Progress-Index, The (Newspaper) - March 2, 1953, Petersburg, Virginia THE WEATHER Cloudy rain tonight The V Sets today Hises tomorrow Other Weather Data Pago 2 VOL 241 PETERSBURG MARCH 2 1953 City Gets First Sticking Snow In v Route 1 Plan Wins Approval In Petersburg City Officials And Business Men However See No Relief From Congestion Here Reaction here to the disclosure that the State Highway Depart ment will convert a stretch of TJ S Route 301 south of Peters Allies Hurl Back Red Assault On Main Positions UN Infantrymen Battle At Times Inside Their Own junkers As Attack Is Smashed burg into a limitedaccess highway divided appears MOBS DEMONSTRATE IN surge around the royal palace in Tehran Iran as Premier Mossa degh guarded in his residence by Army tanks ousted the Armys chief of staff and named a new one Rioters support ing Mohammed Pahlevi capture of Radio Tehran as the national crisis continued Police and troops broke up counter demonstration by groups backing Mossa degh who quarreled with the young ruler last week NEA Iran Rioters Attack Homes Of Americans generally favorable though city of and local businessmen were quick to point out that it will not help solve the traffic problem In this city Some said it would in crease congestion here and reiter ated the necessity for another bridge over Appomattox River at infantrymen inside their Petersburg and through traffic a rerouting of Stones Hurled As Mobs i Demonstrate Against Forces Gaining Ground TEHRAN Iran shout ing slogans stoned U S cars and homes today as riots continued in Irans capital Premier Mohammed supporters appeared to be gaining the upper hand in the tions which have alternately as sailed and defended the aged Na leader Crowds hurled rocks at American homes on Roosevelt Avenue at the U S counselor Laurence C Frank and at cars driven by embassy at tache Warren Silver and by a sec Betty White None of them was hurt One Iranian student was stabbed to death in a fight between Mos sadegh supporters and members of the outlawed Communist Party join a tion backing the premier The enraged mob carried the body of the the Parliament Square and paraded it above the crowd which swelled to an estimated S 000 persons The crowd finally became so threatening that police dispersed it by shooting into the air and fir ing tear gas bursts At the outbreak Point Four and consular offices in the city were closed and embassy personnel Was ordered to keep off the streets meanwhile moved to reestablish his hold on the gov reins after the mob at tack on his home Saturday which sent his dashing in pajamas for the traditional sanctuary of the Parliament building The government arrested 70 army retired and five on the active them of inciting the demonstrators against the government also fired his army chief of staff Gen Mahmud Ba accusing him of not act ing promptly to check the anti government rioters These continued anti mob raided the head quarters of the pro Iran Party and smashed furniture and generally to days demonstrations were in sup port of the premier The attack on home and the subsequent demonstrations erupted after an that Shah Mohammed Reza Pah levi with whom the premier ha been on the outs lately was abou to leave the country At the dem the ruler said he hai to go only for his but was canceling the trip Yoshida Regime aces Collapse Japanese Diet Threatens Overthrow Of Premiers Shaky Government TOKYO UP Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida threatened today o dissolve the Diet parliament after the House agreed to consider a against administration A spokesman for his dominant iberal Party Sato said Yoshida might be forced to invoke a law requesting Emperor Hiro lito dissolve the elective body The emperor cannot deny the request The House threatened to over hrow Yoshidas shaky govern ment earlier today by sending to a committee a motion to reprimand the prime minister for calling a rival a stupid idiot Yoshidas deputy Oga ta told newsmen The passage of the motion on the committee illustrates the unstable political situation But its passage will not make Yoshida resign Opposition spokesmen protested against the threat to dissolve the Diet They said the national elec tions were held only last October and that they were extremely expensive for both the govern ment and candidates Yoshida dissolved the Diet last August as the climax of a feud Continued On Page 11 Senator John of Pe who was present at the meeting in Richmond when members of the Greater 301 Association were told of the plan A divided highway with provision for future control features on Route 301 from a point 10 miles south of Petersburg to Carolina Hue will be a step forward in deal ing with the increased traffic flow on this important highway I am delighted that the highway depart ment will get this project under way this spring We must work to gether in our determined effort to accomplish the muchneeded sec ond bridge across the Appomattox at Petersburg Also attending the meeting from Petersburg were Delegate W Roy Smith and William L Zimmer Jr chairman of the highway commit tee of the Commerce City Manager Roy F Ash said he did not know enough about the general highway situation to de termine what effect this will have on Petersburg It is not known what the Highway Department plans to do through here he said but feels whatever is decided upon will be sound As faras the wid ening of this stretch pf Route 301 is concerned the problem of traf fic through the same lie said Mayor Churchill Gibson Dunn of Petersburg felt that not enough information is available as to the Departments plan for improving the states highway system to know what this widening of Route 301 means in relation to relieving traffic through this city Mayor Fred R Shepherd of Co lonial Heights also said he feels there is not enough information available on which to base an opinion George E Fisher secretary of the Chamber of Commerce arid the Retail Merchants Association speaking as an individual On Page 11 SEOUL at times own night smashed a Chinese Communist as sault against the main U N line on the Western Korean Front The U Army reported the Reds were routed in a hour fight American French and Thai infantrymen joined in the battle and were sup ported by British Commonwealth The Chinese penetrated United Nations defenses at one point on a front near Little Gib Hill west of and partly overran an American pla toon but the Americans stood their ground and kicked the Reds out The reported near ly 200 Chinese were killed or wounded It was the heaviest Communist attack in more than a month Rain and wet snow fell on the battlefront today after the Reds retreated to their own lines It turned the scene of Sunday nights battle into a veritable quagmire it difficult to communi cate with the front lines The overcast grounded U N warplanes v A spokesman for an Allied div said the Red Western Front assault for an hour had all the aspects and indications of a pret ty big Communist push American soldiers who held a spur on Little Gibraltar were hit by 175 Reds The Chinese got through the Allied barbed wire and into the American bunkers and fox holes The Americans fighting hand to hand ejected the Reds after 90 minutes The Americans who repulsed the easternmost Red attack near Lit tle Gibraltar counted 10 Chinese dead oh the battlefield and esti mated they killed 55 jnore and wounded 80 in their sector alone Only size en were reported else where on the battlefront SCENE FOLLOWING SNOWFALL IN scenic picture taken in Colonial Heights early this morning following thes three to snowfall heaviest in this area in nearly five years shows the white blanket which covered this area and most of the state Todays snow was the first which has stuck this winter and was accompanied by subfreezing tem It began sticking about 5 a m and had some sleet mixed with it Rose Studio photo POPE PIUS QUIETLY OBSERVES BIRTHDAY VATICAN CITY Pius XII today his birthday and the 14th anniversary of his election to St Peters throne The Vatican announced he has almost completely recovered from his recent illness Informants said the pontiffs improved health would allow him to resume audiences starting March 19 Vatican sources said pontiff rose early as is his custom He said mass in his private chapel and then went about his reduced but still heavy schedule of church affairs Although the Vatican took no of note of the twin anniversary many of the worlds leaders and thousands of the churchs faithful did Thousands of congratulatory telegrams were pouring in from around the globe TAYLOR SEES VICTORY SEOUL Gen Maxwell D Taylor expressed belief today the Communists will or later tire of the Korean War and that the Allies will win no matter how long it takes He declared that a major offen sive by Chinese Nationalists against the Red China mainland would ease the pressure on his Eighth Army forces in Korea However Nationalist authorities on Formosa have said such an offensive could not he launched Continued On Page 11 Beauty Queens Find Door White House Flexible Price Support Backed Benson Against Props At 90 Per Cent Of Parity WASHINGTON UP Secretary of Agriculture Benson indicated to day he favors flexible federal price supports rather than props fixed at 90 per cent of parity for farm goods as required in the present law for dasic agricultural commo Benson said government sup ports may help because farmers need some protection and our food supply needs safeguards Price supports to distress and disaster are very useful But if there are supports Benson said we should have sonm flexi so as to encourage shifts in production If you dont have flex the trend will be to prevent those shifts The agriculture secretary added however in an interview published Continued On Page 11 WASHINGTON The White v House has bowed to protests and now welcome beauty queens within its doors if they are accompanied by their senator or congressman At least thats the story told today by an informed person who may not be named As this source told Since he assumed office Jan 20 President Eisenhower and his assis tants have taken a dim view of the old American custom of having beauty queens pictured with the President The President it was explained was too busy And he didnt think much of the idea in the first place With spring just around the cor ner the situation was approaching a critical stage Spring always brings to Washington a bumper crop of queens Senators ami congressmen al ways do the honors when theres queen around from their state Her arrival mean luncheons tours of the Capitol and quite often in the past meant a handshake with the President to accompani ment of clicking cameras The lawmakers felt the folks at home sort of expected them to shoot the works But the White House wasnt cooperative and there was some plain and fancy griping from Congress The lawmakers said they were embarrassed because it looked as if they werent on very good terms with the President Nobody said anything about it but pressure reportedly built up Now the White House appears to have capitulated The latest word to Capitol Hill is that senators and House mem bers can sec thn President any time an appointment can bo In And they can bring along any body they beauty v 5 JAPANESE FISHERMEN RESCUED FROM PACIFIC TOKYO Five Japanese fish ermen were plucked from the Pacific Friday by the Japanese maritime patrol vessel the Maritime Safety Board announced The men were rescued about 95 miles southeast of the large naval base of Yokosuka Thats the area where an American freighter and two U S Navy ships searching for men on a life raft spotted and then lost them in fog yesterday The five men were clinging to floating logs The maritime board Reds To Answer U S Charges Vishinski To Take In UN Today NATIONS N Y Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y Vishinsky will take the floor in the U N Political Committee this aft to answer U S charges that Russia is responsible for con of the Korean War The U N announced that the Soviet delegate would bo the first speaker at Jhc 3 p m EST session The committee has been in recess since last Thursday await ing Russias response to the Ameri can accusations now foreign minister Vaclav David was tick eted as the committees opening speaker Polish Foreign Minister Stanislaw was listed for the afternoon session Their words were clue for care ful study by Western delegates aware that they might reflect the line to be pursued by Vishinsky ho sneaks for Russia Com members also were alert for a surprise move iy either Dinwiddie Youth Killed In Crash Ernest B Dean Is Victim 4 Other Highway Deaths Listed In State Ernest Bernard Dean 19 of Church Road Dinwiddie County was killed instantly early day morning when his car went out of control as he attempted to pass another vehicle on Route 460 about eight miles east of Peters burg His car hit the rear of the other auto and turned over several coming to rest in the fourth lane Officer of Prince George County who inves the accident said both cars were headed toward Peters burgand that machine was driven by Roby G Vaughan Jr of Route 2 Petersburg Vaughan and a passenger in his car Hoover Archer escaped unin jured except for minor scratches Vaughans auto went into an em and turned over on its side Surviving Dean are his father Ernest D Dean Road two sisters Evelyn R Dean and Shirley A Dean both of Churcl Road Funeral services were 1 this afternoon at 2 oclock in Elm wood Cemetery Oxford N C Four other highway deaths yes on Old Dominion highways brought the states toll for tn year to 131 Warren Pate Jones 22 of Boyd ton was killed about a m when the car in which he was a passenger hit a shoulder of the highway after apparently round ing a curve on Route 58 abou a mile and a half east of South Boston and turned over passenger Eldridge Jerome Nunn 20 of Nelson died i a short tim later in a South Boston Hospital Driver of the car was Henry Aver ett Leeson 21 of Nelson who re facial lacerations Preston G Cosner of Ken Store was killed early yesterday when the car in which he was i passenger crashed into a bridgi abutment near Palmyra Drive Grubbs o a n c Snow And Sleet flail Path Across Nation said they were survivors of the fishing vessel Nisshin Maru A look around the place often makes you wonder why they coll them beauty shops Wilmington was injured taken Co University Virginia Hospital A pedestrian Warfield Bade 45 colored was killed yesterday whe struck by a car on Route 28 i Fairfax County Fairfax polic said the car was driven by Charle Rusk pf Route 2 Herndon STEVENSON SAILS ON TOUR SAN E Stevenson sails for Honolulu thi afternoon aboard the Presiden Wilson on his world tour The defeated presidential cand date is scheduled to arrive i Honolulu March 7 His fourmont tour will take him on to Tokyo Korea Formosa The Philippines India Pakistan the Middle Eas Continued On and Western Europe Programs Will Give Facts On Activities a feature of the 1953 Cross Fund Campaign which open ed here Thursday a of pro grams be broadcast over Sta tion beginning tonight and continuing through March 6 at oclock each night according to today by John E McDonald general chairman Dr William S Sloan chairman of the Petersburg Chapter will be the speaker tonight at oclock Tomorrow morning at 8 oclock John A Long vice chair man of the fund drive to raise will be heard Tomorrow night Mrs Jeanie Par tin registered nurse in charge of teaching Aide courses at the chapter will speak Wednesday night Mrs James A chairman of all teer services will describe thi vital part of Red Cross work Thursday night W W Savory chairman of First Aid will tell o this phase of the Red Cross an Friday night John G Hesse chairman of the blood program will be the speaker Reports on the progress of th large number of volunteer tors for the drive will begin com ing in tomorrow and indication are that the response has been generous As soon as enough workers report the amount will be recorded on the of Franklin and Mon roe Sts and the window stocks store There wii be daily recordings thereafter The cam will continue through March H Storm Rages Into Third Day With Some Signs Of Gleaming In Six Lives Lost By The Associated Press A storm that flailed a tapering wath from the Rocky Mountains o the Virginia coast with snow winds freezing rain and leet raged into its third day but of clearing arose today in he Southwest A belt of blizzard conditions al most spanned the continent today rom Eastern Montana and North ern the Great Plains Mississippi and Ohio Val eys Wind velocity ranged up to 40 miles an hour There were patches of freezing rain that made generally difficult travel conditions even more cal in Eastern Kansas Northern and parts of Southern Illinois and Indiana Resultant accidents had taken at least six lives two in Wyoming one in Colorado Kansas ka and Illinois The storm brought as much as 12 inches of snow at Neb 3 inches at St Joseph Mo and 7 inches Illinois It halted air and bus traffic at Kansas Cit Sunday Freezing rain mixed with m following the snow created extra hazards south of St Louis and in Continued On Pnge Nine Mineral Rights For States Aim Brownell Would Not Surrender Federal Power WASHINGTON Brownell told the Senate today he believes the states should get the mineral resources in submerges coastal areas but that he wouk not give them quit claim title to the territory Brownell went before the Senate Interior is con bills aimed at giving the coastal states title to the coasta regions often miscalled tidelands The tidelands issue f i g u r e prominently in last years campaign President Eisen hower supported the claim by somr states that title to the lands should be vested in the states Adlai Stev enson his Democratic opponent held that the U owns paramount rights in the re gion Brownell said his view wa aimed at minimizing if not climi altogether the point raised by the witnesses be fore this committee And he said f do not thereby intend to cas any doubt upon the constitutional ity of thn socalled quit clain statute By quitclaim Brownell meant ac tion by Congress which would have the effect of the federal govern ment abandoning or quitting claim to to the regions Former President Truman twic vetoed such legislation Brownell told the committee My recommendation wouk mean in legal terms that of granting to the states a quit claim title to the submerge lands within their historic ries the federal government wouk grant to the states only such au as required forthe state to administer Aid develop the natural resources AID FOR RED CROSS N MONEY AND BLOOD URGED BY EISENHOWER WASHINGTON has asked the nation o contribute in money and blood o help the Red Cross do its job his year In remarks recorded last week or television and radio broadcast esterday Eisenhower called the organization one of the free which has helped make his country great He said it is serving nearly 3600000 service men induing many in the In of Rucker Rosen ROANOKE WOMAN GETS STATE WELFARE POST RICHMOND Governor Bat Lie today appointed Mrs James J Izard of Roanoke to the Committee of Public Welfare Shr succeeds William Farl White Pe recently named to th State Hoard and Insti Fall Closes Schools In 3 Counties Classes In Petersburg Slowed As On Streets Highways The Petersburg area had iti first real snow of the season and its fust of the sticking m five three and four accompanied by subfreezing temperatures but the most serious effects were the slowing of traffic and the closing of some schools in the area The snowfall was the heaviest in this section in five years Schools in Petersburg Heights and Hopewell and Chester field and Prince George Counties were open as usual today but those in Dinwiddie Amelia and Nottoway Counties were closed be cause of the snow Depth of the snow varied in different sections It measured three and a half inches in Colonial Heights Foy N Hibbard retired said while the measurement at the Climatology Laboratory at Fort Lee was 31 inches with 43 of an inch reported melted Hibbards reading was prior to the melting A measurement was the Hill section Snow fell in quanti ties at various times during the night but the heavy fall sticking around 5 a m Some fino snow was falling as early as oclock last night and sleet accom the early morning fall which continued until about 9 oclock A fine mixture of rain and snow was falling early this afternoon Street crews in this city and Colonial Heights as well as the State Highway Department work men were spreading chemicals and sand in icy spots curves and hills early this morning The Peters burg Street Department reported a number of areas had been scraped but that in most cases sand and chemicals had been applied to icy and slushy spots The Red Cross is seeking 93 million dollars and five million pints of blood this year for its of aid to servicemen and civilians Cabinet Status r r i i Sough Ike Expected To AskFor Action Ohio said today President Eisen hower probably will send Congress a reorganization plan next week asking cabinet status for the Fed eral Security Agency Taft made the statement to news men after he and other GOP con gressional leaders conferred with Eisenhower at the White House He and House Speaker Martin said the conference also dealt with Hawaiian statehood and legislation to recognize state titles to the submerged coastal lands Mrs Oveta Gulp Hobby the fed eral security administrator joined the congressional leaders at their regular weekly conference with me President Martin said she sat in because the discussion dealt in part with the plan to give the Federal Se curity Agency department status Mrs Hobby presumably would head the new department Also present at todays session were Sen Hugh Butler chairman of the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and Rep Chauncey Reed who heads the House Judiciary Com They were called in for the dis cussion of the pending Hawaiian statehood and the legislation dealing with the submerged Continued On Page Xine Although traffic was slowed in the cities and especially on sec county roads the State Highway Department reported all roads had been cleared and traffic was moving throughout the Rich mond District which includes the Petersburg area Both the Virginia Electric Power Co and the Chesapeake Potomac Telephone Co said tl 3 snow had not interrupted their services Sleet like that which ac companied the early morning snow today often causes breaks in both power and telephone lines in rural areas representatives ofthe two companies stated Schools in this the usual bad weather affect on at tendance At Petersburg High School 83 per cent of the student body was in classes just 10 per cent less than was present Friday Russell B Gill principal of Peters burg High School described the drop in attendance as The Petersburg Transit Company reported the only effect of the snow on its service was delay in schedules Buses on all lines were operating but at a slower pace Occasional rain is forecast to night and tomorrow with some what warmer temperatures prom ised tomorrow Temperatures be tween and 34 are forecast for tonight The Mercury registered de grees at noon after dropping from the 8 a m reading of 26 to 24 at 10 a m Low of the night was 23 while the high recorded yesterday afternoon 49 BUS CRASH IN MEXICO KILLS 17 MEXICO CITY weekend bus accident in which 13 persons were burned to death and 17 others seriously injured has brought the arrest of two bus drivers accused of racing along a embank ment One of the two buses got out of control Saturday hurtled ovar the embankment with its brakes locked and burst into flames when it crashed March Roars In Leaving Snow Blanket Over State RICHMOND P If the month of March stalked into Virginia like ff lion the warmweather jungle king is looking for a place to hi bernate today Residents of the Old Dominion peered out frosted windows this morning to see a blanket of snow ranging from one to ten inches Some went scurrying for ed snow shovels others tackled the problem of equipping their auto mobiles with chains Others Avith welcome resignation trundled back to bed With many schools closed children prepared for a day of snow fights and sledding Many areas in the state recorded their heaviest fat of the season The U S Weather Bureau in Rich mond said it was the states hea viest widespread snowfall of the winter The snow let up some short ly after daybreak but precipitation In one form or another was ex to continue throughout the day In many areas it turned to sleet or freezing rain The State Highway Department said the deepest snow was reported in the Lynchburg district on the Blue Ridge Mountains where ten inches was recorded At the other extreme Norfolk reported one inch The Highway Department Said all primary roads were clear The use of chains however was rec in tne Valley and Cen tral Virginia areas where the snow was particularly heavy Police reported traffic slowed to a crawl in most areas but said no been recorded The Weather Bureau lemr would rise somewhat during the day with night temper in the low or middle thir ties Thero was little indication in most areas that todays slush would freeze f These were representative depths of snowfall recorded at a ITS Richmond 4 inches ville 6 inches Inches Front Royal 3 inches 2 inches 4 6 inches Norfolk 1 inch v Si
