrictions by the
The Air Force saad all It hadjFederal Reserve Board, "should
done   was   to  offer   Nixon   an | pet us back on an even keel" in
economic terms
Chicago on Jan. 20.
heap across the alley.
I1M flat roof of the FOE building proved helpful for the firemen. It was manned by three companies who poured streams across to the fire. About four inches of ice cov¬ ered the FOE building last night.
Although only about 10 feet from the hotel, the Eagles Build¬ ing was opened by officers and memben from 3 A. M. to serve coffee and sandwiches to fire¬ men and workers. Windows were   blown   out   of  the   club
of govemment planes that in elude his plush four-engine Con¬ stellation, the Columbine III, a small commuting plane, and two helicopters.
Priests Jail*d
VIENNA m — The Austrian Catholic News Service said yes¬ terday that a group of Catholic Romanian priests had been sen tenced to jail terms by a Buch¬ arest court for alleged "illicit relations witb foreign organizS' property with the intense heat.,tions."
The news service, quoting "in
tries and ships at sea.
Forty per cent of the union's members are telephone opera¬ tors. The rest are maintenance, accounting and commercial em¬ ployes.
The  union,   representing  long
TTie reply to the Kremlin was drafted by Dulles and given to the President shortly before he retumed to his Gettysburg farm for the. weekend. It is likely to be discussed at the National Se¬ curity Council session here Mon-
lines workers in 42 states and'^^^' ^J^^" ^° ^° P^"" f*"" "'^°^- the District of Columbia, wants!"1°" .'""O"'' clearance with other higher pay and management !?^'^""^ °f '"e North Atlantic abandonment of demands for a'^'^^^^y Organization Council, no-strike clause, discontinuance ^'^'^'^ "^^^^ Wednesday, of voluntary union dues check
He is schediiled  to ad-|g^^gj^,gj throughout the coun- dress a Republican fund-1 try <,„ the night of Jan. 20. Hag- raising dinner. jerty said Mr.  Eisenhower may Press Secretary James C. Hag- speak to the Washington dinner I erty   said   the   President    still if he cannot go to Chicago.   A Fulbright. gave  little  wannth "hopes" to keg> the engagement firm decision wm       made early to a proposal by Sen. Homer E. but has advised GOP leaders that this week   he said. Capehart (R., Ind.)  ranking GOP his heavy work schedule during     in a Washington  speech, the member of the banking commit- the opening weeks of Congress President    could    avoid    taking       .. tee. that Congress vote standby may keep him m Washington,     strongly partisan position which^P       would   be   reached   how wake and pri« controls for use     The Republican high command might irriUte his relations withl^^-J^   w°"'a   '>e   reacnea,   now
if  an  economic emergency  de-had hoped Mr. Eisenhower would the   Democrat - controlled   Con-|'='"= ¦	
velops deliver  a   hard-hitting   partisan gress. I
"I'm not ready to commit my- talk in the  heart of the /arm „g,„h ^ot a Factor State Police Raid
self on that,"  he said,  but he belt, where the party faces trou-; President's'
agreed  he  might  support  it  if b« •" th'» ye*"", congressional     Hagerty .?«^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^j^^., tojReoding Card Game President   Eis€»ihower   made   a election* _ _ ,  ,^„,. ..  . „ _ „^ ,  q„   n       •. _
off and longer hours for admin¬ istrative workers in 24 commu¬ nities.
The union's 13-month contract with AT&T expired at midnight Friday, but the union agreed to further talks before calling a strike.
The strike is off, at least until we talk some more with the company." said Elaine Glea¬ son, national director of the union's Long Lines Division.
Miss Glea<;on said she was not
strong bid for it
Ftramea effected rescues of ¦ppnudmately 39 hotel guests ami residents of apartments In (Continued on Page 2, Sec. 1)
formation received from Bucha¬ rest," said the curate of Lugox, Joannes Ploscariu, had received a 15-year term.
Couple Ponders H'Bomb, Weaiher 4fter Kitchen Sink Falls Apart
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CLEVELAND • — Ralph Nottingham, an engineer in the Brush Instrument dMsion of thc Clevite Corp., ypster- d»y Mad to figure out why m Utchen sink fell apalt.
'Nottingham said he dftd his Urife w«re in their u^tairs tedroom]|riien they first heard breaking sounds from the kitchen.
"First I thought i^ was a burglar coming in the kitchen window," Mrs. No^ingham said. '"Ilien it begaa sound¬ ing like fine chiaa being broken."
The couple went <lownstairs
and into the Mtdwn to fint! strips ot white porcelain enamel snapping off the sink and flying across the room.
"My only theoiy is that It was caused by thermal stress," Nottingham said. "It was 68 in the Kitchen and 18 outside. The sink is against an outsideHvall, so maybe the difference in temperature on the wall caused it."
Mrs. Nottingham however will not accept this explana¬ tion. Said she: "I wouldn't be at   all   surprised
something H-b«mb,'^
to
if   it do   with
had tha
Cold Spell Seen Easing
T^e caid snap that gripped this regitMi for the past two days showed signs of breaking last night after hitting a low record for the current Winter with five above at the Wilkes Barre-Scranton Airport, accord¬ ing to official reports of the U. S. Weather Bureau. -
The temperature early this moming is expected to hold between 10 and 12 degrees with fair and a little warmer by after¬ noon. According to the Weather Bureau, a reading in the upper 20s looms for this aftemoon. Tomorrow It will continue to rise and warm up wfth a tem¬ perature of 30 to 34 degrees.
Union Ready to Strik* Af Montgomery Ward
WASHINGTON (IPI—Ubor ne¬ gotiations between Montgomery Ward Co., and the Intemational Retail Orks Association broke down yesterday and the union expected to go on strike tomor¬ row as scheduled in "strategic" cities.
After all-day meetings with management and union officials. Federal Mediation Board Panel chairman William G. Murray told newsmen. "There has been no settlement." He said the three-man panel was recesshig "Wbject'*!) recalL"
Fund-raising   dinners   are   (Continued on Page 2, Sec. 1)      READING, Pa. (IPi—Seven state
lite Will Ask Sweeping Changes in Labor Laws
WASHINGTON (lP)-^resident Eisenhower will propose sweeping changes in the nation's labor laws in a special message to Congrtss late this month.
Infoi-med sources said yesterday the program will be designed to wipe out racketeering and the misuse of organized labor's now tremendous wel¬ fare and reserve funds, as revealed by the Senate rackets investigation and labor's own house- cleaning campaign.
The proposals have been cautiously drafted and limited to avoid election year trouble. The administration is putting its main emphasis on the protection of union members from abuses by their own leaders.
White House press secretary James C. Hag¬ erty said that the President will send the message to Congress the week of Jan. 20. He said only that it would deal with public disclosure of rec¬ ords of union welfare and pension funds.
INSIDE THE INDEPENDENT
Amusement Four
Around the Town... Three
Ete tter English One
Citv Hall News Three
Classified Five
Countv News Three
Crossword Puzzle... Five
Drew Pearson Three
Editorial  Three
FrankTripp   Three
Home gf the Week.. .Fiv
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11 How Can I??? Three 5
7 Indoor Gardening.. Four 2 9 Look and Leam Two 8
8 Obituary One 8
1-4 Politics  Three 6
9 Robert C Ruark.... Three 7
3 State Capital Three 10
6 State News Three 1)
6 Soorts ...Three 1-4
7:rv  Four 10
31 Women's Section... four
to   the
Press   that   the   Army
wants Gavin to stay in his post.
"I regret this very much," Brucker said, when informed of Gavin's decision. "I think he ought to stay. He Is In the very cream of his manhood. T think he's a very dedicated and brilliant officer and I re¬ gret that he has come to the conclusion that he has reached."
Brucker said that he has given this   instruction   to   Gavin   and
Other NATO nations also are other Army witnesses testifying drafting letters to Bulganin. before   the   Senate   subcommit-
The Soviet premier, in a flur¬ ry of letters to Westem leaders just before last month's NATO meeting, called for an East-West "summit" meeting, an end to nuclear weapons-testing, a non- aggression treaty between NATO and the Coi'munist Warsaw Pact nations, i. semi-neutralized European zone through Ger¬ many, Poland and Czechoslo¬ vakia, and other steps
tee headed by Senate Democrat¬ ic leader Lyndon B. Johnson: "You go over there and tell the truth and I will back you up.*
The Army secretary said this was his position on Gavin's tes¬ timony to the Senate group.
Gavin Is a top Army expert on   the   Jupiter   intermediate range ballistic missile and the earth satellite program. Gavin   said,   in   an   interview Preliminary    U.    S.    reaction with the United Press, that once was that the Soviet letter was airetired   he  would   "feel  a   little thinly-veiled   attempt   to   influ-jfreer to  write and  talk" about ence    the    NATO    cocference. national defense.
He said he had "urged, rec¬ ommended and begged" for his Ideas for four years and at times felt he was "getting nowhere." Specifically, he said the Unit-
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Sign Trade Pact
RABAT,   Morocco   OP—Egypt and   Morocco   yesterday   signed' ,. t,     • L * commercial agreement provid-
policemen from Harnsburg ar-ing for exchanges worth $6-^^ States should have had a sat- rested nine men yesterday in a|7oo,ooo. Morocco will receivejellite circling the garth by now raid   on   a   card   game   in   the sugar and cotton in  retum for and  should  now have  intcrme-
i?lTt"*    "I    III*    P'^nn-Plaza ores and agricultural products. ' (Ctmtinued on Page 2, Sec. 1) Hotel here. Another state troop- -f>     • '
er was  sitting in  on  tite game
as a  "plant."
The raid was led by Sgt. R. L.
Sl^'sir^At" Sin ^^rr^l'lYouth, PoeUy and Advertising
McBride to eliminate gambling
Carl Sandburg, at 80, Berates
in Berks County.
Joseph Di Base and John S Hresik, both of Reading, were held in $500 bail on charges of setting up and mafntaJning a gambling establishment in the hotel. Seven other players were held in $12 bond each for a hearing.
Valley Scenes
Woman eomplaining to ker \ ruigkbor about the few Christmaa cards that she had received mnd then adding "that't the reason I didn't tend any this year."
Treasurer    Tom    A. going   into   confer-
City Evans
ence" behind locked doors at City UaU to seriously discnsi with his favorite shoe shint boy what uwuld be the best birthday present for the lat¬ ter's mother,
Vsually co-operative' and friendly electrician blowing a fuse Sew Year's morning at 5:10 when person called to ask if he would "come over am' get the electric train set running so wt ean thow it («
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FLAT ROCK. N. C. (ffl— Poet Carl Sandburg, who will observe his 80th birthday to¬ morrow, took the occasion yesterday to berate modem youth, modem poetry, modem advertising and old-fashioned fear of death.
On vouth, the white-maned biographer of Lincoln said:
"Never has a generation ... been told by a more elaborate system in the printed word, billboards, newspapers, maga¬ zines, radio, television—to eat more, play more, have more fun."
He  quoted  Gen.  Robert  E. Lee as telling a mother with a child in her arms, "Teach him to deny himself." Not Heard Today
"Whatever Lee meant by that is a teaching almost never heard. The young don't hear it." he said.
On poetry, * Sandburg said, "The modem poets prefer to write about people like John Donne, Dante and Henry James. Lincoln, no—Washing¬ ton, Jackson. Jefferson. Frank¬ lin, the sublime American fig¬ ures—no."
He said. "When I published my Chicago poems they (the critics) said if Dante and Miitoo had a right (o writa
about hell when they had never been there, why hadn't I the right to write about C3»i- cago, where I had been."
In a barb at advertising, Sandburg said he has written a new poem called "Instruct- tions for the Tomb of Georga Washington Hill." Steady Irritation
He said over the tomb they could carve the words of the poem, "Irritate 'em, irritata 'em, irritate 'em—they can forget the irritation and re¬ member the name of your product."
As for death. Sandburg said he believes "There's health in nonsense (rf a certain kind."
He said he liked to remem¬ ber a passage from tlie Journal of Ralph Waldo Emersaa. "When Emerson records th* fact that brother Charies ... went away, Emerson wnala; 'They took Charies away WK* der restraint. They say it la,* taint in the blood but I l^m' no fear because I have w element of silliness in nsa!.". .
The poet may have <l«Mt> strated what he meant anMl a photographer present adM him to put on a green 0f9f shade.
He did, but cwnmeotafl, "I feel lika ao advuer in \vSot.
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