f The Weather Details page twe falr ro 4 THE PONTIAC PRES, 2 llith YEAR —— te *& & & & PONTIAC, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 83, 1954 —49 PAGES Mob Crush ills 200 Hindus Pontiac Lawyer, Federal Judge Tangle in Detroit Physical Violence Looms | as Milton Henry Argues Red Suspect’s Cause DETROIT (AP) — Fed- eral Judge Frank A. Picard and a Pontiac lawyer repre- senting a subpenaed House Un-American activities com- mittee witness traded sharp words yesterday. At one time it looked like the white-haired, 64-year- old jurist and the lawyer, Milton R. Henry, 35, were close to a physical encoun- ter. However, it all wound up quietly, though Judge Pic- ard was plainly ruffled. Henry apologized. The dispute began short- ly before the noon recess of | the conspiracy trial of six Michigan Communists being heard by Judge Pic- ard anda jury. The six are accused under the Smith Act of plotting to teach and | advocate violent overthrow | of the government. holds a miniature 1954 model GMC scaled trucks are on exhibition in tional models appear on page 21. a fleet of 18 miniatures flown to Miami yesterday. & Coach Division exhibit at the GM Motorama. Trucks Flown to Miami ROYAL WELCOME—Wanna Bashama, “Miss GMC of 1954,” truck aloft as she officially greets The minutely conjunction with the GMC Truck Pictures of addi- Henry appeared in court : with a petition to quash a subpoena against Bolza Baxter, 28,- Detroit, | state chairman of the Labor Youth | League and former Flint resi- dent. (Henry told. the Press. he was not attempting to file a petition but intended to ask a show cause order on the subpoena), The Labor League was formed in 1952 upon dissolution of _ Communist League, It is on attorney general's subver-} sives list, Baxter has been subpoenaed to appear before the Hotse Un- American Activities Committee at —— of Detroit hearings Feb. call for a recess in the trial when Henry. ifiterrupted with his peti- tion. “You're asking me to put a stop on Congress. You'll have to show some law for that,"’ Picard said. As Henry raised his voice, Judge Picard interrupted him-with: | “You keep quiet.“ ¥Yey can't out- | shout me in this court.” The judge denied the petition, called recess and went to his chambers. Shortly, Henry also ap- there. At the doorway Judge Picard put out his hand toward Henry, saying “You can't come in. I have some people in here.” “You have no right te lay hands on me, I'll knock you...” Henry shouted. Judge Picard interrupted to say he had not intended to touch Henry. i Couples Ask New Jersey straighten out the error of The couples, to Legalize Their Wedlock FLORHAM PARK, N. J. (UP)—More than two dozen couples looked to the New Jersey Legislature today to a misguided Presbyterian divinity student who “married” them without church or ps ‘legal authorization. “he Legislature has been asked to legalize the mar- riages performed over a six-year period by John Vander- groef, a student pastor who didn’t know he lacked the power to join couples in wedlock. ‘Including—many with children, were shocked to learn that their marriages are not recognized by the state of New Jersey and the Presbyterian Church. Area Weather fo Be Partly Cloudy, Mild Partly cloudy weather tonight will usher comparatively warm temperatures into the Pontiac area Thursday. The U. S. Weather Bureau pre- night rising to a high of 38 to 42 degrees tomorrow. : Yesterday's fair skies, sent mercury racing from a low of to a high of 40 degrees in the city. At 8 a. m. today the temperature reading was 25, but by 1 p.m. in downtown Pontiac the mercury the 28 Chiang Greets Ex-PWs TAIPEH, Formosa (#—National- ist China's President Chiang Kai- shek today received 120 represen- tatives of 14,000 anti-Red Chinese war prisoners sent here last month !from Korea. It was Chiang’s first The Judge, a University of | (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2) personal meeting with any of the former POWs. Lucy Ball Provides Clué That Snares Studio Thief HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Police report that a bit of de- tective work by Lucille Ball led to the arrest of a man who has admitted he made about $16,000 a year by posing as a writer and burglarizing studio dressing rooms. Hollywood detectives Claire Riding and Byron Diller said Kenneth Darling, 31, a handsome and well-dressed ex-convict, was arrested yesterday. _ He was booked on sus- picion of burglary when he was found snooping in a dressing room at the Gen- eral Service Studios. The police said Darling. freely the Hollywood police station. Hollywood detectives said Darl- ing, who served a term in San Quentin Prison in the 1940s for a id ae TE dicts a low of from 24 to 28 to} “Oh for heaven's sake!” gasped “Mrs.” John O’Neill of Ridgedale Ave. She and O’Neill exchanged vows be- fore Vandergroef at the local Pres rian Church in 1947. y have a son. State Assemblyman Wil- liam O. Barnes introduced a bill which would make Van- dergroeff’s marriages legal, retroactive to the date he performed them. The Rev. Charlies L. Mead, pas- tor of the South Orange (N. J.) Presbyterian Church and chair- man of Administerial Relations Committee which uncovered the marital oversight, said the church as well as the state requires that a minister be ordained before he performs marriages. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in. Philadel- phia has ruled that the marriages (Continued on Page 2, Col. 8) Police Warning Ticket Holders -Tow Crews impounding Delinquent Violators’ Automobiles Li ice i st} Fs: Hit pil TEMP Hie ; 3 ae Roar ot Critic of Union Leader Escapes Death in Blast Ex - Policeman Blames Teamster Enemies for Attack dt His Home DETROIT (AP)—An out- spoken critic of AFL Team- sters boss James Hoffa re- ported to police today a would be assassin fired a shotgun at him in suburban Northville early today. The charge tore through a French door window and Herbert Koester, 49-year- old truck driver, said it missed him by only 18 inch- es. It was fired in pre- dawn darkness at Koester’s home. A mysterious telephone call, Koester said, had led _|him across the line of fire. State Police said Koester told them the only reason he could as- sign for the.attempted assassina- tion was his difficulties with Team- sters Local 299, of which Hoffa is president. Hoffa also is presi- dent of the Michigan Teamsters council and of the Central: States Conference of Teamsters. Koester is a retired Detroit po- liceman. He became an automo- time. Bert Brennan, Hoffa's assistant, reported the union chief was in a hospital because of illness. ‘We never heard of him (Koester),” Brennan said. “I did told them, he recetved anon- ymous telephone warning: “ ‘Don't go to work tomorrow.’ ” Koester was alone when- the blast tore through the door win- ‘dow in the kitchen of his home. Whoever fired stood 21 feet away. Police said footprints found in the snow were small and vanished We TE g Alii if 4; d g iE Eff a E z E 23 > Hf: Ee Through With It? If so, don’t let it hang around gathering dust. . Sell it with a Pontiac . Press Want Ad. There is always someone who can use what you no longer Marlette youth who is president Farmers of America, talks with M Williams to Push Bravery Award for Pontiac Boy James Brown, 18, of 37 Vine- | wood St., who is being recommend- ed for the U, S. Government Young American Medal Award for Bravery, will receive personal con- gratulations today from Gov. G. Mennen Williams during a special meeting in Lansing. He was nominated for the award last month by the Pontiac Police Offficers Assn. for “high courage Top Future Farmer Meets ee 4 : ee LUNCHEON IN WASHINGTON—David Boyne, ee a of the Future ichigan senators | (R-Mich); Boyne; and a Cabinet officer during a Washington lugeh- | Hobby, and Sen. Homer Ferguson _(R-Mich). Our Senators eon. Pictured are (from left) Sen. Charles Potter a Serra 4 ret, & Be _ AP Wirephote Secretary of Welfare Oveta Culp a Russian spy ring. O'Brian, the night of Sept. 9. Also present at the meeting will with a for the award and letters Deny Mahoney New Trial Bid Now Serving Sentence Gambling Club Motion for a new trial for Pete Mahoney, jailed in 1945 for the holdup of Pontiac's Aristocrat Club, a gambling spot, was denied by Oakland County Circuit Judge George B. Hartrick today. Mahony, 51, was sentenced to 25 that Mahoney's action of the parole board.”’ The opinion further stated that be James’ mother, Mrs. James - Ponting Police Chiet Herbert W. Straley: and officers for ‘45 Holdup of Local to 50 years on Dec: 12, 1945; for the holdup which was disclosed | -!]um with the Americans there was all | Unusual Case Reported by Three Doctors Japan Protests American Silence on Red Diplomat TOKYO (INS) — A storm of Japanese protests broke over the heads of U. S. authorities today because of their refusal to confirm or deny officially that a missing Soviet diplomat is in American hands, detailing operations of Replying to a Japanese note, the U. S. Embassy in Pilgrims Rush Into Holy Rivers; 1,000 Injured Horde of 3 Million at Religious Bath Festival Gets Panic-Stricken NEW DELHI, India (AP) —An estimated 200 Hindu pilgrims were crushed to death and at least 1,000 were injured early today at Allahabad. A crowd three million strong stampeded into the holy waters at the joining of the Ganges. and Jumma rivers, according to reports reaching here. Eyewitness accounts said 200 square yards along the sandy banks of the Ganges were strewn with bodies after the police cleared away the panic-stricken throngs of bathers at the Kumbh Mela festival. Official sources at Allahabad de- clined to comment on any aspect of the tragedy and would give no official casualty figures. .| Tokyo declared it had “no information” in the case of Yuri A. Rastovorov, second secretary of the disaccredited ‘| Soviet a erp mission in Japan, The em notify the Japanese of the association, Hugh T. Stim-| office announced. son, president, and James Carr, < petition nominating Rastovorov disappeared Jan. 24, the day before he was to have left by plane for Moscow, preseum- ably because he had bungled some recent espionage assignments in Japan, The Rassian mission charged the young diplomatic aide had been “seized and detained by the U, 8, espionage organiza- tion” In the Far East, Officially, American diplomatic and military authorities made no denial or other comment on the Soviet allegation. But a high source revealed that Rastovorov, appar- ently fearing he would be ‘‘liqui- dated,”” fled for asylum to the protective arms of a special U, S. intelligence unit. + The official American silence aroused vigorous protests in the Japanese Diet (parliament) and the press. Vice Foreign Minister Akira Kotaki told the Diet's Foreign Aftairs Committee today that if the U, 8, “kidmaped” Rasto- vorov, as the Russians charged, then America is guilty of violat- ing the U, S.-dapan security pact, : | Kotaki added, however, that if ithe flashily-dressed Soviet junior | diplomat voluntary asked for asy- |no problem of a treaty violation. | -To Run Against Rayburn BONHAM, Tex, W—A, G. McRae |former Texas Power & Light Co. | manager here and at Denison, has | announced he will run for Congress against House Democratic Leader y said it would* faced indefinite delay today as the Senate Labor Committee called for full information on his pension rights with a San Jose, Calif. firm. The committee, after questioning Beeson for six hours, voted 53 last night to defer Senate action on his nomination by President Eisenhower until it could question Paul L. Davies, president of the last week on a 74 party line vote, is: former industrial relations vice president of that company. Com- mittee Democrats have opposed his nomination, contending he is a “company man’ and thus could not approach his NLRB duties impartially. Beeson has pledged that he would be unbiased. The pension question arose dur- ing Beeson’s questioning on an apparent contradiction between his testimony to the committee and an interview published by | Sam Rayburn. the San Jose Mercury. spares them the pangs of rebirth | into a new incarnation. OPBORSOR [aa Seda F Okay March 4, is held only every 12 years, It commemorates a bat- tle on the site in Hindu mythology Facing Delay in which the Gods defeated a horde . of demons, More than two million ef the Senators Quiz NLRB) piigrims had waited all night on Appointee, Are Dubious | oy" aie a of Pension Status first three hours after the d¢y WASHINGTON W—The nomina-| "est sty ea ee a lee a Albert (C, Meseen t0 | intes fhe mest National Labor Relations Board — — oe oe Their frenzied edgerness to reach Indian Red Cross and local medi- ~ | cal authorities were reported rush- ing the dead, dying and injured to emergency tent hospitals in the makeshift pilgrim cities which have been set up on the river banks. Bulletin WASHINGTON (AP) —The House Publie Works Committee today approved a Senate-passed bill authorizing the Unit- . ed States to join with Canada in building the St. Lawrence Seaway. Clarkston Man, ‘Dead’ in Heart Attack, BURLINGTON, N. J. (P)—A/ Clarkston, Mich. man, apparently “deag’’ of a common heart attack, | was restored to life by quick) massage and electric shock of his | heart, physicians disclosed here | today. 4 The man was identified as Leo | J. Roy, 55, of 5877 Clarkston. | Orion Rd., a driver for Fleet | Carrier Corp. in Pontiac. The emergency operation and treat- ment took place last April and apparently he is completely re- covered and has ‘resumed his normal. occupation. The revival is believed to be the first..ofits kind performed this way, said doctors of Burlington County Hospital. dying after blood flow stop. The brain is often affected first, suf- fering damage usually if it 1s deprived of blood for four minutes or 86. —— : Usually heart-attacks hit people at times and places where nothing can be done soon enough. Quick injections of adrenalin sometimes may revive the heart. But Roy happened te be in the hospital accident wart when he fell unconscious with his heart attack. A surgeon opened In Today's Press Revived by Fast Massage, Electrodes his chest, began squeezing the halted heart with his hand. It began twitching, end then the electric shocks restored normal rhythm. (In Clarkston today, Roy’s per- sonal physician, Dr. R. W. Bullard — $$ See interview, Page 3 Jr., verified the report. the electric shock is administered when the heart a tutional matters.” man raised the same point earlier, The | gasbord vote was 23-5. forgiving the tax on such trans- actions in the past, was ready for introduction by Rep derson (R-Northport!, chairman of | the House Taxation Committe: The measure marily, small operators, makers State Revenue Department tocol lect the tax for the service as for the mat¢rial in past years. | under the measure He tinue rean Veterals. every month wu cle'’s mee ting ¢ time. z Stiles PTA. Meeting Planned for Thursday... elected at the meeting a: ments and entertainment will br Blondy said he would not vote for the bill until that question was cleared, voted against silent, plus Sen. Creighton R. Cole- who had. All the bill or (R-Battle Creek), Eleven senators sponsored a con stitutional amendment to take em- ploves of Bridge Authority and Turnpike Authority out from under civil service, the Mackinac The Senate Liquor Committee sponsored a bill to enlarge the State Liquer’ Control Commis. ~ sion from three to five members and abolish the present bvo-man board of hearing examiners. Two of the five commissioners would be assigned: to hear viola-' tions cases under the bill. It also. would raise the salary of the com- mission chairman from $9.000 to $10,500 and from $8,500 to $10,000. Far Board was beld “or further ing Thursday evening in the gym 4 debate today, It was amended t permit the governor to name tive | of the proposed 23-man board with- out regard to their affiliations. The House scheduled a vote to- day on a bill making it a crime to abandon refrigerators or freez- a removing the doors or | Wednesd: t the commissioners. At the same time, the lower Heath retorted. Democrats either . sat Straits | auxiliary the State Church got their 194 program 62, 64, 65, 66, 79, 8H, 91. 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