SATURDAY• SEPTEMBER 28. 1957
Ex-Labor . -:Leader
Hits Team tern
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (FP)—A - ormer officer of the
Michigan Federation of Labor testifie today the Teamsters
Union used threats, rigged elections an links with the under
world to build up power in his state.
Robert Scott also told the Senatelt ckets Committee that
"James R.. Hoffa, Midwest boss of
the Teamsters, threatened "to
break both my arms and legs"
when Scott threatened to resign
from the federation in p r o t e s t
against - the way Hoffa and others
were changing the constitution.
Scott said he resigned any ,
• He v : ras placed under the pro
tectiop of the - committee after
reporting
. that he received two
threatining telephone calls last ,
'week warning him not to testify
•in Wishington. ,
Today's hearing ended with anj
outburst from William Buffalino,!
president of Teamsters Local 985
in Detroit, that the committee was
using "Gestapo tactics" and "try
ing to get information at gun
t Robert F. Kennedy, committee
icounsel, acknowledged that one
lof his investigators had drawn a
,pistol on Harry Newman, the bus
iness agent of Buffalino's' local.
Kennedy said the incident oc
curred I ter Newman started
pushing the investigator around.
Scott, who lives in Pontiac,
iMich., was secretary-treasurer of
!the State Federation of Labor
!from 1946 to mid-1952. He is now
a member of the Michigan State
!•Board of Barber Examiners.
Scott told the committee he
hoped Congress would pass a
law enabling labor union mem
bers to appeal to the courts for
redress of grievances.
"In local 614—a Teamsters unit
in Pontiac—the rank and file
knows what's going on," he said.
"They can't get redress from Mr.
Hoffa ... Jimmy can do anything
he wants to, contrary to the con
stitution, and who are you going
to appeal to?"
Week's F I Li...-
Cases ShoNV
.
Sharp Rise: **
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (al
A sharp upturn in the number of
Asiatic flu cases around the
country was reported today by
the Public Health Service._
The number of new cases jump
ed by 122.650 in one week, the
service reported, bringing the
total since the disease first made
its- appearance in late May , or
early June to_ 222,650. -
The PHS'slatesi. estimate, based
on incomplete reports from state
health officers and the armed
forces. covers the week" ended
Sept. 21.
By that time, the service said:
"Epidemics, some of them explo
sive in nature, were reported in
a number of schools and colleges
located in various parts of the
country."
Surgeon Gen. Leroy B. Burney
has said cold weather seems to
"trigger" flu attacks.
Two new deaths were mentioned
in today's summary as possible
attributable to influenza One of
these was in Oklahoma and the
other in Arizona. A week ago the
PHS reported that Asiatic flu had
caused 14 deaths in this country.
Today's report covered virtual
ly every part of the country. It
told of schools closing in some sec
tions, including parts of Texas
and Idaho, and of outbreaks in
colleges, institutions and military
installations. None was identi
fied by name.
Carrier Proven
Match For Sub
ABOARD CARRIER USS FOR
RESTAL, Sept. 27 (E 3 )—U.S. Adm.
Jerauld Wright, NATO's sea com
mander, said tonight Exercise
Strikeback has shown a carrier
striking force can break through
a submarine barrier.
He told newsmen naval com
manders in the North Atlantic air
sea maneuvers had reported only
a few instances of submarines
scqring simulated torpedo hits on
the fleet of big British an'd Amer
ican warships.
This means the fleecs anti-sub
marine capability "has been sat
isfactory demonstrated," Wright
said.
Soviet Russia has the world's
biggest submarine fleet. No match
for the Western Powers in sur
face ships, it has more than 400
undersea craft.
Typhoon Hits Okinawa;
Dead May . Numberloo
NAHA, Okinawas, Saturday,
Sept. 28 (in—Typhoon Faye, the
most savage storm in recent Oki
nawa history, is believed to have
killed at least 60 persons and per
haps more than 100.
Twenty are known dead—in
cluding one American Marine—
from the surprise assault by winds
that raked the U.S. fortress island
for 10 hours Thursday. The 'U.S.
Army reported 49 other Oki
nawans raising. Other sources put
the figure at 100, mostly fisherH
men.
Casualty totals mounted as
communications were gradually
restored Friday- throughout the
battered 6 5-mile-long base, 400
miles off the Red 'China coast.
The Rvukyusy government and
the U.S. Army said_ 112 Okina
wans. and 34 Americans were in
jured, 2597 Okinawa house and
88 public buildings destroVed,
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Negro College
Set On Fire
ALBANY, Ga., Sept. 27 (M
A predawn fire was set deliber
ately at the Albany State College
for Negroes today, officers re
ported.
But whether the arsonists were
white or Negro, investigators did
not agree.
Varying reports placed. a blond
white man in a red-checked shirt
and three 17-or 18-year-old white
youthsall unidentified—suspic
iously at the scene between 3 and
4 a.m. But a city fireman declared
that three mdn whom he saw run
ning from a flaming • building
were Negroes.
Wiped out was the $250,000
brick, one-story Hazard training
!school, attended by some 250 el
' ementary pupils and used by the
'college to train •young Negro
(teachers. . -
3412 houses and 40 public build -1
. ngs damaged, five Okinawa ships
over five tons sunk, 24 grounded,
23 damaged and 39 smaller ves-'
sels damaged with 18 still missing.
Three bridges were smashed.
The (Air Force kept its losses'
under a tight security lid_ Unof-'
ficially they were reported very
heavy. A spokesman admitted
they were "extensive" but re
leased no details.
Faye, only a minor tropical
storm late Wednesday, suddenly'
ballooned into a savage giant
and veered sharply into the
sleeping island. There was little
warning.
Many , planes W - ere reported
picked up and smashed. A Marine
tent city was destroyed.
-The lone American death was
caused by a skull 'fracture from
flying debris. The Marine's name
Was withheld.
STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
J. Edgar-Hoover
Accuses Fattbus
FBI Head Says
Faubus Spread
Misinformation
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (W)—
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ac
cused Gov. Orval Faubus of Ar
kansas today of "disseminating
falsehoods" by • saying the FBI
had held teen-agers incommuni
cado in Little Rock for hours of
questioning.
Hoover issued the following
statement:.
"The statement of Gov. Orval
Faubus last night that FBI agents
held teen-aged girls incommunica
do for hours of questioning is as
false as his recent statement that
the FBI tapped his telephone.
"No teen-ager or anyone else
has been held incommunicado by
the FBI for hours of questioning.
"We of course have talked to
students,, including those whose
names have been furnished to us
by Gov. ,Faubus' counsel for the
purpose of securing information
with respect to possible violence.
"Had Gov. Faubus been inter-I
ested in securing the truth ratherl
than disseminting 'falsehoods, al
telephone call to the Little Rock
office of the FBI or to me would
have provided him with the facts."
Faubus told a television audi
ence last night that:
"Literally swarms of FBI agents
have been operating throughout
the city . . . Teen-aged girls have
been taken by the FBI and held
incommunicado for hours of ques
tioning while their frantic parents
knew nothing of their where
abouts." •
Hoover's remark that Faubus
had said earlier that the FBI
tapped his telephone goes back to
a Sept. 4 incident when the gov
ernor sent a telegram to Presi
dent Dwight D. Eisenhower say
ing, among other things:
"I have strong reasons to be
lieve that the telephone lines to
the Arkansas executive mansion
have beeri tapped—l suspect the
federal agents."
In another offshoot to the Ar
kansas racial troubles, the Army,
sat tightly on the question of
what officer sent out an order
Wednesday calling for stepped-up'
riot training for troops stationed
in the South.
Syria's Moscow Dealings
No Threat Says Saud
DAMASCUS, Syria, Sept. 27 (. )—Escortedby a squadron
of Syria's new Soviet MIGs, Arabia's King Saud flew home
today expressing belief that this country's deals with Moscow
are no threat to her neighbors.
In a departing statement, broadcast by Damascus radio,
he declared: "I am certain from what I felt during my brief
stay in this sister country that
Syria poses no threat. to any of
her neighbors and it is unreason
able that there should be any
such inclination'?
He announced, "with complete
frankness," that Saudi Arabia
would resist aggreision from'any
direction against Syria or any
other Arab country.
By these statements Saud in
dicated that in his three-day
stay here he had been satisfied
Syria is not irrevocably, bind
ing itself to the Easterh bloc
despite arms and economic deals
and a 'shift in army command
to leftist officers.
His strong words also lent sup
port that he has interceded with
President Eisenhower to take a
nets look at' U.S. policy toward
Syria.
The Saudi monarch
. came here
amid reports that he was dis
turbed by the looming split in the
Arab world over Syria's deals. A
strong anti-Communist h i m self,
it was reported he was seeking a
middleman's role in easing .he
differences between Syria and the
West and between Syria and the
Arab neighbors who have en
rolled under the Eisenhower Doc
trine.
One of the most important de
velopments of his stay was the
sudden willingness of Syria to
talk business with Iraq, a mem
ber of The anti-Communist
Baghdad Pact. Iraqi Premier
Ali Jawdat came from Lebanon
at Syria's invitation yesterday
on the first such visit since the
Baghdad Pact was set up in
1955.
Jawdut returned to Baghdad
today declaring he was "optimis
tic" about his talks with Presi
dent Shukri Kuwatly, Premier
Sabri Assali and Saud.
Power, City Heads Meet
On Niagara River Project
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y., Sept.
1 27 (Rl—State Power Authority of
ficials met today with city leaders
in an effort to settle differences
Ithat could stall start of the Ni
'agara River power redevelopment
I project. _
There were reports that the
istate was offering a "package
deal" to allay objections of the
city. but - the meeting was closed
- •
'and no details could be obtained.
Leader Grants Stay
HARRISBURG (.-1 3 ) —Papers
were readied in Gov. George M.
Leader's office today postponing
the execution of Norman Moon,
convicted slayer of a Warren
County judge, from next Monday
to the week "of Nov. 18.
Ike Gives
No Hint On
Troop Stay
NEWPORT, RI.. Sept. 27 GP)—
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
kept close watch today on the
quieting Little Rock school inte
gration situation but gave no hint
as to when federal . troops sta
tioned there would be withdrawn.
His press secretary. James -C.
Hagerty, told a news conference
"there is nothing I can say" when
asked how Tong the soldiers would
stay on duty in the Arkansas city.
Newsmen had asked whether
the. lack of violence in the past
two days. had led to any indica
tion of when the troops would be
removed.
Hagerty gave the same "don't
know" answer when asked whe
ther the troops might be with
erawn by Tuesday, when the Pies..
dent will confer in Washington
with a committee of five South
ern governors.
The governors asked the confer
ence solely to - seek earliest pos
sible withdrawal of the troops,
but Eisenhower agreed to the
meeting with the understanding
the school integration question
generally would be discussed.
Hageity said the President had
talked by telephone twice today
with U. S. Atty. Gen. - Herbert
Brownell Jr. on Little Rock.
Contractor Guilty
In 'Cinder' Trial
HARRISBURG, Sept. 27 (W)---
A Schuylkill County contractor
was convicted today of conspiring
to defraud the state of $5OOO in
the sale of cinders in York Coun
ty.
A jury of six men and six wom
en returned the verdict in Dauph
in County Court in the case of
Vicktor Patrikonis Prep, head of
the Prep Construction Co., Frack
ville.
The verdict, after one hour and
20 minutes of deliberation, ended
a four-day trial on charges of
conspiracy and false pretense.
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