The verdict is - guilty. In the case of the Apalacian underworld conference. Twenty defendants - convicted of conspiring to obstruct Justice. Leaving each liable - to five years in prison. The jury took more than twenty-four hours• to bring in a verdict. Among those on trial - John Montana, a prominent business man of Buffalo. Who, like the others, gave an odd explanation of why he was at the agg alleged l l underworld gathering=illd;wa met - at the home of Joseph ' Barbara, at Apalacian. TOUHY In Chicago, a variety or theories - to explain the murder o f gangster Roger Touhy)~leaaed recently from prison - after having served a term of twent,-five years. The supposition is repeated that the underworld may have doomed him - because of disclosures he •d• 1n his autobiography. Or - that the Mafia uy have wiped hi■ out., 1n revenge for things that happened aore than twenty- five years ago. But there's a new supposition - baaed on reports that Roger Touhy, upon getting out of prison,~ a mrpa trying to blackmail one of the last surviving members of the old Al Capone gang. An aged survivor of the prohibition ti• gang wars - Murray ( The camel f Humphreys • Touhy - reported to have warned him 11 cut me 1n, or I'll talk." • \ Today, Jake the Barber Factor took a lie detector test - the victim of the kidnapping those years ago, for which Touhy was convicted, and sent to prison. The test - clearing Jake the Barber of any connection with the murder. However, TOUHY In Chicago, a variety o f theories - to explain the murder o g angster Roger Touhy).-R€1eased recently from prison - a f ter having served a term of twenty...f1ve years. The supposition is repeated that the underworld rnay have doomed him - because of disclosures he mde in his autobiography. Or - that the Mafia may have wiped him outJ in revenge for things that happened more than twenty- five years ago. But there's a new supposition - based on reports that Roger Touhy, upon getting out of prison, w s u p trying to blackmail one of the last surviving members of the old Al Capone gang. An aged survivor of the prohibition time (\ ~ gan g wars - Murray (The camel, Humphreys. Touhy - reported to have warned him "cut me in, or I'll talk.' • l Today, Jake the Barber F ctor took a lie detector test - the victim of the kidnapping those years ago, for which Touhy was convicted, and sent to prison. The test - clearing Jake the Barber of any connection with the murder. However, TOUHY -2 the Chicago police never did think Jake-the-Barber - had anything to do with the crime. STEEL The union has made another proposal fo r a settlement u o f the labor dispute in the steel industry. hlgher A f ormula, which the union calls - s l i g h t l y ~ than ~-~ " the u deal they made with Kaiser s t e e l . ~ would include I - a committee to make recommendations in the thorny problem of working rules. cDonald r upon to renew argaining aelsions basis / / e warned ~ a t . i r t companl .them to / to bargalp' on individ l basis, ttie union / law ~rglng em - with pc{ntempt co✓ ? INDIA The Chinese Reds - make a concession to India. Offering to withdraw - from territory they seized along the northeastern frontier of India and Tibet. They'll pull out of the Longju sector - if Indian troops evacuate areas of Ladakh, in the far northwest. Red China - renewing its claim to the disputed parts of Ladakh. The offer is made in a •ta,■ diplomatic note from Chinese Premier hou F.n-Lai - to Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru. Chou En-Lai suggesting - a personal meeting between himself and Nehru. POISON The State Department in Washington, today, denounced the C ommunist au attempt - to poison employees of Radio Free Europe in Munich. Calling it - "a nefarious plot) 11 ~ hatched - by a diplomatic official of Communist Czechoslovakia> ✓ )il'lo aaa was then stationed - in Austria. In Munich, today, American counter-intelligence p e o ~ ~ s l a v Nemec, Vice Consul at Salzburg. Stating - that he gave salt shakers poisoned with atropine to a CoDllluniat agen:,,,)ftlo placed them - in the cafeteria of Radio Free Europe, in Munich. They say the poison was not enough to kill - but would cause serious illness. The Reds - intending to force the closin g o r the station, which broadcasts news from the free world to people behind the Iron Curtain. EISENHOWER President Eisenhower, after his experiences with crowds o f millions, is now confronted - with one Frenchman. In Paris - dealing with President Charles De Gaulle • ...Jl'fie / tall general - who promises to be a tall order . . ,th settling - . / those ill-tempered arguments between France and the United States. Today, the President ended his Mediterranean cruise - landing at 'toulon. At which city - he got an ovation - comparable to those in Asia. "Vive Eek!"- as the French prounounce it. Tonight, in Paris./- ~d let's hope that, 1n those diplomatic ,aQIIIJ parleys, DeGaulle echoes: "Vive Eek." CUBA A Cuban military court pronounce~ a sentence on John Martino.~ electronics expert - of New York and I Miami lm.lata,~onvicted - of conspiring to smuggle the family of a 11 war criminal 11 out of Cuba. "War criminal" meaning - just about; anybody who acted against Castro in his revolt. The sentence - thirteen years in prison. Meanwhile, Castro has intimated - that he may be satisfied with milder measures against James Buchanan, news • reporter of the Miami Herald1.Afho is charged with helping in the jail-break -- of Austin Young, Castro said newsman Buchanan would be tried by a revolutionary court. ~ - However, in his long harangue, Castro ~ · - A perhaps it might be well to expel Buchanan from Cuba. Merely - toss him out. DESERT In Ca iro, a report - that a missing American may have been ro und. Donald Shannon, of Milwaukee, who was one of h e party - that encountered evil disaster in the desert south of E ypt. Two American and two French students - and a Nubian g uide) ~ught - in the porror of thirst. Four bod1e found - three students and the guide. No sign - of the other student, Donald Shannon. Today's news tells of a man arrested in the Sudan. Whom the authorities there believe to be - the missing American. When the four bodies in the desert were found, the Egyptian police declared - the Nubian guiae had been shot and killed. The other three - showing signs of death f'rom thirst. They say there were indications of a bitter battle - f ou g ht for a d windling water supply. Sudanese trackers reported - that they found traces o the missing student, leading toward the border of Sudan. DF.sERT - 2 The footprints indicating - that he was wounded. Mb W lking unsteadily - leaning on a cane. The man now arrested was trying to get across the border into Kenya. He told the police - he was a Britisher • . tJ But refused to meet - anybody from the British or American "" embassies in the Sudan. BEARD In Boston, David Ross has a beard. A I'ine growth of whiskers - for a young fellow of twenty four. And he's determined - he'll keep the spinach. He's an engineer on the City Flaming Board, and was told - he'd have to get a shave, or he'd be fired. The chairman of the board, Timothy Regan, stating: 11 Beards are currently associated with u beatniks, and beatniks have no place on the planning staff of the city. " To which David Ross replied, 11 Beatniks don't work, and I do. 1 So he went to court, and asked for a restraining order - to keep them from firing him. Arguing - that any man has a right to grow whiskers. His petition comes up · on Tuesday - in a courtroom where a majestic portrait hands on the wall )..-A picture of a distinguished Jurist - the late Judge Ja,es Bailey Richardson, with a beard - like Sant~~ .. So how can David Ross lose? / Certainly Judge lin James Bailey Richardson - was no beatnik. DRUNKS In Elkins, West Virginia, his honor the Mayor has found an e fective way - to promote the cause of temperance. By chan g ing the menu - at the town jail. were given sandwiches to eat. Fine thick sandwiches - really delicious. Which was - expensive. Mayor Garland Hickman observing - that, during November, the city spent one-hundred-- and-f--1fty,....aeven dollar&--and-f1fty cents 1 faed1ng sandwiches - to twenty drunks. So H is Honor decided to reduce expenses_; ~utting out the sandwiches, and substituting - beans. Just plain beans - boiled! and nothing else. Result? Ill In the first two weeks of December, the number of drunks.- a mere - six. The beans costing- ➔ foui--dollars-and fifty cents. Nothing like temperance - when you get beans in jail, instead of those fancy sandwiches.