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SI 2 p. m. JI THE TRIPLE CITIES NEWSPAPER Monday Evening, Nov. 16, 1953 Vol. 75185 26 Pages 5 Cents PRESS City Child Wicks Firm in Reftisal to Quit Hint Ryan to 'Retire' As Scandal-Ridden Dock Union Meets Although Ouster Seems snure Philadelphia (President Joseph P.
Ryan of the International Longshoremen's Association acknowledged indirectly today that he is considering retiring as head of the independent union "because of my health." Anderson in Dewey Camp in Final Plea Way Cleared for Insanity Fleas By (Greenlease V. Binghamton Press Bureau AlbanyActing Lt. Gov. Arthur H. Wicks, certain to be ousted as Senate majority leader today flatly rejected a final appeal from of Governor Dewey that he step out voluntarily.
'T-W' ''A ityan noias tne omce on a lifetime basis. The union was ejected from the American Federation of Labor on charges that racketeers controlled some of its operations. Up to Ryan has declined comment on his plans. But talking with reporters this morning after the opening session of a special union convention, Ryan said: "If I feel that 1 am not able to carry on because of my physical, condition, I'll retire, not quit or be fired." The 69-year-old union leader has been under medical care for some time. Ryan said "no pressure is being exerted upon me to retire." The special convention was called after the AFL ejection action.
This morning's session was limited to formalities. Ryan said it was adjourned to permit a meeting of the Credentials Committee. He announced also that the Executive Committee will hold a closed session later in the day to discuss his position and other issues but that any decision reached at this meeting will not be announced before it is brought up on the convention floor for action. William Bailey, Philadelphia district council president, officially opened the convention and called on the 450 delegates A 7 4 JrLA CIO Chicl Blasts Ike Reuther ChidesMeany, 'No Raid' Pact Near Cleveland (iP) CIO President Walter Reuther to day mildly chided AFL President George Meany as the CIO convention prepared to consider a proposed AFL-CIO "no raiding" pact. Associated Press WIREPHOTO.
MRS. HEADY ENTERS COURT TODAY Escorted by Marshal William Tatman Reuther's keynote speech toil-M, tvari Talks to Be Simultaneous Reds OK U.S. Plan For 2 Korea Parleys Drowns In Pond Heart Massage Fails to Revive Phillip Schanz Phillip Schanz, 17 months, thepnly child of Mr. and Mrs. George C.
Shanz, of 4 Home Avenue, was drowned this afternoon when he fell into a fish pond at a neighbor's home. The baby was declared dead at about 2:45 p. m. in City Hospital, more than an hour and a half after his body was discovered in two feet of water by his grandmother, Mrs. George C.
Schanz, Sr. The baby was given artificial respiration and oxygen for more than an hour. In a last desperate effort to save the baby's life, Dr. Mark H. Williams opened his chest and massaged his heart for 40 minutes.
PLAYING ALONE The baby was being cared for by his grandmother while his parents were both at work at the General Electric plant in West-j over. He had been last seen playing alone on the front porch of his home about 12:50 o'clock. When his grandmother went to check on the baby at about 1 o'clock, baby was missing She immediately called the began to search the area. The grandmother found the baby's body in a fish pond at the rear of the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. F. McPherson, who were attending a confer ence in Buffalo. Mr. McPherson Is superintendent of Susquehanna Valley Home.
After Mrs. Schanz removed the body from the water, the baby was given artificial respiration by James D. Salisbury of 3 Home Avenue. Meanwhile, Mrs. Salisbury called police for an ambulance at 1:13 o'clock.
EFFORTS CONTINUED Police continued giving the baby artificial respiration until 1:30 o'clock when they removed him to City Hospital. Efforts were continued to save the infant's life by artif ical respiration for another 35 minutes. Then Dr. Williams operated to massage his heart. Mrs.
Salisbury said that until today neither she nor the Schanz family knew that a fish pond existed at the rear of the McPherson home. Big 3 Leave Door Open For Red Talks London (U.R) The Western Big 3 transmitted to Moscow today a new note expressing regret at the Kremlin's rejection of proposals for a meeting of the Big 4 foreign ministers at Lugano, Switzerland, but leaving the door open for a future meeting if the Russians change their minds. The note of the United States, Britain and France was handed to the Soviet Foreign Office after being approved by the West German government. It appears to bring to an end the long diplomatic exchange which began last summer with the tripartite Washington decision to seek a foreign ministers conference on these two issues. The very brief Western note was drafted here with a minimum of difficulty by the three governments.
It now leaves it to the Soviets to decide when and where if ever such an encounter should take place. In two previous notes the West pcoposed that Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov attend a four-power parley on Germany and Austria. Juvenile Crime Is Getting Worse A million a year! That's the number of children Who are tangling with the police.
A Senate committee, headed by Senator Robert Hendrickson N. has been examining the festering juvenile delinquency problem and plans to hold open hearings on it in a few days. Reginald F. Torrey tells of the Job facing the Hendrickson committee and how it is being handled in a series of three articles. The first is on Page 9.
Also on the Inside; Page Page 6 22 13 4 6 12 18,19 16 6 Boyle 13 Child Behavior 11 City News Comics 20 Editorials 6 Edson 6 Exchange 10 Letters Obituaries Our State Robb Ruark Society Sports Theatres Tripp Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) The Allies and Commu nists agreed today on an American plan for holding simultaneous meetings on the time, place and membership JOSEPH RYAN from all sections of the country to "close our ranks, and settle any differences if there be any." Bailey intrduced Ryan to the convention which responded with some applause. Ryan told the (Continued on Pag Sixteen) I III I lit It til IV To Link FBI In White Fate Independence, Mo. (ff) Harry S. Truman, ready to tell a nationwide audience his side of the Harry Dexter White controversy, says the FBI director sat in on a conference at which White's fate was discussed. The former president replies tonight over radio and television hookups to Attorney General Herbert Brownell's charges that in 1946 he kept White in government service despite FBI reports that White was a spy.
(The speech will be carried in the Triple Cities area at 11 o'clock tonight by WNBF and WNBF-TV, WINR and Fast Ileply Washington (Pi Senator Homer Ferguson Mich.) will follow former President Truman on the CBS-TV network tonight with comments on Truman's story of the Harry Dexter White affair. Ferguson told reporters that CBS had asked him to appear immediately after Truman finished speaking. WENE. WKOP officials said a decision would not be made until later today.) The name of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover came up when Trum3n was questioned last night about reports his speech would exolain White was retained in government work under a plan to trap an alleged Communist spy ring.
(The New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune, in dispatches from Kansas City, said today that Truman'a (Continued on Pag Sixteen) Kansas City (P) The possibility was raised today that the money-mad kidnap killers of 6-year-old Bobby Greenlease would seek to escape the gas chamber through an instanity plea. This surprise development came at the opening of their federal trial for the sole purpose of determining whether they should die for the crime they have fully confessed. Both Carl Austin Hall, the 34-year-old playboy wastrel, and Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady, 41, the housewife turned alcoholic, listened attentively as their attorneys reserved the right to bring up the insanity question at any time during the proceedings. NO CHANGES Their attorneys told the court they were not raising the question now but they wished to protect the constitutional rights of the two defendants and if evi dence warranted an insantiy plea they would make one even after conviction.
The defense lawyers said neither Hall nor Mrs. Heady wanted to change their pleas of guilty, entered at their formal arraignment. At times Hall ran a hand over his florid face as his attorney, Roy K. Dietrich, addressed District Judge Albert L. Reeves.
Mrs. Heady, across the counsel table, followed the proceedings closely as Judge Reeves instructed the veniremen as to their duties. He told the panel of 125 men and women from Western Missouri that the sole job of the jury to be chosen from their number would be to decide whether a death penalty should be assessed. Under provisions of the Lindbergh Kidnap Law un der which Hall and Mrs. Heady are being tried, only a jury has the authority to recommend the death penalty.
LOST 2 ROUNDS The defense lost the first two technical rounds of the case. Dietrich, court-appointed attorney for Hall, and Harold Hull of Maryville, Mrs. Heady's counsel, asked Judge Reeves to dismiss the entire jury panel on two grounds: ONE That there was nc author ity in the law for calling a jury to fix the penalty. TWO That the jurors could not be impartial because they had been called for a specific case and their names publicized in advance contrary to court procedure. Both points were overruled by Judge Reeves.
The two defendants were neat ly dressed as they were whisked into the federal building by U. S. Marshal William Tatman and his deputies. Robert C. Greenlease, 71, millionaire father of the kidnap vic tim, and his close business asso ciate.
Robert Ledterman of Tulsa, stood at the back of the courtroom listening intently to the preliminary proceedings. Ledterman was GreenTease's chief intermediary in dealing with the kidnapers on the ransom paid over after Bobby's abduction and slaying. GIs in Korea Get Holidays Off Seoul, Korea (U.R) There will be no "routine' duties" for American troops in Korea on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. The 8th Army said American servicemen will be excused from their routines on those days. In addition, front line troops will be rotated from their positions so tnat an will be assured of one day of ease in a rear area.
Century reported the proposal to the Navy. Stephenson served as the executive secretary of the local committee which organized President Eisenhower's inaugural here last January. In that capacity he for a time had a pass to the White House. When Attorney General Herbert Brownell announced last month that the case would be presented to a grand jury, he issued a new warning against revival of the "influence" racket which had flourished in the capital in recent years. "This administration will not tolerate influence peddling or any other form of corruption," Brownell said then.
Stephenson's contradictory testimony before the Hous committee prompted one member, Representativt Porter The veteran senator told a press conference that he would "go down fighting" and declared he has no intention of offering his resignation when the Legislature convenes in special session tomorrow. He promised to make a "quite revealing" statement about a private talk he said he had with Republican State Chairman Dean P. Taylor in New York City last month. The request that he step out voluntarily was made by a committee of senators authorized to appeal to Wicks during a four-hour strategy meeting called by State Republican Chairman Dean P. Taylor yesterday.
ANDERSON THERE Participation of Broome County Senator Warren M. Anderson in the strategy meeting revealed for the first time that the Bing hamton attorney is siding with Governor Dewey in his demand that Wicks quit. I discussed this situa tion with the governor, I said I. would hand in my resignation, but things have changed since then," Wicks said. "I intended to offer my resignation, but there was a definite understanding that there would be no outside inter ference and there has been in terference." Wicks told reporters that a spokesman for the Dewey forces had called on him shortly after noon.
CLEARS HIS DESK Apparently acknowledging the claims of Dewey supporters that they have the votes to oust him, Wicks told reporters that he was getting his desk cleared. "I don't want anything hanging if they decide another man should take over," he remarked. The Kingston senator went into a lengthy explanation of his actions and said he would disclose a private talk he had had with Taylor in New York City. CLIMAX TOMORROW The fight between Wicks and Governor Dewey, which grew out of visits paid by the Senate majority leader to Joseph S. (Joey) Fay in Sing Sing Prison where the labor leader was serving a term for extortion, is headed for a climax tomorrow when the Legislature meets in special session.
Dewey has staked his political career on his demand that Wicks quit as GOP majority leader be- cause oi me ray visits, it is a fight the governor must win if he is to continue as a political power in the state and nation. Taylor claims at least 32 of the 35 Republican senators are ready to side with Dewey in a showdown. WON'T COMMENT Anderson, who said as recently as Friday that he is maintaining an open mind in the Wicks-Dewey fight, declined all comment upon yesterday's meeting. However, it was learned he sat in on the strategy session called by Taylor. The other six senators who attended are regarded as possible successors to Wicks in the event Dewey wins his fight to depose the majority leader.
The Binghamton Republican flew here yesterday morning for the conference. Prior to leaving Binghamton, he conferred with Broome County Republican Chairman William H. Hill who has sided with Dewey In the fight over Wicks. Anderson, who is the young est member of the Senate, was cast in the role of representative of junior senators at the con- (Continufd on Page Twenty-two) Weeks Proposes Easing of Tariffs New York (U.R) Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks today proposed the gradual removal of U. S.
tariffs except where they are needed to protect U. S. wage rates in industries "important to a substantial segment of the American economy." In a speech to the National Foreign Trade Convention here, Weeks said he was speaking "only for myself," not for the administration. But he directed his suggestion to the Commission on Foreign Economic Policy which has the job of recommending future foreign trade policy to Congress and the President. Fire Razes 5 Blocks Manila (P) One person was killed and five city blocks were razed in a roaring fire which swept through the commercial district of Gumaca today, the Philippine News service re peace conference.
Angry POWs Deal Reds New Defeat Panmunjom (Pi Angry, howling Koreans today turned down, 221 to 6, Communist pleas to come home in another stinging boomerang for tha Reds, who asked to interview them after 10 days of stalling. The Communists dragged through the noisy interviews, meeting only 227 of the 471 Ko rean prisoners called to the explanation area. One of the six POWS who chose communism sat through five hours of Red wheedling and talk. UN observers protested he was worn out and confused and unable to make a rational decision. The Communist batting aver-age was close to their overall 3 per cent for some 2,500 prison ers interviewed.
The almost neg ligible figure has been a jolt to Red propaganda that all the balky POWs wanted to come home. The Reds were scheduled to meet with 500 Chinese prisoners tomorrow. Some of the interviews with the, Koreans lasted 2V4 hours. They were relatively quiet until late in the afternoon, when the POWs began attacking the persuaders as if on signal. Ships Collide, 20 Seamen Die Dungeness, England (Pi Twenty seamen were feared killed today in a mysterious predawn ship collision that sank the 2.745-ton Italian freighter Vittoria Claudia in the English Channel The French cargo steamer Perou, which crashed with the Vittoria Claudia, steamed away later with little damage and no reported casual ties.
The Italian ship, whose home port was Genoa, reportedly carried a crew of 25, but only five survivors had been picked up by rescue vessels some five hours after the disaster two and a half miles off this Southeast England port. U. S. Air Force helicopters and planes, a British helicopter and a swarm of rescue boats reported spotting numerous bodies floating in the wreckage-strewn SENATOR ANDERSON Race Probe To Be Fast, Thorough Albany ((-Governor Dewey says the money, manpower and authority needed for a top-to-bottom scrutiny of harness racing is at hand for the Moreland Act Commission probing the scandal ridden sport. Approving a $414,800 budget for the three-member commission Saturday, the governor said the agency would be able to complete its work rapidly because of its "swift and thorough start and because it will be competently staffed." He added: "The commission now has the funds as well as complete au thority to turn harness racing in side out before making its final recommendations." The commission Is expected lo recommend to the 1954 Legislature a broad expansion of state controls on harness racing.
It also may suggest that the sulky tracks hPttin hp trimmM nnihi with a larger slice going to tht state. Another weekend development was the announcement in New York City that William F. Bleak-ley, former State Supreme Court justice and unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial candidate, had resigned as general counsel to tht New York Racing Associations. The associations is a loose con federation of the operators of the four flat tracks the state- Jamaica, Belmont Park, Aqueduct and Saratoga and the Empire City Association, which has no track but conducts some races at Jamaica. Bleakley was quoted as saying he felt he could not be of any help to the thoroughbred tracks while the harness track investigation was in progress.
If Xablied by Fill In Klan Flogging Washington (Pi FBI agents today rounded up 14 alleged former members of the Ku Klux Klan in North and South Carolina on charges that they kid naped and flogged a brother and sister exactly two years ago today. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who announced the arrests, said they were "a continuation of intensive FBI investigation of floggings in the two states which already has resulted in 29 convictions on similar charges in tha last year and a half." Those taken into custody at their homes early this morning were formally charged with kidnaping, interstate transportation of the two victims and their flogging "in a planned raid." India, China to Talk New Delhi, India (P) Prim Minister Nehru told the Indian parliament today India and China are to confer, probably in December in Peiping, on Indian-Tibetan affairs. Today's Chuckle One housewife to another: "What with my completely automatic kitchen and laundry, I let my maid go and htrej a mechanic." delegates at opening sessions of the annual CIO convention challenged recent statements attributed to Meany, that the CIO was T-1I Change Washington (P) President. Eisenhower told the CIO today he will ask Congress next January to amend the Taft-Hartley Act so as to make it "absolutely fair to the laboring men and women of this na- tion, to management, and to the public at large." formed essentially to influence national politics.
The "no-raiding" agreement, already approved by the AFL's convention last September, is expected to be OK'd, too, by the CIO. It wouid pledge unions which subscribe to it to refrain from attempting to persuade al ready-organized workers to switch unions. The agreement has been described by both Reuther and Meany as a necessary first step towards an eventual AFL-CIO merger into a single labor federation. Today Reuther told CIO convention delegates he thought Meany's memory had failed him because the AFL chief recently was quoted, in an Interview published in the magazine, U. S.
News World Report, as saying that CIO leaders quit the AFL and formed the rival federation in 1935 on political motives. Reuther said the reason for forming the CIO was only that "the AFL leadership of that time refused to see the light of day" about organizing mass production industries. Reuther hastened to add, however, that he had confidence in Meany and the present AFL (Continued on Pag Sixteen) Trieste Talks Under Study Washington (Pi The State Department said today the Western Powers are working on the idea of a five-power conference to settle the Trieste dispute, but declined to say how soon anything may be expected from these efforts. A department spokesman said that he did not wish to go' so far as to say that Britain, France and the United States are now actually drafting arrangements tor a Trieste conference With Italy and Yugoslavia. Asked when such a proposed conference might be held, the spokesman said he could not com ment "on, the imminence" of one President Tito of Yugoslavia has said that the only basis on which his country would consider taking part in such a conference would lie in the release to Yugoslavia of that portion of Zone A excluding the port city of Trieste.
of the long-overdue Korean U. S. Ambassador Arthur H. Dean said two subcommittees would meet tomorrow. One will discuss the "composition and place" of the conference and the other will determine the date.
A deadlock has tied up preliminary talks since they began Oct. 26. Dean said two groups of negotiators would decided tomorrow whether the meetings will be secret, but he made it clear to the Communists that the United Nations will not change its stand against inviting neutral nations to participate in the conference. The ambassador said he told Communist delegates again today that the armistice agreement provisions for the meeting limit the participants to nations which fought in the Korean war. It was almost certain that the Communists would insist on the participation of Asian neutrals and Russia in the conference to determine Korea's political future.
Dean said he did not believe the pre-conference meetings would "get in any tizzy" and that it probably would "work itself out." Aid to Jordan Boosted Amman, Jordan Britain has promised Jordan aid amounting to 2,350,000 pounds 580,000) more than ever before for the financial year starting next April 1, the Jordan govern ment announced today. Indictment Hardy, Va.) to tell the witness: "You are one of the biggest liars I ever listened to." Stephenson denied this. Ex-U. S. Attorney Faces Charge Washington (-TV-Herbert A.
Bergson, 44, a former assistant attorney general in the Truman administration, was indicted today on charges of violating the "conflict of interest" law governing activities of attorneys who used to work for the government. Bergson, accompanied by two attorneys, was in the courtroom of U. S. District Judge Edward A. Tamm when the grand jury returned the two-count Ex-COP Aide Charged With Perjury Jury Returns 'In fluence' Washington 4Pi Warren L.
Stephenson, former Republican leader here, was indicted on perjury charges today in connection with his testimony about an alleged attempt at influence peddling. The indictment accused Stephenson of falsely denying contacts with a California company which was supplying rocket launchers to the Navy, when he appeared before the House Armed Services Committee last June. Stephenson later admitted before the same committee in September that he had sought a 4 per cent commission or a salary from Century Industries, Inc. of Burbank, for his aid in getting any extra contracts that might be awarded to the company. World Tour 13 Financial 21 Flashes 2 channel waters.
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