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0 'Keefe Tells Full Story of Brink's-Robbery to Jury ROSTOV. SoptJ 18 WV-Joseph J. (Spncsl O'Keefe, admitted Brink s rnhher, testified in a hushed court room today that he and a gang of masked accomplices carted off bags of money from the transfer company's office six years ago and dumped $1,143,000 on a hide cut table shortly afterward. His three-day recital of the prosecutions version of the na tion's biggest rohhery reached a climax as he tr' f of the robber hands entrance into the Brink's counting room and the well planned, rapid escape with the loot. He named as his actual partners in the raid: Stanley Gusciora, 36 (now dead) Adolph (Jazz) Maffie, 45; Michael V. Geagan, 47; Thomas F. Rich ardson, 49; James I. Fahcrty, 45; and Henry Baker, 50. In Getaway Trurk O'Keefe swore that Anthony Tino, 4B; and Joseph Banfield, 45, now dead, sat outside in a gcta- Marine Blames Hernia On Punch by Corporal PARRIS ISLAND, S.C., Sept. 18 Iff1 A Marine recruit who is up and around after a hernia opera tion which he claims was brought on by a punch in the stomach can confront his alleged attacker at a hearing tomorrow Pvt. Donald llamisfar, 20, of Norwalk, Ohio, said a supply cor poral hit' him in the stomach and pushed him backward for failing to say "sir.." This took place Aug 2.1. he said. It was his second day at this recruit training depot where Sgt. Matthew ('. McKenn was convicted last month of negligent homicide in the drowning of six recruits during a night march into a tidal stream Both Present The public information officer Said the unidentified corporal will have a preliminary hearing before his battalion commander "at which time llamisfar. the accuser, will he present " The hearing will be In the battalion area and will not be open to the public llamisfar told a reporter by trie phone from the I S. Naval hospi tal at nearby Beaufort late today that he had not hecn advised of the hearing He said he would ap pear if told to do so. Strurk Onre llamisfar added he did not know the name of the corporal. He said he was struck once, and made no attempt lo return the blow. llamisfar said his platoon was receiving training equipment, and the corporal had given a demon stration, he said, he addressed the corporal without saying "sir" and was slugged in the stomach." HOP-SKIPPING PRINCE TIIK HAGl'K. Sept. 18 Prince Bernhard of the Nether lands had a date with Queen Juliana and Crown Princess Bea trix to attend Parliament opening today. Then he planned to be off by plane for a month to visit the new hunting estate he recently bought in Tanganyika, Kast Africa Eisenhower Adds Talk to Iowa Schedule By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Sep. 18 Of President Kisenhower added a speech to his Iowa schedule today, while telling Republican cam paigners to avoid the "exaggera- tions of partisan political talk" I and let the Democrats "do the yelling." I White House press secretary ; .lames C. Ilagerty announced Ki- ! senhnwrr will speak informally at the Des Moines Airport Friday ! afternoon follow ing an off-the-cuff tulk earlier at the National Field i Days and plowing contests near Newton. Iowa Accompanied by his wife, the President will fly to Des Moines Friday and motor to Boone. Iowa, Mrs. F.isenhower's birthplace. The President's stepped - up schedule of two speeches in Iowa seemed to indicate some added concern on the part of Republican leaders about political trends in the farm belt. Kisenhower will make a formal farm speech in Peoria. Ill . Sept. 25. He is expected to deal also with the farm issue to some extent in a CBS nationally televised cam paign speech from a studio here tomorrow night. way truck, and that Vincent Costa, 42, acted as lookout. O'Keefe said the remaining defendant, Joseph F. McGinnis, 52, described by the prosecution as the "brains" of the robbery, remained at his tavern to establish an alibi if needed. O'Keefe told the jury the gang drove .from Brink's to Maffie's house and "threw all the stuff on the lawn" while the truck sped off. "Then we moved the stuff into the house to a large room," O'Keefe said. Estimate Glvea "We started to arrange the money in the bags and put on the table as mu-'h as we could." He estimated the amount on the table at $1,143,000. But, he added, this did not in clude $98,000 in new money, and ten Sl.OOO-dollar bills which it was planned to destroy. Not counted, too, he said, were two hampers filled with payroll envelopes. Before they left Maffie's house, O'Keefe said, "we piled the money as neatly as we could in a corner and covered it with a blanket. We put the new money in another corner." On the day after the robbery January 18. 1950, the witness said, Gusciora "insisted we take ours" $100,000 apiece. O'Keefe said his and Gusciora's share were hidden in the trunk of O Keefe's car and placed in a pub lic garage.' Money Moved The witness said all of the mon ey was removed from Malfie s home that night in a truck brought by McGinnis and Banfield. The indictments in the case set the theft figure at $1,219,000. O'Keefe has pleaded guilty and turned state's evidence. In earlier testimony, he de scribed a pact agreed on wherfby any misstep would result in death. No member of the gang was to spend lavishly, buy an expensive car or house. All equipment used in the rob bery was to be destroyed-rnot left on a dump. O'Keefe also told, of a meeting where the men tried on the masks and tested their revolvers. He de scribed several attempts to stage the holdup but lacked a signal from the lookout on a nearby roof. Finally the signal came and the gang entered by means of keys which had been made. One Brink's employe reached for his weapon, but O'Keefe said the man was dissuaded quickly. Chinese Reds Say Army Cut By 2,700,000 HONG KONG, Sept. 18 W-Red China said today it had cut its massive army by 2.700,000 men since 1949 and would reduce it more if the West agrees to Rus sia's disarmament plan. Marshal Peng Teh - Huai, de fense minister and commander in chief of the army, made the an nouncement at the eighth Chinese Communist Party Congress in Peiping. His speech was broad cast by Peiping radio. Then Peng boasted his army generally believed to number at least 3 million men was being modernized (or the glorious task of liberating Taiwan (Formosa). Peng did not say how much Red China would reduce its Army if the West agreed to the Soviet dis armament formula. Russia proposed at the fruitless disarmament talks in London last May that Russia, Red China and The Inited States reduce their armed forces by Vi million men each. Britain and France to 650- 000 each. The West insisted that any dis armament plan must take into ac count nuclear as well as conven tional weapons and an aerial in spection system to make certain there was no cheating on either side. Peng said in addition to regular army reductions since 1949, the year the Communists conquered the mainland, 5 million "semi mobilized army men" had been shifted to civilian jobs. He pre sumably meant militia. Draft Board Raps 'Pressure,' Three Members Resign MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Sept. 18 iff! 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