WEDNESDAY, OCTOBE,',
U.S.EICub ; n Relations
Threatened by Castro
HAVANA (EP) The United States indignantly told Cuba
yesterday a deliberate attempt is being made under, the
Castro regime to wreck Cuban-American relations.
American Ambassador Philip W. Bonsai denied Prime
Minister Fidel Castro's charges that Cuba is being air-bombed
Labor Injected
in Crime Trial
NEW YORK OP) Defense
lawyers for 22 Apalachin dele
gates injected the subject of the
union labor movement into their
federal conspiracy trial yesterday.
As selection of jurors continued
through a second day, prespective
panelists were aQked if they held
any prejudices regarding the la
bor movement. There were no ex
planations and this led U.S Dis
trict Judge Irving Kaufman to
remark:
"I don't know at this point what
the labor movement r - has to do
with the case, or how deeply it
enters into' the case. Frankly, I
do not know in what way this case
will touch labor."
The 22 are among some 60 hood
lums and their friendS who at
tended the Nov. 14, 1057, under
world conclave at the Apalachin.
N.Y., home of the late Joseph
Barbara Sr.
Federal, state and local inves
tigators have failed in repeated
efforts to discover the reason for
the gathering. It has been sug
gested that gambling, narcotics
and labor racketeering may have
been subjects on the agenda.
New Farm Program
Outlined by Grange
• BEDFORD, Pa. (/P) A National Grange official yester
day outlined a farm program designed to give farmers bar
gaining power comparable to that enjoyed by labor and
industry.
Roy Battles, assistant to the master of the National
Grange, told some 2,000 delegates
of the 87th annual session of the
Pennsylvania Grange at Bedford:
"Our , program is designed to
provide producer-managed com
modity marketing programs to en
hance producer-bargaining power
and to deter the accumulation of
price-depressing stocks in the
hands of the government and oth
er non-farm groups."
Battles pointed out to the
group that the government has
helped develop the bargaining
power of labor through legis
lation.
"Other federal laws have helped
business regulate and control the
production and marketing of its
products and services," added
Battles: "All of these things place
farmers in a tighter and tighter
cost-price squeeze."
Democrat To Fill
P.U.C. Vacancy
HARRISBURG (/P) Gov. Da
vid L. Lawrence said yesterday
he was "pretty sure" he would
name a Democrat to a $19,000-a
-year vacancy on the Public Uti
lity Commission.
The appointment will be made
before the 1959 Legislature ad
journs finally, he said in declin
ing to speculate on names.
The Republican-controlled Sen
ate has held up since last April
the confirmation of William F.
O'Hara, Scranton, to a PUC post.
With the recent death of Repub
lican Henry Houck, Shenandoah,
there are now two vacancies on
the rate-fixing body,
The commission is now operat
ing with three members, two Re
publicans and a Democrat. Any
PUC action requires a positive
vote by all three. .
The addition of two Democrats
to the PUC would mean removing
Republican control of the agency
for the first time in nearly 20
years. Some 300 patronage jobs
are at stake.
28. 1959
with U.S. permission from Flor
ida bases.
Bonsai emerged grim -faced
from an hour-long visit with
President Osvaldo Dorticos in
the presidential palace.
Outside the palace Monday
night Castro charged at a loyalty
rally that the United States is tol
erating bombing of Cuba by en
emy Cubans self-exiled in Flor
ida.
The Castro charges before about
250,000 Cubans massed at the pal
ace pitched Cuban-American re
lations at perhaps their lowest
since Cuban liberation from Spain
in 1898.
Yesterday the Slate Depart
ment made a double-barreled
reply: in Bonsal's 8-page state
ment to Presidetn Dorticos
who serves as Castro's choice
for chief of state and in a sep
arate statement.
Bonsai told Dorticos the United
States is shocked and amazed at
Castro's charges that planes were
permitted to fly from U.S. bases
to bomb Cuba.
Commenting generally on Cas
tro's anti-U.S. attacks, the State
Department said: "Not only are
such charges utterly unfounded
but they can only contaminate
that atmosphere of good faith
which should prevail in the rela
tions of neighbor states."
In another talk at the opening
day session of the three-day meet
ing, J. Collins McSparran, master
of the state grange, said that gov-1
ernment sanctioned programs pro-'
tecting the income of non-agri
cultural society have farming
problems of the nation.
"American agriculture does not
want governinent running our
business," said McSparran. "But
we must have the same kind of
government help as has been af
forded industry and labor in de
veloping programs for orderly
marketing of products."
Army Missile Chief
WASHINGTON ((P)—The Army
Tuesday chose Maj. Gen. August
Schomburg, a weapons specialist
for years, to succeed Maj. Gen.
John B. Medaris as head of its
missile command.
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Soviets Will
Try to Up
Production
MOSCOW (?P)—The Soviet
government announced yester
day a record high budget for
1960 and said defense spend
ing will be frozen at this year's
level. Funds for scientific devel
opment were increased 15.4 per
cent.
Total income projected for 1960
—the second year of a seven-year
plan in which the Soviet Union
proposes to push production ahead
of that of the United States—is
772 billion rubles.
Expecting to keep the book
keeping in black ink as the
U.S.S.R. has done since World
War 11, Premier Nikita Khrush
chev's government proposes to
spend 744,800,000,000 rubles.
Except for 10-cent deals with
foreign visitors, the Soviet Union
regards the ruble as worth 25
cents and this official rate is con
sidered reasonably accurate in the
government's domestic operations.
But Finance Minister Vasilli
Garbuzov told 1,335 members of
Parliament—the Supreme Soviet
—that defense expenditures are
set at 96 billion rubles, the same
as in 1959. He said the 12 9 per
ent of the national revenue to go
,to the armed forces compares
with 19.9 per cent in 1955.
More than half of the U.S.
budget goes for defense. The
U.S. Defense Department was
allocated about 41 billion dol
lars in January. 'The Budget
Bureau estimates total spending
will hit nearly 79 billion. The 41
billion, however, represents less
than 10 per cent of the total
U.S. national income.
At the official rate, the money
openly earmarked for the Soviet;
army, navy and air force totals!
24 billion dollars. Other forms of
military spending are hidden in
civilian appropriations and cannot,'
be estimated. Research on mili-!
tary projects comes under science;
and education. Construction of
arms plants is in-luded 'n capital
investment spending.
Rockefeller Meets
With Ike Today
WASHINGTON (PP) Gov
Nelson A. Rockefeller of New
York, a potential bidder for the
Republican presidential nomina
tion, will confer with President
Eisenhower at the White House
today.
But Eisenhower's press secre
tary, James C. Hagerty, said in
announcing the appointment that
the subject of the conference will
be civil defense, not politics.
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Post Office Discloses
New Letter System
WASHINGTON (IP) The Post Office Department dis
closed Tuesday it is developing a system designed to speed a
letter coast to coast in an instant—over microwave radio or
coaxial cables.
Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield barely lifted
the veil of secrecy that has)
shrouded the plan. He didn't say
when the mary(.l might be ready I Steel Strike
for public use or what it might
cost to transmit a letter.
His cauti , ,,usly worded state-, At A Glance
merit was issued only after word
of the experiment circulated al l By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
the 55th annual meeting of the SETTLEMENTS Detroit Stee
National Assn. of Postmasters of ! Corp. small nonstruck producer
the United States. follows lead of struck Kaiser
There was no direct reference;Steel Corp. and sings contras
to the revolutionary mail sys- !with United Stelworkers
tern at the convention, but both
Summerfield and President Ei
senhower hinted at it in their
speeches.
Eisenhower traced the history-
Of the mail from the Pony Ex-!
press 100 years ago and said maul
now is flown coast to coast in,
about 5 1 ,i hours.
The prospects are, however, Ei-,
senhower said, that it will be pos-;
sable in the future to deliver maiii
long distance "almost in a mo-;
meat." i
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Officials declined to say any
, thing further about the experi
rnents or to comment on reports
that the department hopes fac
; simile letters can be sent for
less than the current seven
cent air mail rate.
This would be less than the $2!
Ito s4 ,a page Western Union Tele-I
igraph Co. will charge for a simi-1
'Jar service it announced Monday.,
On Dec. 1, Western Union will,
;make available an intercity fae-I
Isifmle service linking Washing-i
!ton, New York City, Chicago, Los!
!Angeles and San Francisco.
It was learned, despite secrecy,i
that the department last July
awarded a $140,000 research con
tract to International Telephone;
& Telegraph Co., to develop al
high-speed facsimile letter serv-;
ice.
More Attention Needed
For Education Problems
HARRISBURG (JP) Unless
more attention is devoted to solv
ing education problems, the Unit-.
ed States will be a second-rate
power within a decade, a National
Education Assn. officer - said yes
terday.
"We have billions for concrete,
but not one cent for the kids,"
said Richard Batchelder, presi
dent of the NEA Department of
Classroom Teachers.
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NEGOTIATIONS —• Union corn_
mittees talk individually with 13
firms in Pittsburgh, others else
where. No industrywide bargain
ing held or scheduled.
'REACTION U.S. Steel Chair
man Roger Blough terms Kaiser
:settlement too costly, asserts 'U.S.
Steel and other companies won't
'settle on same basis.
COURT ACTION U.S. 3rd Cir
icult Court of Appeals upholds
Taft-Hartley injunction temporar
lily_ halting strike, but permits
walkout to continue until at least
'Monday while union appeals to
U.S. Supreme Court.
RELATED DEVELOPMENTS
U.S. Steel reports net loss of
$31,135,136 for third quarter, its
all-time quarterly los record; de
clares regular dividend.
IDLED Half a million Steel
workers and an estimated 280,000
employes in other industries.
Strike 106 days old today.
ISSUES Union seeks wage
fri n g e benefit improvements
which industry considers too cost
ly. wants to change local
iplant work rules.
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