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6,000 Guests Jam
First Ball Given
By Belgian King .
BRUSSELS, Belgium, UP) —
Bachelor King Baudouin’s first
royal ball turned out to be more
like a royal bust for the host.
There were just too many people.
The 27-year-old monarch in
vited 11 princesses from all over
Europe—some said he was hunt
ing for a wife—but if he tried
to get any of them off in a corner
• he probably would have been
crowded out by some 6,000 guests.
The Belgian Court hadn’t giv
en a ball for 24 years and i in
general the king has maintained
a reserved distance between him
self and his subjects during sev
en years on the throne.
He finally threw a party during^
the weekend to celebrate the
opening of the 1958 Brussels
World’s Fair. It provided one
of the rare opportunities for Bau
douin’s subjects to see him close
up. They took full advantage
of it.
As soon as the shy young king
moved out on the dance floor, a
crowd surged forward. Whether
he liked it or not, Baudouin
found himself dancing cheek-to
cheek with princess Beatrix,
heiress apparent to the Dutch
throne.
Decked out in the latest fash
ions, the guests stood on bro
caded chairs, shoved and pushed
each other to get a look at Bau- j
douin and charged after him
when he went for a snack at
the buffet. One young girl faint
ed, and some of the ladies’ long
gowns were stepped on and torn.
Finally the king exercised his
royal privilege, gathered up a
handful of prihces and princesses,
archdukes and archduchesses, and |
swept into a second ballroom.
•Courtiers barred the rest of the
invited guests, and the muted
strains of a toned-down rock ’n’
roll could be heard through the
doors.
Glamor Fails to
Offset Low Pay
For Young Journalists
WASHINGTON, UP) — An edi
tors’ meeting was told Saturday
that the appeal, the glamor, the
urge for journalism as a career
has waned. Low wages was list
ed as a cause.
Dean Earl W. English of the
University of Missouri School of
Journalism said enrollment in
journalism schools has remained
stationary or declined. At the
same time, he said, enrollment in
colleges and universities general
ly has risen by 45 per cent in
the last six years.
Speaking to the American So
ciety of Newspaper Editors
(ASNE) , English said that last
year his school had 5Vfe job bids,
on the average, for every grad
uate it turned out.
The college dean said the jour
nalism profession suffers from
low wages, “and newspapers are
about the worst offenders.”
NEW YORK, UP)—Herbert Hoo
ver was reported improving to
day after a gall bladder operation
two days ago and his doctors
allowed him out of bed briefly.
The former President was
“brighter and more alert this
morning and we permitted him j
to stand up for five minutes,” |
his doctors announced in a hos-:
pital bulletin.
Health Conditions
of Alaska Natives
Unfavorable
WASHINGTON, (Ah — Health
conditions are unfavorable among
the Alaska natives, including Es
kimos, Aleuts and Indians, Dr.
James R. Shaw testified at a re
cent Senate Appropriations Com
mittee hearing on funds for the
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare.
Dr. Shaw, chief of the depart
ment’s Indian Health Division,
said “these people are isolated
not only by distance, but by se
vere weather and difficult ter
rain. About one out of every
50 Alaska natives is under treat
ment for tuberculosis and there
is a high incidence of many in
fectious diseases in this popula
tion.”
Dr. Shaw said Uncle Sam
should plan to spend about 65
million dollars annually to im
prove the heath of the Amer
ican Indian. His division is re-!
questing 40 million dollars for j
the year beginning July 1, about
the same as is being spent dur
ing the current fiscal year.
Harvard Researcher
Arrested By FBI
On Perjury Charge
BOSTON, UP) — FBI agents ar
rested Mark Zborowski, 50, Rus
sian born Harvard researcher, on
perjury charges today in connec
tion with the Jack Soble espio
nage ring.
He was held on $20,000 bail.
His only comment was on the
matter' of bail. He said $20,000
was “an awful lot of money” and
added “I never intend to leave
here and I can be here anytime
you want me.”
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
had said earlier Zborowski’s
arrest was on the basis of a fed
eral warrant issued in New York
Friday. It charged Zborowski
with perjury resulting from his
testimony before a Federal Grand
Jury. No' details were given.
Zborowski has been living in
suburban Brookline for about a
year and is employed as an an
thropologist at the Harvard
School of Public Health. He is
a naturalized citizen but is reg- ■
istered as a foreign agent.
The involvement of Zborowski
with the Sobles is a development
in the FBI scrutiny of secret ac
tivities of Vassili Zubilin, who
reportedly was a general in the
NKVD—Russian secret police.
Soble, his wife, Myra, and
Jacob Albam were arrested by
the FBI on January 25, 1957 on
conspiracy charges to commit
espionage as members of a Soviet
espionage ring. All pleaded guil
ty and have been sentenced.
While testifying before a Sen
ate Internal Security subcommit
tee in 1956, Zborowski admitted
carrying out assignments for the
NKVD in France in the 1930s.
He denied he had been an es
pionage agent fo'r the Russians
since coming to America.
Mrs. Winifred Williams Wins
Amateur Radio Award
DAYTON, Ohio, OP)—Mrs. Win
ifred Dow Williams of Wrangell,
Alaska, has been presented the
National Amateur Radio Opera
tor’s Assn. “Pioneer women in
amateur radio” award at the
association’s convention here.
About 2,200 “hams” from through
out the country are attending.
46 Aboard DC-7
Die In Collision
With Super Saber
LAS VEGAS, Nev., UP) — A
New York-bound United Airliner
with 46 aboard collided with a
supersonic jet fighter high over
the desert today, exploded and
crashed.
Authorities said it appeared im
possible anyone survived.
The big four-engine DC-7
trailed smoke, flames and debris
during its death dive through
the clear sunlit sky. It landed
like a bomb in hilly, isolated ter
rain and continued to burn.
The pilot of the jet, an F100
Super Sabre from nearby Ellis
Air Force Base, ejected safely
and was later picked up.
The collision apparently was at
about 7,000 feet.
The Super Sabre crashed on the
opposite side of a hill from the
airliner. The large plane car
ried 36 regular passengers, 5
company employees and a crew
of 5.
Father Of Two
Tries To Kill
Catholic Nuns
TRENTON, N. J., UP> — “I
wanted to kill some nuns and
priests.”
That, police said, was the ex
planation offered by a 24-year
old father bf two who burst into
a convent here Saturday night
and wounded three nuns with a
shotgun.
They said Louis Felipe Harrero
signed a statement in which he
admitted shooting the nuns and
turning the area around St.
Joachim’s convent and school into
a battleground as he fought off
police and national guardsmen
for more than an hour.
Prosecutor Stanley E. Rutkow
ski quoted Marrero as saying he
sent a series suggestion to such
prominent Catholics as Bishop
Fulton J. Sheen and then became
resentful when his suggestions
were ignored.
Among other things, Marrero
suggested a religious medal for
spacemen in the U. S. Armed For
ces and also sent Bishop Sheen
his own version of the Bible.
The nuns wounded in the
shooting spree were reported out
of danger today.
A passerby, was hit in the
mouth by pellets. The prosecu
tor said Marrero has no police
record or record of mental ill
ness.
The handsome, wavy - haired
youth sat in the police station
yesterday and spoke calmly of
his “visions.”
“I have been having visions
and signs from the Virgin Mary
for about two years,” he said:
“I’ve never spoken to her. I’ve
never seen her. Just the signs.”
SUNDAY BASEBALL SCORES
National League
San Francisco 12, Los Angeles 2
St. Louis 6, Chicago 4
Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 3
Philadelphia 3, Milwaukee 2
American League
New York 7, Baltimore 0
Washington 6, Boston 5
Kansas City 8, Chicago 2
Cleveland 4, Detroit 2
Pacific Coast League
Vancouver 5-2, Salt Lake City 1-1
Seattle 3, Spokane 0
Phoenix 6-6 San Diego 5-6
Rockefeller Fund Report Calls For
Tax Reduction To End Recession
WASHINGTON, W> — Con
gress may delay until June or
even July any decision on reduc
ing taxes to fight the recession.
This view was put forward to
day by influential members of
the Democratic-controlled House
which' originates tax legislation,
in the midst of conflicting com
ments elsewhere that (A) the
slump is leveling off or (B) that
quick action by Congress is
needed on many fronts to boost
the economy.
New support for a tax cut came
last night in an economic study
report by the Rockefeller Broth
ers Fund recommending a series
of public and private steps but
calling a tax reduction the quick
est way to get results.
The report itself made no spe
cific recommendations as to tim
ing or size but Nelson A. Rock
efeller, fund president, said he
personally favors a cut within a
'month and would go along with
those economists who recommend
a five to seven billion dollar
slash. He said views on this
varied among those preparing
the report.
The attitude of key members of
Congress on taxes, however, ap
pears to have undergone some
change in recent weeks. Ear
lier; the belief was prevalent that
the decision would come in April
or May—certainly not later than
June 30, because many wartime
excise tax rates are due to drop
then unless extended.
But legislators considering the
problem say these excises could
be extended at present levels
and changed later if excise cuts
are decided upon.
The Rockefeller report left the
amount of a tax cut up to the
administration and Congress.
For a long range tax program,
the panel recommended revision
of the income tax structure with
lower and more equitable rates.
Also recommended was a change
under which individuals whose
income is subject to sharp year
to-year variations could average
their taxes over a period of
years.
It urged moderation of the
present high corporate tax rate
which it said “tends to distort
and inhibit the vital contribution
which business through the use
and investment of its capital must
make to our national growth.’*
Famed Rescue
Pilot Killed
In Glider Crash
BISHOP, Calif., UP) — Bob Sy
mons, who gained fame flying
light planes on daring mountain
rescue missions, will be buried
tomorrow. He was killed Satur
day when a glider he was test
ing came apart in the air. \
The craft lost its wing and
cartwheeled to a dry lake bed
about 50 miles northeast of Los
Angeles.
While on his rescue trips, the
48-year-old World War II glider
pilot had flown regardless of
weather into Sierra Nevada gorg
es from which other pilots shied
away.
On March 30 he found four
stranded Stanford University stu
dents and dropped supplies to
them during a Sierra snowstorm.
The next day he led an Army
helicopter to the scene for a
rescue.
The day after that he found a
party of snow surveyors in the
mountains and again led a res
cuing helicopter to them.
His sensitivity to air currents
prepared 'him for a career pilot
ing powered craft in the moun
tains after the war. He had re
turned to Bishop then and or
ganized a flying service in this
town about 350 miles east and
south of San Francisco.
Symons, who lost a leg in a
hay chopper accident on his
father’s farm near here in 1936,
made light of his artificial limb.
“It never goes to sleep,” he re
marked.
Fairbanks Dog Wins Award
In Kiwanis Dog Show
VANCOUVER, B. C., UP1—En
tries from Fairbanks, Alaska,
to Burbank, Calif,, won awards at
the annual Kiwanis dog show?
here at the weekend before more
than 300 persons.
Winners included: Best in show
toy group—Walters’ Baby Jill,
a Pomeranian owned by Mr. and
Mrs. Walters, Fairbanks.
5 Women Drown
When Their Car
Plunges Into Lake
NEWTON, Mass., UP) — Five
women residents of a nursing
home—the youngest 80, the old
est 86—were trapped and drowned
in a driverless automobile yes
terday when the car slipped its
brakes, rolled down a grade and
into a lake.
William-L. Bruce, 34, an assis
tant dean at Harverd Law School,
who dived after the car but could
not open its doors because of
water pressure, said the women
inside “looked terrified—numb
with fear.” ,
Bruce said that for five min
utes, as the air-filled car slowly
settled into the water, the women
fought desperately to escape and
stared through the closed win
dows in horror as four men tried
to free them.
Mrs. Kenneth Watson, 58, own
er of the nursing home, said she
was about to drive the five wom
en on a ride into the country
when the accident occurred.
Mrs. Watson said: “I had just
helped the women into the car
and was going back into the
house after a coat. I shut the
door on the driver’s side and
left the motor running and the
brakes on.”
Mrs. Watson said that as she
walked away the car lurched
forward and moved down the
driveway. She ran after it but
couldn’t get near it.
* Police guessed that one of the
women may accidentally have
shifted the automatic transmis
sion lever into drive position.
—
Schoolboy Wins Second
Outstanding Boxer Honors
BOSTON, UP) — Vince Shomo,
New York schoolboy, was award
ed outstanding performer honofs
for the second straight year as
the National AAU boxing champ
ionships ended Saturday night.
Shomo, 17, retained his 139
pound title with three ' 3nock
outs and a decision.