Chester Times (Newspaper) - December 11, 1951, Chester, Pennsylvania m SERVICEMEN For news of Delaware In the armed forces see page 8 Covers Delaware County First Last Oily V JA Chester area Considerable cloudt ness and continued rather tonight and YEARNO 23141 30 PAGES 33215 CHESTER PA TUESDAY DECEMBER 11 1951 Daily Leased Wire Reports ot United Press UP International News Service INS and Acme Telephoto PRICE FIVE CENTS Dent and Taylor Linked to Bri Times TAKE US two puppies are group of dogs nd cats which can be taken home for Christmas from the Delaware County SPCA Shelter on road Upper Providence The association is hoping that children and animals alike canbe made happy this Christmas through the giving of these homeless animals as pets Fireworks at Bui They Reject Resignation Expressing complete lack of confidence in his colleagues A B Gurvitz tendered his resignation as president of Brookhaven Council on Monday night It wasnt accepted the lashing from Gurvitz council rejected the resignation in what was tantamount to a vote of confidence Gurvitz said retain the presidency but stipulated he did so with reluctance Blunt Language Gurvitz used trie bluntest language In explaining his action he hewas after last meeting In November Gurvitz accused Building Inspector George of negligence He contended that issued permits for jobs which violated the building code and failed to make inspections with the result builders were using un lumber and masonry When refused to resign demanded his dismissal by council None of the councilmen made the proposal When Gurvitz moved for the dismissal to receive any support Gurvitz said the rebuff had no bearing on his resignation but events which followed did Everything was forgotten because I am one who holds Gurvitz declared but meeting I overheard a conversation of a councilman not iii building Turn to Page 2 Man Killed In Collision of Gar and Truck Victims Companion Badly Hurt in Birmingham Wreck A Wilmington farmhand was killed and a vania Railroad mechanic was injured seriously Monday night at 625 p m when the car in which they were rid ing crashed into a heavy on Wilmington West Chester pike near Paint ers Crossroads Birmingham Township The dead man was Charles T Wilson 55 who lived alone in a rooming house in the 100 block E 6th st Wilmington He was riding with Charles Brice 2d 35 of 1002 Trenton place Wilmington when the crash occurred Driveway A trailer truck driven by Robert Bonham 29 Hunlock Creek Lu zerne County was turning off the highway into the driveway of a roadside diner when the passenger car collided with it Del Fire Co Res cue Squad was called according to state police Both men were trap ped in the car and it was some time before rescue workers could free them Wilson was dead when removed from the car a railroad mechanic was taken to Chester County Hospital West Chester where he is a bro ken right leg bruised chest cut Haluska Says He Was Promised 50 Jobs Check By BURTON W SIGLIN Harrisburg State Sen John J Haluska today in Senate President M Harvey Taylor and Senate Minority Leader John H Dent in his charges of attempted patronage bribery before the special senate investigating committee However Senator Dent quickly and categorically denied charges both on his own behalf and Senator Taylors Haluska a Cambria County Democrat said Sen Dent offered him 50 state jobs in return for his support of the income tax proposed by Gov John S Fine Haluska said the Dent offer was made in the senate chamber with only he and Dent present He said Dent did not list specific jobs because wasnt interested Haluska early in the hearing had asked the committee to disqualify some of whom he said ho would involve in the alleged bribe offer Im going to involve directly Staff Photo ACCUSED OF Francis Peterson right stands with head slightly bowed in police court today after being identified by a girl as the man who kidnaped and attacked her Sunday night Detective Joseph Ryan is at left Starting Wednesday Christmas shoppers With only 11 days remaining to complete your Yuletide buying Chester stores every 9 p m beginning Wednesday and through Dec 22 The extra hours will give Mom Dad entire family an opportunity to obtain the right gift offered merchants Stores will close at the regular hour on Dec 24 Christmas Eve Pair Fined on Charges Filed By Problem Girl 15 A tale of a nights drinking spree with five men was told by a 15 yearold high school girl Monday as she testified against two of the men in the Delaware County Court at Media The girl described by her father head and shock Bonham the truck driver was uninjured State Troopers Prank Pawlowski and Carl ofthe Media barracks were in charge ofthe v Return Amid Fireworks By JACK B THOMPSON Times Legislative Correspondent H a r r i s b u r General Assembly reconvened Monday in the midst of verbal which hold promise of popping off until the final ad scheduled for Dec 22 Members of the House returned after a recess Members of the Senate returned two weeks ago from the recess which began Oct 2 Highlight of the week is sure to be the airing of charges by Sen John J Haluska Democrat of Cambria County who claims to Father of 3 Held in Attack On Girl The fatherof three children was charged with a for the third time in two years today Edward Francis Peterson the suspect this time faced the additional charge of kidnaping however at of a brief hearing during which a 14 identified as a problem child took the stand to accuse Donald Brookover 22 of the 200 block Oxford Hill lane Haverford Township and John McNichol 21 1700 block N st Philadelphia of striking her and knocking her down in Haverford Park near Westgate Hills on Oct 6 about 430 a m two youths pleaded guilty to assault and battery charges and were fined each by Judge Harold L Brvin Said She Was Attacked The girl a redhead who looked older than her 15 years said that she got into the youths car at about 820 p m Oct 5 at and Market streets A student at Bart ram High School she lives in the vicinity of and Kingsessing avenues Philadelphia Chester Souders Upper Darby night Lowry held him for The her in a voice said lives on 8th street hear Barclay chased night near 5th and Perm seized her clapped a hand s over her mouth to prevent an outcry then her into his coupe arid drove out of the city the tall man drove to a lonely spot re moved all of her clothing arid then attacked her The girls torn clothing as evidence advances Detective Ryan who ar rested his home at Monday the girl was on her way home from night services at the Salvation Army headquarters 145 W 5th st when the suspect pulled his car to the curbing and called to the girl He shouted at me the girl Turn to Page 2 NEWS DiMaggio Quits New York Joe today after 13 seasons as one of the greatest stars in base ball The famed the world over as the Yankee decision at dramatic press Big Four Agree To Discuss Outlawing the Atom Bomb Paris Big Four powers announced today have agreed to discuss outlawing the atomic bomb and general disarmament in a new United Nations commission detective testified that the girl told them she had been attacked by several men after she had gone with them to the Minstrel Tavern Kirklyn Souders testified that she was hysterical shoeless her arms scratched eye blacked and clothes torn as a result of the nights event He also testified that she had been taken into custody pre by the Upper Darby police after a number of persons com that she and another girl were standing on a street corner trying to get pickups On another occasion Souders said she appeared at an Upper Darby gas station under the in fluence of alcohol and when an at tendant took a of beer from her she threatened him and Turn to Page 2 Number 1 Mercury Dips to 29 in Area Cold Weather Slated to Stay A small trough of low pressure moving eastward from the Great Lakes area will bring cloudy and cold weather County through Wednesday the weatherman says High today and Wednesday wil be 43 with a 34 as the overnight low to Delaware have been offered personal tages in return for voting in favor of the proposed state income tax His heard by a spe cial bipartisan senate committee Threatened Filibuster Senate action on Monday was marked by a threatened Democra tic filibuster over a Republican to take care of Philadelphia Jobholders largely Republican who would be out of jobs under the consolidation The funeral Howard F Boorse Republican of Montgomery County who died Friday deferred House action on the controversial Pechan Loyalty Oath and other measures on the calendar for final action Opposition to the Pechan was registered with members of the assembly by a delegation of professors representing 15 col leges and universities in vania They presented petitions signed by some 1500 college ad and faculty members Local College Heads Sign Among the signers were dent John W Nason of Swarth more College President Gilbert F White Haverford College Kath The U S Britain France and Russia disclosed the agreement in a communique summarizing the failure otherwise of their effort to reconcile divergent East West views in closed conferences here Differences Cited The 4000 word communique mainly restated serious and fun i differences separating the East and West on disarmament However the France said in ment that the U S Britain and a separate state proven The mercury a chilly 29 in Chester at 6 this morning useful the three pow ers said they were encouraged by Russias agreement to make a new to find common ground in the proposed ment commission The Big Pours last attempt in the UN to agree on a disarmament pro gram ended in 1948 in failure In the new commission we can continue to work for agreement on a comprehensive program that will include all types of armaments and armed forces the three Western powers said We are opposed to mass tion whether it be by armies tanks bombs of any type artillery of any type or by weapons still unknown We regard the task of ending aggression and mass destruction as too important to mankind to permit discouragement Up to Political Committee The next step is up to the 60 date 38 24 hours 0 the first subfreezing temperature since Dec 1 Temperatures for 24 yesterday 45 at 2 p m morning 29 at 6 a m yesterday 44 normal for Precipitation In this month 35 Sun rose 711 a sun sets 436 p m Moon rises 303 p m moon sets 554 a m full moon Thursday Todays Chester Tide water Terminal Pier High 1114 a m 1132 p m Low 536 a m 611 p m Local forecast Considerable cloudiness and continued rather cold this afternoon tonight and Wednesday Temperatures High today 43 low tonight Wednesday 43 nation UN political committee To it will fall the task of carrying ou the Big Fours merge the present Atomic Energy Commission and the Commission for Conventional Armaments into a new disarmament commission The political committee also mus Turn to Page 2 Number 2 Riots Break Out In Parliament 35 Per sons Hurt Tehran Iran inside and outside the Iranian parliament injured at least 35 persons today PBY Hamilton U S flying it was com ing in for at Kings Authorities three men were killed but the Navy clamped a on the crash indirectly certain members of your committee Haluska said I think these two men should disqualify themselves from your committee When Sen John M Walker a committee member said that the committee could only decide the proper disposition of such a request after Haluska had named those al involved Haluska said I shall first name the name of Sen Dent the Democratic floor leader who spoke on behalf of the Democratic Party and repeatedly took the position that no new taxes were necessary Haluska did not name the exact date patronage bribe was offered some time prior to a meeting which the Democrats held with Gov John S Fine and several Republican lead ers 5 Haluska that in addition to the state that he would be given a 5700 check from as stipend for his vote on tax Taylor is also Republican state chairman In his brief denial Dent said 7 If I should say Taylor authorized me to give job offers or any other considerations I would be mali I would be telling a lie Sen ator Taylor did not authorize me at any time to give anybody anything n exchange for the income tax The tory is a fabrication Dent also denied that he had told Haluska that he could have spon of 50 state jobs if he voted or the income tax I refute entirely any suggestion hat I spoke to the Cambria County Senator and offered him state jobs Dent said Dent reminded the com that he had no patronage at my The check offer was uska testified on Aug 5 when the Hershey conferees were going to dinner and while he Dent and Taylor remained in the conference room at the Hotel Hershey I was talking to someone and Pent asked me if he could speak to mev Haluska Dent was to Page 26 Column 5 Truman Urged th Snyder POW Exchange Panmunjom Korea communists rejected today a United Nations proposal for a man forman exchange of war prisoners during a Korean armistice They also refused to disclose the location of their prison camps or permit International Red Cross representatives to visit them un less the Allies agree to free all 120000 Red prisoners during the truce The Reds at the same time took back an offer made only a few hours earlier to permit the Amer ican troop rotation program to con if the Allies agreed to tral policing of the armistice The stubborn communist stand in twin simultaneous subcommit tee meetings in adjacent tents at Panmunjom left the armistice ne still deadlocked with Turn to Page 2 Number 4 Search Desert for Couple Kidnaped By Boastful Thug Yuma Ariz and airplanes fanned out across the desert near here today in a desperate search for a boastful gunman believed hiding inthe sunbaked wastes with a young couple he kidnaped from Washington prediction that Attorney General McGrath Will be before the end of the year today by Senator Nixon R Cal on the basis of what he called reliable information In making his forecast Nixon de clared that both McGrath and Treasury Secretary Snyder should be fired as a preliminary to a tax scandal cleanup by President Tru man Declaring that the cabinet mem bers should be discharged instead of being permitted to resign he said If they knew of the activities on tax matters they are guilty of jross malfeasance If they didnt know of them they are guilty of gross incompetence The senator lashed out at Mc Grath calling him a political hack and declaring that a mar of un questioned integrity and ability should be given the attorney gen He suggested FBI Director J Edgar Hoover as a possible can Nixon would not reveal who gave him the information upon which he based his prediction But he said the same source had reliable in th case of the resigna tion of Democratic Chairman Wil liam Boyle Explains Position Nixon explained his position on McGrath this way No investigation in the Justic Department tax division by specia prosecutors will be effective unless Washington t torhey McGrath testified today he approved T Lamar ac ofa fee in anair plane sale after he was assured no person connected with a federal case was involved The attorney general explained to house tax probers that he told audle the commission did not ap pear to violate any rules but the ultimate decision must rest with his own idea of propriety Earlier McGrath said he was aware of only a few of the out side activities which led to ouster by as the chief tax prosecutor McGrath added he saw nothing irregular in those he knew about Caudle has testified that he ar ranged for sale of a plane to Larry Knohl an investigator for Sam Aaron and Jacob defend ants in a tax fraud case Saw The attorney general said he concluded that the transaction was a private one and riot incom patible with status in tha Justice Department McGrath testified When Caudle informed me about the airplane deal I asked him if the govern Turn to Page 2 Number 7 a roadside Authorities said the gunman erine E McBride President of Bryn Mawr College President James Creese of dent Horace M Bond of Lincoln University George W McClelland former president of the University of Pennsylvania and Edwin B Williams provost of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania The tax bills by the Senate J the House for concurrence in minor Senate amendments Concurrence seemed assured after a deadlock lasting since April and Gov John S Fine has indicated that he will sign the measures despite his bitterness at having the state income tax blocked in the Senate Reapportionment of Turn to Z Number 3 as opposition deputies shouted of than Premier Mohamed Billy Cook killer of nf crof hall mt taunts of get the hell out of About 500 newspapermen and spectators took part in a freeforall in the parliament gallery as an open session of the house was to begin this morning The six persons Planes Join Search The sheriffs office seit men on foot across the and up all into the area from U Highway parliament guard broke while Civil Air Patrol planes the fight inside the building Cries j took off to scan the region from passed last week were returned to Todays Chuckle The sting of a bee is one thirty second of an inch other six inches are imagination of Im kilted and Ive been struck fatally heard above the other shouts of the rioters The guards drove both govern ment and opposition supporters out of the building and the fight con there Truckloads of armed troops were rushed to the parliament building to guard the gates following this mornings clashes After the guards cleared the chamber the session began When went to the rostrum to speak he was shouted down repeat edly by opposition deputies who are camping in the parliament because of fear of the mobs outside the air for the missing couples car The FBI also was asked to join in the search Authorities believe the man either is hiding out on the desert or has slipped over the border into Mexico with his captives Mabery said The kidnaping was reported by a Casa Grande Ariz mechanic James E Beaird 44 who said the egotistical gunman kidnaped him near Casa Grande and forced him to drive to a spot near Beaird said the bandit flagged him down on the highway and robbed him of at gunpoint The man then ordered him to drive nearly 200 miles at 80 miles an hour before he spotted the couples car parked beside the highway 22 miles from here Watching Sunset The mechanic said the couple was standing beside a 1951 model car with green license plates and appeared to be watching the sunset to stop his car Beaird said and he ripped some wiring engine He then approached the couple gun in hand and curtly told the president first fires McGrath McGrath as attorney general controls the FBI and other investi units of the department From the testimony already made public and from other charges and allegations it is apparent that he s so deeply involved with the in who must be the subjects of investigation that it would be im U S Now Turning Based on Tests possible prosecutors Nixon said it was his belief I them to get in and drive away Beaird said the car headed toward the California border but a Cali fornia entry station just outside Yuma reported that no car fitting the mechanics description had crossed the border Beaird said the gunman boasted of being smarter than badman Billy Cook the Missouri highwayman whose quick trigger finger cost the lives of six persons including five members of one fam ily before he was captured in Mexico for and him fully to cooperate with special that if McGrath remains in office hell be in a position to whitewash any activities affecting him or his friends and that the people will have no confidence whatever in any investigation unless he is first re moved He then made his prediction that before the of the year the president will be forced to take ac tion to remove McGrath from his position As for Snyder Nixon said that he too should be fired and not to resign explaining he the president must make an example of them As secretary Snyder 1 in charge of the Internal Bureau heart of the tax scandal By JOSEPH L MYLER Washington al ready is turning out new weapons made possible by very vital in learned in this years atomic test blasts at lat Nev And even as these new arms o into the stockpile U S weapon eers are getting set for more tests this spring in their unremitting drive to keep our atomic lead over Russia As Gordon Dean chairman ot the Atomic Energy Commission Turn to Page Z Number 5 In Todays Alien 6 LeIs 8 Amusements 23 Marriage Lie 10 Bedtime Story 24 Clock 23 C Brown 6 1224 21 8 Comics 24 Radio 12 Cross 23 2223 227 Television 12 6 5 JO 11 In Service 8 Word a 7 Telephone
