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Show : Herald Telephones Partly Cloudy For Ads, News, Circulation: Provo Office, ; Orem Office, 1 ..Fit . Saturday, snow showers nojrth Little portion late Saturday. in temperature. change Today's minimum in Provo, 30, yester day's high, 43. 50 N. State 741 ....AC 65 ...FR 84 For Society EIGHTY-SIXT- at times but mostly fair through W. 4th N. 190 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH YEAR, NO. 155 H Mc toy Says ussnan 5neaK n Kjmmm jam utile R 11 . II l - By CHARLES CORDDRY United Press International (UPD Defense , WASHINGTON H. McElroy- - beSecretary Neil lieves any attempt by ' Russia to launch a sneak attack on the free world would be doomed to failure. McElroy told a news conference late Thursday that it would ' be "almost impossible" to carry out the necessary massive prepara- j Sets Space Record Contact Lost Vith U.S: FATALITIES MOUNT IN BAD WEATHER A windstorm acting like : tially very inflammatory" just as Island and the Middle East were last year. His warning about global war came when he was asked why the United States continues its3 mili-- . tary manpower cuts in the face of a looming military crisis. No Limited NATO War In measured tone, the secretary stated, that "it has been clearly understood as the policy of this government not to 'regard a limited war as a possibility ' in the Quemoy Pioneer IV WASHINGTON Ameri(UPD ca! lost contact with its first arti- ficial planet at 7:24 a.m." p.s.t. today, nearly ZVz days . and more than ,400,000 miles' after. Pioneer TV j was launched toward its orbit around the sun. The loss of radio contact was reported by the Goldstone tracking station of the; National Aeronautics and Space Administration ' V in California. . ' At the time contact was lost,' Pioneer had set a record by flashing radio signals deeper in space than " any other; man made object. , tornado damaged an auto plant at Monroe, Mich., today and farther west sections of the Midwest struggled to free roads and streets from snowfalls up to 20 inches deep in some areas. In Iowa, Carylyn Cotton, 4, and her father George, 30, suf- thousands of targets on without being detected. He said this . element of protection against surprise attack would hold into the foreseeable future. r Warns of (Global War The defense secretary also warned that if the. Soviets start hostilities in the West Berlin area t they could be triggering World War III. McElroy made it plain that he did not at this moment expect war over ,Berlin. In tfact, he said the situation there Was not now as lethal as some previous crises faced during the cold war. But he said that Berlin was "poten- i ' : j NATO area." . It was "extremely doubtful" that there could be a limited war in the Berlin area, j he said, and so ' 'large numbers' ' of ground forces would not be required. "I don't see how you could avoid the Russian involving forces" if conflict broke out in West Berlin and in surrounding said. Pointedly, The Goldstone "scientists calcu- East Germany, he .' j added: lated that by 8 a.m., 36 minutes he"We don't see ourselves fightafter the. signal received at 7:24 in a limited way." Russia ing "a.m., the tiny space probe was 416.000 miles, from the earth and traveling at 3,940 miles an hour.' TO VISIT AFRICA .. .( j 7 Longer Than Expected LONDON (UPD - Buckingham Goldstone had expected to lose contact much sooner. Scientists Palace announced Thursday night aid there was a possibility ' it that Queen Elizabeth and her huswill might pick up additional signals band, the Duke of Edinburgh, from time to time in the afternoon. make their previously-announce- d But they said that for prac- visit to West Africa from Nov. 11 tical tracking purposes, contact to Dec. 15. Stops will include Ghana, Sierra Leone and Gambia. (Continued on Page. Four). . " . j .;;..,: ' ' : " Around the State a ' TripUseful' Northern " three weeks. Monday he will fly to Paris to meet with French President Charles ' de Gaulle. Later in1 the week he will go to Bonn for talks with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The purpose of the visits is to inform the western allies of the results of his Moscow trip. No doubt he will urge on them the need for negotiations with the Russians? perhaps at the summit.' "I feel sure that such negotiations must follow if dangerous situations are to be avoided," he said today. '' ed 15 Killed Crash of British Jet . sal , j 5 Join In Economy Move Resolution four-engine- (R-Uta- h), (D-Va- or Capitol Gets 49 Star Flag . j j 49-st- ar co-pil- ot were identified as Americans. They were Oapt. Alfred 'M. Vine, of 614 Metairie Rd. Metairie, La.; second pilot Marcus Dalen (address unavailable); Kenneth of P. O. Box 709, Lock-neTex., and Joseph Rhodes, of Gastonia, N. C. . Kil-patric- k, y, the British night. . . Hagerty said Macmillan had . "" I 90-min- ac- cepted Eisenhower's invitation to fly here. He said the Prime; Mini ister and his foreign secretary, Selwyni Lloyd, vould arrive Mar. 19. The talks, Hagerty said, would j last "a few days." j conThe Eisenhower-Macmilla- ii ference was announced before the President's j special meeting: with congressional leaders and his top military and diplomatic aides to discuss swift moving develop- ' PRESIDENT BRIEFS CONGRESSIONA L LEADERS ON BERLIN CRISIS Pres. Eisenhower is photographed with Lyndon Johnson, Senate majority leader, as he fill-i- n today on the Berlin gave congressional leaders of both parties a crisis and received a pledge of united support for his firm stand. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy is immediately behind Pres. Eisenhower. (Herald-UP- I Telephoto) ute , . Chair- (UPI) man George H. Mahoo said today needed now, and how much. the controversy oyer whether "We need to know more abou some U.S. , bombers should be on it than anybody seems to know airborne' alert will be explored now," Mahonjtold a reporter. fully by his House defense approHowever, Rep. Daniel J. Flood priations subcommittee. a member of Mahon's The Texas Democrat said he panel, said emergency funds has not taken a side in the debate should ' be appropriated at once to d on the issue, but has been "push- keep of the Strategic Air ing" the Air Force for statistics Command's bombers in the air at and other data so his subcommit- - all times. j;v' Flood estimated this would cost one billion dollars. If the Eisenhower administration doesn't ask for an emergency appropriation, he said, he would try to add the funds' to the defense money bill for the government year beginning next July 1. The congressman said SAC bombers now are "sitting ducks" and' posed an invitation to a " trigger-happ- y "enemy to start a Demo; WASHINGTON (UPI) missile war. .' to! Flood's view, Decratic demands for easier governContrary ment money policies mounted in fense Department officials feel Congress today 'in" the 'wake of a there is no need today to keep Federal Reserve Board move to SAC bombers airborne although v there may be' in the future. tighten up on credit. Protests were touched off when Other congressional news: the board boosted interest rates States Rights: Chairman Emanto four member banks from 2Y2 uel Celler of the House to 3 per cent in an effort to curb Judiciary Committee predicted "the inflation. Higher rates reduce the House would approve a measure supply of money available for he opposes to revive state sediloans. tion laws and prevent federal laws from overturning state statRep. Wright Patman a member of the House - Senate utes. Rep. Edwin E. Willis Economic Committee, branded head of a judiciary subthe hike "an awful thing.'' He committee that okayed the legissaid he was trying to round up lation Thursday, also forecast support for a congressional inves- passage. Jobless : AFL - CIO President tigation of Federal Reserve Board policies. George Meany urged Congress to The e c o n o m I c committee's provide temporary unemployment Democratic majority was expect- payments to two million jobless ed to issue a report Monday call- workers not 'receiving any beneing for looser, credit to stimulate fits. He said in effect that a extension of emergency unspending, thereby reducing unemployment. employment payments proposed A Republican member of the by House Democratic leaders Senate Banking Committee, Pres-co- tt would sidestep the real issue. Bush (Conn.), defended the Court: Chairman Supreme O. Eastland interest rate increase as a step James of needed to put the brakes on the Senate . Judiciary Committee (Continued on Page Four) retary Neil H. McElroy to a . LOS ANGELES (UPD : (D-Pa- .), j one-thir- I Money Policy j . . (D-N.- Y.) A ' police detective and another man were killed and three other persons were wouiided Thursday night, before a berserk truck driver was killed in a fusillade of police j bullets, r Slain by truck driver George J. Arevalo were Detective Jose L. poCastellanos, 36, a nine-yelice veteran, and Carlos Carranza, :),:: 41, a baker. The reign of terror began Thursday when Arevalo, 46, was thrown out of a cafe managed by his former girl friend, Mrs. Mary Loera, 40. The woman warned him she would J call police if he returned. i 8:30 At, p.m., Arevalo returned and shouted, "What did you say you'd do if I came back? Well here it is!'" .1He jlrew a( automatic and shot Mrs. Loera in the upper arm. . (D-Tex- .), i (D-La- .), j ' ' - ' j one-ye- ar j (D-Mis- s.) In Fire j ' - - .25-calib- er !:-- Crawled to Safety Carranza, a 'customer, tackled Arevalo while the woman crawled to safety. The truck driver broke away from Carranza and ran to (Continued on Page Four) ; Train Crash In 11 Killing 21 st j , . full-scal- Eight Killed In Crash of Marine -- Flying Boxcar i . . -- ; U-sha- MEXICO CITY (UPI) ' A freight train ploughed into, the rear of a slow moving passenger train east of here late Thursday, killing at least 11 persons and injuring about j 70, it was an- nounced today. I v The dead included five men, three women and three children. The passenger train, on the way J : i ( n, j j ' ; , j here from the provincial capital of Puebla, had stopped to repair a hotboXi It was underway again, at minimum speed, when the telephone, j The fire was believed to have freight hit it near Xomelta, 27 miles east of here. started from defective wiring. Since Monday, when Sprenz fled Sprenz. is on the FBI's "10 most a $29,955 holdup of the First Na- wanted" list for a series of bold tional Bank at Hamilton, Ohio, by robberies and jail breaks which plane, he has been trailed through has won the grudging respect of Ohio, Pennsylvania and into New law enforcement officers. York. A proprietor of a hotel in He is described as a mechanical Pa., found money wrappers genius who is adept at disguises. in one of his hotel rooms Wednes- He has broken out of jail three day after a man of Sprenz' de- times and escaped encirclement scription checked out. Police and by police twice by airplane. His last break from jail was in a car FBI in here agents immediately took up Tuesday spotted Thursday , th ehasa. stolen ia Bessemer, Pa. April 1853 in Akron, Ohio. Two a, nothing in what he said to indi- P. ) j -- r FBI On Hunt' For Flying Bank Robber Al-toon- Western observers said today. Observers who heard him speak Thursday got the impression he is in deadly earnest about f arcing the West out of Berlin. Thejy saw Probe Called j Mexico Kills I ference on "the evolving situation cate any new prospect of a cold in Berlin and the broader- ques- - war agreement on anything but 'I. his own terms, j j tion of Germany." In his second House session White speech Leipzig Today's came on the heels of a special Khrushchev offered to postpone meeting of Eisenhower's National beyond May 27 his plan for turnSecurity Council and a warning ing over controls of West Berlin'! by McElroy that the Russians lifelines to the East Germans! if the could trigger World War III "f West is ''negotiating sensibly" by they start hostilities over Berlin. then possibly through a foreign ministers conference. ; . .. ' But behind his speech was as and tough uncompromising a cold wart c hallenge as he ever deliv- ered. He warned the West that if it continues rejecting his own terms he. will go ahead and sign a separate peace treaty with Colmmu-niEast Germany and told the West not to consider using. force in the Berlin crisis. LITTLE ROCK,. Ark. (UPD Once the Soviet Union signs a e State police launched a (Continued on Page Four) probe today of the tragic reform school fire that killed 21 Negro boys trapped behind locked doors. Gov. Orval Faubus, shaken and angered, charged negligence was responsible for the deaths and ordered state police to "let the chips fall where they mayi" He prepared to j go before the Arkansas Legislature and ask for an emergency appropriation. CHERRY POINT, N.C. (U PD "Faubus arrived on the scene ot A Marine Corps Flying Boxcar the fire Thursday at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School, crashed toand burned today while make an instrument 12 miles south of Little Rock, in trying , time to watch firemen cool debris landing during a violent rain-nine storm. of the mea Eight that covered a pile of 12 bodies. aboard were killed. They were heaped below a winThe plane, whipped by heavy dow they couldn't open. J winds and blinding rain, crashed Sight Sickens Governor Nine other boys were sprawled into a dense swamp only a few yards from a busy highway. in ashes that once was' a of the eight victims were Names brick veneer dormitory building. Faubus was visibly sick- withheld pending notification of next of kin. I ened at the Sight. Forty-seve- n The lone survivor was identified other boys escaped out as proof" Sgt. Ralph Mauro Jr., Ham-deby kicking "escape Conn. He was a radio op wire mesh screens and climbing out windows. erator in the crew of six aboard "There's absolutely no reason the transport plane which also for . this to happen the way Carried three passengers. it did except because of negligence on the part of someone," Faubus said. He said. the building had no fire alarm system and ho ' .:.-- ) - LEIPZIG, East Germany (UPI) Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's postponement of hisj May 27 deadline for the West to quit Berlin merely postpones the Berlin crisis and does not ease it. j ar ' con- Khrushchev's Move Fails to Solve Crisis - Gun Battle . Easier j Los Angeles tee can decide whether money is ; j Two Slain In Bomber Airborne Alert Issue to Be Explored WASHINGTON ments in the Berlin crisis, Eisenhower summoned Senate and House leaders of both parties, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and Defense Sec- Police Officer Killed Congress Today CONTROLS property ' , WELLSVILLE, N.Y. (UPI) Frank . Sprenz, the flying bank British-o. CAIRO (UPI) 470 Some robber, was believed today to be . firms wned in the United somewhere; in western New York, Arab Republic began operations if ; he hasn't once again slipped free of U.A.R. control today for through police lines in a stolen the first time since the 1956 Suez car or plane. The elusive Sprenz, who has crisis. The U.A.R. government, declaring that the British no long- spent most of his 29 years breaker were "enemy subjects," lifted ing, out of jail and evading purits sequestration order covering suing policemen, was reported U.A.R. LIFTS - i I . i n, . t , te appropriations. Bennett said the legislation was drafted by Byrd and its purpose By JUnited Press International Is to stop the bypassing of the The president o fthe National Appropriations Committee as is done now on a number of bills. Safety Council today urged organized groups of a community level to take the lead in promoting safety in all phases of life, and in and out of the home, The appeal for action by civic .groups was made by Howard Pyle, president, National Safety International United Council and former governor of Press By ' The 49ers are fast moving across Arizona. the nation, and the . first one was Pyle also commended the officers of the Utah Safety Council delivered to Utah Thursday. The new model 49ers refers to for their efforts to put. Utah well the new flag which was out in front among the states unfurled from the flagpole on the whose organizational efforts in south side of the state capitol behalf of safety is beginning to buildingNfor the first time, today. pay off. Thc congressional' chieftains invited were Speaker Sam Ray-burSenate Democratic Loader ' Lyndon B. Johnson, , Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirk-se- n and House GOP Leader Charles- A. Hallcck. Administration (officials 2; a i d the Security Council and congressional sessions were not due to Wy new developments o an emergency nature. uut tney acknowledged there had been a speed-up- . in military and diploKhrushchev matic planning to meet any pos The two Free World Jeadets are sible crisis. faced, 'with reconciling their difI stratfering views on long-rang- e Khruslchev. with for egy dealing The U.S. and Britain are in acJ cord on basic issues. ( In . i By, STEWART IIENSLEY United Press Internationa WASHINGTON British (UPD Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Eisenhower will meet here March 20 in a Big Two summit conference on the Berlin crisis, the White House announced ' Today. White House " Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the British leader wanted to report to the President on his recent Moscow talks with Soviet Premier Nikita i Ireland UPI ) Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said today the immediate results of his mission to Moscow were not very great but his ' H trip was useful. . "I would not myself claim more than that we have much improved our .knowledge of each others' point of view and so perhaps paved the way to negotiation in a wider circle,'' he said. Macmillan spoke at a lunch here shortly after it was announced he had accepted President Eisenhower's invitation to visit Washington. He will arrive in the United States March 19. Macmillan is on a brief "meet the people" visit to Northern Ireland, the first of a series of visits that . will keep him away from London for much of the next BELFAST, . um agi t ' Promote Safety Cities Urged i m I it I " Byrd To mm ' . Bennett, w mmmm Macmillan Says Russian , . tions. ; alleged that Buris visitor The secretary party tb heads of varMikhail Suslov, a Kremlin mysdepartments. The tery man with Stalinist upbringletter asked for powerful say-s- o in the ruions for the ing and contribu . dinner. 7 voluntary ' ling Moscow presidium. dinner. However, Callister, acting for the state, contended that the "vioThe four state employes al-v' lations' were of such an insigni- legedly were invo in funds ficant nature' that the U.S. Civil solicitation for the j tickets. should ' reService Commissior solve reasonable doubts in favor of the employes. had The federal commission Road that (Commission charged Bill Chairman C. Taylor Burton, eh-- gineer Vernon P. Bridge, Commission Secretary Clarence J. . By . United Press International MANAGUA, Nicaragua (UPD lred, information officer Horace Gov. George Dj Clyde today A s, British - made prop - jetliner Georgo-pouloJ. Gunn, and Panos J. his second veto on a bill stamped assistant in the design passed by the 1959 Utah Legis- crashed near here Thursday, moments after takeoff from Merdivision, had violated the lature, 19 15 of a letter of charges The bill was vetoed because of cedes Airport, killing of of the the dead against Burton was asked to be a technical error, j The measure persons aboard. Four were Americans. referred to the wrong paragraph Americ an stewardesses, Two of the Utah Code, of Mannington, Niezgoda, Nancy The bill which was vetoed was a W. Va., and Laura Direnzo, designed to bring commercial naturalized American from Hamfeed ingredients as well as cominmercial feeds, under registration ilton, Out., escaped serious for but were hospitalized and misbranding provisions of the jury treatment of extreme shock. ; commercial feed law. d Viscount, opThe The Senate upheld Clyde's veto, Taca America's Central erated by Sen. then passed a new bill which WASHINGTON (UPD Maoutbound was from Airline, and corrects the technical error. Wallace F.' Bennett to Honduras nagua on a ; flight .) will Sen. Harry F. Byrd and El Salvador at the time of a resolution designed the crash. to give Congress control over and two The pilot, the federal expenditures, as well as "crash in killed the all passengers act-Dismis- m o Visit to Russia LONDON Clyde Puts Veto On Second wmn i a t e t pery roads, or heart attacks brought on by exertion. fund-raisin- i ; 1 proses I 7 focated' in a snowdrift near Waukee. Their car stalled and they apparently fell into the drift while trying to reach a farmhouse: Iowa counted 10 dead from auto accidents, slip- By United Press International Atty Gen. E. R. Callister said employe. The complaint "mission employes violated a section of the federal Hatch Act by ton wrote letters acg ious commission participating in a tivities for Republican Party state said the - DtOQP o' r Russia an(UPI) nounced today it is dispatching Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's top Communist party aide to Britain this month in a quick of the and unexpected follow-u- p dropped because he is not a state Macmillan - Khrushchev negotiar $50-a-pla- .'!("''. i iftt ; ; aaoot IB DH l1 no ' British L ead t o) Report on j Callister Says Highway Em ployee Violations Were Qf Insignificant Nature W) ' . PRICE FIVE CENTS Acs: s dttq 5 D Ocn dt fi(0C3o By United Press International tions and launch a f simultaneous attack jK FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1959 weeks ago he escaped officers in Scranton, Pa., in a stolen plane in the which he crash-lande- d Vermont foothills. He was believed to have fled in a stolen auto, turning up in Hamilton, Ohio; to rob the bank. He fled the bank robbery in a stolen car and took an airplane from a nearby field, flew half- way across Ohio and again Controls Urged For Encephalitis j By United Press International Physicians at 'Salt Lake General Hospital today appealed for more effective mosquito control efforts in Utah to prevent an epidemic of western J equine encephalitis,1 Dr. Richard Nimer, chief resident in medicine, pointed out the seriousness of the mosquito-born- e illness, and emphasized the importance of controlling the insects. The State Health Department reported that 47 cases of confirmed encephalitis were recorded in Utah last year, with one death. |