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Textile Workers Official
Admits Using Union’s
Funds to Buy Homes
WASHINGTON (J>!—Lloyd Klen
ert, secretary-treasurer of the
United Textile Workers Union,
acknowledged today that he and
union President Anthony Valente
used $57,000 of union funds in
purchasing Washington homes.
He told the Senate Rackets
Committee the money was en
tered on the union books as an
“organizational expense” but in
sisted there was nothing wrong
with this.
It was, he said, just a “politic
ally astute” means of concealing
from a rival faction in the union
“what could be termed a slush
fund.”
Klenert told the committee the
union was not “out” any money
from the deal. He was not asked
whether or how he and Valente
had repaid the $57,000.
Committee Counsel Robert F.
Kennedy said Klenert would be
asked also about the “alleged use
of union funds in other transac
tions.”
Amphibious Jeep
Adventurers Leave
Shemya for Points East
SHEMYA, Alaska, (#>—Two ad
venturers who sailed an amphib
ious Jeep across the North Pacific
from Japan headed east yesterday
on the next leg of a land-sea trip
that has carried one of the pair
better than two-thirds of the way
around the world.
Ben Carlin, 45, of Perth, Aus
tralia, who started the adventure
at Montreal, Canada, seven years
ago, and Boyd DeMente, 28. of
Phoenix, Ariz., who joined Carlin
in Japan, boarded their Jeep, the
Half Safe, and sailed off toward
Adak, 350 miles to the east.
They estimated it would take
five days to reach Adak in their
closed amphibian. It was a haz
ardous 25-day voyage from Ja
pan’s Hokkaido Island to Shemya.
Carlin and DeMente plan to
continue east along the Aleutian
chain and the Alaska Peninsula
to Homer, where they will re
move the sharp prow bolted to
the stub nose of the waterborne
Jeep and take to the highways
for the remainder of their trip.
They said the overland route
will take them to Anchorage,
Vancouver, Seattle, San Francis
co, Los Angeles, and then to Mon
treal, the starting point for Carlin.
U.S. Government
Reports Surplus
Of $1,645,000,000
WASHINGTON, (tft—A surplus
i of $1,645,000,000 was recorded by
I the federal government for the
I fiscal year which ended June 30.
I The Treasury and the Budget
! Bureau reported the amount to
day.
The balctice for fiscal 1957 was
the second successive black-ink
j showing. A third balanced budget
: recommended by President Eisen
| hower now is pending before Con
gress.
The surplus was lower than the
1 most recent official estimate made
in January, altho much greater
! than the original surplus Eisen
! hower predicted when he submit
ted his budget for the 1957 fiscal
; year in -January 1956.
The statement issued today
showed federal receipts of $70,
989,000,000 and expenditures of
$69,344,000,000 for the 12 months
ending June 30.
The public debt at the end of
the bookkeeping year was $270.6
billion, a reduction of $2.19 billion
from the level a year earlier.
The statement today' said the
. increase in outlays was “mainly
due to larger expenditures for
j the Department of Defense which
i were not fully offset by lower ex
penditures in other departments.’’
Mother of Liberace
Brutally Beaten, Kicked
By Two Hooded Men
HOLLYWOOD 6PI—The mother
of Liberace was brutally beaten
and kicked by two hooded men
who attacked her last night in the
garage of the Liberace home in
nearby Sherman Oaks.
Police said that Mrs. Florence
Liberace, 65, went on an errand
into the garage adjoining the
home she shares with her pianist
son. She tried to return to the
house when she saw two men in
the garage.
Mrs. Liberace said they pushed
her to the floor and began kicking
her. “Hit her again, we’ll have
something to laugh about,” she
quoted one of the men as saying.
After they left she crawled into
the house and phoned a friend
before she lost consciousness.
A physician treated her for
multiple bruises and a possible
back injury. Police said there was
no known motive for the attack.
Nomeite Is Among
1,227 Returning Veterans
SAN FRANCISCO UPt—The Navy
transport Anderson is due here
July 21 with 1,194 marines and 33
Navy veterans from the Far East.
Among the passengers is Pfc.
Lawrence D. Amarok of Nome.'
WINNER OF MISS USA CONTEST
IS A MRS.: IS DISQUALIFIED
LONG BEACH, Calif., UP—1The
| stately, stunning Miss United
| States in the Miss Universe Con
I test was disqualified today for
being married.
The Maryland girl who gave
her name as Miss Leona Gage but
actually is the wife of an airman
and mother of two children will
be stripped of her title and prizes
worth thousands.
Heir to the crown as fairest in
| the land is beauteous Miss Utah,
I runner-up in the Miss USA finals
: last Wednesday night. However,
! Charlotte Sheffield, 20, of Salt
Lake City, can’t be among the 15
j finalists in the Miss Universe con
j test tonight.
Contest officials said this is be
j cause Miss Utah did not compete
I against 32 foreign Joeauties in the
preliminaries last night, and thus
could not be compared with them
in official judging.
Leona was one of the 15 girls
to enter the finals. Her place will
be taken by the girl who wtas
16th. Officials were meeting this
morning to determine which girl
this is.
Leona denied tearfully last
night and again this morning that
she was married—even in the
face of reports from relatives and
friends that she was.
Finally, this morning, she broke
down and sobbed out the story to
contest officials. Then she went
into seclusion.
This is the first year contest
rules have required that entrants
be single.
Leona, who gave her age as 21,
actually is 18. She was married in
Wichita Falls, Texas, Feb. 3, 1954,
to Gene Norris Ennis, 28, Air
Force staff sergeant stationed at
Friendship International Airport.
The couple has two children: Da
vid Nathan, 2, and Gene Jr., 3.
Her winnings include: a $1,000
wardrobe, an $1,100 trailer, a
$2,000 contract with a cosmetics
firm and a trip to Europe.
Miss Utah inherits all these,
with the possible exception of the
wardrobe, which Leona already
has picked up.
Methodist Church Official
Confers with Local Group
On Annual Trip To Alaska
Mr. Jim McGiffen, director of
Christian education and youth
work of outposts of the Methodist
Church, accompanied by his wife,
arrived yesterday on their peri
odic trip to Alaska and are con
ferring with various groups of the
local church.
This is the third trip they have
made to Nome and the northern
area. They were entertained last
evening at the Mecklenburg resi
dence with a buffet supper, and
iplan to leave Saturday.
U.S. Tests Its First Air to Air
Atomic Rocket Fired From Plane
ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev. UP—
The first air to air atomic rocket
fired from a plane burst over the
desert today with a flash that
paled the morning sun.
The Air Defense Command’s
newest and most powerful weap
on exploded at 7. a.m. PDT.
The vivid fireball flared in the
target area at an altitude of more
than 15,000 feet and sent up a
pink doughnut-shaped cloud.
The nuclear rocket was launched
from an F-89 Scorpion jet fighter.
As the rocket’s cloud rose in
stately fashion into clear blue sky
the vapor trail of an airplane,
probably the launcher, cut sharp
ly away to the north.
The cloud assumed somewhat
the shape of the usual atomic
mushroom, but the crown quick
ly separated from the filmy stem
and floated regally with a creamy 1
white foam expanding from the
pink center.
The launching plane was the
j leader in a formation of three
[Scorpion jets. The rocket was the
Genie, manufactured by Douglas
Aircraft Co.
Power of the weapon was de
scribed as “well below nominal.”
A nominal bomb is rated as the
equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT.
Col. J. H. Atkinson, command
er of the Air Defense Command,
disclosed before the test that air
to air rockets with atomic war
heads already are in the inven
tory of his force. The weapons
are designed to knock down in
vading bombers.
Col. Atkinson said Defense
Command plans do not carry
these weapons but they could be
put into use in a matter of min
utes.
ADMINISTRATION FOREIGN AID
BILL SLASHED Vs BY HOUSE
Bomb Hoax
Causes Airliner
To Turn Back
BOSTON, UR—A bomb hoax
caused a New York to Paris Air
France Constellation to turn back
while 140 miles east of Cape Cod
last night and land here with 59
passengers.
A woman telephoned the air
line’s reservation office at New
Cork’s Idlewild Airport shortly
after the big plane had taken off.
She said a bomb was aboard the
craft.
Word was flashed to the ship
to land at Boston. The passengers
were hustled off and FBI men,
state police and customs officers
made a quick check of the plane.
Later, a fluoroscope was used
to check the baggage and no
bomb was found. The plane re
sumed its flight today.
Two other Air France planes
were directed to make emergency
landings for examination of cargo
and baggage. One, bound from
New York to Mexico City, landed
at Montgomery, Ala.; the other,
also out of Idlewild, landed at
Sidney, Nova Scotia.
Earlier in the day, two Air Na
tional Guard fliers were killed at
Worcester, Mass., when their jet
plane crashed and exploded in
the middle of a residential area.
The impact scattered fragments
of the plane and gasoline over a
wide area, six dwellings caught
fire, but none of the residents was
injured.
School Aid Bill Cleared
For House Vote by
Rules Committee
WASHINGTON UR—The House
Rules Committee yesterday cleared
for a House vote next week the
controversial school aid bill.
The measure, backed by the
Administration, would authorize
$lVf> billion of grants to states on
a matching basis to construct
schools. The money would be al
lotted over a five-year period at
the rate of $300 million annually,
divided equally on the basis of
school age population and the
financial needs of the states.
The bill is similar to one killed
last year after the House wrote in
an amendment to withhold feder
al aid from segregated schools.
The current bill contains no in
tegration provision, but a move
may be made on the House floor
to add one.
Five AF Officers
Killed as Plane
Plunges Into Lake
PLATTSBURGH,.N.Y., UP)—Div
ers today recovered*the bodies of
five Air Force officers from Lake
Champlain, where their million
dollar refueling plane crashed
last night. Three companions sur
vived.
Air Force men and state police
had searched the turbulent wa
ters for 12 hours. One body was
in the fuselage of the plane, which
broke in two in the crash. The
others were in the water, about
25 feet deep in the area.
Air Force Base. Engine failure
was blamed for the crash.
® WASHINGTON UP>—'The House
voted 155 to 74 today to slash
one-third off the economic aid
; fund President Eisenhower asked
; to support defense programs of
America’s allies.
The standing vote, subject to a
later rolleall, amounted to a re
versal in a see-saw battle as the
| House bgean a day of showdown
| voting on Eisenhower’s multi
billion-dollar aid bill.
The House action would slap a
ceiling of $600 million on the de
fense support fund for the coming
year. Eisenhower had originally
sought $900 million for this fund
which he says is needed to shore
up economies of poor, anti-Com
munist countries like Korea and
j Formosa which border the iron
curtain.
At the start of the day, the bill
carried $3,042,333,000 to aid other
countries in the fiscal year which
started July 1. This is $802,300,000
less than Eisenhower asked.
Rep. Beatley (R-Mich) said the
i defense support funds can be cut
j safely because there is an $8 bil
lion backlog unspent from past
! aid appropriations,
j The anything-can-happen atmo
I sphere extended also to other
| parts of the Eisenhower program
! which aid officials say are essen
i tial.
In deep trouble was Eisenhow
er’s request for a three year loan
I fund for economic development
| projects abroad. The House For
j eign Affairs Committee approved
$500 million for the fund for each
of the next three years.
Rep. Selden (D-Ala) led a wide
ly-supported move to knock out
the billion dollars for the second
and third years. Rep. Pilcher (D
Ga) planned to try to cut out the
fund altogether. Others had in
mind reducing the amount for the
first year and leaving no authori
zation beyond that.
Eisenhower’s requested special
I assistance fund for general eco
I nomic aid seemed headed for hard
knocks, too. Eisenhower request
| ed $300 million and the Foreign
; Affairs Committee approved $275
million.
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Weakened Dam
Threatenes Homes
Of l'OOO. Persons
CAPULIN, Colo., —A thou
sand persons, their homes and
j land in jeopardy, watched appre
hensively as workmen tried to
plug a gaping hole today in the
face of Terrace Reservoir Dam.
“This is the critical period,”
said Highway Patrol Chief Gil
bert Carrel following an aerial
inspection.
Five bulldozers ripped dirt from
a mountainside near the crum
bling earth filled dam end tossed
it into the hole believed created
by recent cloudbursts.
The 45-year-old dam in south
ern Colorado, full for the first
time in years, groaned with the
the weight of nearly six billion
gallons of water behind it.
Below, in a valley stretching
virtually to Albuquerque. N.M.,
lie dozens of small communities
and many isolated farms. All 300
residents of this town were evac
uated to higher ground yesterday
and those in La Jara, Manassn
and Canford, Colo., 'were alerte 1
to flee should the dam burst.