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MILD Continuing mil* Friday with some ckmdraess. Cool tonight, km 30-35. High Friday 5540. Details faga 38. ITU Vol. 65~No. 18 Serving the Niagara Frontier for 103 Years Niagdrq Falls, N.Y., Thursday, April 3, 1958 mJmm 32 Paget—Seven Cents •<•*:•.'•'. .':'' ••-•'• Sji.i. ** y& oil W*#*^ v *v In Falls Man Missing 7 ¥2 Years Found A Conner N i a g a r a Fa& postal employe, missing from his home here for IV2 years, was picked up today at Detrok, Mich. The man is Fred Zacher, 48, formerly of 343 Fifth St., who was employed as a letter carrier at the Niagara Falls Post Office at the time he dis- appeared in October 1950. Detective Chief Martin T. Con- sidine said Zacher was using the name Joseph Patrick Zieger when he was located by Detroit police. Seen In January Chief Considine said Zacher had been the object of an intensive- search at Detroit since January 14 when George Musseri, 1512 Pine Ave., told police he spoke to Zacher while visiting at Detroit. Detroit police and insurance agents handling one of Zacher's policies joined in the search which ended today, it was said. Zacher was employed at the Midwest Supply Co., Detroit, and has been living in that city. Wanted For Abandonment Chief Considine said that Zacher has been wanted here on an aban- donment charge since his dis- appearance. A warrant was issued after he disappeared charging him with abandoning his wife and five children. Chief Considine said he talked with Zacher by telephone today and that Zacher told him he was waiv- ing extradition. Local police will be sent to Detroit to return Zacher to this city, Chief Considine said. • ; . - Court Upholds Executions- ALBANY UB— The Court of Appeals today upheld the first- degree murder convictions of two New York City men, one for shooting a boxer and the other for killing a policeman. The state's highest tribunal set the week of May 19 for executions of Vincent S p a n o , 27, of the Bronx, and Virgil Richardson, 29, of Brooklyn. Both are in the Sing Sing prison death house. Spano, a machinist, was convict- ed test April in the shooting of Frankie Palermo, a former welter- weight boxer, on^Jan. 22, 1957. Richardson was convicted last April of shooting Patrolman Wil- liam Long, 27, when Long accosted him in a Jamaica parking hot on Sept. 2, 1956. ______ ** Falls Woman Killed by Car InLockportRd. A 19th St. woman, picking flowers near the Town of Wheatfield, became the county's 12th traffic fatality Wednes- dayjiight when struck and killed instantly in Lockport Rd. The victim was identified as: Mrs. Josephine Granata, 49, of 455 19th St., who died of injuries received at dusk as she was hit by an auto driven by an air force enlisted man. * The sheriffs department and air police are continuing investi- gations, but the driver—T. Sgt. Er- vin C Sobot- ka, 29, of 4316 Military Rd.—is not being held. An unidenti- fied woman, who was with Mrs. Granata at the time, is being sought as a witness b y sheriffs depu- Mrs. Granata ties. Sgt. Sobotka, stationed with the 15th Camron Squadron at the Ni- agara Falls Air Base, told officers he did no see Mrs. Granata. He felt a bump, stopped the car to investigate, and saw Mrs. Gran- ata, he said. Of die 12 traffic deaths in Niag- ara County this year, 10 of them have been on county roads. Mrs. Granata was the second pedestrian to dfc in traffic mishaps in the past five days. Mrs. Granata is survived by her husband, James Granata, this city; five sons, James, Charles and Samuel Granata, aH of this city; Michael Granata, Lackland Air Force Base, Tex.., and Frank Granata, California; one daughter, Mrs. Arthur Shaw, this city; her father, James Brigantc; two sisters, Mrs. Ernest Marisp and Mrs. Ed- ward McGmley, both of this city; and three brothers, Joseph Brig- ante, this oky, Samuel Brigantc, Albuquerque, N. M., and Charles Brigante, Brooklyn. FunefaJL-services wiU be an- nounced by Amato Funeral Home. Death Row at Party A 19-year-old Niagara Fairs youth was arraigned In City Court today in connection with a fatal stabbing of a local man in the Griffon Manor ljcfoang project Wednesday evening, The youth is John T.TVreU, 19, of 549 Grant Dr., charged with second degree muracr. The stabbing victim was Leniell Frceney, 23, of 556 96th St, HELD ON MURDER CHARGE - Nine tion. Freeney, sent to Memorial Hos- pital in a Frontier ambulance, was murder charge. Flanking him are pronounced dead on arrival at the Judge Francis L. Giles accepted ; 1 7 , 11 11 P_r_"li_r£_By» an innocent plea and adjourned J; U U J UfYCl the case to April 11 before set-, ting bail at 150,000. Tl •pw jP Ferrell specifically is accused of j f Q | » UCI61IS6 fatally stabbing Freeney, but with-} out deliberation and premedita- ww 1 4 1 1 Head Asked Cubans Told to Kill To Balk Rebel Strike HAVANA, Cuba M—President Fulgencio Batista's gov- ernment today authorized workers to kill if necessary to stay on thek jobs when rebel leader Fidel Castro issues his kwgr lh£«atened'cati-|or,a^ene^sttjfc6:*''- - '•^^^^^•A: "^ . The order-^one of thttfc of the hatshe^ decrees in the history of the Cuban Republic—was issued by Batista and his -cabinet after an alRTighTmeeting. A second decree virtually scrap-* ~~ ~ ped the nation's judiciary. It bar- red any judge from issuing a rul- ing against a government official teen-year-old John T. Ferrell, center, his attorney, Joseph V. Sbarbatl, is shown being arraigned in City right, and Detective Lt. Joseph C. Court today on a second degree Conti. — Gazette Photo. $ On the Inside * * * Qualifications for School Head Listed . . . Page 17 POWER PROJECT—Niagara University's Lady of Angela Cemetery to be moved because of construction work. Page 17. * • * GOOD FRIDAY — Churchea list special services—Page 9 . . . and industry schedules for the day listed on Page 17. * * .* TWISTER HITS—Three tor- nado funnels slam through Texas . city; one man dead, two missing. Page 10. * * * ,IN SPORTS — S o u t h p a w Howie Siegmund establishes sea- ton bowling record for Niagara Falls wHh 750 triple on LaSalle Grand Alleys. Page 25. Bobby Thomson traded to Chicago Cubs by San Francisco Giants. Pag* 24. * * • CANAL TO OPEN —Barge canal repair work to be done on ' time for area opening on April 28. Page 18. » # • DRIVERS FINED—Six driv- ers pay $130 In fines m Lewis- ton peace Jostle* court. ^aga 19. * * • Amy Vanderbilt 6 Ann Landers <> Births 6 Boyle's Column 13 Bridge Column 4 Churches 9 Classified Ads 2911 Comics -6 Deaths ......... • • » • • « • - *» Df. Molner * ...... 16* Editorials > 14 Financial. News 28 Locarand Suburban 18 Niagara Topics 17 Sports "V. 24-25 Sylvia Porter 28 Theaters .10 TV and Radio 20 Women's New* ......... 6-7 or agency or against any govern- ment or legal opposition leader. Judges who failed to obey would be immediately dismissed, said the decree. The third order said any em- ployer who ordered a work stop- page of any kind could be jailed from 30 days to six months. All 'government ministers were authorized to issue licenses to bear arms to Cuba's 160,000 public em- ployes and all other workers. The decree* absolved workers of crim- inal responsibility for any steps they thought necessary—including killing—to prevent being' forced into joining a strike. Strikers Lose Jobs The government also decreed that anyone joining a general strike would lose his job permanently. When this penalty was first ap- plied irr 1935 it quickly broke a general strike. Meanwhile, two columns of Castro's rebels were reported mov- ing t o w a r d Santiago, attacking conuminications as feey advancedT A rebel communique said one column of guerrillas was approach- ing Santiago, Cuba's second largest city and the capital of the eastern- most province of Orientc. from Castro's mountain headquarters to the west in the Sierra Maestra. Wreck Transportation Another force led by Castro's brother Raul destroyed communi- cations around the sugar mill city of Sagua de Tanamo and apparent- ly moved on toward Santiago, 50 miles to the southwest. In con- trast to the small bands which previously had swept down from the mountains, the rebels claimed 1,000A>efsons were in this column. Bom columns shot up and wrecked motor and rail transport as they advanced. The communique said thousands of armed men from the Oriente countryside toon would march on Santiago. President Fulgencio Ba- tista's army reinforcedsits 5,000 or more men in Oriente, and offi- cers expressed confidence they could defeat Castro if he risked an open battle. So far in his 16- month campaign to overthrow Batista the rebel leader has stuck to hit-and-run guerrWa tactics. Clashes between government troops and the rebels continued on a small scale. The Army said 12 rebels were kiMed 60 mHes north- west of Santiago and three more near the city. Rebels killed three members of an Army patrol at Bayamo, another report said. The Air Force bombed suspected rebel hideouts in Oriente. 18 Taken in Raids Police arrested 18 men in a series of raids in Havana. The driver and conductor of a bullet-scarred bus arriving in Ha- vana from Santiago described the situation in the city of 120,000 as "very critical." Sandbagged ma- chineguns guarded major buildings and streets were deserted by 6 p-m. As yet there was no general exodus of the 12,000 Americans living in Cuba and no recom- mendation to go from the U. S. Embassy. About 40 American fam- ilies reportedly had left. Oriente Province. Governments officials denied re- ports published abroad that five planeloads of arms had arrived from the Dominican Republic for Batista's forces. The reports fol- lowed an admission by the U. S. State Department that it had held up shipment of 1,950 Garand rifles to the Cuban government. The State Department denied it had embargoed atll arms shipments to Cuba. A spokesman indicated the rifles were held up because Batista bad suspended constitution- al guarantees. He explained that the shipment had been suspended temporarily in line with the de- partment's practice o( making sure that arms tent to areas of political tension are to be used for the pur- poses specified ki the Mutual Se- curity Act. Start of Rail Relocation Seen by Ave Gannett-News Servlc* ALBANY—Gov. Averell Har- riman said Wednesday the Ni- agara Falls grade c r o s r n e vv n- ination program "is set to com- mence." The governor siid a 3-miawJn- dollar contract will be let in the current fWal year for work from a point near the Niagara River, two mites east of the oky, north to the New York Central Railroad's Falls branch track near Tuscarora Road. "Grade separations will be \QWK&i&cd #t major intereec-, rf " The-pverlor mentioned the project in announcing that the state will spend about 33 million, dollars on Niagara Fronti;: Highway projects in the fiscal year that began Tuesday. The rest of the money wiU be spent in Erie County. Secret Atom Test Pos^Je -Macmman LONDON UR—Prime Minister Miacrrniran said today Britain now has proof that test explosions of nuclear weapons almost certainly can be carried out without detec- tion. Macmillan said details, of evi- dence must remain secret but he told questioners in the House of of Commons: "Any permanent suspension of tests, or permanent way of dealing with this, requires an inspection system." The Prime Minister was answer- ing questions put by opposition Laborites who have been pressing the British government to fcWow Russia in a voluntary suspension of irudear weapon tests. Frank Alteon, a Laborite, said President Eisenhower had taken an opposite point of view that nuclear weapon tests could be spotted. And Hugh Gakskell, leader of the opposition, asked if Macmillan meant "that k would be necessary to have special controls in order to detect them?" Macmilten replied: "Yes that fa right." Whh no better facilities for lis- tening and observation than are now available, any country couW conceal nuclear tests, he said. Maomfllan also toM Commons the government has accepted a U.S. invitation to send observers to one of the nuclear tests in the Pacific this month. Ike Will Spend Easter at Ilarm ALSO ARRAIGNED - Twenty-year-old Ruth Ann Lewis is shown being arraigned in City Court today on a vagrancy charge. Police said she was one of several persons questioned in connection with the fatal stabbing of Lenzell Freeney, 23, here Wed- nesday evening. — Gazette Photo. $1.8 Billion Road BUI Wins Approval in House WASHINGTON W—The House passed ami sent to tfje Senate today a compromise $1,800,000,000 ami-recession highway construction bilL^ * The Senate seemed likely to ap- prove the measure promptly and send it to the WJ>he House before Congress starts a 10-day Easter recess later today. Sunday Gazette TV Supplement a Must * Do you want to keep up with TV, nadio and records? Then you had better read the Niagara Frontier TV, radio and Records Section in the Sunday edition of the Niagara FaHs Gazette. In addition to complete program information, this week's issue contains these outstanding features: "The Vicar Who Writes Masses to Jazz Tempo." "What Teenage** Think About the Sack." "Religious Drama on TV—-The Story of Baratobas.* » • Also, as 1 usual, the Sunday TV supplement wiH be packed with news and pictures of the TV, radio and record world. You TV fans can't afford to mis* _he Sunday Gazette. WASHINGTON Of") — President Eisenhower may leave today for a long Easter weekend »< his country estate m Gettysburg, Pa. He hoped to make the trip either this afternoon or some time Friday. Mrs. Eisenhower drove the 80 miles to the farm Wednesday. A family get-together was planned at Gettysburg where the Eisen- hower's four fimaM grandchildren are at the farm with their mother. Maj. John Eisenhower, the Presi- dent's son, was due to join them for the weekend. The President expeota to return to Washington Sunday evening or Monday morning. Speed-Record Holder Fined for Speeding LONDON (W—Peter Twiss, a test pilot who holds a 1,132-mHe- an-bour speed record, paid without protest a $5.60 fine for exceeding LondonV 30Htnile-an-hour speed limit . ft House passage was by roll call vote of 300-28. Previously the House defeated 222-109 an attempt to send the bill back to a Senate-House con- ference committee for further con- sideration. Voting to recommit the bill were 58 Demoorata and 51 Republicans. Against were 121 Democrats and 101 Republicans. Major difference between the original Senate and House versions was inclusion by fee Senate of a provision intended to curb erec- tion of billboards atong interstate highways. TWs provision was re- tained in fee compromise. House rejection of fee compro- mrse would have precluded further vately expressed doubts about some parts of the highway bill. Opposition in the House ap- peared on the provision for regu- lation of billboards along the 41.000-mile network of express- ways now being built—the inter- state system. One House member told a re- porter "I've never seen any lobby- ing like this since fee Volstead Act. On one side you have the garden clubs, on the other the out- door advertising industry." The billboard provision would give incentives to the states to con- trol advertising signs along the interstate system. For signing agree- ments to regulate billboards, feey would be paid a bonus of Vi of 1 per cent of the cost of the inter- state segment covered by fee agree- ment. This would be in addition to the 90 per cent of fee cost al- ready borne by the federal govern- ment. hospital. Police said the slaying apparently was the climax of a wine-drinking party in the housing project area and an argument between the two over girl friends. Detective Lt. Joseph C. Conti and Detectives Sam Augustino and Wilfred Garrow said Ferrell final- ly admitted stabbing Freeney after first denying the attack. Police said the stabbing occur- red shortly after 9 o'clock on a porch at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Hale at 616 96th St. Obtained Bread Knife According to information ob- tained by police, Ferrell had ob- tained a bread knife at the Hale home prior to his clash with Free ney and left the house. (Police said feoy wore told Fer- rell returned to fee house later and 6*abbed Freeney when he came to fee door of fee Hale home. The knife, police said, penetrat- ed Freeneys toft rfrouktor and wa« plunged in a downward direc- tion. Freenciy bled profusely be? lore be reached the hospital, it wa« saM. police said feeir investigation maw*$&w<) mtn a^'seven of• eight other men and ^Ofttert hail engaged in a wme-drirtkbig party in fee housing area prior to the stabbing. ~~ FerreC p o l i c e said, claimed "Freeney cut him on the left hand w$fh: a butcher knife on the Hale porch before lie stabbed Freeney. Victim on Ground When police arrived at the scene, "Freeney was on the ground a* fee rear of fee Hale home covered wife blood. Traffic Officer Pat Cermlrtara. who also was at the stabbing scene, said two of Frecney's broth- ers, Identified as Tim and Junior, had to be subdued by police after they attempted to attack Ferrdl. A knife, said to be the fatal weapon, was found in the street near the Hale home. Police said they questioned 11 persons in connection with the .stabbing. Girl Questioned One of those questioned, Ruth Ann Lewis, 20, of 619 Grant Dr., described as a friend of the dead youth, was arraigned in court after Ferrell on a vagrancy charge. Judge Giles adjourned her case pending a physical examination. Participating in the investiga- tion were Asst. Dist. Atty. Wil- liam L. Hunt Jr., Police Supt. W. Henry Florence, Acting Capt. Robert Fitzsimmons, Lt. William Murtaugh, Detective Lt. Fred Cur cione, Detective George Truesdale and Patrolmen William Truesdale Jr., Harold Becotte and La Verne Mahoney. WASHINGTON UrV-Prcsl- dent Eisenhower asked Con- gress today to give the secre- tary of defense full control over*all military money and power to forge truly unified fighting forces if war breaks out. In a sweeping plan to reorgan- ize fee vast Pentagon setup, F.iwn* bower also proposed that the sec- retary of defense: 1. Have final say, short of the president, over which officers shall be picked for top ranks, and, 2. Be olhle to transfer officers between the services without re- |gard to their tmic uniform—so long as the officer himsHf con- cents. Eisenhower sail "I have neither the intent nor/ffie desire to merge or abolish fee traditional services" —the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force. Old Order Game But he said "$ep.vato ground, tcx sid air warfa'tf is gone for* ever" and operiiionul commands mast become "truly unified, effl- cfant hUlkary^ testaments." MserirKwer sTt out six ntt}or f ilnts in a 7,000 vord message eyed to the propoMtioi that "we iw.it remove afl doubt as to the action on fee measure until April ^r,S^«riTuni8ia Strife Senate passage was considered certain, because fee conferees on Tuesday largely accepted fee Sen- ate provisions. In advance of fee roH caM, there appeared to be some possibility fee House would vote for a further conference. Leaders on both sides said feey expected fee tally to be close, wife fee vote crossing party lines. Eisenhower signed Tuesday fee session's first end-recession WH— a $1,850,000,000 housing measure. But Senate Republicans fee same day slowed down fee'Democratic drive for fast action on another measure. They won a olose fight to put over until April 14 a bWl carrying one biHion dollars in loan funds for local public works proj- ects. ' In fee House, however, U was key Democratic leaders who prt- End is Sought PARIS (JR—Robert Murphy and Harold Beeley flew to Tunisia to- day with proposals they hope will end fee bitter d i s p u t e between France and Tunisia. The U. S.-British good office team met Wednesday with French Premier Fetix GaWatxl and report- ediy discussed new plans for super- vision of the Algerian-Tunisian frontier, the Hem now holding up settlement of fee dispute. Although the proposals have not been revealed, the good office team's meetings in London with U. N. SecretAry General Dag Ham- marskjold strengthened the belief that some sort of international po- licing of tht frontier-Mo keep Al- gerian rebels from getting hdp in Tunisia—is being planned. Thief Restores Faith, $41,000 To Churchmen CHICAGO (W —A repentent thief has restored two femgs to Fpiscopal church officials — $41.000 and faith in their fellow man. . There was even talk of giving fee ex-convict. William A. Smith. 29. his old job at di- ocesan headquarters here. The diocesan treasurer admit* ted the church had taken a cal- culated risk when it hired Smith two months ago. Smith had just finished a prison term for stead- ing check*. But Smith's parents and Ws parish priest were »o persuasive, the church decided to give him another chance. All went well until last Sa- turday when Smith was sent to a I.oop bank to deposit $41,000 in checks and $180 im cash. He hasn't been seen since, He's been heard from, how- ever. On Monday morning di- ocesan officials received the checks in the mail and, on Tues- day a money order for fee $180. "A lifetime habit is hard to break." Smith said in an accom- panying note. fa I authority of the secretary of defense." He proposed that fee joint chiefs of staff be continued, but suul that in fee future they should serve as a staff "assisting the sec- retary of defense in his exercise of directton over unified com- mands." The President went on: "Strategic and tactical pfenning must be completely unified, com- bat forces organized into unified commands, each equipped wife the most efficient weapons system that science can develop, singly led and prepared t/ fight as one, regard- less of service." Doubts Raised Bven before (he message reach- ed congress, there bad been doubt* voiced by some mfkieotial legisla- tors eg to whether fee secretary o< defense should have greotiy in- creased power. Questions were raised particu- larly as to how Wise k wouid be to increase fee secretary's author- ity in the field of strategic plan- Eisenhower's program would strip the civilian heads of fee army, navy and air force of direct atjthoritjy ovar military operations. In effect, those secretaries would be left as merely executive agents. Eisenhower suggested feat pro- cedure go into effect July 1, 1959. Earlier story on Page 23. • - — » • • • Maundy Thursday— V Two Rioters Slain COLOMBO, Ceylon lM—Police shot and killed two demonstrators and injured several today in a clash in Central Ceylon's sea plan- tation district Vatican Gty In Mourning VATICAN CITY (W — The Eternal City draped kseW te mourning today in memory of fee ordeal of Jesus Christ. The Roman Catholic ritual of Maundy Thursday ushered in Christendom's most solemn sea- son, coinmcrnorating the suffering, death and resurrection of Christ some 1,900 years ago. Priests prepared to atrip altar* of their ornaments and drape them in mourning immediately after today's^ cotrrfnecX)rs*k>o of Christ's establishment of fee Hob/ Eucharist at hie last supper. Choirs gathered to asnf fee , Tei»e<>rae n -~'T5at*ne«s'* — recall- ing fee darkness which fee Bible records as covering the earth when Christ was crucified. The Holy Week mourning will reach itar>eak Friday afternoon at the time Christ died on the crosa. It will end at midnight fiaturr day when the big bell of St. Peter*! Basilica rings out to an- nounce that "Christ hat; risen from the dead." \ f . • Large numbers of Easter piU trims and tourists have thronged into Rome,, Tliejrftyt. hotels are booked solid. Thotosaad* more viaitor*, Ai^^«vt^-^r/%4iW>- atage of the Hc# We** rite* which will br dlma*eii Phis Xll's annual p the world »1 ttootl on Eastef Sunday, •••. • > ' . in •'• 4$ . i i 3 i ,,NlA.^.._.. •M.:W4L.VK1 s : *^-*--vJLHv 1»ft *•- atftiaaiiri • Thomas M. 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