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Pressure Mounting
jegbtiatbrs; i
'THANK YOU' Mrs. Eliza Parker, mother of Charles
Parker, 23, who was dragged from a Mississippi jail and
lynched last April 25, is pictured as she appeared at a
revival meeting in Los Angeles. She holds one of five
other children who fled the South with her. Presented
with cartons of groceries by the congregation, Mrs. Par
ker accepts the gifts with a simple' "thank you;" and
would not talk about the death of her son or her flight
to California. ' '
Attorneys
Plea For
OMAHA. Neb. (UPI) Three
attorneys today present what may
be the last plea in Charles Stark
weather's fight to escape the
electric chair.
The Nebraska slayer's appeal
for a writ of haebas corpus from
the federal courts was to be
heard by a panel of three U.S.
circuit judges.
Arguments were presented by
attorneys Milton R. Abrahams
and D. Nick CaporalojiUDmuha,
and Herman GinsburgWjincoln.
Judges hearing the case were
Harvey M. Johnson and Joseph
W. Woodrough of Omaha and
Martin D. Van Oosterhaut of
Sioux City, Iowa.
The judge may agree to extend
Starkweather's current stay of ex
ecution to permit an appeal to the
ANN- LANDERS
Answers Your Problems
Dear Ann Landers: My wife
went out and bought a fancy bed
room set as a 20th wedding anni
versary present to herself. We
always had a double bed but this
new set has twin beds.
When the furniture store de
livered the set, my wife discovered
that the new beds, the dresser and
chest of drawers wouldn't fit into
our bedroom. So guess what she
did. She moved my bed into the
guest room.
I'm plenty Iced off over this
but I haven't said anything to her
because according to my horo
scope I can't win a point until next
week. I ought to tell you that she
is a Scorpio which means "stub
born as a mule." What do you
suggest? Aquarius.
Dear Aquarius: I suggest you
fell Scorpio immediately to
move the chest of drawers into
the guest room and put your bed
where it belongs. Stewing silently
will only mean Ulcerville.
'Dear Ann Landers: Is there any
thing wrong with a brother taking
his sister to a party or a dance?
I'm 16 and not very popular. My
brother is 17 and we have the
Unidentified
jet'Fighters
'Check7 Plane
TOKYO (UPD Two and possi
bly three unidentified jet fighters
made "observation "approaches"
to a U.S. commercial transport
plane off the coast" of Siberia,
Northwest Orient Airlines report
ed Thursday.
The airline said its flight No.
1, flying to Tokyo from Seattle,
observed two or three jets ap
proaching Wednesday morning as
it was more than 200 miles east
of the southern tip of Kamchatka
Peninsula.
Capt. Ira Bortles, Seattle, pilot
of the plane7, said the jets did
not come close enough to be iden
tified. The U.S. Air Force said it
had no planes in the area at the
time.
Bortles said the iets approached
to within two or three miles of
Ills' aircraft and di cjil a run1
It-Hue turning back.
Make Last
Mass Killer
U.S. Supreme Court. But if they
do not, the stay expires at mid
night and Starkweather goes back
to jurisdiction of Nebraska Peni
tentiary Warden John Greenholtz,
who must then carry . out the
death penalty.
A separate ac t i o n probably
would be filed in the state Su
preme Court to set a new date of
execution, 'according to Nebraska
Atty. Gen. C. S. Beck.
Greenholtz estimated It would
take about two days to get ready
for another execution date.
A two-week stay of execution
was granted May 22, just 90 min
utes before Starkweather was due
to be led from his death row cell
to the execution chamber in the
basement of the- Lincoln, Neb.,
prison..
same friends. He doesn't have a
steady girl so I see nothing wrong
if he escorts me. I hate missing
out on everything 'and if he didn't
take me I'd never go any place
at all.
Yesterday he agreed to drive me
to a big school party and then call
for me. But he won't come inside.
Is this right? Both mom and dad
have stayed out of it because they
say it s up to us to settle the
matter between ourselves. Our
grandmother says it's the duty
of a brother to help his sister
socially if he can. What is your
opinion? Wallflower.
Dear Wallflower: A girl who
appears at- a party or a dance
with her brother (when other
girls have dates) might just as
well hang a sign on her back
saying, "I couldn't get a date
but I came anyway." "
Once in a blue moon youll
find a brother who'd rather take
his sister than any ether girl.
Such a boy needs to date other
girls and - should ' not be en
couraged to hide skirts.
In your case, however. It's
plain your brother doesn't want
to be your date since he refuses
to do more than supply trans
portation. - For heaven's sake
let the poor kid off the hook and
don't continue to take advantage
of him ust because he's a good
natured schnook.
Hail Isolates ,
Town In Kansas .
SELDEN. Kan. (UPI) Eighteen
inches of hail isolated and para
lyzed this small northwestern Kan
sas town for several hours
Wednesday night.' v
National Guard troops were
called out and the highway patrol
asked for all available highway
department personnel to man snow
plows to clear the ice. Some drifts
were three feet deep.
There were no injuries but roofs
of many homes and business pla
ces caved in under the weight of
the ice. Basements of residential
and commercial establishments
were flooded.
The hail struck during a thun-
iliTdnini in an arch almul five
miles" square with' Selden" in the
Deadl
SPECIAL
TO MAP
NEW YORK (UPI) Pressure
mounted today on steel contract
negotiators with a possible nation
wide strike less than four weeks
away. . '
There were these developments:
The International Executive
Board of the United Steelworkers
of America was ' summoned Into
an afternoon executive session to
Troops Quell
Mob Violence
In Ecuador
GUAYAQUIL. Ecuador (UPD
Tanks and troops clashed with an
anti - government mob here
Wednesday night, killing seven
persons and increasing the toll of
five days of intermittent violence
to at least 19 dead.
'; A government decree imposing
a state of emergency on all Ecua
dor and ordering a dusk-to dawn
curfew on Guayaquil' blamed the
disorders on "foreign elements"
meaning the Communists.
Official report said seven per
sons were killed In the violence
which erupted after funeral serv
ices for an equal number of per
sons killed in .similar riots
Wednesday. ' '
- Five persons had been killed
previously in Portoviejo, where
the lynching of Capt. Galo Queve
do Friday for punishing a soldier
set off the current wave of vio
lence. '
Tanks turned back a mob which
tried to storm the police barracks
here at 7 p.m., shortly after the
funeral. Troops deployed to guard
the barracks fired in the air to
disperse the mob. "v
The rioters succeeded in setting
fire to the security office after re
leasing a sizeable number of pris
oners. Tanks patroled Guayaquil
through the night as a precaution
against looting or other damage
to the citys shops, which had suf
fered heavily in previous rioting.
The government instructed the
army to censor newspapers and
radio stations. The radio stations
in particular were ordered to car
ry only official news bulletins.
Preacher
Confesses,
Before 800
SAN ANTONIO, ' Tex. (UPD
The Rev. W.S. McBirnic, a prom
inent Baptist preacher, confessed
before 800 congregation members
Wednesday night to an "improp
er" involvement with a woman.
Some members of the Trinity
Baptist Church wept. A few sat
in apparent stunned silence.- ' , '
"I would rather die than to
have this thing happtn," the
church ' pastor said. "I am not
going to resign. I'm asking you
to replace me." ' '
The congregation took no ac
tion, t '
McBirnic. 39, is married, the
father of a star high school foot
ball ' player. ' In 1955, the Texas
Junior Chamber of Commerce
named him one of five outstand
ing Texans.
He' holds five degrees, includ
ing two 'doctorates. He is an ar
chaeologist, a lecturer and world
traveler. ' "" "
McBirnic said the woman in
question he did not name her
and her husband had had marital
difficulties and he had interceded
several times during the past
year.
"But the last time they had dif
ficulties, I 'unwisely became par
tisan In defense of the wife," Mc-
Bimie Said. "This led to an In
volvement between us of the kind
that I now recognize to have been
improper." '
He said his only excuse was
that he had been working so hard
he was "easy prey."
Days. Are. Getting.
Longer Every Year
LOS ANGELES (UPD The
24-houf day is getting a little long
er every year, according to two
University of California geopnysi
cists. - - -'
Walter H. Munk and Gordon J.F.
MacDonald said that by their com
putations the day actually is two
Hundredths of a second longer to
day than it was 2,000 years ago.
A clock set at the time of
Christ's birth would now be about
two hours fast, they aaid. '
The cause of the time change,
the scientists said, "is still very
much of a mystery."
center. It hailed for nearly two
hours' si Might. The hail '.tones w-re
about marble size. '
On Steel
ihe Near
SESSION
STRATEGY
map strategy for the deadlocked
talks.
' A steel company official told
United Press International the in
dustry might ease its wage freeze
stand and offer a token pay hike.
The top management negotia
tor said there was "no truth what
soever" to the report of a wage
otter.
' President Eisenhower denied
a charge by Mine Workers chief
John L. Lewis that he was against
labor in the steel talks.
1 The President also told
news conference Wednesday he
had not decided whether he
would invoke the Taft Hartley
Law to bar a steel strike for
days.
Another Fruitless Session
Steel negotiators held another
fruitless session Wednesday. Then
Union President David J. McDon
ald announced the 33-man execu
tive board would meet today.'
' It was believed McDonald would
ask the board to summon the 171-
man Wage Policy Committee of
the union into special session, pos
sibly to increase pressure on man
agement and plan strike action.
The Wage Policy Committee
also might be asked to approve
the filing of formal charges with
the National Labor Relations
Board that the industry has failed
to bargain in good faith.
About 500,000 . workers in the
basic steel industry could strike
after June 30 if there is no settle
ment.
10-Cent Offer Hinted
An official of one of the 12 com
panies involved in the negotia
tions told UPI a token increase of
about 10 cents an hour may be of
fered to the union before the cur
rent contract expires.
It is not beyond the realm of
possibility that we may make a
minor modification in our contract
proposal before the strike dead
line," the official said.
Up to now the companies have
stood firm on their demand for a
one-year wage freeze. R. Conrad
Cooper, chief management nego
tiator, said that still stands.
' There was "no truth whatsoever
to the statement attributed by
UPI to an unnamed source that
the steel companies may offer a
wage increase in order to head
off a strike, Cooper said.
"This erroneous report sounds
like a hopeful trial balloon sent up
by the United Steelworkers on the
eve of their executive board meet
ing," he said.
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Desperate
Convicts
Slip Net
FORT MADISON, Iowa (UPD
Authorities appealed to the public
for tips Thursday on the where
abouts of four armed prison es
capees led by a desperate cop
killer.
Authorities said the convicts
probably "holed up'1 Wednesday
after their daring break from the
fowa State Penitentiary and
made their move during the night
under cover of darkness.
State and local police pulled
down road blocks Wednesday
night and cancelled an all-out
ground and. aerial search as it be
came apparent the escapees had
eluded searchers in the Fort Mad
ison area.
A tip from a woman that she
saw two of the escapees enter a
woodland northwest of here sent
100 policemen converging on the
620-acre woods late Wednesday.
However, a search of the area
by officers walking only six feet
apart failed to turn up any trace
of the convicts.
The hunt for the four men,
armed with knives and black
jacks, began before dawn Wed
nesday in Iowa. Illinois and. Mis
souri.
Authorities said the four broke
out of their cells and overpowered
cellhouse Capt. L.W. Smith and
guard L.H. Pickard on a ramp
outside the cells.
The convicts pressed knives to
the sides of the guards and
warned they would be killed if
they sounded an alarm. The four
then sawed the bars on a corri
dor window while Smith was
forced to give a regular called
signal that all was well in the
cell block.
' The four men jumped 10 feet
to the ground outside the prison
walls and fled up a ravine.
The leader of the break was
Lloyd Woodson, 38, Quincy, 111.
serving a Jife term for killing a
Keokuk, Iowa; policeman. Wood
son once before escaped from
the Alleghany County Workhouse
at Pittsburgh, Pa. '
Woodson's chief accomplice was
Albert Maxwell Boerger, 27,
Quincy; serving a 25-year term
for robbery.
Bennett said the other two fugi
tives were Robert Janes, 25, Fair
field, Iowa, and Elun Girdler, 23,
Peoria, 111. Both were serving 10
year sentences for breaking and
entering. ' .
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