Progress-Index, The (Newspaper) - November 15, 1953, Petersburg, Virginia THE Sunny Today Fair mild Monday The Sun Sets Rises Other Weather Data on Page 2 WATCH PEDESTRIANS VOL 132 Mr Motorist at this time of year keep a good lookout for pedestrians Only too often commit illegal dangerous or aels in traffic but even If theyre wrong they dont death sentences hey foolish PETERSBURG VIRGINIA SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1571953 Rhee Is Against India Taking Part n Peace Parley U S Officials Willing To Compromise With Reds But ROK Is Bitterly Opposed WASHINGTON Nov 14 States officials would be willing to compromise with the Chinese Communists on including India in a Korean peace conference ac cording to authoritative infor mants here but South Korean President Syngman Rhec remains bitterly opposed to the idea This is one of two issues which may eventually wreck efforts to achieve agreement on holding the conference The other is Russias role in the projected conference The United Nations has decided that Russia might attend on the belligerent is at the invitation of the Chinese and North Korean Communists But the Reds have insisted on a neutral place for Russia and American officials say they just cannot see any U S yielding to that demand Secretary of State Dulles spe cial representative Arthur Dean reached his first bit of agreement with the Communists at jom today when it was decided that questions of time and place of the conference and the partici pants should be determined simultaneously This represented a compromise by both sides since Dean had in time and place must be de first and the Reds had de manded priority for the member ship issue Dean himself said the agreement merely opens the door to the hard work of negotiation and State De authorities privately sec this idea There is some feeling here that eventually the most important ne that Dean will have to undertake may be with Syngman Rhee rather than with the Reds but this ignores the issue of Rus sias place which many experts be lieve may prove beyond com promise Dean is reported to have dis cussed with Rhee the possibility of letting India attend a Korean conference in the role of an ver or some similar capacity but he found the South Korean President still strongly opposed to India having any part in Korean affairs whatever What authorities here fear Is that even if it may be possible to work out some kind of deal on the matter of India the Reels may be pushing the Indian issue not be cause they really want Indias participation but because they want to work Russia into the ng in a neutral position They proposed that during United Na tions debate on a conference Reasoning along this line sug gests that a compromise on India would not break down the real obstacle to a conference at all PANMUNJOM Sunday Nov 15 and Red diplomats cleared the first barrier in the path of a Korean peace meet and prepared today to plunge into de bate Monday on concrete arrange ments for the fateful conference After three weeks of talking the negotiators finally reached agree ment yesterday on an agenda for their discussions on planning the peace conference US Envoy Arthur H Dean and the chief Communist diplomats Continued On Iage 2 WARNING ISSUED ON USE OF NERVE GAS WASHINGTON Nov H federal civil defense experts warned tonight of the possible use of nerve gas if a big war should break out They said a relative few enemy planes could easily set up an ef concentration of this highly poisonous gas over any target area In the United States The experts who spoke on the weekly broadcast Disaster Strikes over ARC were Dr Thomas H Alphin consultant on chemical warfare and Col James H Defandorf ret specialist on chemical biological warfare Nerve gas was described as odorless and colorless The ex perts said the best defense is a gas mask and they praised the Armys Chemical Corps for its work in developing a low cost mask for civilians RELATIVES CONTEST WILL LEAVING HUGE ESTATE TO NO ONE CHARLES TOWN W Va Nov 14 have come to court to contest the will by which Miss Jennie left to no one in particular Miss Goetz died about a vear ago the sole possessor of a family fortune built by her two brothers in a harness business they operat ed for many years The will contest was filed by Carl H of Los Angeles a nephew Also interested in ils out come are two other relatives an other and a Miss provided in her will thai the First National Bank of Washington and the Old National Bank of W Va should manage her estate They were instructed to distri bute the money among anv chari table educational religious or scientific agencies they chose The suit brought by Carl Goetz contends this does not constitute a valid trust and asks a declara tory judgment setting the will aside If this is done the relatives would inherit the money The estate has been officially appraised at 51300000 It consists mostly of securities Pay Of Jobless To Be Studied Secretary Of Labor Would Determine If Benefits Are High Enough WASHINGTON Nov M of Labor flames P Mitchell today announced a study to deter mine whether workers get enough from the present scale of unem ployment compensation benefits to tide them over jobless periods Mitchell said his departments Bureau of Employment Security was launching a pilot study in sev eral labor market areas and in tended to broaden the tion into a national survey Payments presently range from a low of about per week to a high of Different states pay different amounts and lengths of time The program is financed by a tax on employer payrolls but experi rience rating allowances permit reduction of this tax rate Such a study will of course re quire the full cooperation of the state employment security agencies which administer the slate employment security pro grams Mitchell said The bu reau is utilizing help of slate personnel in developing the plans On Pige 2 Kidnapers Face Jury Tomorrow Decision On Death Penal ty For Pair To Be Made KANSAS CITY Nov 15 seven weeks from the dav they kidnaped and killed Bobby Green lease his abductors will appear before a jury which will decide whether they will get death for their crime It was on Monday Sept that Carl Austin Hall and Mrs Ronnie Heady took the boy from his private school by a ruse killer him and buried his body in a grave they had prepared earlier in St Joseph Mo Then they began ransom and collected 8000000 Next Monday at 10 am they will he brought Into U S District Court the same courtroom where they pleaded guilty to the kidnaping It will be an advisory trial Its sole purpose will be to present the caSe so thai the jury can decide whether to recommend death As a precedent government and defense attorneys have a parallel case in lohn Henry the Minnesota lumberjack who kidnap ed and killed Charles S Ross of in 1937 i pleaded guilty hut un the Lindbergh law life was I On Page 2 3 Men Drowned As Auto Plunges Through Bridge One Body Recovered From Chickahominy River at Barrets Ferry Bridge Two Others Sought Va Nov M man was drowned and two hunting companions believed lost with him today in the plunge of an automobile through an open draw bridge into the Chickahominy Riv er The car found by Army divers from Fort Kuslis in the river bot tom muck under feet of water was hauled to the surface and yielded the bixly of Homer K Cox Til a A search continued in the wa ters below the draw at Harrets Kerry miles west of here for two men who their relatives said sel out with Cox on a duck hunting were Comer C lackson a depart ment store anil Edwin Gilley of Route 5 both about Cox age and all inti mate friends The 1050 model Olds mo bile owned by Jackson went through the draw in the period before 6 am shortly after it had swung open to permit a cabin cruiser towing a duck blind to get through There were five duck hunters in the cruiser and one of them Jack Clark 21 of Hampton said they could see the car moving across the bridge at what looked like about 25 or miles an hour Clark said the car never slowed at all and just suddenly the lights dipped He said also the electrically operated barrier guards at the open end of the draw span had not been lowered The barriers later were found to be undamaged and there were no skid marks evident upon the bridge There are two barriers at either side of the draw George Brown of Norge a bridge tender who was not on duty at the time of the accident said the east gates had been giving trouble for the past two weeks The car went over the east end He said the trouble ap to be with the fuses and an electrician had recently installed a heavier fuse in the control for the outer east gate The last time he operated the gates before the pm barrier gates all worker satisfactorily he said The draw tenders the man on A that the bridge had been opened at am and the draw operated in a satisfactory manner When the car took the plunge efforts were made by the hunters and the bridge to roach it with grappling hooks but these ef wore unsuccessful Then a diving team from Fort Eustis and the Williams City rescue unit ar rived At first their efforts were hampered by the thick fog which lay over the point n mile or so above the confluence of the Chickahominy and the James Riv er They worked from the cabin cruiser Finally the fog began to disap pear and the Army divers went to work The tide was running out swiftly and their work was made morp difficult by the soft muck of the river bottom Shortly after 0 a m Cpl Edward Paquette located the car a short distance below the bridge lying on its crumpled top He se cured a cable to it and a winch on a wrecker pulled it out Coxs body was in the front seal shotgun beside him There was no sign of the others They may have fought their wav have been tossed been carried downstream Cox is survived by his wife and two children all of Williamsburg US And Canada To Map Defense Against Eisenhower Terms Russia Arrogant In Address Before Parliament Urges Immediate Action Out Nov 1 i MP President called in a speech to Canadas Parliament to day for urgent building of United defenses against the threat of atomic attack by Russia Later the President and Cana dian Prime Minister Louis St Lau rent announced in a communique complete agreement on the vital importance of effective methods for joint defense especially in the light of evidence of increasing technical capability of direct at tack on both countries by weapons of great destructive power In his address to Parliament spoke of Russia as ar and declared now is the time for action on agreed mea sures planned by the States and Canada to protect Hie continent Me did not specify the measures Eisenhower said Canadian American defense plans now must be geared to recognition of Soviet ability to employ atomic attack on North America He touched off approval by members of the House of Commons and the Senate in say ing the United States and Canada can protect their people against surprise air attacks The communique Issued bv Ki and St Laurent said that during their private talks Views were exchanged on re cent developments in the world situation and on measures which might bring about a relaxation of current international tensions It was agreed that all efforts for peace and improved world con ditions being made by the United Nations or elsewhere should be supported and the necessity of maintaining the strength unity and determination of the free world to resist aggression was fully recognized The communique also said the President and the Prime Minister in discussing means of strengthen ing free world security sized the importance of collective arrangements under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the special responsibility of the United States and Canada for building up the defenses of this continent Eisenhower and St Laurent agreed on the importance to the free world of healthy national eco and of expansion of world trade on a multilateral basis the communique said stressed the impor tance of the St Lawrence sea Continued On Pago 2 Freezer Gas Range Fighting Hemophilia NEW YORK Nov M science has enlisted the aid of the homo freezer and the gas range in the latest attempt to make life a little easier for the victims of the dread bleeding disease hemophilia A hemophiliac lives from one crisis to the next His blood lacks some clotting factor which means that any cut is a definite threat to his life And internal bleeding a painful exper A fall or a bump can cause a hemorrhage easily and the hemo A few years ago science dis covered that a transfusion was helpful Kresh blood from a nor mal person containing the miss ing clotting factor the bleeding However fresh blood of the right type isnt always avail able it must be administered di and a hemophiliac some times needing several transfusions soon becomes overloaded with red blood corpuscles But blood liquid por tion of the blood from which the red corpuscles have been removed the trick And now there is fresh frozen blood plasma just what the doctor ordered for a hein Its UKC wan explained in one of several hemophilia exhibits during a session on blood at the New York Academy of Mrd leinc Inlike blood plasma for Continued On Page 12 PILOTS QUICK ACTION PREVENTS DISASTER TO CAPITAL AIRLINER PITTSBURGH Nov H Quick action by Capt William OConnor a Capital Airlines pilot averted a possible disaster today on a Constellation plane carrying 61 persons including entire squad of the National Football Leagues Pittsburgh Fifteen minutes after the plane left here for New York where the Steelers play the New York Giants tomorrow the pungent odor of ether fumes began filling the ship The plane was flying at 0000 j feel altitude radio ed for an emergency landing clearance He turned the ship around and 15 minutes later land ed at Greater Pittsburgh Airport The craft was hurriedly evacuated but no one aboard was affected by the which are highly inflam mable A Capital spokesman said the ether hid spilled out of can in a bag in the baggage com located in the belly of the plane The bag was filled with aid supplies The piano was ventilated for an hour before the flight was resumed lo New York Lee WAC Officer Killed In Crash HeadOn Collision Occurs At Dulch Gap A Fort Lee WAC officer was killed and an Arlington Negro ser iously injured in a headon colli sion on the Richmond Petersburg Turnpike at Dutch Gap yesterday afternoon The officer Lt Patricia Mitchell i of St Louis Mo was deael on arrival at the Fort Lee Hospital Suffering from a fractured skull and taken to St Phillips Hospital Richmond was Robert Hill color ed of Arlington Chesterfield County police who investigated the accident said the automobile driven by Hill went over into the third lane of the highway met head on the car operated by Lt Mit chell II Mitchell was chief of the physical education section in tin Womens Army Corps Training at Fort Lee ws a grad of College in St Louis Parker S Spruit Ir 21 of Portsmouth who suffered severe head injuries when he was driving crashed through two road markers on the island at Cra ter Road and Route and into a utility pole in the dense fog yes morning was in tory condition in the Medical Col lege of Virginia Hospital Rich mond last night Four other traffic deaths else whore in Virginia boosted the toll 10 Victims of dents wore Curtis Wayne Perry 31 of Lin On 2 40 fo CENTS Truman Will Make All Out Talk About Night Senators May Gall Edgar Hoover 1 Way Opened For FBI Chief To Testify On Claim White Was Kept As Decoy WASHINGTON Nov M ate Republican leaders opened the way today to call Director 1 Hoover for testimony on any claim by former President Truman that he kept Harry Dexter While in the government as a decoy for surveillance of Communist spy suspects Truman announced today he will go on the air Monday night to tell all he facts of Hie sensational case which broke open when Ally Gen Brownel accused Tru man of promoting White to high office In of KB reports which Brownel I said showed White to lie a Soviet spy In advance of Trumans speech various reports have been circulat ing widely Some Democratic sup porters of Truman have passed the word that the President kept White in the government to see if the FBI could catch him and possibly others in any act of espionage Other sources have countered bv saying that Hoover entered Into no such arrangement and knew noth ing of it In New York today Truman was asked whether he permitted the White promotion to U S director on the International Monetary go through under an ar rangement with the I have not examined the record on the matter and my memory is would have to look it up Truman said A reporter asked If the made such a request would vou have complied Its a possibility the former President replied Sen Knowland of California the Republican leader said in an In he regards as a White herring or possibly a red one any such explanation by Truman Knowland said he had grave doubts that Hoover ever recom mended any such p r o c e d u r e adding Hoovar probably could clarify the point and anyone who can throw any light on this subject should have the opportunity of throwing light Rep Walter of Pennsylvania top Democrat on the House Un American Activities Committee previously had demanded that the FBI chief be called to fell nil he knows about the White case Such an appearance by Hoover Continued On Page 2 Man Attempts To Entice Girl Police Conduct Search On Childs Description Petersburg police were conducting an extensive search for an unshaven white man who three times within a few minutes yesterday afternoon at tempted to entice a girl into his automobile by offering her money Tbe man first stopped the child at Sycamore and Sts at oclock according to highway acci ed her a quarter to go will She refused and continued walk ing wesl on Washington St Captain said tne man driv ing an old model blue car stopped the girl again at Duvis mid Wash ington Sts and told her he had n silver dollar in the buck seat and lhat it would be hers if she would it up The police Continued On 2 ANOTHER STORM HEADS FOR PACIFIC COAST SAN FRANCISCO Nov M Gale winds up to miles an hour and rain up to 240 inches lashed the Pacific Coast last night and another storm was expected Sun day In northern California Uie ter of the storm Small boats were s in ashed against beaches Many communi ties were blacked 0111 by power failures S I r e c t s were flooded Trees were toppled Minor traffic were Pul almost miraculously in view jof the brief of the no serious injuries werp reported Working Class Call Revived By Kremlin POLICE ALERTED FOR RIOTING IN TRIESTE Nov 11 po some Allied troops were placed on the alert tonight in troubled Adriatic port city Two meetings have been called for by the Slovene Front and the by the ilian National League An allied official re ported the alert said trou ble may if efforts are 1 to break up one or both m eel ings J PARIS Nov M NKA communism p 1 a y e d down by Moscow alter Stalins is once more on the march The Com inform is undergoing an important switch in tactics to French Communist n major shift In Soviet cold war strategy The new Kremlin rulers now seem to recognize that their glo bal peaceful in the free world Thus they are reviving their call for working class demanding in lasl note that the Wesl re plans lr organize the Kur pean Defense Community International labor 113 has taken on renewed and prac tical meaning in the Red world It was given lop place In Hie Krem lins propaganda commemorating the Mill anniversary rf the Hol revolution I The new Soviet line in respects is a reversal of recent Kremlin tactics As a leading ed in indi I cales soft policy and CITED BY six important figures were among those named by chairman William E leaner of the Senate In ternal Security Subcommittee as among nine important gov officials who were promoted during the Truman ad ministration despite derogatory security information They are top left to Victor Perlo Maurice Halperin and Harold Glasser and bottom left to Frank Coe Irving Alger Hiss NBA Telephotos GOP Leaders To Plan Strategy In Congress NETWORKS TO DONATE TIME FOR ADDRESS YORK Nov M jor radio and television net works will donate the lime for former President Harry S Tru mans speech on the Harry Dex ter While case Monday night Spokesmen for AliC and NIC said the address will be carried is a public service Eisenhower Cabinet Top Congressional Leaders To Hold Conference Next Month MCCARTHY ASSAILS TRUMANS REFUSAL TO GIVE TESTIMONY WASHINGTON Nov 14 publican loaders announced today that top strategy for the 19154 ses Bion of Congress will be developed at a conference between President Eisenhower and his Cab inet and GOP congressional lead ers Dec 1012 Senate Majority Leader Know land of California who announced the dates said that whatever key legislation grows out of Die meet ings with the President should be expedited Some congressional committees may be Called back to work even before new session begins Jan he said High speed action also was em by Sen of Mich igan chairman of Senate OOP Policy Com mitten which steers the legislative program in thai ody i think Senate ought to gel In full spend Ferguson said in a separate interview We have a big program laid out and we ought to try to gel it through Attending the presession plan ning conference with in addition to Knowland and Fer guson will be Senators Millikin of Colorado chairman of Confer Continued On Page 2 INDICTMENT SOUGHT AGAINST ATTORNEY IN TRUMANS REGIME Nov M thor i live sources said today the Justice Department is seeking an indictment against Herbert A Bergson former attorney in I hi Truman Administration for legerity violating the conflict of interest law Tile statute says former govern ment lawyers may not prosecute claims against the United Slates in any matter with which they wore connected while in gov until after two years Ally Gen Herbert said courts never had intoi this law but he that in his judgment the wording was broad enough to encompass rep in any matter In which the United States has any interest whatsoever Hergson now a member of a Washington law firm s e v e r a weeks ago filed a brief with the general challenging this broad interpretation A grand jury was reporter to have been locking Inlo Ills han dling of legal matters for a group of abrasives companies which he successfully under the antitrust laws before leaving in coexistence liberalism in the West Is reach to carry ing an end French predict hat the and the World fed first Trade Inions will launch j staff t bir revolutionary offensive this VA incr I To Leninist On II MAMIE EISENHOWER MARKS BIRTHDAY OTTAWA Nov 11 This was Mamie birth day and her husband remembered it wilh a gifl He gave her a gold pendant about the of a piece engraved wilh the seal of the President of the United States She plans to attach it to a charm bracelet The President presented the gilt before breakfast at Rideau Hall where they were the overnight guests of Canadas Governor Gen eral Vincent Massey This after noon at the American Embassy their was a surprise party for the lady given by While House members and others who ac PORTLAND Maine Nov M AV Sen Joseph McCarthy to night termed former Trumans scheduled Monday nigh broadcast on the Harry Dexte While case a poor substitute fo being under oath Informed of Trumans announcer intention to tell all Die facts McCarthy told a news conference Harry Truman Is being accusee of the mosl serious president been accused of H should come in under ane Im not prejudging Truman McCarlhy added but he shoule e called like anybody else Last week Ally Ceil that Truman promoted While to J S director of the In Monetary Fund aflei the KM I reported to the White House lhat While was a Russian Radar Spying To Be Probed Public Hearings To Start Soon McCarthy Says PORTLAND Maine Nov 14 I McCarthy said lo day his subcommittee will start public hearings as soon as pos sible on alleged spying at the FL N radar labora tory I read papers today which quoted Secretary of The Army Ste vens as saying his com found no evidence of espionage at Ft M on mouth McCarthy said This makes it to open public hearings almost Immediate ly I am contacting my coun sel Roy Conn to open the file for public hearings as soon as pos aible It is very important now he added thai the people hoar the testimony regarding espionage at Ft Monmouth The hearings will he of great Interest to the Amer ican people K a r 1 i e r McCarlhy said he thought Stevens must have been talking about an Army tion when Stevens said there were no suspected spies among ci vilian workers suspended from the radar center Stevens obviously could not have been talking about our inves said the chairman of a On Pnge 2 Will Tell All The Facts In Broad cast And Telecast From Kansas City MOW YORK Nov 14 resident Truman today he vlll tell all facts about he Harry Dexter While case In an all out radio and television arl ress Monday night from Kansas Ity T r u in a n s announcement to came shortly before he nd his wife boarded a train for heir home state of Missouri H topped off a visit from beginning to end v a raging political uproar over charge by Altv lien Herbert Jr that T r u m a n pro While in the government bough be knew the KB bad While as n Russian spy Truman came to New York for couple of routine speeches and conference with publishers of his memoirs hut he ause of the controversy found the center of as much as when he was en I Sometimes as many as SI re and photographers met ilm for his dally morning stroll Under a steady drumfire of he amiably gave large replies The address will mark lis review of he case publicly The NIK CBS and ABC net works said they carry the Truman their radio and television networks AllC and CBS said they would carry address simultaneously on radio and television at II pml NBC said it would televise the program live at that time and the speech via radio at pm Tin networks they knew nothing of Trumans intention lo make a speech over the air until he made the announcement short ly before noon They spent the aft Irving to work out sched ules that would lie in with the former Presidents plans before the de aboard the St Louisan at pm reporters asked the for uer President he thought here be any aft the speech To further queries he said stnil ngly Yem bettor wait and hear Ihn speech I donl want to make any speech now during daily stroll questioners it was he could have transferred White from Treasury Depart ment to the International ary Kund lo help the FBI keep i watch on him He only one formal staie relating to the White ease luring his stay in New of a subpoena to appear the House I Ae Committee lo tell what ho new of the case The rejection consisted of a let ter to Hep Harold n which he said he could not com ply wilh the subpoena because of he constitutional separation of and legislative f the government JET EXCEEDS SOUND BREAKS WINDOWS MIAMI Kla Nov 11 Air Force Sabre jet broke through the sonic barrier here today and the vibrations set up when the speed of sound is exceeded cracked of windows shook plaster off walls and frightened scores of residents Rabies cried dogs and newspaper telephone switchboards were swamped with calls from per sons asking about the tig explosion The sharp double crack came shortly after an air raid siren had sounded a practice alert and some callers told police the was being bombed Officers patiently explained what had happened companied on their visit to Ottawa There she wjs given another gifl a gold maple leaf US World For Guided Missiles WASHINGTON Nov M NEA The U S Air Force aided by more than two federal and private agencies is making an all out effort to remap the world ac to prepare for possible guided missile warfare Its a supersecret rush project costing millions of dollars Thous ands of military and II S scientists working in almost every part of the free world and using the very latest electronic and aerial mapping are engaged In this effort There are reports lhat secret techniques of mapping keyed to da la from eclipses of the sun are being used to make ac curate maps of Its essential that the job be completed before mis siles which are being developed faster than most experts through possible can be included in Amer icas overall defense plans Ever since the start of World War II when U S military ships and planes began roaming the world In huge numbers there has been growing evidence that avail able maps and charts were gross ly inaccurate Hut it wasnt until they hegan firings from the guid ed missile proving ground ai Pal rick Air Force Base la that they discovered how ate some of the maps were On
