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Robert Scott
Got Death Threat
From Teamsters
WASHINGTON, —R o b e r t
Scott, former secretary-treasurer
of the Michigan Federation of
Labor, testified today he once was
threatened with death because he
refused to help a brother of James
R. Hoffa in “getting in the rack
ets.”
Scott told the Senate Rackets
Committee also that he was once
advised toy Owen (Bert) Brennan,
an associate of Hoffa and presi
dent of a Teamster local in De
troit, that he “had better have his
insurance paid up.”
Scott said Brennan made the
comment when Brennan was try
ing to persuade him to “put a fix
in” for a gambling joint in Oak
land County, Mich.
Scott was called to the stand as
the Senate Rackets Committee
pressed its investigation into the
affairs of Hoffa, Midwest boss of
the Teamsters Union and leading
contender to succeed Dave Back
as union president.
The Teamsters have scheduled
an election at their convention
next week in Miami Beach, Fla.
The plan is being challenged in
the courts, however.
Scott told the senators he be
lieves Ttemster Union officials
hounded his wife to her death in
1946 with phone calls threatening
his life. And he said he received
anonymous phone calls last week
telling him not to testify.
Former Soviet Agent
Poisoned by Reds
FRANKFURT, Germany, UP>—
Nikolai Khokhlov, Soviet secret
police agent who defected to the
West in 1954 was reported critic
ally ill today in a Frankfurt hos
pital from arsenic poisoning.
He said the poison was given to
him by Russian agents.
Khokhlov gave himself up to
.U-S. authorities Feb. 20, 1954. He
had come here with orders to kill
Georgi Okolovich, a leader of the
anti-Soviet NTS organization.
There was no indication how
the poison had been administered
to him.
Khokhlov, 34, had been an MVD
(Secret Police) staff officer. He
led a Soviet murder squad of
three equipped with new-type as
sassination weapons assigned to
kill Okolovich.
Hoffa Denies He/Favored
Dave Beck Get Position
Of President-Emeritus
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. UR—James
R. Hoffa said today he never had
favored giving retiring Teamster
President Dave Beck the position
of president-emeritus of the giant
transportation union.
Hoffa had been reported to be a
sponsor of the move to give the
retiring president the post.
“I thought it was a decision
that Dave himself should make,
•he said.
A union committee voted 15-2
last night to eliminate the provi
sion under which Beck would
have assumed the emeritus title.
Kidnapper of Everett Boy Reveals
He Acted on Spur of The Moment
EVERETT, Wash., UP)—A young
airplane riveter who said he was
desperate for money was arrested
with his wife last night in the
kidnap-for-ransom of Lee Crary,
seven hours after the 8-year-old
youngster was returned to his
home unharmed.
The boy, who vanished Monday,
-was found yesterday walking
along a road near Lake Stevens,
seven miles northeast of here,
some 24 hours after his parents
had received a ransom note de
manding $10,000. The money had
not been paid.
Picked up at 7:20 p.m. by FBI
agents and deputies of Snohomish
County Sheriff Bob Twitchell
were George Edward Collins Jr.,
20, and his wife Katherine, 21.
Hysterically Sobbing Wife
Collins, an apprentice riveter at
Boeing Airplane Co. in Seattle,
was booked; his hysterically sob
bing wife was an accessory to the
crime. The Collins have a child
six months old.
The couple will be charged un
der Washington statutes which
carry punishment up to death if
the victim suffers bodily harm.
Collins’ rambling account of the
abduction said it was a spur of
the moment act. He said he had
once worked on the Lynndale
School at Edmonds, where the
Crary’s live, and had gone back
there to inspect the job when
young Crary arrived on his bi
cycle.
Ride in Car Trunk
They conversed a while, Collins
related, and threw rocks aimless
ly before he suddenly decided to
kidnap the boy. He said he seized
Lee, clapped his hand over his
mouth, took him to his car, and
then gagged him after placing
him in the trunk.
He drove toward Everett, 15
miles to the north, letting the boy
sit with him part of the way. He
drove to his home and for the
next two days kept Lee in the car
trunk must of the time.
He did not explain how he ex
pected the Crarys, a family of
moderate means, to obtain $10,
000. Crary is an auto parts sales
man.
Early yesterday he tied the boy
with a belt to a tree in the woods
near Lake Stevens and returned
to Edmonds to see if the parents
had followed instructions in the
kidnap note. While returning to
Lake Stevens he saw newspaper
headlines saying the boy had been
found.
Lee’s emotion-packed return to
his modest home at Edmonds fol
lowed nearly three days of inten
sive searching by civilians and of
ficials sometimes numbering as
many as 600.
Army Cancels Order
To Step Up Training for
Riot Duty in South
WASHINGTON, UR—In a mix
up of king-sized proportions, the
Army last night canceled a day
old order to its troops in the
South to step up training for riot
duty.
Today, embarrassed and angry,
the high command kept a tight
secrecy lid on the test of the order
lest it heighten the controversy
over President Eisenhower’s dis
patch of troops to enforce racial
integration of Little Rock’s Cen
tral high school.
There are indications a number
of officers—including some gen
erals—were being “chewed out.”
Officers sought to discount the
original disclosure which had de
scribed the order as alerting crack
units for emergency duty.
They took the line that it was
a mere training directive and not
an order for units to get “gassed
up and ready to roll” in expecta
tion of widespread trouble over
school integration.
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Typhoon Leaves
Trail of Death
On Okinawa
NAHA, Okinawa, —Typhoon
Faye struck this U. S. island
stronghold yesterday with sud
denly developed winds of 146
miles an hour, killing one U.S.
marine and at least 19 Okinawans.
Military spokesman said the
marine died after being hit by
flying debris at the height of the
10-hour storm.
The death toll among Okina
wans is expected to mount. Gov
ernment officials at Ryukyu re
ported 112 island residents were I
injured and more than 100 are
missing. Twenty-one fishing boats
each carrying two or three men
were unaccounted for.
Raking the 65-mile-long island,
the typhoon caused damage to
military installations, equipment
and planes that is expected to top
$10 million.
Tax Advisory Board
Schedules Its Second
Meeting In February
The tax advisory board ap
pointed by Gov. Mike Stepovich
has completed its first meeting
at Juneau this week and has set
up a program calling for three
more meetings to make a com
prehensive study of the terri
torial tax structure. This was the
word brought back today by
Clinton Gray, Second Division
member of the board. The next
meeting will be held in Juneau
probably in February.
The board, at the end of its
study, will prepare a report for
the governor early enough for
him to evaluate its findings and
incorporate them in his message
to the legislature which will
convene on the fourth Monday in
January, 1959.
The other members of the
board are: Sen. John Butrovitch
of Fairbanks, chairman; Sen. Jim
Nolan of Wrangell, and Rep. Ken
Johnson of Anchorage.
Gov. Faubus Speech to Nation
Called Inflammatory; Integration
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Proceeding at Little Rock School
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Vandals’ Damage at
Southern Negro School
Estimated at $300,000
ALBANY, Ga., (J’l—Fire attrib
uted to vandals did damage esti
mated .at nearly $300,000 to the
Albany State College for Negroes
early today.
Firemen, police and school of
ficials agreed that two or three
persons were seen running from
a building which flared up while
the flames were destroying an
other. They differed whether the
persons were white or Negro.
Wiped out was the one-story
Hazard Training School, attended
by some 250 Negro pupils and
used by the college to train Negro
teachers.
While it was going up in flames
fire broke out in nearby Caroline
Hall, housing the college auditor
ium and administration offices.
The superintendent, who at
tributed the fire to vandals, said
he understood white youths were
seen fleeing Caroline Hall.
But a detective declared that a
fireman had a good look at the
fleeing figures and they were Ne
groes.
Dog Named Lightning
Strikes; Owner Sued
For $10,000 Damages
LOS ANGELES, (^—Lightning,
a dog, struck twice—and the vic
tim is suing for $10,213 damages.
Harry R. McNamara, a shutter
hanger, told the story in a super
ior court suit filed yesterday. He
asserted that while hanging shut
ters at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Russell H. Wagener of .nearby
North Hollywood, the Wagener
police dog, Lightning, bit him on
the right leg, drawing blood.
McNamara said he threatened
to stop hanging shutters, but was
assured that Lightning would not
strike again.
Several weeks later, McNamara
said, Lightning did strike—this
time hitting another part of Mc
Namara’s body.
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> LITTLE ROCK, Ark., UB—Nine
Negro students sauntered into
Central High School today in an.
atmosphere serene and crgwdless
but still guarded by armed para
troopers of the 101st Division.
Students standing at the top of
the steps yelled and gave some
cheers as the Negroes neared.
Rifleless Guardsmen, one in
front and one behind, walked
with the students. It was the third
consecutive day the Negroes have
been brought to school in an Ar
my station wagon and escorted
into the building by the para
troopers.
Tension Easing Gradually
The first day they attended,
Wednesday, they were surround
ed by paratroopers. Yesterday,
two armed troopers went in front
of the Negro student group and
two behind to escort them inside.
It was indicative of the com
plete lack of tension today that
only one rifleless soldier preceded
the nine and another walked be
hind.
Last night Gov. Orval Fauibus
told Arkansans they have no
choice on integration in the face
of what he called “unsheathed
bayonets” and “police state meth
ods” in the racial integration
problem at the school. He urged
calmness.
Inflammatory Speech
But immediately after the talk,
a former Arkansas governor, Sid
McMath, and an. NAACP official,
Clarence A. Laws, declared Fau
bus’ words were not conciliatory,
but instead were inflammatory.
Faubus in his nationally tele
vized and broadcast speech de
clared:
“We are now an occupied terri
tory. Evidence of the naked force
of the federal government is here
apparent in these unsheathed
bayonets in the back of school
girls ... in the bloody face of this
railroad starker who was bayo
netted and then felled by the butt
of a rifle.”
Incorrect Information
The governor apparently had
incorrect information on this ac
tion, occuring Wednesday. One
was knocked down by a rifle butt
when he sought to take the weap
on from a paratrooper, and anoth
er was cut with a bayonet when
he flailed to leave the school area.
“In the name of decency, which
we all cherish, what is happening
in America?” Faubus asked.
“Is every right reserved to the
states by the Constitution now
lost? Must the will of the majority
now yield, under federal force, to
the will of the minority regardless
of the consequences?”
Clarence A. Laws, NAACP field
secretary, said “he has practically
! invited malcontents to defiance
| and violence. The governor’s
speech was one of raw, raging
calamity, covered with a thin,
transparent coat of calm.”