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CKLAP104A HISTORICAL 50C
HI STOR I CAL BLOG
OKLAHOMA CITY 5 OKLA
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K !STSAS—Cloodv this afternoon with
diminishing liarit snow:
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portions Woinesdiry itii light snow
extreme sotit iiwes' little tointicriiture
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OKLAHOMA — PattlY cloud te
tloudy this afternoon occasional STIOW
northeast and extreme east partly
cloudy tonight and Weinnesday: warmer
Wednesday afternoon: low tonight 15
2 5 high Wednesday 35-45
Vol 6S—No 111 (P) Leased Wire and Features
PONCA CITY OKLAHOMA TUESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1961
12 PAGES
Published Daily Except Saturday ai 200 North Third
and second Class Postage Paid at Ponca City Okla
Price 5c
THE ll
NI WS
British Officers
Break Spy Ring
Out of Russia
MIAMI Fla — Thirty-eight
Radio Network passengers from the liner Santa
Maria which wrote modern -day 4
Also Is Found history on the high seas arrived
home by plane today calm but
grateful
LONDON t4' The British gov- "There were tears—you'll never
eminent charged in coin t today luthw" said Mrs- Chester A
that a small house in a quiet Lou-
Churchill Luna Ohio and Ashe-
N C as she walked from the
I suburb housed a high-powered airliner which flew them here rrom
radio statan transmitting British Brazil
naval secrets to I A pleasure voyage aboard Por-
Atty Gen Sir Beginald Man tugal's second largest vessel was
Interrupted one day short of a 001
ning li ain-Buller opening the prose- Theduled arrival at Port Ever- kii-
ennui' of live persons charged Nall glades Fla
steahng tup submarine secrets Capt lienrique Galvao and a 'J
sm
from a naval research station said all band of armed rebels took
control of the ship in a brief but :
government agents made tests in bloody micidie-of-the-mght battle -
the house and heatil signals coin- For 12 days and nights they steered
mg troll' the Moscow headquarters the Sahta Marla on an aanless koy-
of a spy ring age through Atlantic waters
The fiv t2 delendants who up- I Galvau's floating "VulUtinn sue-
ceuded to the exient of focusing It
pea red ttility for a iirelaninary
worlawide attention on the Portu-
hearing are Gordon A Lonsdale
guese regime ot Alli01110
37 a company director Peter J
no Oliveira Salit:ar The Santa
Kroger 50 a bookseller Kroger's
Maria was finally sailed into
wife Helen 4'1 Harry F Hough-
Becife Brazil where the passengers
tun 5 anti Lund Gee 47
11L6410n 1this Gee were debarked and the rebels sought
employes of the lop secret oava phttcal asylum 1
On their arrival here today the -
research statiou at Portland Man-
passengers were treated to :
ninghtim-Builer said Miss Gee
musbton ana b1Atale were al- last at the Miann internatuinal
hotel's restaurant after they
rested after she handed Lonsdale
vele processed Mrough CUStoillS
a parcel containing naval secrets
One of the first passengers to
'lite attorney general said sub-
clear customs was Locale Gray
sequently detectives tumid a radio
Chicago who told newsmen "1 Liu 2:
trausmitier buried in rubble on-
don't know how glad um to be
der the Krogers' home lie said
"
agents made mo home
nitoring tests at ---
the house and heard signals appar- Mr and Mrs Churchill cleared
tinily coming from Moscow In ae-
next Churchill a retired Ohio
cordance with signal plans found contractor said It takes a trip son
like this to make you realize the sno
in the house and at Lonsdale's
home prestige of the United States and —
Manningliam-Buller said the Kro- the freedom of this country You
don't have to have men with guns
gers provi ded the spy ring with
eoretommeations center "and at the airport"
government agents made tests in
the house and -Ra d ignals coin-
ing iron' the Moscow headquarters
of a spy ring
Trie fivi2 delendants who ap-
peared tolity for a preliminary
hearing are Gordon A Lonsilale
37 a eompany director Peter J
Kroger 50 a bookseller Kroger's
wile Helen 4- Harry F Hough-
ton 3 and Eine' r Gee 47
liot6thbal and Miss Gee were
employes of the top secret navai
research station at Portland Manningham-Builer
said Miss Gee
Houghton and Liaide were ar-
rested after she handed Lonsdate
a parcel containing naval secrets
Ihe attorney general said sub-
sequently detectives tumid a radio
trausmitter buried in rubble un-
der the Krogers' home lie said
agents made monitormg tests at
the house and heard signals appar-
ently coming from Diloscow In ac-
cordance with signal plans bound
in the house and at Lonsdale's
home
Manningham-Buller said the Kro-
gers provided the spy ring with
its communications center "and
possibly acted as its bankers"
Manningham-Buller said detec-
tives had been keeping an eye on
Houghton and Miss Gee for sev-
eral months before they arrested
them and Lonsdale on January 7
He said a pare el Miss Gee
handed to Lonsdaie that day con-
tained 310 photographs including
photographic copies of 202 pages
from the secret book "Particulars
of Warships"
When Mrs Kroger was arrested
later at her home the attorney
grheral said an cight-page letter
in the Russian language was found
in her purse
FBI Charges Pilot
With Deliberately
Crashing Airplane
faculty member said attorneys br as to reming present
' i
P7articularly o-v- -
With Deliberately the unidentified Negro were pre- coverage exemptions Road Commission
pared to seek a federal injunction The American Retail Fedeation
if Gov Ross B m n
U d
arnett attempted to for example in current memo- er Close Watch
Crashing Airplane close the segregated university or randa to its members says "it does
prevent the Negro from attending not necessarily follow just be-
BALTIMORE (P) — Capt Ernest rLsses cause the US Senate and House By Senate Group
cary Brace 29 was charged by the The rumor spread after university of Representatives e a c h passed
FBI Monday with d e 1 i b e r a t e 1 y officials declined to comment on an bills to extend the wage-hour law
crashing his Marine Corps Airplane earlier report by an unofficial in 19G0 that the process becomes OKL A H 0 M A CITY OPi — Th
and then "leaving the impression source that five Negroes had Lp- automatic in 1961" state Highway Commission comc
that he had died" by going into I plied for admission Of the five The administration bills will be I under close scrutiny again toda
three were said to have been re-
hiding under an assumed name accompanied by letters from the
The FBI charged the I4-year jected and two others were under President and Secretary of La- with Chairman Roy Turner an
Tulsa member Harold Stuart to as
Marine veteran admitted 'he de- consideration bor Arthur J Goldberg recom-
cided to disappear due to financial State highway patrol cars were mending them 'as a way to hike pear before the Senate Roads an
difficulties" The government said stationed on roads leading to the the nation's wage floor and boost Highways Committee
Brace had obtained a $50000 life campus Patrolmen were seen at the economy Sen Joe Bailey Cobb's committe
insurance policy prior to the crash several points and students said two It is indicated the p ro p osals will questioned four members chisel
January 3 on the eastern shore of were at registration lines in the
closely pattern Kenneciys p 1 a n
Maryland gymnasium that lost out last year This called last week and is expected to win
Brace's wife and three sons live The university has approximately for raising the $1 minimum to $115 up its hearings this week
at Dumfries Va His parent Mr 5000 students the first year after the effective Stuart particularly close to Go
and Mrs Cary E Brace reside in The governor University Chan-date and $12a minimum two years
Ray Ariz cellor J a Williams and other J Howard Edmondson was es
later New coverage of about 4 to
pected to come in for some pointe
The plane burned in a cornfield school officials declined to corn- 42 million workers would be on questioning specifically on turr
near Cambridee Md near the ment on the rsason for stationing the basis of the present $1 rate
Choptank River Searchers finding highw initially ay patroimen in the campus pike access roads
a flight jacket and opened para- I area Cobb smd others claim the acce!
New coverage proposals are also
chute had assumed Brace drowned ''It is Iso the best interest of the roads will drain too much highwa
likely to be much the same as
in the river when no lice of him state for me not to make a state- money away from other projects
under the former bill This in-
could be found ment" Barnett said in Jackson The commission met Monday an
eluded 2640000 retail and service
Nine days later police found a
enterprise employes except those awarded contracts for the Januar
flight suit hidden in brush along
the river Meanwhile a resident ot
Puerto Rican Gets Job employed by movie theaters ho- letting of $7033000 including th
motels and restaurants 157-
first two access road projects onth
Trappe who reported he had giTn " tels
a man a ride to Easton the night With Government 000 in laundries 107000 in local proposed eastern turnpike They at
transit systems 100000 seamen a bridge and some grading an
of the crash identified him from a
41000 telephone operators 32000 drainage south of Okmulgee
photograph as Brace WASHINGTON ill'i—Dr Arturo in fish processing and one million The commission also reinstate
Morales-Carrion a Puerto Rican
in establishments where employes Layman and Sons of Tulsa to th
will have the job of trying to im-
A ndrew Potter May prove U S relations with Latin ali eady are covered by the law list of approved state contractor
Rep Adam Clayton Powell 1)- The firm can bid on the March le
ct Attorney and educational field America primarily in the cultural
Be District NY H o u s e Labor Committee ling which was announced Mor
chairman promised after confer- day
Alorales 47 will operate from the '
OKLAHOMA CITY f 4' i — B An- position of deputy assistant secre- ring last week with Kennedy and The letting is for $2042000 wit
Goldberg that hearings will start an estimated $15 million going f(
drew Potter will be recommended tary of state for inter-American
next week Powell said he hoped 10 miles of Portland Cement pavir
soon for appointment as U S dis- affairs His appointment an-
to get the e n t i r e bill cleared on U S 271 between Hugo and t17
trict attorney in Oklahoma City I nounced Monday by President Ken-
through Congress by April
the Daily Oklahoman Washington nedy requires Senate confirmation Red River
Bureau said Monday Morales has had much the same
The newspaper said it is reported job as undersecretary of state for School Land Loans Hot Issue
Sen Robert S Kerr will nominate the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Potter to the Justice Department He is no stranger to the State De-
with Sen Mike Monroney con- partment having served from 1940
curring to 1943 in a newly established cul-
Previously Potter now 37 served tural relations division rantham-Led Figh
as an assistant U S district attor- Morales was born in Cuba of
hey in the same office He is the Puerto Rican parents He has been
son of the late Dr Andrew Potter undersecretary of state for the corn- By LARRY OSIUS sion aecretary said he believed ti
for many years executive secre- rnonwealth since 1953 serving on Associated Press Staff Writer members would "follow strictly tl
tary of the Oklahoma Baptist Con- various international commissions The school Land Commission language of the resolution declii
vention and attending many international loan fight broke into the open Mon-g
in to accept further applicanoi
conferences day as Oklahoma's legislature be- but processing the ones that thc
0 THE WEATHER
AT PONCA CITY AIRPORT: (d Miami the University of Puerto
(Data 110111 FFA Flight Rico and at olumbia
SVIV Ice Still 101I
7 pm 29 1 am 30
7 am 26 12 noon 30 i ABC Board Arrests
Today's high to 12 noon 30
1 Six in New Crackdown
Yesterday's maximum 30
Minimum past 24 hours 26 1
Precip 24 hours ending noon 14 ' OKLAHOMA CITY (P)---Officers
inch of the state Alcoholic Beverage
Relative humici:ty 73 percent at Coirtrol Board Illonday arrested six
12 noon 'persons here in a crackdown on
Max wind vclocity 17 mph Time private clubs
10 itan 1 Agents said in each case liquor
Barometric press 1 pm 2903 purchases were made by investiga-
falling tors in violation of state law
at l't 1111011C press reduced to sea "We have told the operators ct
'esti 3009 the private clubs it l:7 uawitil tu
AT PIKE STATION No I: sell intoxicating liquor over the
Today-s high 32 I bar" said liquor d i r 2 i o r Roy
Yesna days max annul 32 Parham "ke intend to entorce thr
Alauthunt past !-I hours 25 I law"
Americans
On Liner
Back Home
Rumors of Negroes
Being Admit1ed Al
College Spreading
wrvastN irtswisalliewlba rm WASHINGTON iTh—President Kennedy today keeps the promise he
made to send back to Congress the minimum wage legislation defeated
College Spreading there last year when as a senator he was its chief sponsor Activity in the Ponca City area
Kennedy is expected to recommend again legislation to boost the was almost at a standstill today as
present $1 per hour minimum to $125 in two stages and to extend cover- two more inches of snow fell over-
age to about 4 million additional workers The law now applies to about
-
'UNIVERSITY Miss iT) — Mid- 4 Million night making a six-inch accumula
term registration at the University
As a senator from Massachusetts and the Democratic presidential ton
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Inominee Kennedy steered such a bill through the Senate last August With the additional snow cover-
of Mississippi ended today amid after a bitter fight i — ti
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campus rumors that a Negro had I Ile refused to accept a milder House version remarking at the time ing the already 'icy roads minor
been accepted by mistake "We'd rather come back and try to do it in January" automobile mishaps had become so
According to the report one
A number of business organizations alreaoy are gearing for a fight numerous that highway patrol
'
1 against minimum wage expansion trooners were unable to investleate
Morales was graduated from the
University of Puerto Rico and re-
ceived degrees from the University
of Miami the University of Puerto
Rico and at golumbia
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INTER SCENES such as this one just east of Fourteenth Street on Pioneer Road tompensated
somewhat for hazardous road conditions caused by the whiter season's heaviest snow storm to date The
snow piled up to a depth of six inches before the btorm apparently moved out of the area this afternoon
President
Wage Bill
Grantham
By LARRY OSIUS
Associated Press Staff Writer
The school Land Commission
loan fight broke into the open Mon-
day as Oklahoma's legislature be-
gan its sixth week
A two-hour debate ended with a
Senate resolution telling the com-
mission to stop making loans at
three percent until the question of
higher rates is thrashed out
The House meanwhile advanced
nine bills to final passage but
stopped there when several mem-
bers calkd to say they were unable
to reach Oklahoma City because of
weather Among them was speaker
of the House J D McCarty
stranded in New York City where
he had attended a weekend meet-
ing Principal issue in the fight over
school land loans was whether the
resolution hould refer to some 94
applications already received by the
comr
I Sen Boy Grantham of Ponca
City Jell a fight to specifically ex-
I empt them but it was defeated
Later Woodrow George commis
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them all according to Trooper J I I CH9 I " I U ‘J JI
Road Commission Leonard Clay who received reports
of over 20 Monday None of the Top Command Says
Under Close Watch persons involved in the accidents
were reported to have sustained WASHINGTON (Al — The United
injuries
By Senate Group No school was conducted today Slates and the Soviet Union have
coins' strer3ith the new top Penta-
at Braden Uncas Kildare Burbank' gun command has concluded tenta-
McCord White Eagle Marland
OKL A H 0 M A CITY Ol'i — The tively
Pleasant View District 56 Peckham
state Highway Commission comes This finding—that there is no
Prairie Chapel country school :
under close scrutiny again today Shid ler and Conso1idated-106
with Chairman Roy Turner and Light snow was still tailing early
Tulsa member Harold Stuart to a p- this morning but had quit by 10
am Snow is expected to cease en-
pear before the Senate Roads and
tirely in the state by tonight the
Highways Committee weather bureau said At 7 am to-
Sen Joe Bailey Cobb's committee day there were nine inches of snow
questioned four members closely at Gage five at Oklahoma City
last week and is expected to wind I four at Ft Sill and three at Altus
Ardmore Hobart and Guymon
up its hearings this week All roads in the state are open
Stuart particularly close to Gov but the highway patrol and the
J Howard Edmondson was ex- highway department said most of
pected to come in for some pointed them are Icy and hazardous The
questioning specifically on turn- Associated Press reported trallic
pike access roads was snarled n U S il near Rush
Springs in Grady County and tor-
roads will drain too much highway Cobb rind others claim the access
ther south in the Comancht area
in
money away from other projects Stephens County also on U S
66 around the Bridgeport hill and
The commission met Monday and
Hinton Junction
awarded contracts for the January County and state workers worked
letting of $7033000 including the feverishly Monday afternoon to
first two access road projects on the grade the snow oil most highways
proposed eastern turnpike They are
in Kay County but Monday nights
a bridge and some grading and snowfall forced the workmen to re-
drainage south of Okmulgee
peat their work again today
The commission also reinstated
Layman and Sons of Tulsa to the
lkt tif nrmrnuori Onto vraltrnrinrc Former Police Chief Dies
pike access roads
Cobb rind others claim the access
roads will drain too much highway
money away from other projects
The commission met Monday and
awarded contracts for the January
letting of $7033000 including the
first two access road projects on the
proposed eastern turnpike They are
a bridge and some grading and
drainage south of Okmulgee
The commission also reinstated
Layman and Sons of Tulsa to the
list of approved state contractors
The firm can bid on the March let-
ting which was announced Monday
The letting is for $2042000 with !Monday night while visiting a I mer Vice President Richard M
an estimated $15 milhon going for !friend Montgomery also a former 1Nixon last October 21 Kennedy
10 miles of Portland Cement paving 1Rogers County sheriff and a retired said of the Soviets and their rnis-
on U S 271 between Hugo and the !member of the original Oklahoma ! sde strength compared to that of
Red River 'Highway Patrol lived in Salina the United States:
- Led Fight in House
sion secretary said he believed the I Sen Richard Romang of Enid nearly equal population It also
members would "follow strictly the author of the resolution answered would throw Republican Congress-
language of the resolution declin- "You talk about criticism You've
man Page Belcher of Enid into a
ing to accept further applications never had criticism like you'll have
but processing the ones that they if you don't stand up and be fight with Democrat Victor Wick-
already have" counted for the school children" er ShMi of Mangum for the 6th Dis-
Bills have been introduced in Other members of the commission trict Seat
both houses to raise the interest are Gov J Howard Edmondson Also introduced in the house by
rates to four percent or more They state Auditor Andy Anderson and Rep A J Lance of Alex was a bill
currently are fixed at three percent Dr Oliver Hodge superintendent of to put Oklahoma under daylight
Another bill was introduced in the public instruction saving time in summer months
Senate Monday to raise it to the The Senate also passed three Among the House bills advanced
highest interest rate paid on fed- minor bills including one raising
to final passage were five per-
m
eral government bonds the travel pay of county judges
from six cents to eight cents a mile itting state colleges and univer-
The three percent loans have sities to sell self liquidating bonds
The measures passed by the House
drawn criticism on grounds that to the federal government at lower
now go to the governor
they are going to wealthy persons interest rates and a bill bringing
Two previously publicized bills 1
who don't need lm and that they
were introduced Monday state bank regulations more nearly
have been used for speculative pur- in line with those controlling na-
poses One by Sen Ed Berrong of !tonal banks
Revenue from school land loans NVeathertord would sharply limit I Two bills requiring ownership of
The three percent loans have
drawn criticism on grounds that
they are going to wealthy persons
who don't need tom and that they
have been used for speculative pur-
poses Revenue from school land loans
goes to common schools In the last
fiscal year the fund yielded $23
million
Sen Boyd Cowden of Chandler
was leery of the rusolution saying
"I'm wondering if the School Land
Commission is wanting us to get
behind them or do they Wiint to
hide behind usr
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Measures 6 Inches
Some Schools Close
two more inches of snow fell over-
night making a six-inch accumula-
ton
With the addAional snow cover-
ing the already 'icy roads minor
automobile mishaps had become so
numerous that highway patrol
troopers were unable to investigate
them all according to Trooper
ther south in the Comanche area Appareo shpre is not suffi-
in Stephens County also on U S tient information at hand to con-
66 around the Bridgeport hill and elude whether there would be a
Hinton Junction "missile gap" in the future
County and state workers worked These tentative conclusions
feverishly Monday afternoon to emerged from a comprehensive re-
grade the snow oil most highways view of strategy defense weapons
in Kay County but Monday nights and policy ordered by Kennedy as
snowfall forced the workmen to re- a prelude to strengthening US de-
peat their work again today lenses
In his State of the Union mes-
sage January 30 Kennedy said he
Former Police Clief Dies
had ordered the reappraisal of mill-
SALINA — A former Clore- tary strategy to meet a coining
more police chief Paid W Mont- "period of uncertain risk"
gomery 64 collapsed and died here In his fourth debate with for-
Monday night while visiting a mer Vice President Richard M
friend Montgomery also a former Nixon last October 21 Kennedy
The measures passed by the House to the federal government at lower
now go to the governor interest rates and a bill bringing
Two previously publicized bills state bank regulations more nearly
were introduced Monday in line with those controlling na-
One by Sen Ed Berrong tional banks
NVeathertord would sharply limit Two bills requiring ownership of
expenditures from the governor's coin operated cigaret and music
emergency and contingency fund maclignes to be at least partly in
It also would give the legislature Oklahoma residents' hands also
the right to make recommendations were approved
en how the money should be spent The House rules committee is
The other introduced by Rep scheduled to meet with Frank
Clyde Sore of Bartlesville would Lyons new state highway director
realign the states six congressional today The meeting IA as postponed
districts to give the districts more l front Monday
Judge ‘pletesTwo
Ways of entencing
Electrical Companies
Snowstorm
Spreading
Into East
By The Associaited Press
Snow sleet ram and fog be-
seiged Texas while the Northeast-
ern States labored today to eradi-
cate the drifts of their multimillion-dollar
veekend storm
On to two inches of new snow
fell in an area from north-central
Texas through eastern Oklahoma
and into eastern Kansas The snow
is spreading toward the in
Mississippi and the 10 r Ohio
River Valley Spared frotn the new
snowfall was Texas' eastern Pan
handle buried under previous
amounts up to 12 inches
Texas had snow as far south as
Eagle Pass near Laredo where
snow is rare Schools were closed
in scores of places
Clear skies brought relief to the
Northeastern states victims of the
weekend storm that left snow as
deep as 174 inches The seven
states hardest hit by the snow re-
ported more than 55 storm deaths
Vhi1e the Northeast struggled
with snow Midwest water traffic
labored against ice floes that
jananed the Great Lakes and the
Ohio River Ice jams closed four
dams on 70 miles of the Ohio
River A spokesman of the US
Engineers said it was very daft-
cult to move any traffic through
the heavy ice Ile said the worst
stretch was the 180 miles between
Marysville and Louisville Ky
Temperatures generally were be-
low freezing except for marks in
the 40s and 50s in the West from
Washington and Idaho southward
and in the Southeast Tempera-
tures in the 60s and around 70 oc-
curred in central and southern
Florida
VV aSnl" port di ILI iuiiu ()UUI
and in the Southeast Temp
tures in the 60s and around 70
curred in central and soul'
Florida
" ussia Has Equal
Strength to U S
i I
t
Top Command Says
WASHINGTON 01— The United
States and the Soviet Union have
colic' strength the new top Penta-
gon command has concluded tenta-
lively
This finding—that there is no
"missile gap" favoring the Soviet
Union at present—is based on a
swift but careful investigation or-
dered by President Kennedy
The conclusion coincides with
former President Dwight D Eis-
enhower's view He said January
12 in his farewell State of the Un-
ion message "The 'bomber gap of
several years ago was always a
fiction and the 'missile gap' shows
every sign of being the same"
The new civilian chiefs at the
Pentagon also are convinced that
there is no "destruction gap" that
would imperil US security in the
months ahead?
APPare":' sh"re is not stall"
tient information at hand to con-
elude whether there would be a
"missile gap" in the future
These t e n t a t i v e conclusions
emerged from a comprehensive re-
vililitiwpt)ilficsytr(antedgeyreddtb!fyenKseenwn(edaiyainas s
a prelude to strengthening US de-
sage January 30 Kennedy said he
had ordered the reappraisal of mill-
tidy strategy to meet a coining
"period of uncertain risk"
In his fourth debate with for-
mer Vice President Richard M
Nixon last October 21 Kennedy
said of the Soviets and their rnis-
silt' strength compared to that of
the United States:
Defeated
uncoaurlidy therqouwal Rpelo)iumbilaictaionncoIntgraelssso
ersMmi Of Mangum for the 6th as-
mfigatillt P:'igteh BDcelicnhoccrrat()f IWnti°cka-
trict Seat
Also introduced in the house by
Rep A J Lance of Alex was a
to put Oklahoma under daylight
saving tune in summer months
Among the House bills advanced
Defeated
I
Countries Press
For Release Of
Premier Lumumba
UNITED NATIONS NY 0'1 —
Asian and African nations hopeful
of support from the United States
pressed their campaign in the US
Security Council today for release
from prison of deposed Congo Pre-
mie l'atrice Lumumba
Ceylon the United Arab Republic
and Liberia were preparing a reso-
lution demanding release of Lu-
mumba disarming of The Congo
army led by Maj Gen Joseph Mo-
butu arid rectinvening of Tlie Congo
Parliament
With US Ambassador Ad lai E
Stevenson telling newsmen
V011ild not speak in the couneil's
Congo debate beftwe Miednesday
Lumumba's supporters were expect-
ed to dominate the discussion oday
There was no definite word from
Stevenson whether the Kennedy
!administration's Congo policy would
specifically support liberation of the
deposed Congo leader now in prison
in Katanga Province
Stevenson has been engaged in
a round of private conferences with
council members and other dele-
gates Monday he talked with Seeretary-General
Dag Dammarskjold
'and the chief Soviet UN represent-
ative Deputy Foreign Minister Val-
erian A Zorin
John Rogers Admits
Employes Solicited
For Contributions
OKLAHOMA ClryUP)—Exam-
iner and Inspector John M Rogers
in effect admitted today employes
under him were solicited for poll
heal contributions But he declared
he did not order the solicitations
and knew nothing about them until
later
Rogers was called to testify be-
fore the House Investigating Corn
mittee after charges were made
by Rep Jack Skaggs Oklahoma
City
Skaggs took the floor first and
i showed affidavits made by former
I employes under Rogers who said
i they had been asked to contribute
i 30 percent of a month's salary
1 He said the contributions were
"a political slush fund for the
i fur
examiner and inspector the next
time he runs for office"
Skaggs said One employe testi-
fled Of being asked to contribute
$10 for the campaign of John no-
gers Jr The young Rogers opposed
Skaggs in the House race last sum-
mer
'
Rogers later took the Nor and
stated: "I hir'e here affidavilq that
clear me as far as the staff is con-
corned
contributions d n i trihbau rtioso knowledge
taken
e
I was
up
at no meetings and knew
nothing about it when it was going
on
All I know about it is hearsay"
'
from 92 of the approximately 120 Rogers said he had affidavits
workers under him
Hoffa Says Nationwide
Strike Is Bad Business
MIAMI BEACH Fla GPi---Though
the Teamsters Union expects to
have a nationwide contract in three
years James R lloffa says there
would never be a nationwide strike
of truck drivers
The boss of the gigantic union
told a press conference Monday
such a strike "justwouldn't be good
business for the union"
coNn ttga(cAtialAt'll(Insbefl rtthecl ry:iswbidee
fore the present contracts expire
Feb 1 1964 Hoffa said
has contracts in the central South-
He pointed out the union now
New York New Jersey and
West Vir!inia areas Because many
ern
of the 700u employers in these
areas also operate elsewhere linfla
said "the majority are already corn-
mated" to a national contract
s
Kennedy s Sister Feels
liewels To Be Recovered
KLOSTERS Switzerland (—Mrs
Peter Lawford sister of President
Kennedy said today the New York
police are confident the $30090
worth of jewelry recently stolen
from her New York hotel suite will
be recovered
Mrs Law ford arrived for a 10-day
skiing holiday at this fashionable
resort by automobile
Asked about the theft of her jew-
elry she told newsmen: "The police
told me I'll get it Welt"
New York police have complained
she avoided discussing the theft
with them Mrs Lawford declined
to elaborate vit her tatciiienL
Fines Total
$1924000
PIMA DELPHIA VP) — Fines
against electrical manufacturing
companies reached almost $2 mil
lion today as a federal judge corn
!Acted two days of sentencing for
antitrust violations
Chief Judge J Cullen Caney in
U S District Court completed sen-
tencing on 14 indictments in a little
over two hours today compared
with Mondays day-long session on
six indictments
The difference was that Monday
defense attorneys made lengthy
talks Today most of them said
they stood on what they had said
Monday
Sentencing moved so fast today
that at one point Ganey pronounced
a $20000 fine on Cornell-Dubilier
Electric Co Plainfield N J be-
fore asking the company attorney
if he had anything to say
The lawyer jumped to his feet
Caney appologized saying:
' "Oh excuse me I have these
worked out so well that I did not
notice"
The lawyer said he felt his com-
pany was innocent After he com-
pleted his talk Ganey repeated
the $20000 fine
The 29 companies and 45 Indi4
viduals involved were charged with
price fixing and bid rigging in the
sale of equipment that generates
transmits and distributes electric
power Fines totaled $1924000
'twenty-two corporate defendants
were fined $964500 today on 14 in-
dictments Fourteen of their ex-
ecutives were fined $28500 and five
of the 14 also received suspended
30-day jail terms
Monday Judge Caney sentenced
seven executives to jail for 30 days
and gave 19 others 30-day 'sus-
pended sentences All those receiv-
ing suspended sentences also were
placed on five-year probation
"where a watchful eye can be kept
on their activitlet" — ' '
Monday Ganey fined 21 firms
$822000 and 36 executi7ee $109000
In many cases companies and in-
' dividuals were fined several times
accounting for the overlapping to
tals
Ganey rejected defense pleas
against imposing jail sentences
But he did soften the govern-
ment's demands for even harsher
penalties while labeling the case
"a shocking indictment of a vast
section of our economy"
The antitrust cases were pre-
pared and prosecuted under the ad
ministration of former President
Eisenhower and Justice Depart-
ment recommendations for sentenc-
ing were delivered to Caney before
the Kennedy administration took
office
However the new attorney gen-
eral Robert F Kennedy sent a
message to Ganey which was read
in court Monday saying that after
reviewing the cases he favored
"even more severe sentences" than
previously recommended by the
Justice Department
Under their recommendations
the government sought fines 0-
taling $1 227500 and jail far 23-
fi said the ease involved frog
doing an annual business of $2
billion or over $8 billion during
the indictment period between
1955 and 1959
Judge Caney a former U S at-
torney who hal been on the bench
for 20 years said the 29 corpora-
tions and the 45 men "flagrantly
mocked the image of the economic
system of free enterprise which we
profess to the country" He said
they "destroyed the model which
we offer today as a free world
alternative to state control and
eventual dictatorship"
Only six of the 20 indictments
handed un by four federal grand
Juries last year were disposed of
Monday
The 21 firms including Ameri-
ica's two bieeest—General Electric
Co and Westinghouse Electric
Corp—were fined a total of $822-
1500
Accused Slayer Confined
At State Hospital
VINITA 61P) — Accused slayer
Howard Lowery was confined at
Eastern State Hospital here today
for a maximum 90-day observation
period
Lowery 23 was ordered to the
Vinita hospital by U& District
Judge William L Fogg at El Reno
on application of Canadian County
Atty John V Whelan The Bethany
man escaped from jail there the
night of January 26 but was ar-
rested early the next day in Okla-
homa City
Lowery is charged with the slay-
ing of Dan W Sims 28 Worth-
ington Pa last July Sims' body
was found neiir Yukon
Goodwill Representative Named
OKLAHOMA CITY it1)---Gov J
Howard Edmondson announced to-
day Mrs Clarice Eleanor Dunn
Tulsa has been designated Okla-
!homa's goodwill representative to
'Italy Greece Turkey and France
!Mrs Dunn submitted a winning en-
try in a nationwide contest on why
:Americans should help people Li
i other countries
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