Progress-Index, The (Newspaper) - December 4, 1953, Petersburg, Virginia THE WEATHER Rain Windy Mild Tonight Saturday The Sun Sets Today Rises Other Weather Data On Page 21 bfc VOL 152 ICY ROADS DANGEROUS Icy roads in early morning ami lain at night can be deadly this time of Extra care in driving reduction of speed at danger points are recommended to defeat the grim reaper PETERSBURG VIRGINIA FRIDAY DECEMBER 4 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS Eisenhower In Bermuda For Big Three Talk s 539895 Spent By Republicans In Daltons Race Expenses Of Fute Effort To Win Governorship Cost Stanley RICHMOND Sen Ted Dalton reported today that the Re publicans spent in making their most serious bid to win the Virginia governorship in the re cent Fall campaign Dalton in an expense report filed with the State Elections Board listed personal expenses of in his role as the GOPs candidate for Governor Of this amount he reported was con to him personally by vari persons Daltons report listed campaign expenditures of by the Re publican finance committee which directed efforts in behalf of the 52 yearold Radford attorney apd his running mates for Lieutenant Gov ernor and Attorney General The Republican expense report was slightly more than onehalf the amount reported spent in behalf of Thomas B Stanley the victorious Democratic nominee Stanley n an expense report filed yesterday said was expended in his behalf Daltons report listed personal expenses of for travel tele phone postage stationery and mis items The expended by the partys finance committee included 87414 for advertising materials 53660 for newspaper advertise ments for radio and tele vision broadcasts office ex penses for postage station ery and printing for rent for salaries of campaign aids for telephone usage and for miscellaneous items Deadline for filing the reports was midnight last night Yesterday Thomas BI Stanley Democratic I e c t re ported his expenses to the board Listed as expenses for the general election was believed to be the highest ever paid out in an election on campaign ii Virginia Board Secretary Levin Nock Davis said he knew of no higher figure The sum did not include the expended in behalf of Stan ley in tbe Democratic primary that came before the general election Nov 3 Together the total is Of this total Stanley said his personal expenditure was in the primary race and in the general election against Dalton The remainder of the total expenses came from Democratic campaign headquarters In 1949 Gov Battle filed no expenses when he ran in the gen eral election However Battle was not faced with such weight tion Stanley said he contributed 200 directly to the Democratic campaign treasury YALE AND HARVARD EDITORS SEND PAPERS TO N Y NEW YORK and Yale campus editors came to the rescue of some of the New Yorkers today In Cambridge Mass and New Haven Conn they decided to do something about the situation caused by the newspaper photoengravers strike here So theyre sending several thou sand copies of The Crimson and the Yale Daily News into the void where 5 million copies of seven major newspapers are lack ing Harvard advised that a few thousand copies of The Crim eon the undergraduate daily were coming by auto Word came from New Haven that 5000 to 10000 extra copies of the Yale Daily News were being printed for transportation here by An editor said they might oven give them away on the Streets The Yale paper has no news service QUEEN OF CHRISTMAS Pat Kvasnicka who was crowned Queen of Christmas Parade by Mayor Churchill G Dunn last night is shown above as she passed through the crowds in the business section Miss Kvasnicka was selected from 12 candidates for the honor in a contest conducted by the Junior Womans Club in which each was sponsored by some civic group Rose Studio Photo Nearly 60000 See Gigantic Yule Parade CAN INDUSTRY STRIKE ENTERS THIRD DAY STILL STALEMATED PITTSBURGH contract negotiations pushed a na strike against two top can manufacturers into its third day today intensifying the concern of the citrus industry over dwindling can supplies Citrus canners in Florida hit hardest by the walkout of 33000 CIO United at 73 US and Canadian plants of American Can Continental Can Co major crisis if the strike lasts much longer Scattered reports from other sections of the country indicate no widespread ill effects yet Officials of the California fruit industry and producers of milk baby food coffee and other items say the walkout poses no threat to their operations The union called tha strike at midnight Tuesday when negotia tions ended In a stalemate Man agement representatives said the USW sought a hourly pay package increase including 8 cents across the board The union has not disclosed its demands STREET NEW YORK The stock Mar ket was narrowly mixed today in trading RKO Theaters started on a block cf 1400 shares up at Philco gained a fraction Ameri can Tobacco was on the tape with B block of 1000 shares off at 65 Another Paper Halted By Strike Stereotypers In Long Island Join In Walkout NEW YORK Long Island halted publication to day when Its Stereotypers refused to handle news and comics of struck newspapers in Manhattan which were to be printed in the form of paid advertisements No material from the advertisers of the struck papers was Involved Stephen Rogers editor of the Queens afternoon paper said In a statement the who make casts for the advertisements refused to handle the ads con tending it was work This action by the Stereotypers union in violation of our contract destroys a vital link in the news production line preventing us from placing printed pages on the presses Rogers said in a statement Estonian Tells Of Grilling For 6 Weeks By Russians NEW YORK fli Estonian now living in the Bronx says that the Russians overran his na tive land he was accused of being a spy and grilled unmercifully for six weeks G Ludig 48 was a witness yesterday before a special House committee investigating seizure by Russia of the Baltic states of Estonia Latvia and Lith Ludig testified that he was ar rested in and held captive in a cupboard too small to enable him to stand sit or lie down He questioned for six weeks by night he snid and his guards re to Iri him sleep during the daytime The committee has invited An drei Vishinsky Soviet deputy for eign minister and permanent dele gate to the United Nations to testify In defense of his country action concerning the Baltic states Rep Charles J Kersten committee chairman said the tes showed a clear pattern imposed by Vishinsky in Latvia could be seen right up to Korea Its a clear pattern that the Communists would like to wherever they have ah to do so Kersten added He said there was some chance that Vishinsky would ap pear before the committee Ther has been no comment from VI shinsky Miss Pat Kvasnicka Crowned Christmas Queen Two Floats Tie For First Place In Event By MARY A throng estimated at nearly 30000 jammed both sides of Syca more St last night to see Peters fifth Christmas Parade was generally conceded to e the best ever staged here Also vhile no accurate estimate could e made those in charge said it the largest crowd ever to ather here for a parade Long before the appointed hour he people began to gather men children mothers with abies in their arms fathers with who were later perch d on shoulders so they could see Santa Glaus soldiers and Wacs rom Fort Lee old folks with grandchildren In crowds oE chool children and swarms of visi irs from neighboring cities and Bounties The crowds extended into he street and sidewalks were so jacked no one could pass through lany persons looked down from in the business district In the glow of the colored Christ mas lights turned on for the first ime this year it was a gay happy throng A number ol clowns cavorted in the street Excitement had reached a high pitch especially among the expect ant children when band music ivas heard in the distance and down the street came the long ine of glittering floats smart stepping marching units high school and military bands As far as the children were con cerned and many older persons as veil the biggest thing in the para ade was Santa Clans and the four ive reindeer on the float sponsor ed by the Retail Merchants Di vision of the Chamber of Com merce under whose auspices the parade was staged Children gaz ed in breathless wonder and adults ohed and at the ight The reindeers feet moving with an endless tread on the bif truck gave the that they were pulling Santas sleigh which made it very real to youthful imag Next to Santa and the reindeer the feature of the parade was the crowning of the Queen Miss Pa Kvasnicka daughter of Mr anc Mrs Jerry Kvasnicka She wa chosen from 2 contestants In i contest conducted by the Federal ed Junior Womans Club for th benefit of the dental clinic the or sponsors The Queen rode on a kiosk surrounded by court of the 11 other contestants Continued On 11 Dept Official Faces Val Lorwin Indicted On Charges He Falsely De nied Communist Party Membership At Hearing WASHINGTON R Lor vin former State Department of was Indicted by a federal rand jury today on charges that ie falsely denied Communist arty during a loyalty hear ng in December 1950 The indictment returned under he false statements statute se Lorwin of stating un er oath at the loyaly hearing hat 1 He never was a Communist arty member 3 He never carried a Communist arty card 3 He never held a Communist arty meeting In his home Lorwin 46 and no longer with he government is a native of New York City The justice department aid it was unable to supply his address At the time of the hearing Lor vin was chief of trie European division of international abor social and health affairs in he State Department Lorwin was indicted under a which punishes the making f a false statement to a govern nent representative The offense s punishable by fine or five ears imprisonment The former State Department is a graduate of Cornell and Ohio State Univer ily and once served a tutor in istory at Brooklyn College He entered government service as an economist with the Id National Recovery Administra on and became a labor analyst in 1930 Later he was with the War reduction Board He entered the in 1943 and served as a lieu enant overseas He was connected vith the Office of Strategic Serv ces in 194445 and transferred to he State Department Oct 1 1945 SAYS CONDON AT URD MEET SAN FRANCISCO House Activities Committee testified yesterday he saw Rep Robert L Condon at a closed Communist meeting in 948 Condon who was barred for se curity reasons from witnessing a atomic test last May de nied that he ever was a Commu nist Charles David Blodgett an ad ex Communist told the here he saw Condon at a closed emergency meeting of Communist party members at Oakland Calif in March or April 948 The witness testified he did ot know whether Condon was a member but he had never een a nonCommunist at such a meeting Condon at the time was a candl late for the Legislature He won and last year was elected to Con re ss McCarthy Plans Chat With Ike Talk May Come After President Returns WASHINGTON McCar hy was reported today to re planning a personal chat with President Eisenhower soon after the President returns from the Big Three talks in Bermuda This report came from a person in a position to know McCarthy declined to be quoted on the sub ject and the White House press office said it hadnt heard anything about such a meeting McCarthy yesterday disclaimer any intention to challenge Eisen howers leadership of the Republi can party but he reserved the righ to criticises the administration I think It Is making mis kes This was a reply to statements earlier in the week by the dent and Secretary of State Dulle rejecting demands for drastic revision of some phases of administration foreign policy statement waF phrased for the most part in con tones TELLS OF BEING BURIED ALIVE Sgt Carey Weinel of Kansas Cily Mo points to a large photograph in Washington as he tells Senate investigators he was shot and buried alive after capture by the Communists in Korea Weinel indicates the spot where he was buried After seven or eight hours he escaped from his intended grave POWs To Be Free Dean Says Date Will Stand And All rioted Released Then S envoy Arthur H Dean lok the Commu today that unrepair a ted war Will be freed Jan 22 un ess a peace conference decides some other course and no human land or mind or debate can change it We are never going to agree under any circumstances to a change in that date he declared Dean and Communist diplomats middled for almost three hours on plans for a peace conference while few miles away 30 more South Korean war prisoners unanimous ly rejected pleas to return home Allied persuaders in three days have talked to 90 South Korean who chose life under the and not one has changed his mind ROK officers whisked through 30 interviews before noon today The U N Command asked to interview 40 prisoners Saturday The repa commission said the re quest for an extra 10 was filed too late but there were indications It still would be approved The preliminary peace talks are In recess until Monday Dean asked that a Saturday session be called off because he will be in Seoul for conferences with South Koreas President Syngman Rhee He refused to divulge the sub ject of the talks and not comment on rumored differences the U N Command and South Korean government over Ians for a peace conference The spokesman for 17 Allied na tions which fought in Korea spelled out their position on prisoners after thi Communists heatedly Insisted that the POWs could peace fate Dean said the Reds appeared to be trying to block a peace con ference in an attempt to hold in indefinite captivity 22600 Korean and Chinese war prisoners who have refused to go back to Com munist rule never be released until a conference decides their DEATH BRINGS END TO DRIVING ATTEMPT MIAMI Fla waters of the Gulf stream today held the body of Hope Root and brought a tragic end to the Miami attorneys attempt to break the worlds diving record Root went overboard from the charter boat two miles off Miami Beach yesterday plung ing to a depth of 500 feet Patrolling boats and a Guard helicopter searched for hours but found no trace of the body Root had planned to descend to 410 feet for a now diving record In such dives face mask foot fins and a com pressed air tank are used but the diver swims free Experimental Babies Dae To Be Bom At U Of Iowa IOWA CITY Iowa failed to achieve women who have been rendered pregnant by use of semen are scheduled to deliver their babies at University Hospital here during the next three months The three expectant mothers are cooperating in an experiment des tine to make medical history It is believed to be the first time frozen has been used for artificial insemination in humans though a similar technique previously had been used in animals Dr G Bungo who is con ducting the experiment said the first birth Is expected in a few weeks The other babios arc to be born in January find He sild all three through their marriage names were not disclosed The women are In good and the progress of the fetuses i satisfactory Dr said He declined to talk about th sociological aspects of the case f dont want to get into th Ideology of It he said Wer conducting the experiments an thats it The source of the spermatozo used In the experiment was no divulged but Dr salri th source of the conception is valid No announcement will lie made Dr until of ire of high Integrity who has buen determined of any birt Bunge any Reds Are Challenged To Disprove Atrocities More Accounts Of Bestial Treatment Of Allied Prisoners To Be Heard By Senator WASHINGTON Potter RMIch today challenged Andrei Ishinsky associates to try o disprove Korean veterans ac of brutal bestial atrocities Potler sitting as a oneman Sen to investigations subcommittee ias heard over a such ac In the past two days Oji all today were U more witnesses o add details to the grim recital 1C these cases are false Potter an Interview It would be he best possible propaganda In the world for the Communists to that If Vishinsky and the Communists are not afraid of In truth why do they not ask an im partial United Nations lion They are afraid of the trut and this gives the lie to Vishinsky falsifications The UN General Assembly yes erday approved an American jacked resolution condemning any atrocities and expressing grave concern at reports of Red cruelty n Korea The vote was 125 VI hinsky chief Russian delegate to he UN and other Communist cried fake and li Potter said the sworn testimony already heard here had been verl ied by Army experts in prepara ion for possible war crime trials f the Korean and Chinese Com I dont know what we will do vith this evidence now he said Except to let Americans nnd the vorld know the true pattern of Communist leadership Potter said lucky survivors of Korean atrocities already have proved that there was pretty much the same pattern in these crimes with Communist officers and leaders murdering Americans or giving orders to do this It was a command decision on the part of the Communists to our prisoners of war he said These are crimes against man They would be punishable in any country with the possible ex ception of na tions UTTING YACHT H SAVES NOTHING TRUMAN SAYS NEW YORK Former ent Harry S Truman said today iat the Eisenhower iul minis tra lon Is not saving one cent by jutting the Presidential yacht Wil in mothballs The comment came during Tru nans early morning before break ant walk Pausing momentarily at Park Ave and St to look at a oot motorboat on a large ruck Truman said the craft ve minded him of the which President or into the mothball fleet as an economy measure shortly his inauguration You know saW Truman theyre not saving one cent b putting It in mothballs it costs a much to keep in as j does to keep in service He said the yacht had served a very very useful service am he mentioned various conferences with world leaders in eluding Sir Winston Churchill Gen Charles De Gnu lie of France anc Clement Attlee former British Prime Minister Y Churchill And French Premier Greet His Plane Chairman Strauss of A EC Added To Presidents Party At Last Open Talks Today TOWN Bermuda Eisenhower arrived in Bermuda today for the start of a Big Three con ference with Prime M Churchill and French Premier The Presidential plans Colum bine landed at Field at am Waiting to greet Eisenhower as he stopped from the plane were Churchill and together with British Foreign Secretary Eden and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault A crowd of about was on hand to welcome Also present a colorful honor guard made up of Royal Welsh Fusiliers Bermuda militia and US airmen In the Presidential party were of State Dulles and Lewis Strauss chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission Strauss was added to the party at the last minute this morning The flight from Washington took 3 hours 10 minutes Dulles British Foreign Secretary Eden and French Foreign Minister were scheduled to meet at i pm to get the formal talks underway with their chiefs gather ing around the table Immediately afterwards The whole group was to dine In ight with Goy Sir Alexander nod at Government House A WASHINGTON Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles took off for the Bermuda Conference am EST to lay with the chairman of the Uomle Energy Commission Lewis Strauss a last minute addition u heir party There was no official explanation ot Strauss being added to the dele gation bul reported he discuss the the Washington Post was going along to British request that BUFFETS DAKOTAS MINNESOTA MINNEAPOLIS storm that dumped more than a fool of snow n some sections of buffeted the and Minne sota today as It swept northward nto Canada Nebraska Kansas and Colorado also were hit but the snow had all but ended in these states Schools were were stranded closed motorists am tions knocked out in some areas International Falls in Minnesota reported M Inches of snow GREEK KING QUEEN END TOUR SAIL HOME NEW YORK King Paul of Greece says the fundamental goodness of the American people contributes more to the of the United States than does its armed might The King and his queen Feeder ika sailed for home aboard the am the King read a farewell message They since had been in Oct 28 on a will tour this country Metcalf Enters Race For House Prince George Realtor Third In Contest floland B MeLcalf Prince realtor today announced le will n candidate in the spec al election January 8 for the louse of Delegates seat from Hope veil and counties of Prince George ind Surry while Dr D Lane El ier Hope well mayor who had mentioned prominently as a possible candidate for the seat removed himself from considera tion Metcalf became the third candi date for the post made vacant by the death of William A Walton of who had been elec ted In the November general elec tion to succeed himself Already in the race are Paris I Lead bettor attorney who announce Wednesday mul I M Ford real estate and in broker who his candidacy yesterday who resides on Route 101 several miles south of Pe is a native of Kantem Shore Virginia He graduated from thr University of Richmond in by thr lOsso Oil Company In 1931 transferred to Prince Standard he George and since that In Iig limn 13 has the United Slates exchange atom ic military information with Allies would add another thorny problem for conferences In which Eisenhower already is clue to work against heavy odds for French ap proval of a rearmed West Ger y to argue against Sir Winston Churchills proposals to neel with Russian Premier Malen cov A group of other foreign policy ind military experts were in the arty headed for the American parley on the mfci Island appeared In good spirits and smilingly called out to photographers have a good va cation His meaning was that tho cameramen would have less work to do with the President out of town The conference which British Prime Minister Churchill Initiated and which Interested Eisenhower and Kronen Premier Laniel only mildly is dedicated to enlarging Western unity But it is plagued by so many divisive Issues and so much Rus sian diplomatic maneuvering that Its greatest achievement may be simply a better understanding of the Wests various disagreements U S officials said the Kremlin undoubtedly has maneuvered to make the difficulties as great as by getting up the prospect of a Rig Four foreign ministers meeting and by starting a wave of talk about pos sible peace in Indochina On the other side of the ledger the Laniel government survived a vote of confidence which enabled the Premier and Foreign Minister to sit in lOven this pro vided little ment The days of govern ment are numbered and a new administration takes office at Par is in mid January The best hopf American officials have is that thn January change like French gov turnovers of the past sev eral years will not bring any im shift in French foreign pol Police Pressing Probe Of Killings At Blackstone lends xjt not at todays gasoline prices including tax BLACKSTONK W Nottoway County and Blackstone officials are still in the middle of the investi gation of the double slaying of a taxicab driver and a woman hero Tuesday Sheriff K C said today Kllett said there are new lends wo turn around and its just a problem of working them out Unfortunately he a d d e tl j most of the leads arc hot then grow cold The bodies of Dayton W Mc 22 and Mrs Lillian West Loftls 24 a Blackstone waitress were found In the wreckage of Mc Inside the gates of a cemetery here The vehicle had overturned and burned and it was first believed the two had burned to death Autopsy performed by the State disclosed thn two had been shot and killed a 22 caliber weapon before the taxicab overturned and burned Both bodies had been soaked with gasoline the medical examiner said The weapon has not found Yesterday absent without and sick call lists at nearby were inspected In the hopr a lead could be found Authorities theorized the slayer had also been an occupant of the vehicle and may have received injuries when it overturned If the slayer is a soldier they said his name may appear on the sick call list Blackstone town council yester day agreed to post a reward for leading to the ar rest of the slayer Blackstone Town Manager R D Jr said operators also agreed to post a reward and a minimum of would bo offered Hn all information would be confidential
