Lima News, The (Newspaper) - December 18, 1959, Lima, Ohio Join Lima Service Club Kettle Drive Saturday A man to 60 truly fat accept To be at means to fose freedom and 7. A. THE Serving EWS Cool Possible light rain Mostly cloudy and cooler Saturday partly cloudy and High today in the 40s. Low tonight ranging from 25-32. For 75 Years Maximum temperature tt 1! p.m. Minimum temperature it t a.m. ui r High i CA THIS PAPER CONSISTS TWO SECTIONS PAGES DECEMBER 18, 1959, OHIO VOL. 75 NO. 352 Second Clau Mail Authorized At Ohio US W Strategy Expected Today From McDonald TOUHY INQUEST John the testifies at the inquest into death of Roger Touhy in Chicago Thursday after the former Windy City was shotgunned down Many Blame Mafia CHICAGO The tion of Prohibition era beer baron Roger Touhy focused attention day on unsolved gangland many believed the work of the The year 1959 saw the total of gang killings in the Chicago area alone rise to more than 900 since the days of the late Al Only 17 of these murders resulted in convictions In recent years several top echelon members of the Black Hand organization were believed rubbed out by gangsters seeking advancement in the One was Albert Anastasia who was shot to death while sitting in a hotel barber shop in New Anastasia at one time was ed to be the lord high executioner of an organization that specialized in gangland Both Had Records Another was Anthony Pisano who was shot to death on a city street in New York while riding in his limou Killed with him was Janice wife of comedian Alan The slayings are believed by New York police to be the work of the None has been Both men had long police ords and were believed to rank high in the a secret an organization believed to con- trol every major racket in the United Wednesday left is Cook County Coroner Walter Touhy was released from prison only last month after serving 25 years for the napping of Who Murdered Roger 25 YEARS AGO This is the way Roger Touhy appeared during his napping trial of January 18, 1934. The former Chicago booze kingpin was slain by unknown assailants day night after being from Other recent killings include seph 53, a Chicago beer distributor who was ambushed in his suburban beer He allegedly had been resisting syn- encroachment on his beer Rackets muscleman Joseph De 41, of Boston was found shot to death in a sub- urban dump last Nov. 12. He was described by lice as a collecting agent for big time By ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN CHICAGO John the today under went a voluntary he test to prove he didn't have anything to di with the shotgun murder of Roge a man he sent to prison and later sued for Police said an hour before the lie test they had no interest in Factor's desire to face the poly- graph because they cleared him previously of any connection with the Wednesday night gangland type a sergeant was sent to observe the held in a private laboratory Mafia Blamed Police said they don't have much to work on in trying to solve the that also wounded ter 62, a retired police sergeant Federal officials said the assault was carried out by the the notorious international underworld to seal lips There seems to be no shortage of men who could have ordered the pint-sized Prohibition era leg prince The job could have been arranged by hoodlums from roaring 20's or by representatives of the current crime There was but not that Miller might be able to help in the investigation if he When police arrived on the scene Wednesday Miller said he didn't know who pulled the a longtime friend of Touhy and a defense witness at lis parole hearings was in cal but showing some He had been shot n the buttocks and a Chicago promoter during days as a gang was in Chicago day night in connection with a dollar libel suit he had against ments made Touhy for in auto- Stolen Police believed Factor's here was only coincidental with Talks Will Resume Next Week CHICAGO Steelworkers President David J McDonald was expected to ind cate today the strategy his will employ when negotiations t end the steel strike resume nex McDonald also was expected to comment at a news conference on his week-long talks with execu lives of major aluminum firms and possibly to announce an in agreement on new contract Federal Mediation Chief Joseph F. Finnegan announced in Wash ington Thursday he would cal union and steel management ne back to the bargaining table next possibly Mon Talks to end the nation's long est steel strike were suspendet last Thursday because of lack o McDonald met Thursday witi Midwest union officers in go in sessions reportedly devotee to mapping new plans for set tling the Addresses Gary Workers Speaking before more than cheering steelworkers at Thursday Me Donald said the union will the steel in- latest but at chances of reaching ment along another He promised USW members they had seen the last of the steel strikes if industry would accept a ment such as that worked out with Kaiser A tri partite agreement vides for a negotiating team of three union three company representatives anc three members representing th There'll Be Music To Give Money Just like stereo that's how the music for the Salvation Army Kettle Drive will sound Saturday it will be coming from all There will be at least one possibly and a small band will bring they The Society for the Preservation and ment of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America will furnish the quartet while the Federation of Musicians Band will provide the Kettle Day Drive is when the Lima service clubs man the kettles set up by the Salvation Army at various locations in Lima and give the Salvation Army workers a day of For the past 13 years the top money raiser has been the Last year the Sertomans collected of the 10 club's total of taken in. Since 1946 the Sertomans have raised 587.14, by far the best mark of any participating The amount collected last year broke the record set in 1955 when was The lowest total collected by the groups was in 1949 when was taken in. US Student Still public The interest union leader also Jury Remains Out In Apalachin Case By JACK V. FOX NEW YORK A eral jury deliberated nearly hours Thursday night whether 20 all of Italian were guilty of a conspiracy to keep secret the purpose of a mass fathering two years ago at The jury was locked up for the night after failing to reach a dict. The deliberations will con- nue The 20 are on trial on charges hey conspired to keep federal officials in the dark about the of the meeting which the government claims was a gather ing of underworld Those visiting the upstate New York home of Joseph Barbara Sr in 1957, have they were visiting a sick friem and stayed for a Startle State Police Sixty-three from as far away as California and Florida turned Among them they counted for police records ing 153 arrests and 74 The influx of shiny sines in the tiny hamlet of Reds Attempted Germany A Red Czech vice-consul stationed in nearby Austria masterminded last month's unsuccessful attempt to poison employes of Radio Free the U.S. Army announced counter intelligence corps investigation shows that Jaroslav a vice-consul of the Czech Consulate in on Nov. 16 gave a Communist agent salt shaken containing lor in tht RFE teria in the Army an- A spokesman for the radio broadcasts to slovakia and other satellite had reported earlier that the salt shakers were discovered just in He said the amount of the ly alkaloid contained in tored salt probably would have been sufficient to cause at least some deaths among the em- ployes using the chin startled state Sgt. Edgar one of the main witnesses at the ed in federal set up blocks and moved in on the bara Some guests fled on foot through the Others tried to leave by AH were ed by police and They all gave the same an- swer and not one has changed his story Barbara who er died was and they were visiting Some told of ing cook Race Issue In his charge to the eral Judge Irving Kaufman said jurors were not satisfied conspiracy to obstruct justice they must acquit all 20. He said he was pained that de- fense lawyers had raised as an issue a claim that the men were being prosecuted because all were not render a verdict because of race or Kaufman that resumption of the strike not when the 80-day period ends Jan. 26 Hints At Aluminum Pact McDonald hinted strongly tha the dispute with the aluminum industry is near His statement was borne out by persistent and ed reports that the USW had reached a general ment on overall money terms with aluminum the week is Donald expect that the aluminum industry and the workers will have reached an A source close to negotiations in Chicago aluminum said McDonald executives and had roughed out in two days of level conference agreements for three-year contracts following the pattern of the recent agreement with can CAIRO An Egyptian newspaper reported today that an American student previously be- to have perished in the Desert may have been found live in The Al aid in a dispatch from Khartoum iat a man fitting the description f the missing Ronald of had been arrested by Sudanese Shannon was one of four dents two American and tw French who set out on an last July across the rug ged Nubian which lii across the Egyptian Sudan bo bodies were found indicated there had been grueling for a dwindling water a Nubian guit They had with In the bodies of fou members of the party were foun in a hilly area about 240 southeast of As they w e r identified as those of John Arm of t French students and th An Egyptian medical examine reported Nov. 3 that the guide lad been and t h Authorities assume Shannon hat trying to make his wa alone across the Egyptian authorities rly in November that the evi ence at the place where the four For US Newsman Cuban Trial Due HAVANA Fidel Castro announced early today that Miami Herald reporter James Buchanan will be tried by a which could sentence him to In a four-hour television Castro rejected appeals from the Press Association or the release of who was arrested in the hotel room of prison fugitive Austin Authorities in Pinar del Rio had asked the Supreme to decide whether an should be tried by court martial or a civil court which could not impose the death Castro said Buchanan will be ried on of complicity in Young's escape from Pinar del Rio prison a week ago Tuesday 36 hours before he was re- captured in the hotel room where Buchanan was arrested about two hours The premier rejected an appeal from William editor of the Spokane Spokesman ReView and president of the who had argued that Buchanan should be freed because he had ted no can the IAPA say from abroad that its information shows the newsman is Castro have proof of his so the least they can expect is that he will be newspaper man will go before the revolutionary tribunals courts will decide ing to the proofs before and then will take corresponding they will have to The premier charged that chanan paid Young's hotel and furnished other aid to the who had been sentenced to serve 30 years in prison for an armed Buchanan told army intelligence agents when he was arrested that he paid the hotel with money given him by He said the only other aid he gave the tive was to buy an elastic age for his injured in the prison President May Visit Far East WASHINGTON Presi dent Eisenhower may visit Tokyo and Seoul next summer in an fort to help end the cold war between Japan and the Republic of informed sources said today The prediction that Eisenhower might extend his good will to the Far possibly late June or early lowed the disclosure that he has decided to visit Latin America sometime next Ike's Trip Nears End By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter France dent Eisenhower on ar rival in France today that t h Allies are stronger than ever be- fore and prepared to negotiate peace a position of Eisenhower landed at France's main naval base on the ranean enroute to the Western summit conference in With out mentioning current strained French American he said in an arrival address de- livered on the Qua that underlying respect of and the two nations for each other has never and be cause of that we are stronger under the leader ship of General de Gaulle and our r e stronger for the pursuit of peace than was possible ever in our Position Of Strength are part of a great he from i position of to pursue peace with every bit of our every bid of our wisdom and with all the emotion we can. our if all of us can together in the same way he United States and France ave for many we shall day win through to Eisenhower's a of his faith in to indicate the tates and its allies were pre- ared to take a firm stand in any with Premier Nikita in a spring summit And it indicated he was ready i patch things up with de Gaulle n their face-to-face meeting rday in Paris where among ther things they are to discuss charges that France has to weakened NATO by refusing cooperate fully with it. Eisenhower landed here today from the heavy cruiser Des Moines after a leisurely three day cruise from marked only by a brief stopover in He appeared well-rested and fit for the three days of negotiations starting in Paris Kennedy Confident WASHINGTON Sen. John F. Kennedy is now con- he can win the tic presidential most importantly the and plans to announce his dacy early next The young Massachusetts tor intends to throw his hat into the race Jan. 2, barring any minute change in United Press International ob- a letter prepared by staff disclosing the date and urging and tial to join in Vs Kennedy's office insisted the etter was one of several prepared all possible contingencies hut other sources said it reflected senator's SHOPPING DAYS IBT HELP FIGHT TB vith CHRISTMAS SEALS De Gaulle To Meet Western Summit Opening In Paris PARIS Leaders of the United Britain and West converged today on for a summit conference France that was already in rouble because of a Franco- merican dispute over NATO and The belief in the Allied camp fas that only a face-to-face ng Saturday between President isenhower and President Charles e Gaulle could blunt the sharp and permit the rn Big Four to try to chart a approach to the end of te cold Eisenhower was arriving at Gare de Lyon tonight from and de Gaulle was greeting British Prime mister Harold Macmillan was ymg in from London and West erman Chancellor Konrad auer from The Western Big Four planned their three-day meeting g Saturday to place the problem ending the nuclear age arms ace at the top of the list in pre- jaring for their meeting next pring with Soviet Premier Nikita i This approach had the ringing endorsement of all 15 NATO for- eign ministers who Thursday urged the major Western powers to take to try to defuse the world powder keg through worldwide An air of tension hung over the Western council table as the awaited the face to face confrontation of Eisenhower fresh from his triumphal Inside The Lima Amusements 24 Area News 2-S-S Classified 2t21-22-23 Church 15 Comics 1 Crossword 11 Deaths 4 Earl Wilson 24 Editorial Page It Serial Sports TV Log 18-19 14 Your Birthday Classified of African and European and the aloof and proud French general ing under American criticism of his country's military Differences On Algeria James White House said earlier he knew nothing of any plans by hower to extend his stay in Pans one day because of the NATO The NATO meant U.S cism of France for refusing to in- its air navy and army fully with the NATO com- There also were differences be- tween Eisenhower and de Gaulle over the civil war in De jaulle was still annoyed because he United States abstained in- stead of voting in the United ions against a resolution calling on France to negotiate an diate end to the war Eisenhower discussed the ion Thursday with President bib Bourguiba of ent Tunisia and both agreed tht Algerian war was a of grave
