Las Vegas Daily Optic (Newspaper) - August 17, 1957, Las Vegas, New Mexico WANT FORK Call la A A UM A Week I S LAS VEGAS LY OPTIC 71 Saturdays Low 95 Year No UP Win Saturday 17 PRICE 7 CENTS A COPY Racket Probers Call Unions Crown Prince WASHINGTON Union to issue charters for ate Rackets Committee will call James R Hoffa next week to bol ster its charges that the crown prince of Teamsters allied with the underworld to grab Teamster control in New York In 13 days of hearings the com has stated its case against I Hoffa and called a string of wit to back it up working up from hoodlums to bigger hoods to the brass of the nations biggest union Next weeks witnesses are ex to include himself Midwest czar Of the union as chairman of its Central State Conference sixth vice president oddson choice to succeed Dave Beck next month as Teamster president and villain of the committees version of the story O Mohn another vice president righthand man to Beck and apparently the man who runs Teamsters headquarters here in Becks absence Against Hoffa The plot revolves around a charge that Hoffa got the Team seven phony memberless locals in New York shortly before the 1958 election for president of Joint Council 16 controlling body of the Teamsters in New York City The committee says the fake locals were staffed with henchmen of labor racketeers Johnny Dio and Anthony Tony Ducks Corallo and cast their votes for Hoffas candidate John T ORourke The committee also presented evidence that some of the dele gates who cast the phony locals votes for ORourke were recruit ed from crap games and bars and some persons listed as union officers didnt know they held of fice The committee said that while Hoffa waY dealing with Corallo and Dio to set up the paper lo cals and control 18 he also was dickering with the International As sociation booted out of the AFL in 1953 for being riddled with an ambitious alli ance which would give him a transportation stranglehold on the Atlantic seaboard St Law rence Seaway ILA President Capt William Bradley ILA president told the committee Fri day part of the deal was to be a loan from the Teamsters to bail the ILA out of debt to Mine Workers President John L Lewis and pay off its bills He said his union gave Hoffa notes for never got the money and cannot now get its notes back Bradley said the lap ed in March alliance col when Meany got wind of it and threat ened to drive the Teamsters out of the AFLCIO Thomas L Hickey Teamster vice president and general or for the New York area told the committee Friday Hoffa okayed the phony charter after his original plan to bring Dio into the union fell through Hickey also told the hadnt heard of he is running for dent of the union against Hoffa and if elected will clean out the racketeers Nuclear Power Fight Blazes WASHINGTON UP The battie over pub lic development of nuclear power blazed anew today with Senate passage of the atomic construc tion The unlike the House ver sion carried a Democratic backed provision directing the Atomic Energy Commission to build two nuclear power plants The also unlike the House version ordered the administra tion to build five atomic to produce electricity The battle now moves to a House Senate Conference Com The Senate Friday night ted by identical 42 34 votes two GOP amendments that would have knocked the projects out the Then it passed the 390 mil a voice vote Atomic Energy Committee wrote the projects in the Republi Letter Reveals Killed With Gun COLORADO SPRINGS Colo letter the dead ex today that a war heros family of four was shot to death Thursday so their life insurance could pay their debts Mr and Mrs Irving Harris owners of the cottage in Colorado Springs where MSgt Leo Dan days family of four lived and died said Mrs Magdalena Dandoy 34 wrote them a long letter explain ing why she killed her family and herself Police said Mrs Dandoy shot her husband and their two sons Daniel 11 and Edralin 10 while they slept and then turned the revolver on herself Mrs Dandoy said in her letter that they purchased a new ear July 19 for and that she bor rowed the balance above an from a loan company without her husbands knowledge She handled the family funds She said her husband thought they had the cash to pay for the car He believed me about savings the letter stated I have a con to make 1 lied to him She said they owed a bank an other in addition to other bills amounting to She wrote that she didnt know how to make the payments until she thought of the life on her husband and on herself and the boys I went to money borrowing forging his her husbands signa ture she wrote I have ruined his future and our sons These must all come to an end The Harris family did not ex plain how it came into possession of the letter can leaders and the AEC opposed them The House in pas ing the last week eliminated the funds for all seven projects The proposals to knock the pro by Senate Republican lead sored by Senate Republican lead er William F Knowland and Sens Bourke B Hickenlooper RIa and John W Bricker R Ohio all members of the Joint Congressional Atomic Committee The successful fight for the plants was led by Sen Clinton P Anderson chairman of the committee He told the Sen ate he considered the Democratic sponsored program a very mod est one One of the controversial plants would use natural uranium as a fuel and would be built at the Arco Idaho installation at cost of bO million dollars The Wash would nse ana cost 15 million dollars First Case Of Polio TAOS countys re ported its first case of polio since the immunization program has been underway in the county Dr Ashley Pond said The polio case is Theodore Coca 12 of Ranches de Taos He had received no antipolio shots Dr Pond reported the boys left leg is paralyzed Tatoo Tells 0 n Woman Escapee WASHINGTON UP A tattoo on her shapely leg and an observ ant cop did in escaped con Betty June Mayer Police Thomas F gan spotted Betty June peddling fruit from a truck That face He had seen it be fore Then he remembered A pinup sent around by the FBI His eyes strictly in the line of duty wandered to her bare legs two inches above the ankle was a tattooed star No mistake It was Betty June She told police she escaped from the Federal Reformatory for Women at W Va April 9 1955 because she was tired of handling freight while two more celebrated inmates Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose sat around do ing nothing She said after she escaped she spent her time helping a man erate a trucking business We were planning to buy a house she said sadly She told police she wanted to marry him but couldnt she still was married to her sec ond husband an inmate of Colo State Prison The truck operator told police he knew nothing about Betty Junes past He said whenever he suggested meeting her family she told him now Raymond Immigration Act Going To House First Federal Formal Opening Many persons from Las Vegas and surrounding area attended the formal opening of the First Federal Building and Loan Asso new building Friday night and many business establishments and individuals sent floral congratulations In the absence of Thomas Johnsen president and D McDaniel manager both whom are ill other members the board of directors acted hosts and hostesses for the sion Favors were presented to men and women who attended Along The Banks Of The Gallinas ly T Now been a week since we be came something like a displaced person because of the Optic plant fire It has been a little in WASHINGTON UP House action next week on a hardship immigration that would open Americas shores to thousands of additional immigrants was fore cast by some congressmen today The would give the attorney general and state department joint authority to waive finger printing requirements for such foreign visitors as artists and stu dents But the as approved Fri convenient but weve taken on more exercise than weve had since the golf course went to pot We have no complaint work ing in a nice noisy office white the boys who actually get the paper out do to among charred ruins water and hammering It rains just as hard inside a building as it does outside when there is no roof Time rolls on with gridiron prac tice starting next week Prospects are good West Las Vegas to issue equipment at 2 oclock Sunday and practice Monday Same for Robertson High Castle starts Monday too Also on the sports front Mer chants take on the Bombers from Los Alamos tomorrow afternoon if the weatherman cooperates US 85 Project Now 90 Per Cent Finished Republicans Stand Pat On Rights Act WASHINGTON UP House Republican Leader Joseph W Martin Jr said today after a breakfast meeting with President Eisenhower that House Republi cans are still standing pat for a civil rights that will ade protect every American wh wants to vote Martin said he did not think the President would settle for a modification of the Senate passed civil rights limiting the con jury trial amendment to civil rights cases As passed by the Senate the amendment which the President strongly op posed would require jury trials in all types of cases involving crim inal contempt of court A Democratic move has been launched in the House to limit the jury trial amendment to vot ing rights cases but Martin said this still would not result in the kind of wants a the President day by the House Judiciary of Gallup did not include two key parts of President immigration program immigration quotas Gallup Man Is Area Elks Head H L of Kearney Nebr Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks today announced the appointment of Guido Zecca authority to admit from Communist nations under ary parolee provisions of the Im migration law The fingerprinting provision was aimed at easing east west ten sions Some Russian students and artists have refused to visit the United States because of the fin requirement District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler for the New Mexico North District The New Mexico North District jurisdiction over Lodges in Airman Bride Held Captive In Auto Trunk Quakes Rock Two Section Friday Calif UP Earthquakes rocked two widely scattered patts of the western hemisphere Friday night la Mexico City and Berkeley Calif seismographs recor ded an earthquake centered south west of Mexico City possibly m the Pacific ocean It had a rich He said the President is not and never has been against compromise But he said what the President wants is a would give adequate protection to every single American who wants to vote Were still standing pat for the type of the President wants Martin said Mechera Will Inspect National Guard Camp SANTA FE UP Edwin L Mechem will review New Mex icos National Guard troops at Ore Grande Sunday An aide said Mechem would make the trip to the sandy south ern firing range where members of New Mexicos antiaircraft artillery brigade last year won top praise from regular Army of for their gunnery Sunday marks the mid point of a summer encamp ment for some 3000 National Guardsmen from the state Leftist Army Officers Claim Syrian Victory BEIRUT army officers in Syria have bested civilian politicians in a struggle for power that has transformed the country into a Red colony diplomatic observers said today They said the resignation this week of moderate Gen Tewfiq as chief staff and his replacement by clever dan gerous Col Afif Bizri signaled the victory of the army clique Syria is not becoming a Red satellite one veteran Western diplomat said It has become a Red colony Unconfirmed reports said the appointment of Bizri was dictated by the Kremlin te part of its price for the agree ment to give Syria 100 million dol lars worth of Soviet arms er magnitude of Mt of 65 on a scale Political Asylum For Young Polish Diplomat LONDON Britain grant ed political asylum today to a Polish diplomat who said his Communist wife spied on him for the secret police Western part of San Francisco at p m pdt but there were no reports of damage It was the same area that was badly shaken last March 22 Tucumcari and Clovis Zecca will leave Aug 23 for Salt Lake to attend a region al Conference of District Deputies called by Grand Exalted Ruler to discuss affairs of the order and activities for the coming year Guido Zecca has been long ac ARTESIA principals tive in Elkdom in the state He in the Artesia public schools are Going Back To School Bomber Crashes In House Development WEST PALM BEACH Fla UP A twin engine Air Force exploded and crashed in a housing development here early today killing four crewmen and hurling one of its motors into a house vacated only minutes be fore Residents of the homes many of them Air Force personnel of the West Palm Beach Air Force base and their families lously escaped injury The Air Force said the World Wir II type bomber on the last leg of n routine training flight from Vance Air Force Base at Enid Okla into a group Ol H 1 mile from base here where he was bound A section of the fuselage fettled between two houses the Air Force said A witness said one of the planes engines hurtled into the bedroom of n house but the oc had fled the home min utes before when they heard what sounded like a plane in trouble Authorities at the Oklahoma base identified de victims as 1st Lt John Jones Muncie Ind 1st Lt James E Brookman Mount Vernon 111 1st Lt Robert E De troy San Luis Obispo Calif and 2nd Lt James A Ewalt North voods Mo AU the were i d i uj was Exalted Ruier of Lodge at Gallup in the year 19471948 held several offices in the New Mexico State Association and was State President of the Association in the year 19481949 busily preparing for the opening of school Sept 3 The elementary principals went back to school this week All pupils are expected to enroll between Aug 19 and Aug 23 LEXINGTON Mo UP An Indiana airman held captive with his wife for six hours in the trunk of an automobile driven by an escaped murderer has signed pa pers charging first degree rob bery Carl A Wagner 21 signed the complaint shortly after a harrow ing 200 mile trip from near St Louis to Kansas City Mo in which he and his wife Molly Sue were locked in the trunk of their own car by James Richard Es 35 a prison escapee hitch hiker Authorities said under Missouri law the robbery charge provides for more serious punishment than t kidnaping charges without a do i mand for ransom Wagner and his bride were robbed of about and had been severely beaten officers said The couple was freed at Kan a a from the car trunk Davis had topped the car to make a rou tine check Renewed Check Of AGs Office Is Set attache fled the Polish Embassy to freedom with his son He was to have been sent home Sunday A Polish secret policeman tried to stop him but with Scotland Yard agents watching from a dis tance Reluga ran to a taxi and disappeared into London traffic The home office announced without elaboration that Reluga had applied for political asylum and had received permission to remain in Britain Hearing Given Convict Serving Life Pen Term SANTA FE Car Justus currently serving a life term m the state penitentiary for murder has been granted a hearing on contentions that he was illegally convicted U S Judge Carl A Hatch granted the hearing and set i for Wednesday here Justus was found guilty by a Tucumcari jury in September 1954 of the first degree murder of Edward Meyer Justus had been charged with the fatal beating of Meyer on Jan 9 in what district at torney Victor Breen called cole blooded murder for robbery Meyer was struck on the hea with a bottle in a Tucumcari mo tel room Justus charges in his that presiding district judge Lui Arrnijo was prejudiced agains in giving miii tions so me jury He charged that the state case was on a self in criminating statement made b the petitioner without benefit o attorney Libel Trial In SAKTA FE fiscal chief Ed Hartman said a renewed coordinated check of the former adjutant generals lion would begin Monday I ri i Hartman said he hoped to have full information on voucher mi for all National Guard officers in the hands ofa Santa Fe county grand jury before its Sept 9 jury reconvenes Monday to extend a probe of the manner Sage conducted his operations Hartman said particular atten tion would be paid to vouchers authorizing pay for nine emer during the 44th fiscal US Power Commission Chairman Is Selected WASHINGTON UP dent Eisenhower today designated Jerome K Kuykendall as chair man of the Federal Power Com mission for another fiveyear term The Senate approved Kuyken dalls reappointment to the corn Two Added To NM Highway Deaths ALBUQUERQUE UP Two Friday night traffic accidents here the state highway fa toll for the year to 273 34 more than it was a year ago to day An infant girl and a man died in separa rate a few hours of each other The infant Rhonda Hopkins was struck by a pickup truck and killed almost instantly when she mission Thursday night after a j toddled down the roadway near i Getting Jittery HOLLYWOOD crim inal trial of Confidential and Whisper magazines recessed for the week seein hope of avoiding embarrassment in forth coming testimony The defense opened its case Friday by taking testimony from j the summer honie of his nephew lengthy debate Sen Wayne Morse iDOre in kading the fight against Kuykendall charged that the President appointment of him rigged the FPC on the side of private power interests Z World Renowned Nobel Prize Winner Dies FALMOUTH Mass Irving Langmuir 76 scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize died Friday at last year and a Craig 27 a former thea ter manager about a cuddling incident involving film star Mau Investigators from his office the legislative finance committee and the attorney general revealed earlier that many officers were paid for apparent at widely separated points but on the sum eday Progress has been pretty good so far Hartman declared do to coordinate all in NEW YORK threatened Threatened Strike Is Averted walkout by 1200 milk truck driv ers that cut off 95 per cent of the New York areas milk asked for retirement last ply was averted for at least the month had repaid to the week end early today state for controversial Negotiators for the Teamsters j turcs authorized by Saf Union and employers broke off talks for the week end without agreement Although the union had threat ened to instruct its members to walk off their jobs at midnight Saturday the drivers were told to continue pickups and deliveries until Monday Representatives of both sides will meet again Monday in an ef fort to reach agreement Federal and city mediators were un able early today to narrow the gjp between union demands and employer It was learned the local had twice modified its original demand for a package increase on n threeyear contract The employ ers represented by Dairy Transport Assn were believed to have stood pat on their offer of a package covering a four contract He said a trust fund sot up by Sage shortly after he resigned retirement SUEZ DISPUTE CONTINUES PARIS UPi The old Suez Canal Company said Unlay it was taking court action in Switzerland to regain assets seized by the Egyptian government after the nationalization of the waterway A spoke man said the company a Swiss bank holding as sets to transfer them to the corn pany but the Egyptian mont opposed the He said in con it will be up to the Swiss courts SIGN OF THE TIMES CHICAGO UPi truck driv er here who Is about mo too closely be hind him has painted a sign on Langmuir who retired after serving 41 years with the General Electric Co in Schenectady N reen OHara arid an unidentified y 1950 Won the Nobel Prize escort Craig testified that the story published in the March 1957 in 1932 for research in chemistry He made his home in thc home of her The truck driver Winfred Ya ple 17 said he saw the child too to stop Richard Richardson 21 was killed when the car was driv ing went out of control and crash ed into the corner of an adobe house YUGOSLAVS DESERTING VIENNA UP The influx of refugees from Communist Yugo slavia to Austria has reached the character of a mass flight in the past few weeks In Minister Oskar Helmer said today said the Yugoslav refugees arc pouring into Austria at a rate of 80 to 100 daily jam ming all Yugoslav refugee camps in thu country The number in was i crossed from 1500 in June to 2 sue of Confidential about alleged The scientists research misconduct of Miss OHara in a isaid to have saved the American andis likely to exceed theater was true I public billions of dollars a in August he said Miss OHara denied the story in electric light bills and to have Obstacles Great On Highway SANTA FE UP A deputy chief highway engineer today said naif of the progress on the 71 mile four lane paving project be tween and is 90 per cent complete Two construction firms are working toward each other on U S 8485 which links Santa Fe with Las eVgas and in turn leads to Tucumcari Metropolitan Paving Co of Ok lahoma City has completed 31 per cent of its work but has used up 307 per cent of its allotted 350 working days Roser said Metropolitan obtained its con tract last aJnuary Longenbaugh and Co were given their section of the million contract laat November but apparently have made a lot better progress Metropolitan ran into one king sized obstacle a section of solid rock that now towers 300 above a curving of the road about 20 miles from Thats been a big problem but they seem to have gained momen tum now Roser added with re gard to cutting through the face Still he cautioned termed work so far from Canoncito not real goood progress and said any completion delay would bring the standard penalty in by the highway department He said contractors as a rule try to a iob as fast as pos sible to cut down payroll costs Project engineer on each of New Mexicos dozens of road building jobs pass on each Pay an monthly by which serves 1 per cent each month pending final completion and up proval of the project Soviet Chief Is Expected To Hit Eisenhower Ian LONDON UP Diplomatic sources reported today that Soviet Communist Chief S Khrushchev is preparing a flying visit to Egypt and Syria to press a Russian counter offensive against the doctrine Reports reaching here ted Khrushchev may take along defense Minister Georgi Zhukov he Red Army chief who already las accepted an invitation to visit Syria Khrushchevs strategy apparent is to cash in fast on new So viet ties with Syria the sources said Syria has just signed a large scale economic aid pact with he Kremlin and has moved to jurge anti Communist elements rom the Army and government Details of the projected Soviet Middle East tour have so far not become officially known But dip sources reported there strong indications that the rip was planned soon San Ysidro System SANTA FE state office will open bids 20 for a water system at San Ysidro Pueblo in San county and a well in Llano in Rio Arribo county as tate health department projects shortly after its publication sued the Defense attorneys put Craig on the tand in an attempt to prove that articles printed by the mag about the private lives of celebrities an true and published without malice Craig said ho told the story to Confidential because he did no think the alleged behavior proper in such a public place He said he received a check for giving the information to Confi even though asked for any money helped establish modern radio and television broadcasting Typhoon Headed For Okinawa Air Base NAHA Okinawa 100 typhoon headed di for this U S Far East bastion today and American ser and their families bat tened for trouble The Air Force closed shop at noon tying down light aircraft ho Michael C G D Smith 30 another identified h i ni s v 1 newsman from London who jin the Army and Navy closed Okinawa ports to all military Mordaunt traffic wit a s served Confidential as it Euro pean correspondent He he had checked out be tween 700 and 800 stones for truth and accuracy before submitting WITNESSES ARRESTED SAN JUAN The Domini can Republic has arrested five more members of the Witnesses bringing to 50 number being held at Salcedo Fortress in Cuidad Tru jillo Roy of his roir doors Dont hug Im going them for publication HP testified Neb a leader of the sect said that only about 50 hid been ac1 today Brandt who was one of 10 and said Confidential pub American missionaries deported Robert Harrison had to Puerto Rico from the him that if there is any j can Republic la I week said the j Sales Tax Liquor Elections Tuesday me doubt about the truth of the story let it ft new prisoners included one worn an By UNITED Voters in Curry county and Ala trek to the polls this coining Tuesday on divergent but equally controversial one cent city sales tax and a liquor option Residents of Curry county will decide the battle of the wets and drys while citizens of become the first in the state to take action under a law pawed by the legislature permitting a city sales tax by majority vote Both elections have been cam in a manner that puts general election agitation to Jiame In Curry county which has been dry since 1939 this local option election carries the proviso that the city of Clovis can vote itself wet even county at large dry Tha United of Curry county have been pitted against the Peoples Committee which wants the county to enjoy liquor available in every other county of New Mexico save velt and Curry The outlook is not too bright for the option election in Nov ww the wets defeated by about votes out of 5949 cant la tto 1950 election the out margin to kwp Curry county An attorney residents at Air Base are not Ml hopes of the An option election county voter attraction Many if flat firm arrive In Hun has its behind UM I
