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•/":<-*-.-•*•-.«*- m wn ^r>'-f? - -\ \ • ; H *m . ' j i . . R«oordef EaUbllihed 1S$S—D*roocrtt Estsblished Consolidated 1^93 Vol.LXXXI, No. 113 Reds Arms Plan Might Pressure Western Action „ Freighter, Carrying 37 Crew Member*, Breaking U p On Keef Southeast of Singapore; Storm-Whipped Seq» Making Rescue Difficult; Several Crewmen Are Spotted on Small Island Near Ship Wreckage Kennedy to Meet ^Newsmen; May Reveal His CarfftMacy ^ MOSCOW UP) — Nikita Khrushchev's hint that the Soviet Union might go it alone in cutting armed forces strength suggested today the opening move in a new maneuver to force the West's hand on disarmament. The Soviet Premier told a New Year's reception "if the cold war exponents drag us into labyrinths of endless verbal discussions, should we adopt the way onto which they want to prod us? "Shouldn't we do some thinking for ourselves, reduce our armed forces unilaterally and entrust the defense of our borders to rockets?" Cautious U.S. Greeting Khrushchev's declaration. Rounded before foreign diplomats among the' 1.500 guests at the Kremlin reception, was greeted cautiously in Washington. • But tbe initial reaction was that the Soviet leader's words may represent the opening move in an attempt to marshal world opinion and pressure the Western powers into .accepting his pet disarmament proposal at the East-West talks opening in Geneva Ma^ch 15. The proposal, submitted to the United Nations by Khrushchev during his U.S. visit last year, calls for total disarmament within four years. Khrushchev said in *his New Year's Eve statement that "if our proposals are accented w*> are ready to dissolve our army any time and all our military will welcome this decision." Agree In Principle Western leaders go along with Khrushchev's proposal in principle b u t maintain it is too vague on the crucial issue of controls. (Concluded -on Page Nine) Greet New Era With Prayers, Fun. and Frolic By T H E ASSOCIATED PRESS Fun and frolic greeted the first hours of 1960 Friday, followed by church services, parades and bowl football games. The advent of a new decade gave added impetus t o ' c e l e b r a -4ionsr-wtth hopes high" for an era of happiness and prosperity Merrymakers throughout the world0 cut loose with cheery greetings and noisemakers. Auto horns blared in Paris and in other cities and towns. Fireworks added to the din in such far-removed areas -as Germany and Red. China. Although most parties were held in private, homes in the Soviet UnhTFT cfowrTs thronged Moscow streets amid special decorations. President Fisenhower spent the holiday with friends and family at Augusta, Ga. Fapal Blessing* In Rome. Prpe John XXIII gave his blessings to 20.000 Romans and tourists eathered in Vatican City's St. Peter's Square. It was a chilly day at.Pasadena'7 Calif., but more than a million persons turned out to view the annual Tournament of Roses parade. Acting as grand marshal was Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who was accompanied by his wife p a t . Their two daughters. Patricia' 14. and Julie. 11. were amone those In the grandstand along with Chief Justice Farl Warren and California Gov. Edmund G. Brown. More than 330,000 football fans turned out for contests at Pasadena (Rose Botol), Dallas (Cotton Bowl).. New Orleans (Sucrar Bowl) and Miami (Orange Bowl). Nightspot* everywhere reported record business, and New York's Times Souare—roped off for celebrants—drew more than 300.000 persons. Where »o Find Ouirfli. Page • t C U i ' l h e d Adu 11 Comic* 7 Crossword P n u l e . . . . . • • • 1 Editorials • » • » • • • • • • • • • • • 4 Obituaries * Snort* Pages *••• *. • Television ."..... H Weather* • • • » • * • • • • • • • • • • , 1 * Women's Page * 7 CENTS I* wsauy ar Ctrftm American Freighter Splits After HittingKeef: Save Part of Crew Khrushchev Plan Receives Cautious-Keception From Washington; Reds Would Use Rockets for Defense . Full A»*ocut*d Pr««i Report by L«ued Wlr«. Officiil City and County Paper Amsterdam, N.Y., Saturday, January 2, 1 9 6 0 J PLANE CRASHES NEAR ST. JOHNSVILLE — A light plane piloted by Elmer C. Brown, 42, of St. Johnsvlllc, is shown in a field west of that village where it crashed early yesterday afternoon~Wnlte~tne pilot was attempting a landing. Brown apparently lost altitude tod fast as he approached Nellis Field, south of St. Johnsville, and tried to make an emergency landlng~~lu" a pastuir amrth-of-Kouto ft Hr suU fered a possible "skull fracture, possible fracture of the right ankle, also cuts and bruises and was admitted to Little Falls Hospital. (Photo courtesy of Montgomery County Sheriff's Department) Light Plane Crashes in Field, St. Johnsville Pilot Is Injured WASHINGTON UP) — Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass) called a news conference today with all advance* signs pointing to a formal statement that he is seeking the Democratic presidential TTbminatiori. That would make official MONTREAL L3B - Four m a s k i cd bandits hijacked a Railway Ex- what lias been no secret for press truck manned by three arm- nearly two years — that he ed guards Friday night and got away w i t h an undetermined will battle in the primaries and at the Los "Angeles conamount of money and jewelry. - Police said the theft of the vention for the prize. Bandits Hijack Truck Manned With 3 Guards SINGAPORE UP) — The American freighter .Valley Forge, carrying 37 crew members, broke up today afte? miming aground on treacherous reefs 50 miles southeast of Singapore, The. British navy said at least 26 of the men have been picked up. Several others were spotted by a, rescue plane on a small island near the twisted wreckage of the freighter. * Stormy Seas. ' Eight crewmen from the .7,202ton ship'were rescued by ft *B1* vage tug which bat,Ued mourttainoujs seas and gale-force wind* in a futile attempt to save her. A British navy vessel took aboard 18 others from an unlnhabitated island several miles from T O K Y O UP>— Peiping told In- the spot where the Valley F o r g e dia today Red China needs "a grounded. The 18 e a r n e r had long-term peaceful international made an unsuccessful a t t e m p t t o environment" to build up its econ- reach the tug in a lifeboat. omy and made a new offer to The navy said a Royal. Air settle their border dispute. Force plane repor'ted t h a t o t h e r But the plan broadcast by Pei- crewmen had reached Bintan I s ping called for forces of each side land, the largest of the Indonesian' to withdraw 12l,s miles from pres- islands southeast of Singapore. There was no immediate report ent positions, a proposal rejected on whether those on the island twice previously by India. were ship Capt. Peter R. P e t r o n e Prime Minister, Nehru turned and six of his men, who previousdown the Red Chinese previously ly were believed to have* reached because such a withdrfiwal would leave Red Chinese t r o o p s still another island in the area. deep in territory India regards as The Valley Forge, a Liberty ship built in 1943, is owned by t h e its own. Peninsular Navigation Co. of New Suggest Nehru Talks Premier Chou En-lai again sug- York. Ctnpplete Loss » gested a meeting with Nehru to agree on some principles on the The freighter was en route to boundary dispute. Nehru, in re- Singapore with 10,000 tons of jecting sdeh a meeting recently, wheat. Agents here said the ship, said he wants These—principles valued at about 5300,000 without worked out in advance. cargo, is probably a complete loss, "In order to attain their great The vessel ran aground oft goals in peaceful construction." Mapor Island 1n Indonesian wathe Peiping note said, "the Chi- ters on New Year's Eve. F i r s t \ (Concluded on Page Nine) messages repotted w a t e r was pouring into the engine room and holds. The salvage tug Griper reached the area just as the vessel was beginning to break apart. A lifeboat carrying eight crewmen" w a i tossed dangerously by.high waves but managed to reach the tug. AUGUSTA. Ga; <.*P>—President Drifts Out of Sight Eisenhower will try today to butThe lifeboat with four crewmen ton up his budget for the 1961 fis- returned to the Valley Forge and cal year. started back toward the tug with Work on the budget, expected 18 more passengers but was unto hit a peacetime record of 81 able to reach the "Griper. It billion dollars, was the first offi- drifted out of sight In the towercial business of the new year for ing waves. Eisenhower. Two British«.minesweepers and The President took a holiday on several British plines were routed Neyv Year's Day-x-even from golf. to the area. It was a cold, rainy day. So Another plane dropped food and he stayed indoors at the vacation clothing to the ' s e v e n .men White House at Augusta National stranded on the island. Golf Club and watched the footThe eight crewmen rescued by ball bowl games on television. the (OR were identified as Gerald Budget Director MUTIrTce H. W. Tucker. Portland, Ore.; Frrst Stans flew down from Washing- Asst. Engineer Vaujin Jankovtcf ton Friday night for the budget Third h'neineer Clarence J. Baker, conference, together with his dep- Seattle. Wash.: John C Hunt, uty, Elmer Staats. Eisenhower's j Seattle; Alejandro Valenzuela, San deputy assistant. Gerald Morgan, FranciscV>: Deios Snead, Baltimore, and Robert Merriam, the Presi- Md.; William Datzko, Brooklyn, dent's special assistant for inter- N.Y.; and Fred K. Lund, Portland,, departmental affairs. Ore. Peiping Makes New Peace Bid To Indian Gov't truck and of two heavy strong . Marks Final Stage boxes it was carrying must have For Kennedy, formal 'enjry into been the result of long and care- the race apparently marks the ful planning. final intensive stage of campaign The truck was making a quar- that has carried him into nearly ter-mile trip between two railroad every s t a t e and has involved him stations. in several controversies. The crash of a light plane* Driver Paul-Emile LaRocque of Some-of these revolve about the early yesterday afternoon in Montreal — who was not a r m e d - 42-year-old senator's Roman Cathtold police a green sedan pulled olic religion. Others stem from a field near St. Johnsville rein front and stopped, blocking the his activity in connection with sulted in injuries to the pilot, truck's path. Congress' passage last year of Elmer C. Brown; 42, of St. The four bandits leaped from compromise labor control legislathe car and covered the truck tion. Johnsville. from all sides with drawn pistols He hel[>ed push through a bill Brown is a patient in Little A warning shot was fired through which organized labor contended a window of the cab. Falls Hospital with multiple would seriously handicap it, and Guard Robert Waterson of Mon- which anti-labor forces said didn't injuries believed to be not By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS treal, sitting beside LaRocque, go far enough to clean up abuses. serious. Traffic '. 194 Severe' wintry weather, with ••was cut on the face by flying By all the political signs, KenFires 30 . Student Pilot glass and the bullet struck the nedy is the front runner for a heavy snow, strong winds and miscellaneous SO The accident happened about other' side of the cab just above nomination for which Sen. Hubert 12:15 yesterday afternoon as the cold, gripped wide areas in the LaRocque's .head. H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) anTotal 254 Sti Johnsville man, a student pilot, Midwest and West today. "We didn'.t move or*, say any- nounced Wednesday and which was coming in for a landing. He Blizzard conditions prevailed in thing," Waterson said. Adlai E. Stevenson. Senate DemoThe nation's traffic deaths, av- had taken off, about a half hour Two New Yorkers sections from northwest Kansas cratic leader lA'ndon_R_Johnson eraging moVe than six each hour earlier from Nellis Field, located The four then leaped into the -of-T-eJtas-atnr^eTTr^Tu^rT^ymingnorthward through Western^NeFriday and seemingly heading for two miles south of St.^J truck and overpowered the two ton (D-Mo.) also may seek. a new record for a three-day Hewbraska, eastern Wyoming and armed guards inside — Leo F . He to police he had cir P Hasn't Needed Vote* Yea? holiday, tapered off during Montana and most of the Dakotas. cled the area several times to (Concluded on Paj« Ten) But even Kennedy's ardent supthe morning hours. . accummulate f l y i n g time. Strong northerly winds whipped porters concede" he hasn't in sight The heavy toll since the start When he made his- approach how the 761 votes he would heed the blowing snow. The Weather of the long holiday weekend at for a landing, he- apparently to win the nomination at the July 6 p.m. Thursday was termed Bureau extended its warning for ' l o s t altitude too fast and de11 convention in Los Angeles. shocking by the National Safety cided to set down In a pas- blizzard conditions and heavy Because of this the MassachuCouncil. snow through today in the Dakoture, just south of Route 5. setts senator is expected to make The council, in a pre-holiday W i t n m c s raid t h r plane, a sin- tas and eastern Nebraska. wide ranging forays into presidenStat"™*"*, estimated T^a-^^mrr The New Year Day snow belt touched may be killed, during the'78-hour gle-engine Taylorcraft, MONTREAL UP) — Flood r looQ \wa tial primaries. He has been unable extended from the upper Missisholiday period, which ends at the highway and bounced back sippi valley into eastern sections ters backing up behind An ice (Concluded on Page Ten) into the air. One wingtip hit a midnight Sunday. tree and the plane nosed into the of the Rockies from Colorado into jam in the Rivieres des /Prairies It said if the pace set' Friday Montana. Wind gusts reached up dropped a foot in 24 hefurs, but was maintained up to midnight ground. to 60 m.p.h., cutting visibility to riverbank communities expect no Taken 'to Hospital Sunday, the toll would run above real relief for two or three days. near zero in some areas. Brown was removed to an auto400. The record traffic death toll Bordeaux, a northern (Jistrict of Over Foot of Snow for a three-day N e w ^ e a r period mobile owned by Lloyd Blencoe. falls ranged up to more^ Montreal, was declared an emerSnow St. Johnsville R.D., and from was 364 a t the start of 1956. gency area Friday night and than a foot in Arizona as the ROCHESTER. N.Y. UP) — ElecDriving in wide areas in the there was' removed to the office storm swept across the southwes't placed under civil defense. The trical and telephone service to of Dr. Raymond E. Wytrwal in -West_and Midwest, hit by heavy Thursday! dumping heavy snow in army was called in to help in thousands of Western New York snowstorms, was hazardous. How- St. Johnsville. He was later taften parts of New Mexico with heavy Bordeaux and the suburban comresidents, interrupted last Monever, fatalities on the highways to Little Falls Hospital in Lull falls in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming munities of Laval des Rapides, day night by a sleet storm, ambulance. were not heavy in the stormL'Abord a Plouffe, and Riviere neared restoration today. and Montana. The accident happened approxistricken region. The* storm was blamed for at des Prairies. A spokesman for the Rochester During one six-hour period Fri- mately three miles west of St. Quebec hydro crews, beginning Gas & Electric Corp. said it was least eight deaths. Johnsville. the plane coming to day, fatalities on the highways Heavy snow warnings were post- their fourth day of setting off dy- expected that the service* to averaged more than 10 an hour. rest on,the south, side of Rou*e 5 namite charges in-efforts to loosen The council said the rate during The plane stoppc(lfa£in^_ejLsi_ydth-ed for MinncsQla^^Vi&conain-ftnd the ice jam. said at least two blacked-out homes would be rethe-first-day-oMDflO was far ao_oye~ Its right wing against a small tree. upper Michigan. Warnings were more da\s will be needed to re- sumed by nightfall. Customers in the Buffalo subthe daily normsi~Tnofor~ vehicle The nose and left wing were con- issued to motorists of hazardous lease the pent-up water. About 100 urbs whose power was interruptdeath rate of slightly more than siderably damaged and theTVirrcF driving conditions in the snow belt families have been evacuated ed by snapping electric .lines in a'nd in northwest -and northeast shie'id was broken. 100 per day. from the communities since the the wake Of the area's most stagIowa, where freezing rain was inLine W. Klock Jr., who flew the An associated Press survey durwaters rose suddenly Tuesday. gering storm in many years, had dicated. ing a non-holiday weekend cover- plane prior to Brown, said he enA Civil Defense staff under MaJ. electricity restored New Year's Temperatures dropped below ing the same three-day period, countered no difficulty with the Maurice St. Pierre, Montreal Dis- Eve. « zero in "kestern Montana southcraft. Dec. 10-13, showed 324 traffic trict area commander, removed Upwards of 30.(XX) homes in westward into the plateau areas deaths. (Concluded on Page Nine) of Nevada and Utah. Readings' 11 families from Bordeaux today. Western New York were affected were in the teens and 20s in the Water still was 4 to 10 feet deep and another estimated 5.000 telein low arras along the riverbanks phones were out of service _for a fresh storm h^lt. Flood areas froze over during period. F a i r a n d a little* colder weather The Rochester power corporaprevailed along the Atlantic Coast the night, and evacuation by boat was hazardous. tion said there were "some isofrom the Carolinas northward^ The jam developed when chunks Hated areas" in the suburbs where Light drizzle and foK continued in parts ot the South from castlof floating ice piled up at the Ca- power might still be out. but the Texas and Arkansas eastward to nadian Pacific Railway bridge at heaviest load of interruptions BUFFALO, N.Y. l/P)—Po-*' W A S H I N G T O N UP) — * Tennessee and*Georgia. 'suburban Pont Viau. (would be restored before Sunday lice, short on clues and at a church described the priest as Should Congress pass new; Now the only punishment is the "outstanding" .and as a man who one of revoking the staloss for a motive, mave is- had laws to stamp out payola, rig- drastic no enemies. tion's license. Rogers suggested S p e c i a l C o m m i t t e e R e p o r t s sued an appeal for public aid Mayor Frank Sedita, a close ging and deception in the tel- lesser ]>cnalrics, such as temporin tracking the gunman who friend, said the priest "was one ary suspension of licenses or gra,nt evision and radio industry? the finest men I ever m e t In ary -suspension of licenses or murdered a 38-year-old Ro- of A.-nurnber of congressmen lesser penalties, such as tcmnormy life." man Catholic priest here. think so, and they're ready granting of conditional licenses. Father Belle was about to leave on house mils to give communion R.ev. Vincent L. Belle, pop•Wants Much Tighter Code to go to work on ( it as soon ALBANY, N.Y. OT> — The* to ill parishioners. Springer wants to go much as Congress convenes next further in tightening up the law. State Board of Parole should The committee suggested thaljaries for parole officers, Increased ular assistant pastor at Holy It un* first b e l i e v e d \ i h a t Wednesday. "The iron is hot "I hope we get promptly into be enlarged and the state's the Parole Board's membership staffs, especially in New York Cross Church, was ambushed hr Miflcred a heart a t t a c k . be incieased from five to seven to City, and changes in internal or- as he was about to start his now,** says Rep. William L. such things as better programThe bullet wounds were dishandle Hie growing ca<=e load The, gam /.a tion add procedure. parole system modernized, a ming and control of objectionable covered by an u n d e r t a k e r . Springer (R-Ill). board uiged the addition of fourj The Parole Board rejected a car in a^ parish parage New advertising," ho said. Springer is special committee says. "He looked nn though h e waa members | committer prop^aj/^that one Year's Hay. Already Have Power a member of the House sul>comasleep." said the Rev. F r a n k J . The ei£ht-moml>ec commit- Both rcjxtrts were submitted to board meml>er preside at a parole Flre.l Pnlnt-lllrtrik B u t ' A t t y \ C e n . William P. Rog- mittee on- Legislative "Oversight, ' Zucch. another assistant pastor. hearing and that each rase be prePoiice said the assailant slipped ers thinks the two government which uncovered the TV quiz show tee which has studied the Gov. Rockefeller. Kxaminer'i Assumption Fa'vor Present S\*tem sente'd to a four-inemlwr panel of [up to the open driver's door aijd mess last year. system since 1957. said ih a Dr. Rcxvo N. De Dominkis, agencies, that regulate broadcastThe committee called for con the Ixvml for. decision. Hearingsj f , r C ( | , h r r p h „ | | o l s pninl - blank Another nieml>cr. Rep. John county medical examiner, said he ing already have the power to do E. Moss (Calif.), said he agreed report Friday that the sys- linuatlon. of the present s>«tem nmv are conducted by three mem- from a .'V2-raliher pi<sfol Two first presume* death w a s from the^jpb. He says they just haven't with Rogers that the FTC and tem was basically'sound but "of ah autonomous parole u s t e m j b e r s . bullets entered the priest's side natural causes. Death c a m * ad , outside the Correction DepartThe board sajd that pVison in- The third -{shattered his left arm been using that power, as they FCC already have the power to needed some overhauling. quickly there was no external ' mates would resent "one-man' m P n t •• (lues were few. Anppnrentshould. Another group of congress4*io the job bleed irrg. . Agree In T'rinrlpff It said there was no "irupula- decisions and that it would, take ly no one heard the *hotv No men agree with Rogers But h* added, "Unless they ' ' Who would ever t h i n k tomeona The Parole Board, in a s e p a r a t e i , j 0 n 0 f venality or corruption" on™*?- m a " "three times as tong to gun or Jhrlln were found. Rogers gave t h a t view m a *ho\v willfngQc«« and thflr would want to shoot a p r i e s t ? " ha report, agreed in principle. How-|the part of parole officials. al-|Process the case than under the Nothing In the _garage wan lengthy pre-New Year's r e p o r t ' t o own conviction to proceed unsaid. He later issued a c e r t i f i c a t e / cli-.tnr Ix-d — nothing to indithe board differed with though its study had disclosed I present rneth.*!.,._ President Elsenhower, who had der eklfttlng authority, then I of homicide. IT|P ever, cate the priest MirprUed a "certain inherent defects and; noarn agrecn generally asked him for a study of the sitfeel CongreM mutt direct by many of. the commit tee's detailed "occasional lapses in a p p n n o d , " ' ' " " a committee recommendahereV-atsoTutely no r e t * burglar. uation after congressional inves- vlf-cM.UIon that they do the v Vccommcndations. practiccs" tion that selected poisons on par bery motive h e r e , " said H a r r y l.atcr__puliL'«Htt:rdF-H"lViihlic aptigation laid bare a-series of TV thing* -m«ee««ary^ Th> committer was appointed in Tta-rnmrnltUN.' Mid MHUI uf I h e M » tor three yeart-witbaut-viola 7>eXrTorjcmes. They said the cun(i. Klenk, chief of i h e police scandals. ; i. _—-—- - R e j v W a l t e r ? . Rogers (D-Tex.) 1957 by former Democratic Gov. s y s t e m s fault stemmed from the|tion be discharged from parole, man nffght have once consulted homicide bureau. H e s m h r t h t Rogers did nrge twrt'Tmmrsaid "FCC and F T C *imply laid growth of Ihe state's popular ion jThe* board said it had asked the the priest for- guidance. Lists of pr|Mt carried no eaah. diate change* In the law: (1) dowr on tb» job. 8. He said they Averell Harriman. jeeent escapees from mental inHarriman acted during a politi- and the consequent. increase in J^jjislature for this, power Father Belle, a native of feuf< make 41 a federal crime for thould be, empowered t a ' . a s s e s i Another Suggestion. / s t i t u t i o n s were l>cing compiled. falo, was ordained 13 y a a r a a g o » TV or radio employe to take money fines against o f f e n d e d Tn cal uproar that followed dismissal the number of prisoners. Another suggestion endorsed l v It looks like Ihe work of a fa- and hnd^ been assistant p a s t o r a t of parole violation charges p»>o!« — #rrrpt ft hrlhr to plug "The Parole Division -has not the industry. natic." said Dist; Atty. Carman Holy Cross for' t h e p a s t 12 y e a r s the board called for expansion of ft product on the air, or .(2) Rep. John B. Bennett (R-Mich.), against labor racketeer Joseph grown commensurate with its re, Ball. the Parole Placement Bureau, give the Federal CommunlraPolice doubted t h e slaying w a s another committee member wants (Sock*) Lanza. The case led to sponxibilit^os. ' tht? report s a i d . ' One man was held briefly, then a case of mistaken Identity' F a * tiona CommlMlon more leeway which, now. has nine offices In the 47 PropotuU criminal laws across the board for the resignation of Parole Board released. » hi punching stations t h a t ther Belle stood; sbc f « t t / fiva The committee made 47 *pecific state. every kind of deceptive "iV and Commissioner James rt, Stone Parishioners" at .the west side inches, and weighed 230 pounda. 1 live up to th« m e r i t Lanza tfent back to prison. (Concluded on Page Nine) radio practice. proposals including increased »al- Severe Wintry Weather Grips Western Areas Traffic Deaths May Set Mark; Six Each Hour Flood Waters Drop Slightly Ike Completing Budget for '61 Stopped Service Nearly Restored Poliee-Ask tor Assistance^ In Tracking Priest's Killer Bome^ungressmen Prepaxe New Laws for Broadcasting i Suggest Changes for State Board of Parole Untitled Document -y*-m— I...., » . " ' A. Thomas M. Tryniski 309 South 4th Street Fulton New York 13069 www.fultonhistory.com "7T *• ' S