Coshocton County Democrat, The (Newspaper) - August 2, 1956, Coshocton, Ohio PHONE NUMBERS News Room 170 Subscriptions Classified and Display Ads 205 The Coshocton Tribune Weather Coder taught Friday mostly fair and pleasant with a of showers in late evening VOL XLVII NO 339 Full Leased Wire Report of the United OHIO THURSDAY EVENING AUGUST 2 1956 Beat of Newspaper Features and Pictorial Service SIX CENTS England France Veer To Dulles Soft Stand But Building of Force Continues In Suez Vicinity Egypt May Refuse To Attend Planned Global Meeting BULLETIN LONDON UP told its subjects in Egypt today to leave unless they had com- pelling reasons to remain and reaffirmed that the Suez Canal cannot remain in the tered hands of Egypt SUEZ Lifeline Britain Didn't By WILLIAM SEXTON LONDON Britain and France wavered today between the use of diplomacy or force to solve the Suez Canal crisis Britain speeded a precautionary buildup of forces in the Middle East while agreeing with the ed States and France to call an international conference on the problem possibly within ten days France continued to hurl angry epithets at Egyptian resident Gamal Abdel Nasser to be coming around to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles viewpoint that force should be used only as a desperate last resort Egypt Russia Included Dulles British Foreign on Page Two Weather Is Clue in Worst Plane Crash Blue Ribbon Panel Probes Canyon Affair By MAUREEN GOTHLIN WASHINGTON ribbon investigating panel turned to weather reports today for clues to the cause of the double plane crash in the Grand Canyon last June 30 The Civil Aeronautics Board called weather experts and pilots who flew over the canyon on the day of the crash for testimony at its second day of hearings on the disaster that took 128 lives The double crash of a Trans World Airlines Constellation and a United Airlines was the worst commercial aviation accident in history A young tourist couple who claimed they saw the planes col lide testified Wednesday that there were strong winds and h e a v Continued on Page Fifteen Cause of Chicago Epidemic Sought CHICAGO UP Board o Health teams probed four polio riddled pockets on Chicago's Wes Side today in an effort to learn what factors caused the wors early season in city his tory The investigation will be from block to block from house t house and from room to declared Dr Herman N Bunde sen president of the Health Board The four districts covering 5 square miles have contributed hal of the city's polio cases this Three fourths of the victims in th neighborhoods have been childre under 5 years old Bundesen saic The city's total of cases climbe to 470 with a report of 21 nev patients in the 24 hours midnight Tuesday Stevenson Strength Climbing Toward Mark General Puller Roars in Defense Of Sgt McKeon Legendary Figure High in Praise of Rigid Discipline By H D QUIGG PARRIS ISLAND S C UP Lt Gen Lewis B Chesty Puller a benbboned and legendary figure of a fighting Marine roared out in defense of Matthew C McKeon today and said that only through such training as he gave his men will Americans survive in the next war Shortly after the retired eral veteran of Leatherneck fighting in many far corners of the world finished one of the most dramatic courtroom ances in military history the de- fense rested its case The government trying McKeon for manslaughter and oppression of troops HI the April 8 death march m which six recruits drowned at first declined even to put a question to Puller and down from the stand he stalked Oh God I'd follow that man to McKeon said fervently when the old-timer now HI ment left the room Puller told McKeon's EVERYONE KNOWS that the Suez Canal long has been the vital link of the British Commonwealth but few remember that in the beginning Britain didn't want it In fact she opposed it bitterly When France's Count Ferdinand Lesseps the canal's promoter was dickering with the Khedive of Egypt for a concession in 1854 British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston denounced the project as a to be palmed off on gullible capitalists and an Arabian Nights dream of pouring water on the desert Today British ships are the largest users of the waterway In 1954 out of the ships that made passage were- British Last-Minute Pact Averts Aluminum Strike Spread PITTSBURGH num Company of America and the Aluminum Workers Union day signed a three-year contract Grace Expecting Rainier Reveals MONACO Grace of Monaco is a child in February Rainier an- today in a radio broadcast to his people Miss Kelly beautiful American movie actress from Philadelphia and Rainier reigning prince of the tiny principality of Monaco were married here last April The civil ceremony took place April 18 and the lavish religious ceremony took place on April 19 The proud prince's ment meant unbounded joy for this tmy land where an heir to the throne means that Monegasques will continue to enjoy freedom from taxes and military service Rumors have been current for weeks that the princess was nant It drew an angry an- from the prince that when as and if his wife expected a baby he would be the first to disclose it to his people He kept that pledge with his broadcast today Under the terms of a 1918 treaty Continued on Page Five which stopped the spread of a aluminum strike The package 46 cents an hour agreement keeps Alcoa workers on the job But some 000 United Steelworkers continued their two-day strike which has shut off 50 per cent of the aluminum production and has closed down 21 plants of coa and the Reynolds Metals Co The Alcoa AWU pact reached Wednesday night minutes before a midnight strike deadline is on a three-year no strike settlement reached in the basic steel industry The AWU contract was signed early this morning No hope was seen for a quick settlement of the USW strike against Alcoa and Reynolds coa officials said the company's with the USW had com broken off with no ings planned Reynolds negotiators planned to resume talks with the USW in New York A spokesman the Last of Boys in Blue Dies Quietly Gallant Heart of Albert Woolson Quits at 109 DULUTH UP Albert Woolson 109 year old lone survivor of the Grand Army of the died today at St Luke's hospital Death came at 11 45 a m EOT He never regained consciousness Continued on Page Two Continued on Page Two Drowning Mars Underwater Filming at Scene of Andrea Doria Crash NANTUCKET Mass Underwater filming of the sunken liner Andrea Doria was called off today because of the drowning of an expedition member in a tice skin dive in Nantucket bor William Edgerton 23 failed to surface Wednesday from a prac tice dive body was ered by photographer Louis Mafic who organized the 14 man skin diving expedition for Pans Match Magazine Edgerton son of a Institute of Technology was diving with others from the 50 foot tender Capt Samuel James anchored in 12 feet of water The divers were to have started film making today in wa- ters about 45 miles south of tucket Island where the Andrea Dona sank last week after a col- with the Swedish liner Stockholm Edgerton made one dive ing a mask and two gas cylinders strapped to his back He surfaced anH said he was going down again When he failed to surface British U.S News Men Fired in Egypt CAIRO London paper correspondents in Cairo have been expelled from Egypt and the Egyptian correspondent of the New York Daily News has been ordered to quit his job it was reported today The Mideast News Agency said the government ex- Softon Delmer London Daily Express foreign ent and Ray Hardy Jordanian correspondent for the London New Chronicle for attempting to ob taui military information affecting national security It was also authoritatively re- ported that Issa an subject was ordered to quit his job as correspondent for the New York Daily News In New York the News said the only known complaint against after lapsing into a coma eairly Saturday morning The former drummer boy the last soldier of Abe Lincoln's Ar my n the Civil War had a strong determination to live He Eisenhower Signs Social Security Benefits Liberal for Nearly Six Million WASHINGTON Eisenhower Wednesday signed the Social Security bil liberalizing benefits for six million women disabled workers and needy persons Shortly before signing the Mr told a news con- ference some of the bill's sions are unwise He said the Social Security system was being saddled with something I don't think should be there The measure lowers the 65 year retirement age for women to 62 and permits permanently disabled workers to start drawing benefits at the age of 50 The tion opposed both these provisions while the was in Congress About 4.7 million needy disabled blind and aged persons and de- pendent children get raises of from to a month in welfare pay ments under the measure To finance the extra benefits Continued on Page Two Ohio Consolidated Strike Lingers on PORTSMOUTH O UP No progress was reported today be- tween Company and union negotia tors Ohio Consolidated Tele phone Co strike Company President C E Wil bams rejected a plan proposed by Portsmouth city that a method be worked out to identify supervisory personnel to pickets The company reported incidents involving the entering o emergency supervisory workers to exchange buildings Williams said no special would be needed if coin provided proper polic Continued on Page Twenty-one protection Joseph Boz Named by Commissioners To Serve Unexpired Term as Engineer 10 minutes later NBC reporter was that he cabled stones Joe Michales called to him through an electronic underwater megaphone Edgerton did not re- spond and the group searched the area His body was found lying on the ocean floor Expedition members said a valve supplying oxygen had been turned off possibly by a brush against the tender when he sub- merged before on them was officially announced by the ment STEELWORKERS OUT CANTON 0 UP The 280 United at Re- public Division of Products were on strike today in a dispute over wages Joseph D Boz above local in- engineer today was pointed by the Coshocton county commissioners to serve out the unexpired term of Carl H thorne Sr who died last week Mr Boz who is at present em- ployed by the Ohio Bridge Corp Cambridge took over his new duties t on a part time basis He is also the Democratic candidate for the position i This is the second time since 1952 that the newly appointed en- gineer has served an unexpired tern in the county engineer's of- fice He served one month as engineer shortly after the death of Kenneth in 1052 After he resigned to take a position with the Ohio Bridge Corp in 1952 Mr Hawthorne was appointed to the job and was elected that fall to his first term as county engineer Mr Boz will benefit from the new salary voted county earlier in the year by the state legislature The new salary is a year i Commissioners Robert Allen GENERAL MEETS SERGEANT Randolph McCall Pate right commandant of the Marine shakes Matthew McKeon a few minutes taking the stand at court martial in Parris sland On being introduced sate Hello Sergeant I'm lappy to meet you I'm sorry it is under these circumstances though Later Pate told the court tribunal he did not think McKeon was guilty of oppression on a tidal death march but I- h a t McKeon's actions showed stupidity or lack of judgment eath of Lancaster Woman Is Studied One Doctor Denies Giving Treatment LANCASTER O UP A caster doctor denied today that he treated Mrs Constance Geer wife of the coroner prior to her mysterious death June 28 Dr Charles B Crow one of two physicians listed by Dr Joseph A eer as having treated his wife said I definitely did not treat Urs Geer I was called in by her and examined her and that's al I had to do with the case Investigation into the death of he pretty doctor's wife centered around pathologists and ists reports sent to the coroner The reports differ according to eer on the effect of narcotics found in his wife's body at a post mortem Dr William D Monger another physician Dr Geer said treated tiis wife said that he was not privileged to say whether the dead woman was ever his patient The other doctors were allegedly called into the case when Al Cook Prison Authorities Deny Torture Tales Convicts Challenged To Repeat Stories BUFORD Ga UP Georgia penal officials today challenged rock quarry convicts to repeat their published tales of shooting and beatings at a formal gation of mass self-torture by devil's island inmates State legislative prison commit- tees invited anyone with com- about treatment at the state prison for incorrigibles to at a hearing called today after 39 inmates smashed their leg bones with hammers In all 41 convicts tried it but X-rays at the state prison tal where they were sent for ment showed three failed Shift of Almost Any Two Large Harriman Aides Still Hopeful for Kefauver Manna By RAYMOND LAHR WASHINGTON Adlai E Stevenson's first strength climbed toward the 500 mark day and potentially 200 more ly ballot votes could be seen for him among favorite son and un- committed delegations To win the Democratic tial nomination Stevenson or the man who beats him must poll at least votes at the ic National Convention Stevenson's campaign ters already claimed a minimum of 600 first ballot votes and said that almost any two of the large state delegations which are un- committed or pledged to favorite son candidates could throw the nomination to Stevenson A Big Lift The withdrawal of Sen Estes Kefauver Tuesday in favor of venson gave the Stevenson its biggest lift since the primary Gov agers still talked of getting a sub- stantial bloc of the Kefauver votes a bandwagon swing to son seemed to be under way For- mer Democratic National man Frank a man supporter predicted the New Yorker will poll 450 first ballot votes A United Press tabulation of Continued on Page Ten Continued on Page Fifteen Mr Box Glenn Huff and Floyd J baur this morning voted m favor of Mr Boz to fill the term Apple Creek House Case Investigated COLUMBUS 0 spe cial subcommittee of the State Public Improvements Inspection Committee will conduct an inves into the construction of a house at Apple Creek State Hos pital for its business manager Rep Robert ilton named the day during a committee meeting The three men appointed were Sen Raymond Hildebrand and Reps William P Day D Cuyahoga and Ed Wallace The business manager P E Mosier was discharged last week by Dr John D state director of Mental Hygiene anc Correction The home was built with funds appropriated for other purposes The subcommittee will decide only whether a loophole m the law allowed construction at the house out of funds for other specific purposes Escapees Nabbed HILLSBORO 0 boro police today captured one o two escapees from the Veteran Administration Hospital in cothe Norman was returned to while the search con- for W M Barrett The two men escaped Wednesday iteel Agreement NEW YORK between US Steel and the United Steelworkers urAon signalled an ex end to the crippling bil ion steel strike today An authoritative source told the United Press Wednesday night tha he steel corporation and the steel workers have agreed on all con xact issues U S Steel traditionally sets the pattern for the rest of the industry and other companies are expected to fall in Kne and conclude forma contracts with the USW Strike 33 Days Old The strike the third longest in the 20 year history of negotiations has idled steel workers for 33 days Negotiators for the USW and the 12 leading steel producers have been conducting marathon talks since Wednesday in an effort to Continued on Page Ten Ohioan Is Involved In Daring Rescue Two Cut Way Through Jungle to Get Help SAIGON Indochina injured airmen one American one French cut their way through a jungle Monday to summon help for four fellow men hurt when their French copter crashed in a canyon Details of the crash and the emergency rescue m remote tral Viet Nam reached Saigon day and were disclosed by the US Embassy Technical Sergeant Carl F Packer of Ohio and the French pilot of the copter which crashed 100 miles north of Saigon hacked a path Continued on Ten Continued on Page Twenty-two Set To Strike Bakeries CLEVELAND 0 UP The local unit of the Bakery Drivers Union served notice today that some 500 wholesale drivers will go on strike Monday unless a contract settlement is reached A strike would cripple deliver ics to stores restaurants and bakery outlets in this area though retail drivers would not be affected A stalemate developed m wage negotiations following three months of talks Three Teen-Age Carhops Killed as Car Collides With Tractor-Trailer Near Erie ERIE Pa aged carhops were fatally shortly before midnight which the teenagers were riding approached from Route 98 and inui uy day when their automobile fashed into the tractor trailer ed with a tractor trailer and Route 5 and the other car at the intersection of second coming from Routes 98 and 5 14 miles south direction on the here State police from the Girard barracks said the driver of the tractor trailer and the operator of the second automobile were in serious injury at Hamot Hospital The dead were Brenda Howell and Sandra Lee Chase both 16 and of Erie and Mrs Annette Coughlm of Lake City the mother of two children Police be- lieve Mrs Coughlm was the er of the automobile Mrs Coughlm died of multiple I way injuries at 2 30 a in hospital emergency today in the room The How ell girl died en route to the hospital and Miss Chase died in- stantly State believe tha car in Woodrow 42 dotte Mich the driver of the tractor trailer suffered shock and a possible fracture of the neck Gordon Seal 26 Cuyahoga Falls Ohio driver of the second car suffered a shoulder Ray also of Cuyahoga Falls wso was riding with Seal a minor injury but was un- able to tell police how the dent occurred The carhops were returning home from a drive in restaurant near Erie when the accident Police said parts of their demolished automobile were strewn more than 100 from tht scene of the crash
