Independent Record (Newspaper) - January 18, 1959, Helena, Montana Vol 58 Helena Montana Sunday January 18 1959 Price Ten Cents Castro Warns U.S Against Using Gun Diplomacy By Stanford Bradshaw Havana Cuba Fidel Castro has warned the United States against attempting to use cannon diplomacy to halt the executions of At the same time he is starting a campaign of pressure against the United States to return the war criminals These attitudes were outlined as discounted officials reports that former dictator Fulgencio Batista had landed a counterattacking force or was planning to do so where in Cuba Maj Victor Bordon acting commander at La Cabana the fortress across the bay from vana told newsmen such an at- tack from Batista's refuge in the Dominican Republic was able Leaves Havana Bordon said however that his chief at La Cabana Maj Ernesto Guevara had departed for the central province of Las Villas be- cause revolutionary units somewhat disorganized He de- to explain further Castro the revolutionary armed forces commander who minded the New Year's day over- throw of Batista's dictatorship made his remarks about U S di- in a speech to about 000 persons in front of the palace He called for a rally here of half a million Cubans representing labor unions dents and civic and industrial groups Seeks Return He said this would be a mass meeting to support justice and to demand that the United States return the war tista followers who have fled to the United States Castro estimated that no more than 450 would face olutionary firing squads The un- official total of executions ready stands at 205 The executions brought tests in the United States In his speech Castro said that if they the United Stales want good relations let them begin by not menacing us If they want good relations the first thing they have to do is respect our and never again speak of intervention Baby Freezes To Death In Own Bed Athens old boy froze to death in his bed here Saturday A medical examiner said Willie James Taft kicked the covers off his bed in the unheated rear room of his home and died of ex- The temperature was around 12 degrees The child's mother left him in bed when she went to work A neighbor checked on the child at 7 and 9 but did not pick him up officers said Cold Kills Penguins Anchorage Alaska IP Egegik and Angela two South Pole penguins died here last week apparently victims of the Arctic cold Airliner Belly 31 Uninjured Kansas City A Trans World Airline plane with its landing gear and braking system out made a safe belly landing at nearby Olathe Naval Air Station Saturday The 31 persons aboard were un- injured The disabled Super tion had circled the Kansas City area about three hours with a stuck landing gear slight engine trouble and possibly faulty brakes The plane stayed on the runway Foam was spread over the runway surface to re- duce the hazard of fire It was a terrific was the description given by Joe lington Kansas City Star er at the scene The pilot used approximately feet of the runway The crew aboard struggled for hours with the faulty landing gear hydraulic tem The plane flew from St Louis to Kansas City with one wheel down the other retracted and the nose wheel partly re- The pilot managed to make emergency repairs so that both main wheels could be retracted for a belly landing In the last half-hour in the air the crew reported one engine ning and trouble with the braking hydraul- ically controlled Seventeen Flee Burning Constellation Miami Fla Seventeen persons aboard an Eastern Air Lines Super G Constellation caped serious injury Saturday seconds before the giant aircraft was badly damaged by flames at Miami International airport The plane which took off for Detroit at p.m developed a fire in the No 3 engine and turned back landing three utes later j The control tower said the plane began trailing smoke and fire from the vicinity of the right inboard engine seconds after it was airborne The plane had almost come to a stop when the right landing gear collapsed toppling the big airliner onto its wing The two stewardesses herded the passengers down a canvas cape chute Mrs Helene Wallace of Detroit received minor burns sliding down the chute but was able to continue her trip less than two hours later NARCOTICS W Yee 45 clothing merchant in San Francisco's Chinatown and former president of the Hip Sing Tong is questioned by police inspector John Kerrigan right after Yee was arrested in connection with a 100 million dollar heroin smuggling operation Police say that the operation was masterminded from Red China Kerrigan is holding a bag of money Yee had in his possession when arrested but Yee denies any knowledge of narcotics and says the money came from gambling California Solon Proposes Gramer for English Spelling Reform Ike Solemnly Rejects Soviet Plan Involving East Berlin Washington It wil b les tu spel things rite if Rep Harlan Hagen has his wa Hagen has introduced a to establish a National Grammar commission to reform the ing of English words and to lish an official U S dictionary Our language is in a constant state of change anyway we might as well do it he said It isn't that Hagen himself is a poor speller I used to win spelling contests back in North Dakota where I grew he said It's just that the cies vagaries and vacillations of spelling are so frustrating he said The idea he is plugging was de- by Homer W Wood lisher of The Porterville Daily Reporter in Hagen's California district Hagen has no specific for spelling revision He'd leave that up to the mar commission He mentioned such things as fotograf and which he noted are now used by some pers A complete phonetic spelling looks isn't my he said I contemplate adoption of a phoneticism that would be completely acceptable The idea is to make spelling easy and also to shorten it Hagen introduced his in the last session of congress but didn't press it This year he said he intends to ask for a hearing Dirksen Backs Eisenhower Budget Plan Washington Senate Re- publican Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois said Saturday he is going down the line for dent Eisenhower's lar budget But Dirksen conceded in an in- that he may not have the full support of senate cans in trying to head off what he said is likely to become spending splurge by the congress hower is sending his detailed budget proposals to congress Monday Dirksen said he will fight against going beyond er's budget figures for airport ex- area redevelopment and housing He said he will back the administration's views on labor legislation All four of these subjects have been marked for early senate con- sideration by Democratic Leader Lyndon B Johnson of Texas It is a fair assumption that these programs as they are de- by the Democrats will be very substantially greater in terms of money than the tration will Dirksen said I certainly intend to speak for the administration when they are brought before the senate Once you get away ally from the president's budget recommendations the tendency is to go even further Congress is likely to say at some point we've already made a big hole in the budget so why not go We face the choice between Prompt Response Is Given to Driver's Order Lynn Mass James vace 48 did fellow motorists a really good turn On returning to a parking lot from his car He noticed a youth loitering nearby and on a hunch put em back Without speaking the youth went to an automobile took four hub caps and passed them to Vivace Then he went back got two more hub caps and placed them beside another car from which two were missing Still not talking the youth re- turned to his own car pulled out two tires and brought them to an automobile that was jacked up He put the tires on the car let down the jack returned the jacki to his own drove off State National Weather before the house education com- I'm not so naive as to believe we could put this over without some sort of mass support from over the he said He said he has received a flood of letters about the idea mostly favorable Support has come Hagen said from newspaper publishers cators and others who said it would simplify the process of reading and ease the difficulties of teaching Hagen doesn't have any dren and said he doesn't know how much time the average school child spends on spelling lessons But if you could shorten that DIDN'T Gable 9 of Redondo Beach Wash was thrown into Puget Sound by her mother who then leaped in also and drowned Pamela was rescued and is here shown resting in bed after the tragedy planned deficits to stimulate the economy or holding the fiscal line and thus giving the greatest in- to private enterprise to take up any slack in the omy Dirksen said the geographical appeal of some of the these grams on which Johnson has called for action may make it to maintain solid party sition behind the president Guest Sleeps Through Fatal Fire State Legislative Assembly Returns to Lawmaking Again Monday A Montana tive assembly plunge back into the grind of lawmaking day after having held its first Saturday meetings It was the first time in recent years that both houses of the sembly had held formal meetings on the second weekend of a sion on special assignments Each of these groups is composed of four Democrats and two Republicans That is approximately the ratio of Democrat and Republican mem in the house Special investigating groups have been appointed to study and report back to the assembly on the fish and game highway and he said Not all Hagen's mail on the subject has been favorable There were for example the three sons who wrote The government which erns least governs best This of cors wud b a boon for 5th graders Let natcher tak its cors Detroit Harry without even saying goodnight Forecast Helena and Cloudy mild Cooler snov Woman in Wreck Suffers Legs Meek Surrender Climaxes Bandit Capture Garden Grove Calif IfP Wounded and afraid a teen-ager accused of more than 20 holdups surrendered meekly Saturday a 75 awoke Saturday morning in the room of the ler hotel where he has lived 20 years Leisurely he shaved and ered Then he went into the dor and pressed the button for an elevator Nothing happened So he started to walk down Three floors down he met an employe and complained about the poor elevator service The employe said there had been a fire few minutes after he entered a home here and demanded refuge i at knife point Outside fire trucks were just pulling away after fighting the which raced through the killing htree persons and trapping scores of guests in their rooms had slept undisturbed through the battle against the fire He walked across the street toi The house met or 45 minutes Saturday and the senate was in session nearly half an hour Monday the house convenes at 11 and the senate at 1 The senate wound up its ond week of activities with a total of 31 bills introduced while the house finished 11 actual working days with 83 bills presented for consideration These figures are well ahead of the pace of the 1957 session On the comparable legislative day two years ago the totals were 18 senate and 50 house bills Neither house met on Saturday for the first two weeks of the 1957 sion Leaders in both houses have emphasized repeatedly they want dispose of as much of the lation as possible in the early weeks of the ly in advance of the deadline for the introduction of bills This deadline is the this year Thursday Jan 29 Two years ago there were 172 bills presented in the house alone on that final day for tions and another 79 in the ate Both houses also have a ety of memorials resolutions joint memorials and joint tions In addition to having had all their standing committees for the session appointed earlier than usual this time both houses are busy on a variety of other ters This is particularly true in the house where no less than eight special investigation committees of six members each are at work d through tonight The official Helena 17 j r C I J iv flurries at midnight was l JU I I U High today 40 low tonight 25 Montana National Potosi ing an estimated eight hours in street to I 11 i get breakfast and ran into I brother-in-law Herman Matthias j i who had been frantically Charles Averill climaxed an I night search T 0 finH am I In cop i QF f I fit G Cut Bank 41 Dillon 44 Drummond 29 Glasgow 30 Great Falls 44 Havre 34 Helena 35 Kalispell 28 Lewistown 37 Miles City Missoula West Yellowstone Whitehall Max Min Pep Billings 39 29 Belgrade 33 12 Calgary Broadus 39 19 Cheyenne Butte 36 4 Chicago 24 Denver 21 Las Vogas 14 Angeles 6 Paul 23 New Orleans 16 i New York City 21 Tr I Phoenix 19 i Portland Ore 21 jst Louis 41 25 TriSalt Lake City 36 15 03 j San Francisco 30 20 30 15 I Spokane 44 21 I Washington I sub-zero temperatures following Max Min auto crash a an was in critical condition in a i hospital Saturday and was almost 02 certin to lose both legs Miss Darlene Ginter a Potosi telephone operator was in caster Memorial hospital where her physician said her chances of 9 36 37 12 41 70 82 irom tne in Matthias whose face had special day in the life and streets were reopened after home burst into laughter of am battle with the 300 police officers recruited from two counties Begging for mercy Averill stumbled from the bathroom in the Don't shoot don't shoot I'm unarmed Have some respect for my mother Reines his wife and three j armed men took Averill into My God am I glad to see j exclaimed Matthias told his story Tomah Sunday Notice Given At Parley With Mikoyan By John Scali Washington W dent Eisenhower solemnly told the Soviet Union day the United States will never accept Premier Nikita Khrushchev's plan to turn East Berlin over to the East German Reds May 27 Eisenhower was reported to have given this notice during a Hi-hour meeting with Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas I Mikoyan The White House conference Mikoyan's visit to this country ended with no sign of concession by cither side on Berlin German or dis- armament Predict Meeting Despite this informed officials predicted a Big Four foreign conference will be held sometime this spring before the date Moscow has fixed for ending four-power Berlin rule The Mikoyan re- axed and smiling went ately to the Soviet Embassy Pre- he will draft a report to the Kremlin on his round of talks His morning meeting with capped hours of talks with administration ers four of them directly with Secretary of State Dulles Mikoyan later canceled plans for a two-day trip to Florida He purchasing departments the con- struction the governor's new mansion in Helena the state board of pardons duplication o state boards and bureaus con- pay scales for administra tive offices and the six elective attorney eral secretary of state auditor treasurer and superintendent ot public instruction Reports from these special groups are to be received at ing times according to the lutions creating them They ex- tend from the 15th to the legislative days Intense Cold Numbs East Half of U S By The Associated Press Intense cold numbed much of the eastern half of the nation Saturday on the heels of crippling snowstorms in parts of the Mid- west and East Emergency crews took tage of clearing skies to dif through snowdrifts that auto production and c 1 o s e c schools in northwestern Indiana and stalled traffic in western New York state Snow forced pension of racing for the straight day at Charles Town W Va Parts of Michigan were under 4 to 18 inches of snow A state of emergency was ed at noon Saturday in South Bend and Mishawaka Ind Brisk winds had whipped an snowfall into mountainous road blocking drifts throughout the area now plans to leave by plane for Moscow three days earlier than previously scheduled Authorities familiar with Mi- talks said that despite his relatively mild language he re- affirmed the Soviet Union's lin plan while disclaiming any thought it should be considered a peace or war ultimatum No new proposals or counter- proposals were put forward in the confidential talks among hower Dulles and Mikoyan Detect Hardening Some authorities said they de- a hardening rather than a softening of the Soviet position on Germany in Mikoyan's words Mikoyan spoke scathingly of West German Chancellor Konrad auer and of what he described as the belligerent attitude of the West German government mants said Nevertheless these sources said Mikoyan will return to cow with a far better realization of U S unity and determination to stand firm in Berlin He undoubtedly have a clearer insight and respect into U S industrial might Stores opened with the end of emergency status hut the Corp plant and University of Notre Dame re- mained closed The main roads 4 -15 43 23 71 46 18 54 52 52 34 30 14 44 41 4 31 46 42 32 11 aren't too good jiody i The physician said her legsi Averill of nearby Long i were frozen solid from her feet entrance to the G R Milburn Re-Elected By Cattlemen 70th anniversary of their But they'll start it the ias all other days in the last 70 Will by reading their Bibles MUl to midcalf Tractor Overturn Kills Man at New River Bridge Maximum temperatures for proceeding calendar day precipitation for 24 hours ending at a m minimum temperatures for hour period ending at a m East of through Monday scattered snow much colder spreading from northwest to southeast today Cloudy colder Monday Scattered snow in mountains night highs Monday A tractor Roy ing its operator Max LoRoy Webster 30 of Roy Investigating officers said the vehicle slipped on the sido of an Highs today lows and rolled over on i Webster The accident occurred West of occasional snow scattered rain through i Friday at the site of a new bridge Monday Highs lows across the Missouri river before their old kitchen range I Mrs Hunt 86 her last birthday does all her own housework an assist from a cleaning woman onc day a week Emil still active Omaha The American Jin the timber business will be Ask for His Oscar Man Found Frozen Stiff Jokes About Toe Tingle Sault Ste Marie William Korpi 54 who was found frozen stiff in cold day joked with the nurses at a hospital here Saturday I feel a tingle in my he said Nurses said this was a good sign They said his condition was as good as could be expected Dr William Mertaugh said Korpi had a good chance of re- covering The physician said Korpi was frozen stiff as a board when he was found unconscious beside a road on Lake Huron's Drummond Island State tion officers said two open quarts iof whisky lay near the man Conservation men said Korpi a laborer who lives alone on the island apparently had wandered onto the side road ami fallen asleep after drinking He had lain in the cold some 12 hours Los Angeles Dalton home when on April 7 They have Hollywood writer Mansfield Said 13 AC1 I 1 11 -i f 1 1 Reines innocently admitted him Saturday re-elected G R iburn Grassrange Mont as at a rear door He was blustery at the father relating that the fugitive grabbed a butcher rho also awarded from the kitchen table alter nt'lr convention to Dallas ing the family had no guns Also re-elected were Fred 11 But gradually he became more j Dressier Ncv first Reines said The kid was vice president and Radford S obviously frightened out of his Hall Denver executive secretary wits New Police said Averill shot his way j named out of a trap in this Los j listed by studios for alleged Com- munist affiliations has identified second vice presidents John Armstrong Ala K S F Swiped as author of a Castro's Rifle Shortwave Radio Satisfactory Academy The He said he would like the f Sen Mike Mansfield but he won't ask for it hospitalized since A man looks like an idiot if I he ROCS up to a private institution land says Give me a Havana said in a telephone con- Fidel Castro's rifle his shortwave radio one of his wrote the script for suburb Friday when he and Canadien Texas Robert 0 aides informed One under the an accomplice called at the home son Calif Brooks of a girl friend Acting Keone N D and J Wells a lip police were waiting i Robins Scipio Utah Saturday The rifle and of Robert Rich When the were stolen from ho Cuban Oscars wore announced he didn't el parked car claim honor day with virus pneumonia WHS reported satisfactory today An aide said Mansfield setule assistant majority leader tele- phoned from the navy hospital in nearby Md to say his illness had boon diagnosed as us pneumonia He expects to leave the hospital early next week
