Bedford Gazette (Newspaper) - June 28, 1951, Bedford, Pennsylvania QUICK ARREST IN BRIDE'S ASSAULT A KIDNAPPING and criminal assault of Mrs James K kiss 19 of Arlington Va results in the prompt jailing of John R Polk left and a confederate William R Payne of Bethesda Md Police say both men confessed to forcing the bride of ten days her Bed and then driving to a nearby picnic ground for the double attack The victim is the former Nancy McCoy of Winnetka 111 International Bedford BEDFORD Welcomes Stafe Bar Association Again GAZETTE BEDFORD COUNTYS OWN DAILY NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 146 No 172 BEDFORD PA THURSDAY JUNE 28 1951 SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS REDS WANT TRUCE IN FIELD Gen Hershey Speaks As Bar Association Opens Conclave r Selective Service Director Louis B Hershey told lo the British Shut Iran Oil Flow Prepare Exodus Tehran Iran The British- owned Oil Company shut off the pumps In the oil field and started calling the 700 British bers of the Pennsylvania Bar Association last night that the question of the cease-fire proposal in Korea is not but instead America should be more concerned with the future and plan to build a powerful armed force that be capable of retarding aggression wherever and whenever it may occur in the Everett Rotarians To Install Officers At Meeting Friday Recently elected officers of the Everett Rotary club will be installed Friday night June 29 at the regular meeting of the club at the Union General Hershey Addresses Bar Association Meeting Hotel will be ed as president and Robert Williams as Vice-president officers who will be Rev Clyde Way pastor and Tecumseh Methodist church secretary J G treasurer Sam Stailey S Howard Gump Jr and Walter directors the last meeting held Friday June 22 I A county on the activities of airborne j anj troops during their basic training Survival an Atomic and another training schools for Ait shown f the YoUth Agricultural Program which sponsored by are tentative and 1 on future General Hershey gave the principal address at the an- meeting of the tion held at the Bedford Springs Hotel More than 600 members of the association and their wives attended the four-day convention which opened Tuesday morning Members of the Bedford County Bar Association who were in at- tendance 100 per cent at the sessions took an active part in section ings and discussional periods The convention opened yesterday lorning with the Rev Paul C Kintzing vicar of St James copal church of Bedford delivering the opening prayer President Charles F C Arensberg of Pittsburgh in his President's Ad- dress spoke of the critical times in which the nation lives and briefly related to the the zero hour of operation That hour may strike today Premier Mohammed cabled a cabinet meeting last night His government is checking the possibility of getting other foreign help in the event the British de- cline to continue as employees of the Iranian National Oil Company a government agency has designated as successor to the A dispatch from Rome said a high official of Italy's state oil monopoly Count Ettore Caraffa D'Andria is visiting Iran with the approval of the Italian government The informants said government wanted to know about the legal and financial tion of the Italian company known as and its relations with foreign oil companies Some officials of the billion-dollar expect word from London in the next 24 there is an unforseen break in the oil dispute to abandon its holdings in this sun-baked spot and go ahead with the ation of the British staff Authorities here say the tion planned days ago could take out all the remaining British employees of the within 72 Puts Okay On Telephone Rate Increase Harrisburg United Tele- phone Company of Pennsylvania authorized yesterday to in- crease its rates by a year effective June 30 The Public Utility Commission in approving the increase said it will subscribers in 14 central counties The counties affected include Blair Huntingdon Fulton Franklin Cumberland Adams ry Juniata Centre Clinton Somerset and York The PUC said it took no action to suspend the increase after a study of the company's rate structure showed the boost would not duce an return B Conly of burgh voted against the increase concerned as to what our behavior will be when and if a cease-fire order in Korea comes about I fear we will what little we have accumulated in the past I have the greatest our when we are ion our toes and it appears that action is the i time we are on bur toes is when we -in a involved -in a war meat iri Congress over drafting 18 the general said it is not a question -as to who was worth taking but who was needed at the present time Passing legislation for the draft of was only a temporary measure he said and when necessary will be drafted General Hershey stoutly on Page 2 program until Students I from Everett Southern Joint Schools jn reference to recent Robert Smith are participate Everett Fire Department Plans Gala Carnival Everett Fire Department has scheduled a full week of ment for the annual carnival which opens Saturday July 7 at the South SJ extension Everett According to the carnival com- six featured entertainers have been booked with different performers each night The val will close Saturday July 14 and a number of prizes will be on the final night Thursday the annual parade ot fire companies will take place and firemen from Meyersdale wood Berlin and other localities are expected to participate Entertainers during the week ot carnival will include Montana Slim Saturday July 17 the homa Trio Monday Sons of the Plains Tuesday the Dutch Band Wednesday Texas Jim Robertson Friday All performers are well known to Pennsylvania residents as radio hours All have last plane loads of up The and The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar Association opened yesterday at the Bedford Hotel In Convention Hall last night Selective Service Director Lewis B Hershey declared that the time for the nation's defenses will if a cease-fire is declared in Korea In the scene above General Hershey is addressing the Hall audience To his left is the Association president Charles F Arensberg of Pittsburgh stage and A Two acts will be presented every night with the first starting at p m All the proceeds from the carnival will be used to maintain the fire company and for the chase of new equipment to See Pope Rome Truman has a private audience with Pope Pius on her schedule for today She will wear the long black gown and veil which she brought with her for the audience The Vatican museum including the famed Sistine chapel of Angelo was opened especially for the resident's daughter so she might roam through the rooms without being followed by a crowd 20 Die in Truck Crash Egypt truck med with 43 Egyptian farm workers plunged into a Nile canal near this northern Twenty were killed and the rest injured THE WEATHER Thursday and night Friday fair er Tornadic Winds Hit West Part Of West Virginia Tornadic winds and storms hail pounded parts of the midwest and east Wednesday At least six persons were feared dead and age to crops and property was heavy A tornado slashed through a ten block residential area in the population Western Kansas town of killing four persons and injuring about 40 In the east a wind and ram storm hit West Virginia toppling and ripping gut power telephone lines Top gusts of 72 miles aa hour were recorded at the Charleston airport A third of an inch of rain fell in 10 minutes at Clarksburg in the northern part of the state The weather bureau said the storm was toward land dren of the technicians has left Iran There are only about 50 British men remaining mostly in Abadan The whole British colony at dan awaited eagerly a glimpse of the tius ordered to the port from rein Island to guard the British pullout In London Prime Minister Attlee conservative leader Churhill and their principal aides discussed the crisis at a secret meeting The British foreign office an- Britain is asking Iraq an- other oil producing Moslem nation to use Iraqi ports and other transit facilities if she is forced to pull out of Iran Secretary of State pealed urgently to Iran to sider her stand He urged ued production and shipment of oil He told the House Foreign Affairs committee in Washington we not exaggerate the critical nature oC the situation and we cannot ex- aggerate the importance of its Prime Nehru of India has sent a message to ing moderation said a reliable New source i i Caddy's Death from Golf Ball Held Accidental Bradford Elmer C Beatty has issued a verdict of dental death in the case of an year-old Bradford golf caddy who was struck on the head by a golf ball Bernard Fiero died of a tured skull after a golfer sliced a drive hitting the boy Luciano Cited As Dope King In Drug Quiz Washington federal agent calls Charles Lucky Luciano the king pin in a dope trade which in- senators say is ruled by the threat of death The deported vice czar described as running his sinister kingdom from Italy through gunman agents took top billing in a televised ing before the Senate Crime com- Testimony about Luciano came from Charles Siragusa federal cotics agent In living across the tion television viewers could note that addict witnesses though able about many details of the did business kept stubborn silence as to supplies and sources They wouldn't even say in public it was death they feared but senators said it for them The hearing which opened with the victims own stories of crime and prostitution epidemic among to support the narcotics habit is being televised in a com- to enlist the public in its campaign The names of the ad- dict witnesses appearing under parole from federal institutions where they are under treatment are being kept secret and the video cameras avoid their faces There was no effort to link Senators Agree in Warning Russia Washington who quarreled over the firing of Gen Douglas MacArthur teamed up Wednesday to warn Russia tha ultimate destruction awaits any aggressor who starts war on the mistaken idea that Americans are badly split The issues which might divide our people are far transcended by the things which unite said a statement approved bv members of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees Pittsburgh Jury Cites Lawrence In Probe Pittsburgh special state grand jury probing official tion in Pittsburgh has recommended that Mayor David L Lawrence be indicted on a charge of misdemeanor in office The special grand indictment of eight other persons as a result of its probe into city coal and street lighting con- Human Blood Was On Nuzum Witness States Las Cruces Dwight Rife testified late yesterday that human and blood were taken in 1949 from Jerry auto Nuzum old Pittsburgh murder in the death of Ovida football star is on trial for Coogler Las Cruets waitress The state earlier through mony of state police had ed that material given Dr Rite for analysis had been scraped from the rear spring shackle of car on May 4 1949 Rife said that scientific tests ing serum and salt solutions eci the substance contained mnn blood and protein Those tests he said followed micro- scopic observances Ovida Coogler disappeared the night of March 30 She was last seen with Nuzum Her body was found in the sand south of Las Cruces on April IB 1940 by bit hunters Before testimony a crowd of 200 persons listened to Dr A D Maddox describe the condition of body ciano directly with the fear which kept the witnesses silent on details of where they got their but much of the testimony ranged around that threat Chairman O'Conor brought out in 2 Senate Deals Blow to Truman Controls Plan Refuses To Strike Out Rule Forbidding Rollbacks in Test of Program Washington Senate dealt a body blow to President Truman's economic controls program last night amid a tangled legislative situation which threw the whole tuture of controls into doubt By a roll call vote of Gl to the Senate refused to strike from its controls a provision forbidding any Pay Raise For Employes Of State Urged Legislature Takes Long Recess With Tax Hanging Fire Harrisburg John 5 j Fine proposes a 10 per cent living salary increase for vania's state employes At the same time the General I Assembly has handed the its idea of a raise for its own monthly increase in ex- pense allowance for Reds in Probe Attacks Red Truce Bid Made Eighth Army Camp Surprised by New Red Peace Bid rollbacks on the price of live beef and other commodities which would send the prices lower than those prevailing in the period Jan 24 Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston has warned that this prohibition would cost con- sumers between and in higher prices Senate took its action in workinj on a controls to re- place existing defense tion act expiring Saturday While it drove at full speod to pass the by this afternoon at the latest House leaders made a bi- partisan agreement to extend the Tokyo Thursday June 28 The Communists made strong prob ing attacks on the central Korea front They were hurle I back But Allied patrols stabbing at Red buildup areas wen showered with mortar and auto- matic weapon ire Fighting was bitter It came as the Russians reportedly suggested that any truce in fighting be negotiated by the Com- manders of the North Korean and United Nations forces The Russian move caused mild surprise at Eighth Army The of- fer was similar to the proposal by General Douglas Arthur that he meet with Red fielo commanders to discuss steps foi ending the Korean war Neither General Ridgway nor Li Gen Van Fleet would comment on the reported Russian proposal Fifth Air Force pilots reported sighting heavy southbound lar traffic on the main roads south of Wonsan and on east coast They also reported enemy hicles moving on the supply route between Sinanju northwestern Ko rea and Pyongyang Korean Com munist capital Frontline officers expected a Red attack in the western sector by tht second week in July A pooled dispatch said a battalion Russia Advises Way To Korean Affair Report on Talks In Moscow Gives Hope for Peace jv Washington reported to told the ed States that moves truce in Korea should take the form of military negotiations between the North Korean and United Nations Field ders Russia's reported suggestion thus would leave the Chinese COM- out of any impending talks apparently except as advisers to the North Koreans Red China has contended all along that Chinese troops fighting in Korea are simply volunteers although they are main force fighting the United tions It was understood that talks in Moscow between U S Ambassador Alan G Kirk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrie Gromyko produced the Russian suggesting that the military manders negotiate cease-fire Kirk's report on his rushed to the State There had been considerable Cusion earlier over the i cease-fire proposal tossed out by Soviet U N delegate Jacob New York Saturday The talk in ow had another approach to Malik in New ordered by Secretary of State regarded here as the first steps in what may be fairly prolonged West exploratory discussions It is believed that some time may before it can be whether a cease-fire is iri and 50 senators nation's economic controls through July on a stopgap basis up hope of now defense production act ready by midnight Saturday when rent controls on prices wages rents and credit die But the Senate must concur in any legislation And size PRR Engineer Arrested In Red Arrow Crash attack hit east of Wednesday night but by early They rave up hope of having a day was driven back under a long artillery barrage The Reds hit in the same sector two hours later and made a slight dent in the U N position Allied forces re Senator 1 stored their line by morning I inflicting heavy losses on the Com- on Page 2 One point reportedly not jp in the the matter of guarantees again violation of any ment And because of Western on page 2 Solons Approve Of State's July Bills Harrisburg New totaling ta oay for State operations until lar funds are provided has been unanimously by the Senate rhey previously had passed the House Passage of the was since the Assembly pre- had passed the first one for he month of June only and the legislature will be in recess until July 9 Norristown engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad's lied Arrow Express which crashed into another PRR train killing eight sons six weeks ago has been arrested and charged with involuntary slaughter The engineer Francis B Yentzer 62 of Harrisburg Pa was held in bail A jury found that zer was responsible for the collision of the Red Arrow into the rear of the Philadelphia Night Express which had halted to check ment shortly after dawn measure legislators ex- pense from to annually The vote was 15 It passed the Senate earlier in week with six votes against it i In addition of the lature are paid for the two- j Milk Price i E i z Postponed TO July IO David Warfield Aged Famous Actor Dies New York David actor last in his Manhattan apartment He retired in 1924 after a career that made him one of greatest stars early in the century Firemen Unable to Stop Blaze Families Homeless Pittsburgh JP Firemen early Duff Dewey All for Eisenhower i Harrisburg price in- j crease scheduled for the Pittsburgh proposed increases in i Erie and areas of state government j July 1 was yesterday by came as the especially the state Milk Control Commission the embattled Senate continued j until July Hi deadlock over the question whether new taxes should be i posed Ax the declared a re- until July ft there were hints that some of the on page 2 Force Transport Crashes One Killed Elgin Air Force Base Fla i Air assault transport crashed i takeoff yesterday killing the pilot and injuring three men The fatality was Capt William A Jr 29 of San Francisco His wife and two small sons 1 vive School Heads Asked v For Dope Information Harrisburg Pennsylvania school officials were asked day to report to the state any in- formation they may have of dope peddlers approaching young people The request was made in letters sent out by the Department of lic Instruction to school heads col- lege presidents and heads of owned and institutions Approves Port Authority -Th He said death probably came from j yesterday fought in vain to i Harrisburg flames which routed two families approved a a blow on the head by some blunt object Under questioning he said House un- setting New Y Th York mcr Gen Last its govern prised I the 11 The ot home and destroyed a up the River Port Newsweek says E Dewey of New Sen James H Dull for- of Pennsylvania have ach other they back D Eisenhower the n presidential nomination the magazine says in issue out today the two held a very private first since DuiT op- to the bitter end at convention i 948 arranged by Herbert Dewey's 1948 campaign It 11 the governors succeed in ing the two biggest state tions to Eisenhower the magazine it would give the dralt a perhaps irresistable start i Former Gov Harold Stassen of j Minnesota now president of the University of Pennsylvania also has i assured Dewey in a telephone con- versation he was advising his 1 friends in the Republican party to put their shoulders to the I hower draft Newsweek states i It quotes the general's brother Milton Eisenhower now president ot Pennsylvania State College as Prosecutor Tells How Homeyer Slew His Wife Tunkhannock District ney Robert W Trembath has to the jury for the first time how he believes Charles E er lonely hearts lover killed his fifth wife Anna Drawing a knife across one's throat and slashing off the head must signify an intent to Trembath said in his closing ment of the nine old he added we have by experts that there was not tail of evidence that she was soned The district attorney called for af first degree verdict with the death penalty for this vicious waving in front of the jurors a ture of the woman's skull found buried in concrete in the cellar ql the Homeyer home at Trembath spoke after Davis ft Hobbs chief defense told the jurors the not prove even that Anna was murdered that he did it Hobbs asked f acquittal was highly cordial i saying that the general is a was an exchange of i by conviction and might and win v the blow might have been the re- pair of frame dwellings in Stowe only The measure goes to the ernor for his I es that Duff and Dewey to line up then stales Judge Edward P Little told jury he will deliver his when court convenes this m When Homeyer entered had bandage on his throat iff James Wynd Jr said he his throat with a razor blade had been hidden ir a pack However before done serious damage he his the sheriff said Homeyer breathed heavil on Township I delegations for an Eisenhower call to higher duty when his military duties in Europe quivered as fulfilled arguments
