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Founded 1822. Vol. 135. N6. 43.United ProseSANDUSKY. OHIO. TUESDAY. JUNE 4. 1957Phone 6840lt;Price Six CedltBOY ORPHANED IN DOUBLEDenounce Jap Trial For G/?f “Sfr »Gordon, Bow Hit Action In Girard CaseCharge Soldier In Great Jeopardy; Envoy CommentsClass Speaker (Scientists In Battle OfWords On Nuclear Tests; Charged Policy MistakeWASHINGTON, June 4 (UP)—Two congressmen de^ manded today that the United States repudiate its agreement with Japan giving Japanese courts the right to try American servicemen there for “off-duty’' crimes.Other congressmen joined them in calling for review of the decision, announced by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles Defense Secretary CharlesBy United PressScientist was pitted against scientist today in a battle j of words on the pros and cons of continuing tests of hy drogen bombs and other nucleiar devises.Dr. Linus Pauling dropped the first verbal bomb Monday with an appeal for a world ban onandE. Wilson, to turn Army Specialist William S. Girard over to a Japanese court for manslaughter trial.. Chairman Thomas S. Gordon ID-111.) called hearings of his House Foreign Affairs Committee beginning June 13 to investigate the Girard case and consider demands that the status of forces’’ agreement with Japan be revised or scrapped.Rep. Frank T. Bow (R-Ohioi,The Rev. Harold Leland Yo chum, D. D., president of Cap! tal University, Columbus, will be corrimencement speaker Thursday night at graduating exercises of Sandusky High school’s “Class of 1957.” :Exercises for the graduatingfurther nuclear tests. His appeal bore the signatures, of 2,000 scientists.Pauling, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, and the other signatories said in a statement that continued nuclear tests would “lead to an increase' in the number of seriously defective children that will be born in future generations.’'Rejects AppealTwo prominent University of California scientists immediately rejected Pauling’s appeal_Beck's Son Balks Bui Concedes His Name To Probersstudents, which number 133 girls and 141 boys, or a total of 274, will be in Junior High auditorium Thursday at 8 p. m.Dr. Yochum, himself a graduate of Capital University in 1923, with an A. B. degree, is author of two books of sermons ,,and various contributions to who has led several unsuccessful.clturcti publications, and received campaigns to cancel the agree-jhis Honorary Doctor of Divinityment, charged that Dulles andjdegree from Capital UniversityWilson were “saerificine” the 21-!in ^43 He became president ofyear-old soldier to “Japanese nationalism.’’Charges Great Jeopardy Bow charged that Japanese courts “do not provide the accused with the protections Americans consider essential to a fair trial.( In this instance, Girard is in even greater jeopardy because of the aroused sentiments of the Japanese. They have become obviously anti-American as this case has developed.”Rep. Noah Mason (R-UD, who represents Girard’s district in Congress, said the administra-(Cpntinued on Page 14—Col. 4)that university in 1946, prior to which he had been pastor of churches in Hessville, O., and in Detroit.He is said to be a forceful speaker with an inspiring message for young people, and his appearance, here is looked fog ward tbvwitff-keen'‘anticipation.WASHINGTON, June 4 .(UP)— Chairman John L. McClellan of the ; Senate Rackets Committee today ordered a contempt of Congress action against the ‘son and nephew of Teamsters President Dave Beck.—McClellan ordered ’Contempt pro-Self TuesdayReport Gunfire Ih * Hull-rd Home Is Climax To DisputeHouse GOP Grab Ike Bid To Stand On '56 PlatformThe scientists, Dr. K. S. Pit zer and Dr. Joel H. Hildebrand, branded the appeal “unfortunate” and one they could not support.Pitzer said the risks to human life from nuclear bomb tests are very small—much smaller than the risk we take in our every day living.”Unborn AffectedIn Washington two geneticists told Congress that every time a nuclear test is held it increases the number of unborn children whose lives will be shortened or marred.Dr. Herman J. Muller of the University of Indiana said the tests already held will seriously curtail or injure hundreds of thousands or even million; future generations.. Muller- called r continuation; bf test explosions a “monstrous mistake of policy.”Dr. James F. Crow of the University of Wisconsin told Congress “we can be sure several hundreds or thousands or ten thousands or perhaps more persons will be diseased or de formed or will dje prematurely (Continued on Page 14—Col. 6)WASHINflTnN .limn 4 (UP)—ceedings started by the committee staff after a fruitless questioning of Dave Beck, Jr., and Joseph McEvoy, Beck's nephew^ by marriage, on their relations with the Teamsters Union and its payroll.Beck, Jr. invoked the Fifth Amendment 130 times in refusing to ‘tell committee investigators whether he got nearly $65,000 in! salary and expenses from the un-i ion.My Father, Who? |McEvoy invoked the Fifth Amendment 90 times on similar | questions. Both men refused to say even whether they knew * the senior Beck.Young Beck had refused to say whether he knew his father — Von ground that it may incriminate jaet~ \Junior even refused to say whom he was named for, though Sen. Sam J. Ervin, Jr. (D-N.C.)said he got his name when hewas too small to be guilty ofany criminal offense.”Young Dave was a faster man with the Fifth Amendment than his famous father, invoking itmore than three times a minute. His father used it more than 200—Harley Hof (manTHE “X” marks the spot where the body of Mrs. Kathryn M. King, wife of Amos LeRoy, 59, was found following the double shooting early Tuesday in their Hull-rd home. Hole where the bullet passed into the bedding is circled. The shooting, which is reported to have started with a domestic dispute, left the couple’s son, LeRoy, Jr., niqe years old, an orphan. AfterA nine year old rural Sandusky boy was to be questioned by authorities today to learn the story of a family dispute that erupted in gunfire on Hull-rd early Tuesday, leaving the adopted youth, an orphan and his parents dead, apparent victims of a murder and suicide.'Dead in the domestic shooting arc Amos LeRoy King (Roy) Sr, and his 50 year old wife, Catherine M.. 2303 Hull-rd.Dr. Jack Walker, Erie-co coroner, was to question their only son, LeRoy, Jr., at the Erie-co detention home today in attempt to learn more of the shooting.No Formal VerdictNo formal verdict has been returned in the case. The sheriff has also withheld release of theshooting his wife, Mr. King reportedly turned the 32-caliber pistol., on himself.Appoint Ommert For Vacancy On City'CommissionCauseway Opening Is Set For June 15; Traffic, Other Hems Discussedcomplete report on the case pending Dr. Walker’s talk with the boy.The boy is held temporarily in the detention home for the questioning.The shooting, done with what has been said to have been a 32 caliber pistol, took place in the bedroom of the couple's home. After shooting his wife, Mr. King turned the gun on himself in a hallway outside the bedroom. Had Restaurant HereThe son is said to have called authorities at 1:20 a.m., inform- ---jjng the gilerjff that his fatherSandusky’s city commission Monday night was “put on notice”.had killed his mother and thenby B. G. Zeiher, representing the G. A. Boeckling Co., operators of Cedar Point, and the Cedar Point Bridge Co., that the new Cedar Point causeway will be open on Saturday, June 15.The notice came as a sort of “ *** “warning that city officials hadbetter be prepared to handle the heavy, flow of traffic which is expected to stream over the east end streets, especially First-st.Zeiher, who is 'secretary* treasurer of the bridge company, emphasized that he had 'discussed the forthcoming traffic problems before the city com-15 Reich Army Recruits Killed On River MarchKEMPTEN, GERMANY. June 4 (UP) — Federal Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss today tookhimself.Mr. King is a forme* operator of King's restaurant, 1627 Hayes-av, at the subway, The lived at 1524 Prospect-st while in Sandusky.Two years ago, Mr. King gave up the restaurant operation) and began farming the Hull-rd property. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge■and Perkins Grange.Surviving are the only son, LeRoy, Jr.: two sisters. Mrs. Edward Peterson, Sandusky, and Mrs. (Continued on Page 14—Col. 3)
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