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The Oshkosh Northwestern from Oshkosh, Wisconsin • Page 1

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BRIGHT, DIM Sunny and warmer today. Scattered showers or thun-dershowers DetaiU on Page 5. 0 slikoslhi flly Nortlhrwe stern Associated Press and United Press Ninety-First Year Oshkosh, Saturday Evening, June 28, 1958 18 Pages Price Six Cents gotiaf efor Release Cidnaped by Rebels in Cuba 1 mui, i linn I- ir. --i- i 7 -TT IIV. J.

-TV 7 i Ne of 12 A i I V- i'im'HK mum ii mi Boost in Pi one Raid on Mine Camp Nets 10 Americans HAVANA, Cuba (UPI) Mining company officials today were reported negotiating with the Fidel Castro i vmi Rates Okayed i i i rebels for the release of ten American and two Canadian Increases Authorized fy State' PSC To Go Into Effect With Next Bills ARMOR SEARCHES OUT TRIPOLI SNIPERS In the wake of scattered fighting which fol carriers move slowly through the streets of Tripoli. In both Tripoli and Beirut the armor was used to smoke out insurgent snipers. lowed pitched battles between government end rebel forces, tanks and armored troop- if President To Send Soviets New Message WASHINGTON (LTD Presi dent tAsennower win indicate inis.ty to will Lebanese Halt Rebel Attacks Insurgent Blows Stopped With Aid Of Jets, Artillery, Armored Cars BEIRUT, Lebanon AP) The Lebanese army kept its big guns ready today after stopping four reoel attacks in iweekend in a letter to Russia thejcreases ranging from 5 to 65 cents the gravest challenge so far to An army communique re- ported the attacks were put 3 obsem report on '4i. i an? evidence of arms smuggling aown yesterday wim tne iniitration received from the the $196,000 hike proposed by- utility. Rates Are Lowered Rates proposed by the utility for Green Bay and Superior were lowered by the order.

The commission also authorized rates slightly under the company pro posals for Thiensville, Big Bend and Muskego-Prospect exchanges in the Milwaukee area. It also revised downward proposed extended area rates for Ashland and River Falls. The rate case was handled in two separate phases. The first phase determined that the com pany was entitled to $3,472,000 in additional revenue and was de cided April 18. The second order issued Friday spelled out how the increase would be allocated.

The new rates will yield this amount of added revenue annually at the large exchanges: Appleton, Beloit-Janes- ville, Eau Claire, $28,. 170; Fond du Lac, Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Manitowoc, Marinette, Mil waukee, Oshkosh, 286; Racine, Sheboygan, Superior, and Waukesha $131,218. Allocate First Federal Loans For Jobless Aid WASHINGTON AP-Tbe gov- ernment announced today the first the new emergency program fori of jet planes, artillery and armored cars one of me retary.generai;day ii iman fnr U. S. attitude toward a conference at a time East- West relations are at a new low, Informed sources said the new U.

S. letter to Soviet Premier Ni- kita s- Khrushchev would er.iphat- iicay reject Russia's charge that! the United States is aabotaging i summit conference. The letter is in reply to a June 11 message from the Premier. The sources said it would be de- in Moscow today or Sun May Be Last Letter There was even some specula tion the President might announce he intends to end his long corre spondence on the summit issue, which began with a letter last De cember from former Premier Ni kolai Bulganin. But the inforuiants declined to disclose details of the letter ex cept to say it was a rejection of the Russian charge that the West trying to sabotage a possible summit meeme by ropoing an mg to engineers kidnaped in a bold project in Oriente Province.

U. S. Ambassador Earlf Smith warned Friday night that the U.S. government "will use every means pos- sime to get me Kianapea men back. But he said the first step was to see what the officers of the Moa Bay Min ing Co.

were, able to do. About 200 heavily-armed rebels swooped down from their mountain hideouts Thursday night against the mining project in the first deliberate attack against U.S. citizens in Cuba, Official re ports said the raiders were led by Castro's brother, Raul. Accused of Furnishing Gasoline The raid was said to be in re taliation for alleged "U.S. aid to the Cuban government." U.S.

officials said the rebels accused the United States of supplying gaso-i to the Cuban air force from the U.S. naval base at Guanta-namo Bay. They said there was no information to support the charge. Informed sources said the rebels told the engineers "We are instructed to kidnap all foreigners working on the project because of the help the U.S. govern ment is giving the Cuban army." The rebels were said to have add ed "You wDl be held in the hills a couple of days." The 12 men were loaded onto trucks and driven off under armed escort.

The rebels also took 19 trucks and jeeps and looted supplies of food and medicine. Women and children at the camp. about two miles from the village oi Moa on tne nortn coast, were not molested. Described As "Useless" Rebel sources described the ac tion as the "greatest rebel propa ganda stunt" since Castro's men kidnaped Argentine racing cham TRADE PLACES? WILMINGTON, Calif. (UPI) William P.

Loudermilk, 33, had a ready excuse Friday wheri' police officers arrested him for car theft: "I only took the car so I could pick up my buddy who's getting out of San Quentin," he explained. 4 tne ooservers first report tc army oiggest snows Secuntv in due hv tbf il 4 1 GRIM DAG BACK U. N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold leaves his Pan-American plane during a 30-minute stop in Boston, enroute to New York. Grim-faced and silent he continued his trip to give his on-the-spot report on crisis-torn Lebanon.

Thieves Get $450 Cash In Safe-Cracking Thieves cracked a heavy safe and escaped with about $430 in cash from the Joseph Stadf mueller Company, 145 Jacksor during the night, Oshkosh police reported today. They said John Gulig, an em ploye of the firm, arrived for work at a.m. and found the office safe on its back with the door pried off. Gulig notified police. Joseph F.

Stadtmueller son of the firm's owner, said the store was closed at 9:30 Friday qlght The $450 was taken from an inner locked compartment, of the safe which was also pried open, according to Herbert Thomas, bookkeeper, who estimated the los. He said checks were left behind by the thieves, Th MfM.Pllrv5n waj the work of more than one person, police said, for the safe, had been moved away from the wall and placed on its back. A heavy, steel bar, belonging to the Stadtmueller firm, was used to pry the door pf the combination safe. The thieves tried prying the bottom of the door and then succeeded in prying off the hinges. Police said entry into the build ing was gained by forcing the night lock of the rear service door in a large, overhead garage door.

-J President TamillP fhammiVc Lebanese government. A middle of next week. In Washington, the United States announced it is sending Lebanon 65,000 tons of surplus wheat to meet crop losses caused by drought. Officials said the wheat was requested before the rebellion but the tize of the re quest was increased after fighting began. BONUS SAN' FRANCISCO -Tom Brooks, who is retiring from the post of San Francisco city administrator, is leaving with an unexpected bonus.

While cleaning out the desk he's occupied for 17 years, he found two $20 bills stuck in the back of a drawer. unaccepable list of. subjects forjthere will be important losses for; discussion. The chief subjects of dispute between Moscow and the West have been the concerning psiblrt talks, a nuclear t-st bamon the $3,078,000,000 money bill and reunification of Germany. I totaling 357 million less than is Meanwhile, it was still unclear being spent on overseas assistance whether the Russians planned to in the current fiscal year.

It is show up at the scheduled July 1 597 million dollars less than the Geneva conference to discuss $3,675,000,000 ceiling fixed in Hu- added unemployment parents tojweigtling eK'of 600 pounds! MADISON (AP) A rate in-l crease totaling $3,472,000 for the Wisconsin Telephone Co. was thorized by the State Public Service Commission Friday. The boosts go into effect with the next bills. The PSC order authorized the state's largest telephone utility boost its charges at all local exchanges. Long distance rates remain the same.

The order provide for two-par- residential service rate m- all the lareer exchanees. shift- the increases to 62 smaller the exchanges. They will pay $346,652 under the order each year instead Ike Distressed By Aid Fund Cut WASHINGTON (AP)-President Eisenhower's appeal for restora tion of foreign aid funds taken away by a House committee met stiff Democratic resistance today. Eisenhower said yesterday he was deeply distressed by the House Appropriations Commit tee'i reduction of 872 million dol lars from his requested $.1,950,000, 000 for economic and military aid friendly nations in the fiscal year starting next Tuesday, If the deep cut is allowed to stand, Eisenhower said, "I fear the free world and a serious de creasing of the security of the United States." The House will vote next week thorization legislation finality passed by both houses yesterday 'and sent to the President. Fox, testifying under oath, said Goldfine boasted to him that He had bought a house for Adams to live in during his Wash- ington stay.

Adams denied it. Ha- gerty added that Adams had lived in two houses here and city rec ords showed he rented both. He had sent checks at regu lar intervals to Adams before the former New Hampshire governor came to the White House. Through Hagerty, Adams denied having re ceived such aid. Adams also issued his second public statement in two days to deny specifically that Goldfine ever stated in his presence that Adams nad promised to "take care of the financier's troubles with the Federal Trade Commission FTC.

Makes Additional Charges Fox also said Goldfine told him he had contributed indiscriminately to politicians of both parties. Fox said he believed Goldfine kicked in to campaign funds for 80 per cent of all Massachusetts officials, state and national, for the past 20 years. Before leaving the witness stand, however, Fox conceded that Goldfine "often talked a good bit bigger than the facts warranted." In a separate development, Fox raised eyebrows on Capitol Hill by swearing that Joseph P. Ken nedy, millionaire father of Sen. John F.

Kennedy D-Mass.) gave him a half-million dollar loan after Fox's now-defunct Boston pa per backed the younger Kennedy in 1952. Fox said he and Joseph Kennedy discussed such a loan over a drink the night the paper published its endorsement In New York, the elder Ken nedy's office issued a statement, denying -such a discussion took' of rebel raid on a U.S.-owned pion Juan Fangio from a HavaM hotel last February. but Smith denounced the kid-naping as a "useless defiant gesture" while predicting the releas of the 12 men "reasonably soon." There was no actual fighting at the Moa Bay project, but the rebels proceeded into the nearby vil lage where they exchanged firn with a small army unit. One rebel and two Cuban civilians wer killed and three soldiers wounded. Sift Wreckage in Search For Cause of Crash WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Mass.

in vestigating teams from the Air Force, the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the aviation industry today sifted the wreckagt of a huge jet Stratotanker to determine what caused a crash that took the lives of 15 men. The big tanker, one of four FCl35s scheduled to streak to Eigland to break trans-AtUntie round trip records early yesterday crashed and exploded sec on after takeoff. Two similar pit ties that took off before her bnke the west to east record. A fourth, poised on the runway, did not take off because of tht tragedy. The plane snapped high tension wires 70 feet above the ground and plummeted to earth in the after-midnight darkness.

Its cargo of highly volatile fuel-estimated th equivalent of three-and-a-half rail-road tank cars-exploded into an lnterno. President Is Shocked Instantly killed were six news men, seven crewmen, and two ob servers from, the National Aeronautics Assn. The dead indium Brig. Gen. Donald W.

Saunders of Athens, N. airborne commander in charge of the operation, Turn to CRASH on Page 5 Bus Line Asks Authority To Drop 3 Routes MADISON "(AP)-Central Grey hound Lines complaining that too many potential customers ar using private automobiles for transportation wants to curtail its service. The bus Une asked the State Public Service Commission for authority to drop three routes, operata only two during the summer hr.nnthg anil roi im Central Greyhound said if Is losing more than 10 cents per bus mile travelled in Wisconsin. Similar petitions have been, will be, file in Minnesota and Michigan, the company said. During the first four months of 1938, the bus line said, it suffered a net loss of $1,763,000 before income tax carryback credit.

These are the routes the bus mA I. From the Minnesota Wisconsin line at Prescott via U. S. 10 to its junction with U. S.

12 south of Fairchild. Between the junction of State 26 and U. S. 41 near Oshkosh. Between the Wisconsin Michigan line near Niagara via U.

S. 141 to Abrams. The bus line proposed putting runs between the cities of Rhine-lander and Woodruff and Minoc-qua and the Michigan state lint at Hurley on a summer basis. In other actions the PSC: Authorized the Gleason Telephone Gleason, to increase rates $1,379 a year. Granted the Wisconsin Telephont Co authorization to establish two-way extended area service between River Falls and its exchanges at Hudson, Roberts and Ellsworth, while granting a $13,650 Irate increase upon conversion of the Hudson exchange to dial operation.

-Authorized the Milwaukee Road land the Railway Express Agency discontinue agency service at i South Wayne and to removt depot ibuildings. Says Goldfine Offered McCarthy Vicuna Coat rr i WASHINGTON (AP) John Fox new charges as "ridiculous false-told House investigators Friday hoods." that Bernard Goldfine offered a But Chairman Oren Harris D-vicuna coat to the late Sen. Jo- Ark.) and members of the sub-seph McCarthy when the Boston committee investigating to see if industrialist was introduced to the'fiam ypulled strings with federal strength during the seven- week rebellion. I Heavy fighting broke out in the morning and again in the afternoon in the capital's Basta Moslem quarter. Armored cars wiped nl phi! strwrt harrirade In claim one victory.

At Rasheiya in southern Leb-t anon, the communique said, an attack on the army garmon was driven off in a sharp exchange of gunfire. Another attack at the north Lebanese port of Tripoli was stopped, the army said, after rebels advanced within 50 yards of army positions. Turn Bark Assault The communique also claimed that government troops, outnum- Kerori tl turned hark hpavv rebel assault on Mt. Tereol in the north with aerial and artillery i-jpport. The rebels claim control of three-quarters of this Middle Eastern republic, which is smaller than Connecticut, and say they will keep fighting until Chamoun quits.

Tne president, wnose term expires in mid-September, has conceded the rebels dominate at least one-quarter of Lebanon. The rebels' territorial claim was made by former Premier Abdul Yaft, a Moslem, and Muad Ammoun, leader oi tne uirisuan opposition in this hair-Mosiem, half-Christian country. Accused of Sending-Aid Chamoun has accused President Nasser's United Arab PiCpublic of seiKiin? in arms and men to aid te rebels. A U.N. observer team eMablished to investigate the charges said Thursday it had 1 found some aid coming in from the U.A.R.V neighboring Syrian province.

Yafi countered this by charging that Jordan, Iraq and Turkey are helninc Chamoun. The Western observers have not reported see ine any indications of such aid here. The observers said they believed they could shut off the U.A.R. aid. U.N.

Secretary-Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold, who was in the Middle East for a week re- cently checking on the situation, reportedly believes the ohserver teams are' making satisfactory progress. Optimism Due to Talks Sources at U.N. headquarters in New York City said his optimism was based on talks with Nasser in Cairo rather than his visits here. Some diplomatic quarters reported Nasser assured Ham- marskjold there would be no major intervention in the conflict. Hammarskjold's wait-and-see attitude was disputed by Lebanese U.N.

Delegate Karim Azkoul. "There is no ground for the optimism that has been lately ex pressed in some quarters," he said in New York. Azkoul named no names, but Hammarskjold promptly renewed instructions to Water Skier Drowns BELOIT (AP James Ferguson Vv: Ij Wisconsin Republican for the first time. Describing the incident, Fox said: "Goldfine felt the senator's, lapel and said, "This isn't the kind of a coat a senator ought to "Sen. McCarthy, who had never seen Goldfine before, looked at me and looked at him, and asked, 'What kind of a coat should a VI A technical means of policing any nuclear test ban which may be agreed on later.

agencies in Goldfine's behalf made no move to muzzle Fox. House Approves Legislation To Assist Railroads WASHINGTON (AP) Legislation designed to aid the nation's financially distressed railroads ine measure, wnicn memoes similar bill, refuses to accept the House version a conference committee is expected to seek a compromise. Unlike the Senate bill, which sets a 700 million dollar limit on the amount of government-guaranteed loans to the railroads, the House measure carries no limit on the amount of loans that may be outstanding at one time Rescue Hope Fades For Trapped Miners FUKUOKA, Japan (AP)-Hope faded today for 25 miners trapped in flooded Honsoeda Mine as rescue workers were hampered by excessive water leakage and threats of cave-ins. Seven of 32 miners managed to jobless workers whose benefits have expired. The Labor Department said al locations totaling $37,398,848 have been certified for payment to eight states, the District of Co-! lumbia.

Puerto Rico and the Vir gin Islands. They are signed up under the voluntary program to finance a 50 per cent extension of state jobless pay programs. In most atates payment of unemployment benefit is limited to a maximum of 26 weeks. Unemployment Drop The announcement of the allocation came on the heels of a re- port that unemployment among workers iasured for 'jobless pay dropped to a new I958 low dunn the week ended June 14. The Labor Department's Employment Security Bureau said Friday the number of injured workers out of jobs declined by 113,000 to a total of 2.704 600.

The drop, attributed chiefly to a continued seasonal upswing in outdoor work, represented thei ninth successive weekly decline. However, part of the decrease reflects workers who have exhausted their eligibility for further jobless benefits. An undetermined; number in this category still are unemployed and are not reflected in the figures. The department said iasured unemployment still is more than double the total of 1.268,700 for the same week last year. New Claims Decline Another 19M low also- was re ported in intial claims for jobless benefits, a barometer of r.v lay offs among Insured workers.

The department said for the week ended June 21, new claims dropped by 13,800 to a total of 318,500 the lowest number for any week since mid-November of lat'. year. For the corresponding veek a year ago new claims totaled Congress recently appropriated $665,700,000 for the emergency program of supplemental jobless benefits. The Labor Department an nounced earlier this week 12 states have signed up the program so far and that four others have programs- at adopted equivalent heir own expense has won overwhelming House ap- 'Vicuna, Goldfine replied. 'I 6 send you one.

i 1 I I I ue II lure uihj a iuieinc provision for a government- roared witb laughter as the loan pr08grani) as counter was related by Fox who McCarthy got the coaTFoid! li A he departed, Goldfine called after him: "I buy vicuna coats for all the Senators." Fox said he and Goldfine ran into McCarthy in a corridor of the Senate office building and he introduced Goldfine. The testimony did not make clear when the meeting took place. McCarthy died in the spring of last year. Disagree On Influence WASHINGTON (UPI (Republi cans and Democrats disagreed today on whether sensational testi mony by Boston promoter John Fox weakened or strengthened the "influence" charges against Pres idential Assistant Sherman Adams. Fox, who dropped several po litical bombshells in two hours on the witness stand Friday, prompt- I of Beloit, a 19 year old Air Force'ed fresh denials from the Whitejescape when water, believed to be jrlace at the tune the paper, the; The eignt states mat wu.

re-eniistprl man home on leave. Fri-1 House of allegations linking'from an underzround current, sud- Boston Post, came out for the the allocations announced SAFE PRIED WITH STEEL BAR, Joseph Stadtmueller son of the owner of the Stadtmueller implement firm at 145 Jackson examines the office safe which was broken open by thieves during the nighf. Hejiolds the steel bar which they carried from th rear of. the building and used to pry tha safe's hinges. day drowned in the Rock RiverAdams with millionaire Bernard while water skiing.

Witnesses said, Goldfine. Ferguson became entangled in the White House Press Secretary tow rop and fell into the water. James C. Hagerty labelled Fox denly poured in Friday afternoon candidacy, -It said the loanltoday are Delaware. Isome 250 yards from the en-jwas made after the election on a'Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Newj trance.

Two pumps were unable; purely commercial basis and was Maryland, Alabama and, to dain the pit overnight. I later paid back on time. (California, 1.

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