Warren Times-Mirror (Newspaper) - September 8, 1958, Warren, Pennsylvania THE WEATHER Fair and cool low te Tuesday warmer High tow 53 Sun rises seta WARREN THE ONLY PAPER IN MAHY THE ONE PAPER IN MOST GOOD EVENING The Red Groom Blood gram helped sava the life of a baby at the Hospital last week that the will be in Sheffield Wednesday VOLUME 59 Tto SEPTEMBER i 9 s s NEA AP PRICE SEVEN CENTS Red e Bombardment of TUESDAY DEADLINE FOR JUSTICE DEFT TO REPLY TO OBJECTIONS TO DAM BT JOHN WASHINGTON government another tomorrow to offset objections by Seneca Indians to posed construction of an 111 million dollar flood control dam at Pa The date Is the deadline for the Justice Department's reply to a brief filed by the in the U S Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia The government's answer is expected to say that congress intent in approving construction of the dam is and that no special legislation is needed to give the long-awaited project the go-ahead A court hearing is not expected for some weeks Edward E counsel for the said in a lower and in brief filed with the appeals court on Aug 15 that a special act of con- gresa is needed to supercede a 1794 treaty with the Indians giving them permanent rights to their reservations along the upper Allegheny River in New York just across the vania border Although the dam would be built some 12 miles below the border its reservoir would date a considerable portion of Senecas tribal lands O'Neill said the Senecas do not question the authority of Con- gress to exercise the right of nent domain over tribal lands and take after fair for public improvements But in his most recent brief he said has been a lack of exercise of this in the case and the Senecas cannot be halted from calling upon Congress for this authority The appeal was filed after U.S District Judge Joseph C on March 24 rejected Senecas request for an injunction to halt construction of the last in a network of large flood control projects in the Western area The project wai conceived in 1936 following disastrous floods that took many lives and caused extensive property damage along the Allegheny River The Senecas suggest adoption of an alternative flood control project involving diversion of flood waters from the Allegheny into Lake Erie The proposed Dam be- came a matter of concern to the Senecas when funds to begin tual construction wert first proved in 1957 This year another one million dollar appropriation was approved by Congress and the White House The new must be held in abeyance pending out- of the Senecas court peal O'Neill said he will the matter to the U.S Court if he loses the round of the fight Maine Leads Country to By DOUGLAS B CORNELL Maine Maine leads the rest of the try to the ballot box for the last time today in an election pivoting around race tor the U.S Senate Republican Frederick G Payne relied on his Washington ence and a sort of mutual ance pact with President hower to fend off the challenge to his Senate seat The challenger Is Edmund S a popular ernor the best Democratic vote getter ever produced in the Pine Tree State The outcome in Maine will help cut the campaign pattern lor tiie congressional election In all the other states In November The way Maine votes may supply the tipoff on the extent to which generally will raise tions about the rectitude and for- eign policy of the Eisenhower ad- ministration But never again will national attention focus on a to Page PINE GROVE YOUTH ELECTROCUTED Legal Action Simmers In Two States In Crisis Over Integration Upset Ike Brief Up on Developments in Far East Crisis dent Eisenhower today got reports on latest developments in the Far East Red China's renewed artillery bombardment of the Nationalists embattled moy Island The vacationing President re- the reports in a telephone talk with the White House staff Brig Gen Andrew J who was in ton The President arranged to talk by phone later with Secretary of State also in Washington The word the Chinese Communists had resumed bombardment of a lull of days less than 24 hours after the President had served new notice that free world allies bound under the Southeast Asia Treaty will stand firm against the general Communist challenge The President was cautiously hopeful about peace in the Far East as he served notice free world allies will stand firm against the Communist challenge Arsonist Fugitive Is Sought by Authorities Pa State police said today that a convicted arsonist who fled from Torrance State Hospital was still at large Robert J of Staen escaped Friday night Conkling had been under vation at the hospital since last June 30 and was scheduled to be- jin serving a prison term He was convicted of setting a fire to Giles Hall at St Francis College in The blaze destroyed the hall Gov Edmund may be the first Democratic II S senator from Maine In 40 years He opposes bent Republican Sen erick G Payne in the state's NEA Telephoto Campaign Headquarters for 1958 Chest Drive Announced The following release was issued from Community Chest headquarters In the ren Bank Trust Building this Campaign headquarters for the 1958 Community Chest drive opened today in Room Warren Bank and Trust Building The office will be Open Monday through until the close of the campaign scheduled for the week of tober 13th Byron W President of the Community Chest will be general chairman for to raise and Charles E will serve as campaign director Mrs Allan Koebley will be office secretary and the office telephone number is 3351 Next Mr Knapp will names of the M well chairmen for the following di- Special Government and North Glade and Pleasant This year's goal Is er than in but will enable the Community Chest to allot funds to the 10 participating agencies which are somewhat nearer the amounts needed to carry on during the coming year The ten agencies which fit from the Community Chest drive Warren County Council Boy Warren County Council Girl Family Service and Children's Aid Child Health Warren Visiting Warren Relief Salvation and United Service U ft Girl Kidnaped by Gunman Is Still Object of Search FORT Colo A gunman invaded a secluded lover's lane near here shot up an robbed its four occupants and seized a pretty blonde Then he fled Into the early morning darkness The kidnaped girl was identified ai Marjorie a Fort Collins stenographer whose ents live at Kan As he dragged Miss Schneider toward his the gunman turned and for the money Sorry I busted up your car I want the blonde to come with Sheriff Ray Scheerer and more than a score of deputies searched the northern Colorado area in trol cars during the but turned up no lead to the missing girl and her captor The kidnaping occurred at Reservoir four miles southwest of Fort Collins Miss Schneider's companions rushed two miles to telephone officers Sheriff Ray Scheerer said cations are that the man is extremely accurate with the high-powered rifle which he carries Scheerer identified other pants of the car as Miss er's Ellsworth E a student of Colorado State Uni- versity here from Estes James a Fort Collins and his 18 Wins Miss America Crown on Second Try ATLANTIC ffi Ann M o b 1 e a brown-haired Southern belle who failed in her first at- temp at the Miss sippi Sunday began her reign America 1959 The pert col- lege senior from lost out to Mary gene of Yazoo as Mississippi's entrant in the Miss America pageant last year But Saturday night she came back to win the oldest national beauty crown in America after a week's competition against 51 other girls from the United and Alaska might sound but I had no idea of no at the new Miss America said feel very inadequate Its something I can't even By The Associated Legal action simmered in Ar- kansas and Virginia today at tha start of a week of decision in the nation's integration crisis The decision was expected to coma after Thursday's U S Supreme Court hearing on the Little Rock decision that may have decisive ence on the speed of tion in the South Un the meantime legal continued and a ly growing number of children attended mixed classes in der states The Deep South remained however At Van a northwest Arkansas U Simpson regional counsel for the was making legal plans for the return of 13 roes to Van Buren High School despite threats of some white pupils to block Integration by force He declined to say what kind of action he would take Integration resistance flared last the start of the fall when hostile white youths greeted Negroes With jeers and warnings to stay away About 45 whites cut classes Thursday and Friday and staged a boycott stration outside the school The Negroes stayed away from classes Friday In the state's legal battle to avoid races in the schools headed for a test in U S Dist Judge John Paul's court at Harrisonburg Protesting parents of 30 gro pupils denied admission to Charlottesville white schools are to appear before him along with school board officials The judge also has asked attorneys for 26 Negro children to have an order ready for his ture This order would enjoin tha Warren County School Board from barring the 26 children from the county's only high all white The situation in two other Virginia localities apparently depended on the out- come of Thursday's Supreme Court hearing Dist Judges Walter Hoffman and Albert Bryan have said they would be guided in their deliberations on the Norfolk and Arlington suits by what the high court decides Over the Rep Brooks Hays said at Little Rock he felt the tion crisis could not be solved in the South until the Supreme Court modified its 1954 de- segregation decision He was interviewed on local television Arkansas Gov Orval E bus told a state Democratic convention the Supreme Court and the Eisenhower tion lacked the common sense and moderate thinking which could ease the threat of gration violence Perryopolis Having Trouble With Juveniles Pa Nineteen juveniles and eight older youths were in trouble with because they allegedly armed themselves and cruised Perryopolis in cars Police Chief Lou said he and other borough officials rounded up the youths Saturday night Marcinak said they found ice iron screw drivers and baseball bats in their possession The juveniles were turned over to Fayette County juvenile The older boys were fined apiece All are from Uniontown Marcinak said the youths had been feuding with boys several weeks about girls who attend dances at a skating rink near here He said trouble first flared up Friday and the rink was closed to prevent violence Roger C Swanson Victim Of Unusual Accident While Piloting Model Airplane T A Pine Grow township I graduate of Warren High School class of was j most instantly killed in an un- I usual accident while flying a i model airplane on the farm of James near about five o'clock Sunday after- noon I Victim of the freak tragedy was Roger Clyde son of Mr and Mrs Clyde F t RD Who his 23rd birthday Saturday According to information en Coroner Ed Lowrey and Sheriff L E who ed in the young in company with a couple of James ler and Laverne young men about his own was flying the plane with the use of a wire ed recently in Jamestown The two strands of thin metal wire were attached to a grip held in the with portions of the anchor wires extending through the back of the plastic holder Without warning the plane glided into a high ed line serving customers of the REA Swanson was knocked to the according to Keller and but managed to get to his feet in a dazed and ing condition When they gested he needed medical he and fell to the ground again Help was and the Russell lance responded with a cian from that place The in- was used for some time before the victim was dead It is believed he died instantly when he fell to tha ground the second time Only injury sustained in the accident was a burn mark in the flesh between the right thumb and where he was holding onto the plastic grip Officials report that the ground w h e r a Swanson was standing at the time was quite damp from recent which probably contributed to the force of the shock from the high voltage wire Young Swanson was born September on the farm where he resided all his life Since graduating with the class of 1954 in Warren High he has been employed at the Rockwell plant In Jamestown He served an enlistment with the Aviation and was a member of the Wiltsie Com- munity church Besides his rents he is survived by a brother Gerald and his grand- Mrs Fannie Akeley Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at two with tha Rev Wayne Ostrander and in- terment following in Pine Grove cemetery ROGER a SWANSON KOREAN ATTACK South Korean Defense Ministry sources said six or seven Communist North Korean soldiers staged a predawn attack today along the demilitarized killing one South Korean dier and wounding another Retired General Says Islands Are Important PITTSBURGH Retired Air Force Gen George C Kenney says the United States must show it is willing to fight for Formosa or the Red Chinese will Invade Quemoy and Matsu islands are vital to For- mosa's the Kenney told newsmen here day Formosa you can kiss goodbye to Japan and the Philippines as our allies Nobody in Asia would pay any attention to us if we let Formosa go to the who directed the aerial offense against Japan In the west Pacific during World War was here to address the Air Force Assn WEEK AT WHS Name cards were in Warren High School this morning for the traditional Week that will continue through Friday Additional details of the plans will announced on Tuesday Highway Is Busy Paying Off Land Owners HARRISBURG State Highways Department disclosed today it is handling 700 way claims a month under a program of paying off property owners affected by road construction The biggest feature of the program provides for paying off 75 per cent of the claims with the re- mainder held up until differences are settled Chief Counsel John R Rezzolla said more than claims would be handled in 1958 compared to last year and only the year before moving as fast as tions will he told a man our new program is paying off property owners in a matter of weeks when before it was a matter of months or Rezzolla was asked about recent criticism by Rep Albert W House Republican flood that property damage checks were delayed for road construction near Stroudsburg this year The highway attorney edged the delay and blamed it on an error at a lower administrative When it was he the department set up a task force to clean up the claims on an expedited basis One Killed in Flaming Collision Pa flaming collision Sunday night on Route 30 near this land County community killed Joseph Messineo of East one of the drivers Police said Messineo was ed beyond recognition and had to be made through a wrist two rings and a crucifix A Carol of North escaped from the flaming auto Passersby ed smother fire that caught her clothing She was treated at moreland then released Another James of was ad- mitted to Westmoreland Hospital in satisfactory condition with a head injury Joseph A of the driver of the other his wife and their old son were not hurt 17 Die Accidentally In State Over Weekend By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At least 17 people died ally in Pennsylvania over the Labor Day weekend Thirteen of them died in bile a man two men were electrocuted and an- other died of burns suffered when he was sprayed with flaming line Two of the automobile victims were killed Saturday when stock racing at the Lehighton Fair crashed through into spectator Beaches NATIONALIST AMMUNITION SHIP IS REPORTED BLOWN UP DURING THE SHELLING By SPENCER MOOSA TAIPEI shore batteries blew up a alist ammunition ship on Quemoy beach today as the Red resumed bombardment of the Nationalist offshore island after days of self-imposed silence Although U S warships presumably had escorted the munition ship to the Quemoy there was no report of American vessels being in the vicinity of the bombardment The American command on Formosa refused to say whether U S ships had escorted a convoy to Quemoy today The heaviest concentration of fire was reported on the moy beaches m an apparent attempt to stop unloading of plies The Nationalist defense try said the unleashed a very heavy bombardment in the early afternoon but that the ume of fire became sporadic later The Nationalist-held Tan Islets nearby also were along were with Quemoy and adjacent Little Quemoy Unconfirmed reports said planes made their first bombing runs of the Formosa Strait war against mainland gun positions after the shelling of Quemoy resumed The ists had announced they would bomb the Red artillery posts if the Communists resumed their at- tack These same reports said planes were locked in a furious dogfight over miles northeast of Quemoy where the Communists have their LONDON China's Mao today gave the green light for talks over the Formosa situation with the United States in Warsaw He said such talks lead to some results provided both sides wanted to settle the radio reported chairman of the nese Communist spoke to the Bed Chinese Supreme State Council gest guns The Weitou guns have been blamed for the artillery at- tacks both on Quemoy beach and on the main military hospital in Quemoy In the the Nationalists claimed their biggest victory so Communist MIG jets shot down and two damaged in a blazing battle near 130 miles of Quemoy The Nationalists said one of their Super Sabres was hit but returned to base without difficulty There was no immediate an- that ships of the U.S 7th Fleet had escorted the supply convoy to Quemoy today But ping radio charged earlier that U S warships again in- into China's territorial wa- and the 7th Fleet com- Vice Adm Wallace M said American escorting of supplies to Quemoy is going to become routine The Communist bombardment of Quemoy resumed after a lull of more than 62 hours Two sers and six destroyers of the 7th Fleet Sunday escorted two landing ships loaded with 300 tons of ammunition to moy It was the first American escort of a daylight convoy to the be- to Page Strike Called In Venezuela After Rioting Venezuela general stake closed this troubled capital today in the wake of er military attempt to seize power from a government junta striving to restore democracy in zuela Union leaders threatened to con- the walkout until their de- disbanding rebellious military police and for ing some army met Eight hours of street fighting in downtown Caracas reportedly killed about 20 persons and left 200 wounded Most of the ties were said to be unarmed youngsters who played a major part in laving seige on the rebel headquarters downtown The government of Rear Wolfgang Larrazabal announced one leader of the coup was under arrest and three others were ing out in the Mexican Embassy Instead of allowing them to claim refuge in the embassy un- der standard South American the government said It to Page Two Children in California Are Lightning Victims BIG BEAR Calif W crackled down from a sudden storm and killed two children injured a third while their former All America football player Bob watched helpless from a skiff on the lake A moment after tha tragedy Sunday the storm ended and this lake resort in the San nardino Mountains was bathed in sunshine The lightning bolt exploded into a plywood shack on the lake's short where the three youngsters had ducked out of the downpour one of the ity of California's greatest men and later a professional star with the old Los Angeles Dons and Los Angeles to Page More Talks With Red China Planned by United States By WARKEN ROGERS JR WASHINGTON ed States prepared today for early talks with Red but kept high its guard against Communist military tion in the embattled Formosa Strait U.S Ambassador Jacob Beam in Warsaw awaited notice from Chinese Communist Ambassador Wang Ping-nan there that the talks could start But the memory that Red China did some of its fiercest fighting in Korea during armistice talks kept the U S 7th Fleet on alert around Red Chinese Premier Chou En- ai said over the weekend that he a renewal of China ambassadorial talks on the peace in the Far The United States had ried twice last month to get the alks going so the White louse warmly welcomed the of- fer Ambassador orders were to wait a few days it no word came from Ambassador to call the Communist en- voy and find out when he was pre- pared to meet in Warsaw Western diplomats braced for a new Communist push to seat Red China in the United Nations They said the Red Chinese ment of the Nationalist islands clearly was aimed not only at probing U.S intentions but also at stirring up a ruckus on the eve of the 13th General Assembly starting Sept 16 at New York U.S determination to carry a big stick while talking softly was evident in the activities of the 7th Fleet For the first time during daylight the U S ships convoyed Nationalist supply ships from Formosa to the offshore and it was disclosed they had been doing the same at night since Wednesday The Red Chinese made no effort to interfere Not all Red China's actions over the weekend were conciliatory The Chinese Communist Central Committee announced full mobilization bad been ordered
