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LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1958
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Hoffa Denies
Any Alleged
WASHINGTON (IIP!) Team
ster President James R. Iloffa
denied in a shouting match with
Senate Rackets . investigators to
day that he received any part of
an alleged $17,500 payoff which
Detroit laundry owners made to
settle a labor dispute.
"1 didn't get it." the conlrover
sial Teamster Union boss said,
his voice rising o a high pitch.
He entered the denial after a
healed exchange with Sen; Irving
M. Ives (R-N.Y.). Hoffa's lawyer.
Udward Bennett Williams, appeal-
' cd lo Chairman John L. McClel
lan (D-Ark.i to stop Ives from
shouting at Iloffa.
A group of laundry owners tes
tified Tuesday that they paid $17,
fiuo to labor consultant Joseph
Monitors
Warn Hoffa
On Clean-Up
WASHINGTON (UPI) Court
appointed monitors filed a 204
page report today bluntly warn
ing Teamsters Union president
James R. Hoffa they will adopt
a "get-tough" attitude if he re
sists their clean-up demands.
The monitors submitted an inch
Ihick document ' to summarize
their six-months experience over
seeing the nation's largest union
under orders of Federal Judge F.
Dickinson Letts.'
Letts appointed the three-man
"watchdog" panel in settlement of
a legal challenge to Hoffa's elec
tion by 13 rank-and-file union
members from the New York
areav The . compromise allowed
' I he' fcyear-6Id I loffa to take of
fice but set up the monitors to see
ho ran a-clean union.
Filed in Federal Court today
the report:
Denounced Teamsters record
keeping as so slipshod the inter
national union does not know the
names and addresses of its mem
bers. .
Asserted inadequate member
ship lists could lead to milking of
the Teamsters' 39-million-dollar
treasury unless new safeguards
are erected.
Served notice the monitors
will seek additional power from
the courts if Hoffa tries lo block
their reform recommendations.
The long-awaited document con
tained no sensational neiv evi
dence of wrongdoing.
Business Education
Day
Discussion
Set Here Tomorrow
Members of the Chamber of
Commerce education committee
will meet tomorrow with a small
group of local school officials, to
further plans for a Business Edu
cation Day this year.
Attending the meeting, at noon
in the Sacajawea hotel, will be
Ron Bailey, U.S. Chamber of
Commerce district manager.
Committee Chairman Jim Eve
son said it is hoped that a local
1:E Day can "be developed, "to
create a belter understanding of
education and business."
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CLASS OF 1933 LA GRANDE HIGH shown abave are 66 of
the 163 members cf the 1933 La Grande Senior High School
, class. The members above including 12 more who weren't pres
ent when the pictures were taken, held a two-day class reunion
at the armorv here over the last weekend. LEFT PICTURE, (left
to right) back rw: Marian Nelson Jordan, LG; Dorothy Walker
Jordan, Baker; Melva Boll Taylor, Salem; Sylvia Johnson Simon
son, Spokane; Clarice Taylor Johnson, LG; Vivian Gallagher
Cammon, Fore.t Grove; Virginia Wigglesworth Huggins, Oak
Getting
Payoff
Holtzman
104ft to help them
get a contract with
a 1 canister's
local. 1.
Some of the launclrymen said
they regarded the payment as a
"payoff" to prevent a strike and
told the committee they assumed
thai part of it went lo Iloffa
a I
friend of Holtzman.
At the outset, of today's hear
ing, Williams accused (he com
mittee of running a "legislative
trial" and complained about the
introduction of rumors and hear
say in the testimony.
Hoffa continued the row as he
returned to the witness stand. He
clashed with committee members
on subjects 'ranging from the Sen
ale Labor Reform Bill to the
standard of wages in their slates.
He conceded that, he intervened
in the 1949 laundry negotiations
but said he did so only to prevent
an unnecessary strike. He said
Ihe contract already was the best
of its type in the country for the
Teamsters, and that he did not
believe in strikes "for Ihe glori
fication of certain people." This
w&s an apparent reference to Is
aac Liiwak, head of the local.
The committee brought out
Tuesday that Hoffa borrowed $10,
000 from Holtzman and an asso
ciate, Jack -(Babe) Bushkin, , in
1951 without interest, notes or sec
urity. He told the committee he
repaid the loans in 1953.
Ives and Sen. Sam J. Ervin
(D-N.C.) suspected the "human
torch" case in Michigan was mak
ing some witnesses reluctant to
testify in the investigation.
Chief committee counsel Robert
F Kennedy said the, Kierdorf case
wouldv probably come up today
when Hoffa returned to the. wit
ness.. 'chain; He said Hoffa. rotlW
be' asked how Kierdorf, an ex
convict,, got on the Teamsters
payroll and what his activities
were.
Kennedy said the committee
also would inquire further into
Hoffa's personal finances. Sched
uled for questioning along with
the Teamsters boss were Herbert
Grossberg, a union accountant,
and a "mystery witness."
Since the committee began look
ing into gangster penetration of
the labor-management field sever
al witnesses have received threats.
After this week's reported attack
on Kierdorf, who appeared as a
witness last year but refused to
talk under protection of the Fifth
Amendment, the committee be
came watchful for signs of intimi
dation, overt or implied.
i
TODAY
HACK TO SCHOOL
NEXT WEEK
REAL ESTATE
in
Holes Found
Sn 'Torch'
Victim's Tale
PONTIAC, Mich. I UP1 (-Authorities
today punched full of holes
Teamsters Union official Frank
Kierdorf's story of how he was
taken for a ride by two men and
turned inlo a human torch.
The theory gaining ground with
investigators was thai Kierdorf
may have been a victim of an
accident perhaps of his own mak
ing. Eighty-five per cent of Kier
dorf's body was seared by flames
early Monday. His condition today
was reported worsening at St. Jo
seph Mercy "Hospital.
Kierdorf, 56, business agent ol
Teamsters Local 332 in Flint, hat1 '
told authorities two men he du!
not know took him for a ride
poured inflammable fluid on liitr
at gunpoint and set liir.i afire
They later dumped him on te
lawn of the hospital here, he sai l.
But a report by Oakland County
pathologist Dr. Richard O 1 s e n
showed Kjnrdorf had been treated
with a iuive for his burns before
being taken to the hospital.
Olsen reported Kierdorf had
been treated with a commercial
skin cream around the face, head
and neck.
Kierdorf dozed throughout the
night and the cough he developed
Tuesday appeared to grow no
worse.
Oakland County Prosecutor Fred
Ziem said there was evidence
some of Kierdorf's clothing had
been removed, indicating the vic
tim was in friendly hands after
being burned. '
Ziem pointed -out other loop
holes in Kierdorf's story of his
"torch ride." "Kierdorf had told
questioners he rolled in the grass
to put-out the flames after his at
tackers had set him . afire. But
there was no evidence of grass or
soil clinging to his flesh to. bear
the story out-.-. '--
Red Chinese
MIG Fighters
Pose Threat
TAIPEI, Formosa (UPI) The
government reported Communist
Alig-jet fighters deployed only 22
minules flying time from Presi
dent Chiang Kai-Shek's capital to
day. All Chinese Nationalist Mili
tary forces were ordered on
"the highest degree of alert." -The
chief of the Nationalist staff
made an emergency broadcast to
Formosa and the Nationalist-held
offshore islands urging all pre
cautions against possible air at
tacks by the Chinese Communist
jets.
Defense Ministry spokesman
Adm. Liu Hoh-Tu said "All our
armed forces have been ordered
into the highest degree of alert."
The Defense Ministry an
nounced Tuesday night that super
sonic Mig-17s had moved into the
closest possible attacking position
lo Formosa since the Nationalists
were driven off the China main
land in 1949.
MEET NOT HELD
CAIRO, U.A.R. I UPI I Arrange
ments for a meeting between U.S.
diplomatic troubleshootcr Robert
Murphy and President Gamal Ab
del Nasser broke down today. The
U.S. Embassy indicated a meeting
may not lake place.
land Calif.; Dortha McCoury White, LG; Zeloris Weatherspoon
Jones, LG; Genevieve Choate Turner, LG; warn Siik Houston,
LG; Alma Howard Shepherd, Pendleton; Mary Cook Campbell,
San Leandro, Calif.; Eldridg Huffman (teacher), LG; Eva
Dougherty Magden, LG; Maye Fisher Stills, Ontario; Etta Sev
erns True, Ontario; Homer Case, Alicel; Edwin Alexander, LG;
N. C. Thompson, Pendleton; George Wilcox, Gaston. Front
row! Adah Singleton, LG; Marell Waite Huntsman, LG; Mer-f
win Jordan, Baker; George Danny, Coronado, Calif.; Jack Bates,
COP KILLER Wilbert Murray is shown following his capture by
police two blocks from where he shot and killed patrolman Rob
ert J. Morey, while Morey was arresting him. Murray was cap
tured after five-hour manhunt, the mast intensive in San Fran
cisco's history.
Local Cancer
Unit Tops
Drive Quota
. Union county citizens have con
tributed a total of $2,508.53 to
the 1958 Cancer Fund drive to
dale which is 15 per cent above
the goal of $2,212, county cancer
officials said yesterday
Mrs. Marie Willtins, district
chairman for Eastern Oregon of
Hie Cancer fund driver-said both
"state" and national officials have
expressed jtlvrir pis
to citizens and fund drive. offi
cials for the response to the ap
peal for cancer funds."
She said that $2,393.53 was do
nated in the "neighbor-lo-neigh-ber"
packets that went from
house to house early this sum
pier. Another $115 was contri
buted in Memorials, she said.
"There are still some packets
lo be received," she said, "and
undoubtedly the total will be
higher when the final report is
made in September.
The 1958 total is about 10 per
cent of that donated in 1857 in
Union county, Mrs. Wilkins said
Cancer Fund drive leaders all
wished to express their thanks to
Union County residents for their
generous donations.
Mrs. Ray Baum ol Union is
county chairman. Bob Carey is
La Grande chairman. Other local
officials who aided in the drive
here included Mildred Tiss, Cath
erine Hawk, Stella Black, Helen
Tucker and Frances Thomas.
Scout Troops 113, 114 and 116
distributed the "neighbor -to
neighbor packets.
CONDITION 'SERIOUS'
CANNES, France (UPI I A
spokesman at the Broussaillcs
Hospital said today movie execu
tive Jack Warner had a "fairly
comfortable night" but his condi
tion was still serious.
The 66-year-old president of
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., re
ceived head and chest injuries
Tuesday when his car skidded and
crashed head-on into a truck
Baker Voters
Nix Change In
City Government
A special city election, July 31,
at Baker, defeated the proposal by
169 voles to change to a mayor
commissioner form of govern
ment. The special election was called
due to an error in failing to pub
lish notices prior to the primary
election last May,
Official counting in the special
.lnntnn utc- Un 1 dU1 ;inrl Voc
I'hifnkfA,. previously' in the -primary,
the measure was carried by 205
votes. -
Primary Vote
Results Are
Announced
United Press International
U.S. Sen. Stuart Symington of
Missouri and Michigan Gov. G.
Mennen Williams swept to impres
sive victories in primary elections
Tuesday to enhance their party
prospects as I960 Democratic
presidential candidates.
Besides Michigan and Missouri,
primaries also were held in Kan
sas and West Virginia.
In Kansas, Clyde Reed Jr., a
Parsons (Kan.) newspaper pub
lisher and son of a former gover
nor and U.S. senator, captured
the Republican gubernatorial nom
ination an hour after the polls
closed.
In West Virginia, where two
U.S. Senate seats are up for grabs
this year, former Rep. Jennings
Randolph and Rep. Robert C.
Byrd were the apparent winners
for the Democratic senatorial
nominations.
Incumbent Republican Sens.
John D. Hoblitzell Jr., "seeking
election to the two-year unexpired
term of the late Sen. Matthew
Neely, and Chapman Revcrcomb,
seeking re-election to a full term,
were unopposed for renonnnation.
Olympia, Wash.: Carl Amos, Salt Lake City; Dale Rhine Part
land; Max Baxter, Seattle; Albert Lilly, LG; Dale Staridley, LG;
Fred Beeman, LG.
RIGHT PICTURE, (left to right) back row: Howard Lyman, Eu
gene; Fern Broomfield Huchinson, LG; Donald Hannefield, Long
Biach, Calif.; William Corey, LG; Kenneth Feuerhalm, Joseph;
Robert Zweifel, LG; Buford Moore, Nampa, Idaho. Middle row:
Danna Kofard Edward, LG; Haiel Crawford Wallsinger, Alicel;
Georgia Lea Daniels Powell, Moro, Ore,; Rebah Gray Laird, LG;
President
Discusses
Inflation
WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi
dent Eisenhower warned manage
men! and labor today that they
would be headed for trouble if
they did not hold down profits and
wage increases to reasonable lev
els. He did not say specifically
whether he thought, profits and
wage increases have already ex
ceeded reasonable levels. '
But the President told his news
conference the American, people
are going to rebel if wages are
raised more than justified by in
creased productivity and if man
agement has profits excessive
enough to be robbing the public.
He made the statement in an
swer to a question about what
plans he had to curb inflation in
the light of the steel price rise
and prospects for large., federal
deficits for the next five years.
In his first meeting with report
ers in five weeks, the President
also:
Said that his doctors had told
him he was in good shape despite
the strain of recent months and
that he felt good.
Coldly brushed aside a ques
tion about how he felt justified in
keeping on his top aide, Sherman
Adams, and two White House
women secretaries who had re
ceived gifts from textile magnate
Bernard Goldfine. He said he was
not going to say anything more
about that matter.
Said he had no plans to make
any public pleas for moderation
in school integration before the
opening of schools this fall. But
he said thai ,if he thought of any
thing that could'. be effective, he
certainly would not hesitate lo do
it.
Local Youths
Arrested By
Union Police
UNION City police reported
late Monday .lhat two La Grande
residents had been arrested in
Union. Officers said that Pat Ham
mond was charged with inlerfer
ring witli the duties of an arrest
ing police officer.
The charge came when Ham
mond allegedly used foul langu
age while the officer was, arresting
a second La Grande resident,
Jerry Hudson, on a charge of
failure to stop at a stop sign.
Hammond forfeited bail and
was released.
Union police also said that a
robbery occurred here on July
29. A carburetor and manifold
and $300 worth of tools were stol
en on that dote. Total value was
estimated at $375.
The tools and equipment have
recently been recovered in Pasco,
Wash., and State police there
have charged Mike Crowley and
Darrell Woeck, both of Washing
ton, with the theft.
Union county District Attorney
George Anderson Jr. said yester
day that the two suspects will be
returned to Union County to sland
trial.
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Necessary
U.S. Will Consider
Eventual Summit Talk
WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi
dent Eisenhower said today that
he will attend the United Nations
special assembly meeting on the
Middle East if he finds it' neces
sary or desirable that he should
participate.
The President told a news con
ference that he believed the as
sembly discussion should not be
confined to what he called little
Lebanon, but should range over
a wider section of the Middle East
because the causes of the troubles
there are so widespread.
Eisenhower said the United
Slates is still willing to consider
an eventual summit meeting with
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
and oilier big power leaders if
proper preparations could be
made toward worthwhile accom
plishments. He said the United States will
start pulling its troops out of Leb
anon just as soon as the United
Stales and the government of
Lebanon feel that there is no
longer any danger of indirect ag
gression of the type that was
being carried on before U.S.
troops went into the area. He
added that any time the legitimate
government of Lebanon askes the
United States to pull out, it will
leave.
In his first news conference
since July 2, the President- told
241 newsmen that he had made no
specific plans as yet to attend the
special assembly session on the
Middle East but that if he felt it
necessary or desirable to partici
pate he would do so.
He said that so far, he knew of
no general intention on the part
of other chiefs of state to attend
the session but any delegation
could, if it wished, be represented
Solh Denies -Resignation;
Keeps Post
BEIRUT, , Lebanon (UPI) -
Premier Sami Solh today ex
pressed his determination to re
main in office at least until president-elect
Gen. Fuad Chehab takes
over from President Camille Cha
moun Sept. 23. . -
Reliable sources had said
Solh and his cabinet had tendered
oral resignations to Chamoun and
that the matter probably would
be acted' on today. But Solh de
nied the report and said he had
every Intention of remaining in of
fice until iChehab becomes presi
dent. , , .
Solh also denied reports that
Justice Minister Basheer Al Awar
had resigned.
While political mancuverings be
tween government and opposition
forces continued, Beirut enjoyed
its sixth consecutive day of quiet,
There have been only a few
isolated incidents of violence in
the countryside and but one bomb
ing attuek in Beirut since Chehab
was elected by parliament last
Thursday. .
American troops continued to
disembark from a transport which
a U.S. spokesman said carried
'the last major reinforcements."
The latest arrivals increased the
strength of the American forces
to 14,300 men and 90 tanks. The
Lebanese army totals 9,000 men
Verda Feuerhtlm Peterson. Union; Margaret Davy Riser, Sp.
kane; Mary Lou Rhea Tuttle, Spokane; Jann French Hiatt,
Eugene; Barbara Coolldge Prentice, Medford; Jean McKannon
Hassell, Portland; John Larson, Portland; Dennis Millar, LO;
Earl Edwards, LG; Lea Clay, Walla Walla; John Towery, Cald
well; Wesley Smith, LG. Front row: Wilbur Van BloklanaL
Heppner; Charles Erlckson, Eugene; Donald Johnson, Summaf
villa; Donald Culp, Salem; David Hiatt, Eugene; Robert Sun.
liffa, Pendleton; Gerald Waite; LG; Harold Hilary, LG; Jama
Inoarton, LC.
by the head of its government.
The West had originally pro
posed that the heads of govern
ment meet at a summit confer
ence within the framework of the
U.N. Security Council. Khrush
chev had originally conditionally
accepted this idea hut-iabruptly
changed his5 position-and Tuesday
called for an emergency meeting
of the General Assembly to'cpn
sider what he terms U.S. and
British "aggression" in the Mjd
cast. The President Tuesday night
promptly accepted Khrushchev's
suggestion but made plain in a
statement that this country would
insist that the assembly weigh U.
S. countercharges of "indirect ag
gression" against Lebanon and
Jordan.
The General Assembly meeting
is expected to be called to start
next week in New York.
Britain announced today that
a General Assembly meeting on
the Middle East "would be ac
ceptable." It was understood that
Britain hoped that foreign minis
ters rather than heads of govern
ment would attend the meeting in
New York.'
In today's news conference,, the
President again bitingly rejected
Soviet assertions that the' United
States was guilty of aggression 'in
the Middle East. He said the rec
ord itself would show that the ac-,
cusation of aggression fitted Rus
sia instead of the United States.
The Soviet Union's entire post
war history, including its domina
tion of East Europe and its sup
port of Communist adventures in
Korea and Viet Nam in. the'' For
East, all show that an accusation
of aggression . would be more ac- :
ciiralely directed against ' the
Kremlin itself, the president said.
. The United States would be pje
pared to join In some forni of
United Nations guarantee of Mid
dle East borders, the President
said. He hoped that the Soviet
Union would do likewise and then
live up to the commitment.
The President , declined to dis
close whether the United States
has any overall plan for solving
the problems of the turbulent
Middle East. He said, however,
that the American government
was prepared to continue Us ef
forts, in agreement with indivi
dual countries there, to help them
raise their living standards.
The President served notice on
the Soviet Union that the United
States intends at the special as
sembly session to demand consid
eration of the basic and .under- ;
lying causes of continued trouble
in that area, which he and Secre
tary of State John Foster Dulles
previously have blamed on the
Russian practice of "indirect ag
gression." By this term they mean
the incitement to rebellion and in
filtration of arms and leaders to
lead fights against established
governments. .
Chinese Communist . Premier
Mao Tse-Tung, with whom
Khrushchev conferred secretly in
Peiping last week, may have had
quite a bit to do with getting
Khrushchev to back down on hold
ing a Mideast summit, conference,
to which he originally agreed, Ei
senhower said. However, he added
that his experts were still analy
zing this situation for him. ;
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