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ABILENE, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1953 —EIGHTEEN PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
EVENING
FINAL
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c
BUT IT DOES SAVE LIVES
Wary Lawmakers See More
Red Trickery in Armistice
WASHINGTON W — Congress
members, wary of possible Com-
munist trickery balanced liabilities
against assets today and found
little beyond the paramount saving
of lives to approve in a Korean
truce.
Without notable exception the
lawmakers expressed hope that the
Republic of Korea government will
accept an armistice and avoid
what some of them said otherwise
could become a dangerous situa-
tion for American troops on the
bottle line.
Unanimously, legislators who
commented were happy that the
shooting seems likely to stop with-
in s low days.
But there was evident dissatis-
faction with the trace terms, mixed
with a realization among the legis-
lators that a cease-fire will bring
little. If any, decline in American
expenditures and will offer no solu-
tion to pressing Asiatic political
problems.
Senators Ferguson (R-Mich) and
Maybank (D-SC) joined in throw-
ing doubt on the possibility of
making any material savings as s
result of cessation of the fighting.
The two, both members of the
Senate Appropriations Committee,
GEN. NAM IL, GEN. HARRISON
... chief truce negotiators.
Staffs Work Out
Details of Truce
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Korean armistice as hundreds of fire agreement was
thousands of South Koreans dem- Lower level office
onstrated violently against the im-after the plenary to
pending truce that will leeve their to iron out the word,
nation divided.
N
Even as Koreans surged wildly
through the streets of Seoul, Allied
and Communist teams met in the
tiny trace hut st Panmunjom for
11 minutes amid increasing signs
that an armistice may be signed
within the week.
Although an Allied spokesman
gave no hint of what took place in
the but. the briefings of the meet-
ment that would call a halt to
bloody three-year-old war.
The Beds asked the rece
the plenary session and another
meeting was set for 11 a.m.
Wednesday (8 p.m. Tuesday CST).
Heal io Keep
Grip on City
Hot weather can be expected to
linger in the Abilene vicintity for
at least the next two days.
Weatherman C. E Sitchler said
In Seoul, meanwhile, crowds es-
timated by some authorities as
large as 500,000 stormed through
the streets of the war-devastated
South Korean capital.
While the demonstrations raged,
defiant South Korean President
Syngman Rhee assembled with his
generals behind closed doors.
The meeting followed one with
Gen Maxwell Taylor, V S. Eighth
Army commander and the South
Korean Cabinet.
A spokesman said the Cabinet
and national assemblymen who at-
tended the session reaffirmed their
decision to ignore an armistice
based on the May 25 U. N. pro-
posal, continue the war, and fight
Indian troops if they land to Korea.
The South Korean National As-
sembly was to bear a recommen-
dation that it declare war on In-
dian troops if they come into Ko-
rea to guard prisoners after an
armistice.
said la separate interviews they
expect immediate requests for
U. S. economic aid in Korea to
eat up most of the economies that
might accrue from halted military
operations.
Costs to Be High
Ferguson said the situation will
have to be surveyed to find out
how much prompt rehabilitation
can be undertaken In line with
President Eisenhower’s promise to
South Korean President Syngman
Rhee that the U. S. will continue
economic aid to restore Rhee's
devastated land.
“South Korea largely has an ag-
ricultural economy and there is a
limit on what can be spent in a
short space of time," Ferguson ob-
served.
Maybank said rehabilitation
costs are likely to be high. The
pending Mutual Security Adminis-
tration bill would provide 111 mil-
lion dollara for rehabilitation on
the limited scale possible while the
fighting still was going on.
There hove been no official esti-
males made on ald costs in a trace
period, but lawmakers believe any
peacetime restoration of South Ko-
rea would involve expenditures of
billions.
Military Down Some
Military costs may come down
by an amount represented in actu-
al war operation coots, but Chair-
man Bridges (R-NH) of the ap-
propriations committee said he
does not foresee any appreciable
cut in armed services spending.
Ferguson estimated, savings might
be 1% to 2 billions in the next
year.
Maybank said a full complement
of American troops would have to
be left to Korea because no one
could guess whether the Commu-
nists might decide to attack again.
“Wa can't reduce our military
power," he said. “It was only be-
cause of It and our possession of
the atomic bomb that we got a
trace at all.”
Chairman Wiley (R-Wis) of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
too found little that pleased him to
the trace terms, although he said
U. S. military negotiators, “con-
he assets do indeed out-
debts and that this was
Fen
He said many features of the
trace “very obviously send them-
selves - Communists.” Comment-
ing that the U. s. will honor its
agreements, he added:
“But the entire Communist ree-
ord proves that a Communist will
honor an agreement only so long
aa he feels it to Ms advantage to
do so and that, thereafter, he will
break the agreement with utter
disregard for Ms contractual ebU-
gations."
The South Korean ambassador.
You Chan Yang, told a news con-
ference late yesterday that “up to
this minute” his country was de-
termined to fight on alone, rather
than accept a truce which would
leave Karoo divided
He acknowledged that thio posi-
tion waa "possibly subject to
change,” although there had been
no sign of any change early today.
141 Deac
In Midwe
50 Injurec
Tuesday morning.
A high of 100 degrees was fore-
east for both Tuesday and Wed.
nesday with “fair and hot” weath-
“xheotmereu,yhtot" uer near
the top of the thermometer Mon-
day afternoon, staying at or above
the 100-degree mark for about four - - —- - .
hours . change agreement signed Monday,
Monday’s high of 101 equalled will provide troops — probably
the second ton reading of the about 5,000—to handle the Pows.
year, first recorded on May 21.
The year’s high was the 104 on
May 22 The fourth 1M or higher
reading of the year woe the even
India, under the prisoner ex-
Yoon Chi Yung, vice chairman
of the Assembly’s crisis commit-
tee. said he will offer the recom-
mendation late Tuesday afternoon.
Revision of the cease-fire line to
follow the present battle line prob-
100 of May 23
Hot weather prevailed over most ---.----—-----
of Texas Monday with a sizzling ably was one matter discussed by
111 at Presidio. Other high read- negotiators and staff officers. The
ings were Childress, 107; Wink. 105; original line was drawn up in No
Del Rio and Cotulla, 104; Ama- vember, 1951. Since then it has
rillo. Big Spring, Laredo, Wichita changed only slightly.
Falls and Lubbock, 102; Midland, Observers anticipated no serious
: San Angelo. Mineral
I Junction, 100.
____Observers anticipated no serious
Wells delay in reaching agreement ml a
new cease-fire line.
SNAKE GETS
HEAVE HOE
"Aw, now somebody is play-
lag a joke on me." That’s what
Rowland Miller, warehouse su-
perintendent et McKesson &
Robbins, Inc., 1502 South
Treadaway Blvd. thought
Tuesday morning when he
opened the warehouse and saw
a snake curled up on the floor
But when he started to pick
it up, it raised its furious-look-
lag head up and looked him
square to the eye. Miller rear
He came back a few minutes
later armed with a hoe. He cut
the furious-looking head off.
The snake was five feet long.
Miller didn’t know the species
of the reptile
Lower Italian
House Results
Still in Doubt
ROME W - A government
spokesman claimed today that
Premier Alcide de Gasport's Cen-
ter Coalition had won absolute ma-
jorities in both Senate and Cham-
ber.
Interior Minister Mario Scelba,
a Christian Democrat, confirmed
that the coalition of four parties
had woo more than half of the
Senate, but declined to say what
the result would be la the cham-
ber of deputies, the more impor-
tant lower house
The electoral office was still
compiling a record vote of 93.78
per cent of the eligible voters in
the Sunday and Monday election,
the first since 1948. The results
will determine whether the some
coalition which has kept Italy to
the pro-Western comp the last
seven years will continue to rule.
Premier Alcide de Gasperi’s
NATO-allied center coalition ap-
peared certain to emerge as Italy's
strongest faction, but steady Com-
munist strength and the sky-rocket-
ing extreme right wing of Monarch-
tote and Fascists threatened to
leave the parliamentary balance of
power with a half-dozen minor and
splinter parties lined up with
neither the government nor the
opposition.
With senatorial votes being
counted ahead of those for the
more important Chamber of Depu-
ties, the final outcome appeared
likely to remain to doubt until
KKSS, men
indication of how the government
would fare finally.
The total of 28,386,610 votes cast
was enormous, almost M per cent
of the electorate. It was probably
the heaviest percentage turnout in
the history of modern democratic
elections.
These were the results this morn-
lag on 16,667,238 of the 26,280,000
votes east In the senatorial con-
tests (more than two million others
voted for the lower chamber be-
cause the age requirement, 21, was
four years lower than for senatorial
ballots):
Government center bloc: total s,-
099,516, with the Premier’s Chris-
tian Democrats getting 6,656,284,
the Moderate Socialists 821,174,
Liberals 470,924 and Republicans
151.134
Communist and left-wing opposi-
tion: total 5,791,455, with Commu-
nists 3,903,563, pro-Red Socialists
1,887,892.
Right-wing opposition: total 2,-
191,226, with Monarchists 1,160,640,
Fascist MSI (Italian Social Move-
ment) 1,030,586.
Minor parties: 585,041.
THE WEATHER
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WEATHER BUREAU
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si through Thursday High temperature
a w 102 Tuesday and Wednesday. Low to
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Tornadoes
At Least 113
Killed in Flint
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, right, and his chief
aide, Roger Kyes, check facts and figures before appearing
at a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
FLINT, Mich th—Six tornadoes,
their black - clouded funnels
dealing multi - million dollar de-
struction. ripped through Michigan
and Ohio last night, killing 141 and
injuring 750.
The most deadly of the shrieking
windstorms flung full force against
Flint, a heavily industrialised city
of 163,000 about 70 miles north of
Detroit. In Flint alone nt least 113
persons were killed.
Forty houses in one Flint street
were flattened. Many mangled
bodiee were found today in the
wreckage of homes.
The tornadoes shot the notion's
spring twister toll to 358 dead. Ala-
bama. Texas and Oklahoma have
been hit herd recently.
The new tornado struck Michi-
gan while the state waa still clean-
ing up the May 21 twister that
whirled through Port Huron.
New Chiefs to Build Up
Air Force, Wilson Says
WASHINGTON (—Secretary of
Defense Wilson told senators today
the new Pentagon command in-
tends to build up the Air Power
but N against asking for new funds
that can't be spent prudently and
PRO Tie the expectation jot tat
wings for the Air Force by the
end of 1955 doesn’t mean the new
administration has “set aside the
143-wing basis. "
The Truman administration’s Air
Force goal was 143 wings, ranging
in size from 30 bombers to 75
fighters each.
Wilson was before a Senate ap-
propriations subcommittee for the
second day defending Ms five bil-
lion dollar slash in the Air Force
budget drawn up by the Truman
administration for the fiscal year
beginning July L
Insisting his figures were la line
with prospective actual production
accomplishments, Wilson said:
"You can’t get planes in half
the time by appropriating twice
the money."
The white-haired former presi- | long-range defense planning, he
dent of General Motors insisted said in an interview, must not be
that adequate air power and na-changed.
tonal defense had been put ahead. In advance of furti
of desires to slash funds and bal- today on the Air Foes
ance the bi
“I’m sure
lems for one year, and also would
add a seventh member to the tar-
iff commission, to effect giving
Republicans a 4-3 majority.
The administration says It plans
no new trade agreements But El-
senhower urged an extension of the
authority, as a symbol of his for-
eign policy goal of promoting free
world trade. The administration
said V. • Billet abroad would con-
sider failure to renew the act as a
return to isolationism
The President’s, request ran
squarely late a drive by some key
House Republicans, led by Ways
and Means Chairman Daniel Reed
(R-NY) and Rep. Richard M.
Simpson (R-Pa), to tighten rather
then ease trade restrictions.
Simpson originally sponsored an
extension of the present act which
also included ■ series of broad new
provisions to increase protection
WASHINGTON n — The House
Ways end Means Committee ap
proved today a one year extension
of the reciprocal trade act beyond
June 12 as urged by President El
“The Tie was 23 to 2 for a com-
promise version of the trede ect
which represents a victory for the
administration
The bill extends for one year
Eisenhower’s authority to lower
tariffs on foreign goods coming
into the U S to return tor trade
concessions by other nations.
The President celled for the ex
tension two months ago, but the
measure had been stalled for
weeks in the committee by Repub-
Beam seeking to increase trade
restrictions, rather than lessen
“: Mil M approved would
create a special 17-man commis- _______-___
sion to study tariff and trade prob for American Industy through bority.
higher tariffs and import quotas,
against competition from cheaper
foreign imports
Under the compromise, Simpson
agreed to sponsor an extension of
the present act and put the more
restrictive provisions of his bill in
a separate ect House leaders
planned to push the extension,
while probably sidetracking the
other proposals.
The extension bill would create
a 17-man commission of Congress
members and White House appoint-
ees to study tariff and trade policy,
la effect, permanent answers to
the politically explosive tariff is-
sue would be postponed for a year.
Par the “ds EITNOT**
The bin would also add a seventh
member to the Tariff Commission,
thus giving Republicans a 4-I me-
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WAYNE
Beginning June 15 in the evening
edition of the Rporter.Nems.
Mich., and jumped the SL Clair
River and tore through Sarnia.
Ont.
The first tornado lashed Erie,
Mich , Just over the Michigan-Ohio
line from Toledo, O., et 6:25 p.m.
At 8:10 a twister hedge - hopped
through Washtenaw County, 35
miles to the north and swept into
Milford, Oakland County, 15 miles
to the northoast. Tawas City, mid-
way up the eastern coast of Michi-
gan on Lake Huron, was Mt at
1:35 p.m. and Flint nt 1:45 p.m.
The tornado area extended from
Tawas City down acrons the Ohio-
Michigan border to Bowling Green
—a path of 350 miles.
1 Die at Cygnet
Eight persons died in the twister
that struck the Cygnet, O., area;
six died in the Cleveland area;
and one each at Elyria and Cey-
lon.
Michigan fatalities. In addition
to those at Flint, included four
deed at Erie; four deed at Tawas
City; one at Ann Arbor; and one
in Brown City, near Lapeer.
Flint hospitals were filled with
injured, many crowded into cor-
ridors still stunned by the swill
destruction that hit their homes.
National Guard troops, alate
police and police from numerous
Michigan cities converged on the
Flint area to aid in the rescue
work. Gov. Mention Williams took
personal command but did not de- -
clare a etale et martial law.
Apparently the same tornado
which wrought so much destruc-
tion here and then moved on
through Lgpeer County else cut a
swath on through to Lakeport. This
is a Lake Huron village a short
distance north of Port Huron,
where another tornado Mt May 21.
No Deaths at Lakeport
There were injuries but no
deaths reported at Lakeport.
The same tornado which struck
to the Pleasant Lake region of
Washtenaw County swirled on to
Milford, causing an estimated
$500,000 property damage to that
Oakland County community. No
fatalities were reported there, how-
ever.
The National Guard Armory
here was converted into a make-
shift central morgue. At loot count
to bodies bed been brought to
Priests and other clergymen ad-
ministered last rites there.
Pleas were radioed out of here
for doctor! end nurses State po-
lice rushed blood to Flint from the
state health laboratory at Lansing.
Calls went out for antitetanus
drugs.
Maj. Gen Looter J. Maitland,
state civil defense director, or-
dered doctors and medical sup-
plies brought here from Pontiac,
Saginaw, Ana Arbor and Detroit.
State police and the National
Guard ordered big crews of rescue
workers into this area.
Bodies Transferred
Hurley Hospital, which had more
than a ecore of bodies at one time
last night, transferred the bodies
to the armory so that Ito space
could be used for treating the
many injured.
her testimony
________- use budget by
Secretary of Defense Wilson, Fer-
can vote for this guson said he foresaw possible sav-
_ clear conselence,” ings of between 1% and 2 billton
fold Sen. McClellan (D. dollars far such Korean War Items
as ammunition, troop rotation and
the cost of combat flights
Ferguson is chairman of a Sen-
ate appropriations subcommittee
now in the midst of public hearings
over the controversial five billion
dollar cutback and a reduced 120-
wing Air Force goal by 1955.
He said senators, most of them
Democrats, who are insisting on re-
instatement of the 143-wing goal
by 1955 proposed by the Truman
administration are in a "very
much weaker position” now that a
Korean cease-fire seems imminent
Wilson told the subcommittee
yesterday the Eisenhower Air
Force program would guarantee
the nation what he said it already
baa-The beet Air Force” in the
world. Gen. Hoyt S Vandenberg,
outgoing Air Force chief of staff,
told the subcommittee last week
the cutbacks would mean the U. S.
would have a “second-best” Air
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“forget about balancing the budg-
et" and tell Congress just how
many billions were needed to build
toward a 143-wing air force.
A considerable group to congress
has been challenging the advisabil-
ity of Wilson’s five-billion-dollar
slash
Ben Ferguson (R-Mich), chair-
men of the appropriations subcom-
mittee, said a cease-fire in Korea
would likely take some of the
force out of their arguments.
But at the same time Ferguson
cautioned that the notion “must not
be lulled into a sense of false secu-
rity" by a cease-fire, which seems
likely within a lew days. Basic
Park Board Okays
Site for Armory
The City Park and Public Re-
creation Board gave its consent
Tuesday morning to construction of
a National Guard armory on a site
la the Sears Addition.
Monday night the Abilene
School Board voted to let the City
Commission “as a last resort” do-
nate a proposed future school site
in the addition for the armory.
The land to between Sandefer
BL and Ambler Ave. and an the
north and east sides of Catelaw
Creek. At this location to an 18-
acre joint school-and-park site, un-
divided.
Spies' Plea
Turned Down
NEW YORK .Federal Judge
Irving R. Kaufman refused again
yesterday to grant a new trial to
condemned atom spies Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg.
The judge also refused to grant
a stay of execution pending appeal
of the denial of a new trial.
The latest in a long series of
movee by defense counsel involved
four hours of argument before
Kaufman, who originally sentenced
the New York City couple to death
more than two years ago.
U. •. Atty. J. Edward Lumbard
opposed the defense moves.
The Rosenbergs ere scheduled to
die in the electric chair et Sing
NYz.on
to transmit atomic secrets to
Russia.
Defense Counsel Emanuel H.
Bloch asked yesterday for a new
trial be the ground of what he
called “newly discovered evi
dence." I I a
"We now have an armory site,
but whether this particular site
will be donated by the city re-
mains to be seen, " said City
Manager Austin P. Hancock Tues-
day morning after the park
board’s action
Hancock said the city is con-
tinuing to look for other sites for
the armory, which will require
about’ 10 acres. A free site must
be provided by the city by June
30, if more then $200,000 to federal
and state funds are to be received.
The park board action was by
unanimous consent, with all 10
board members present at the re-
gular monthly meeting School and
park board approval left final ae-
tion up to the City Commission
The city expected to confer this
week with O E. Radford to
Dallas about an armory site on
Radford land in the east part of
the city
School officials appeared reluct-
ant to give up a possible school
site, but those present voted un-
animously to do so if the city is
unable to find another site for the
armory..
IT'S CONFUSING
Two Democrats to the van of the
fight to restore at least part of the
money chopped out of the Truman
budget said a Korean truce would
to no way change their position.
Sen. Hill (D-Ala) said: “Even if
an armistice is signed. it would be
a great mistake to let up on our
preparedness program.”
He said he was “not impressed”
with Wilson’s testimony yesterday
and that the secretary "tolled to
meet the issue” whether we need
the 143 wings to meet the threat
and danger of the Russian Air
Force."
I Bloch charged that two bey pros-
= I ecution witnesses David Green-
glass and his wife Ruth, commit-
y)tp trial of the
mmerntosonros tmeneea
to IS yvere for Ma part to the
Can’t Tell New
Burr From Old
WASHINGTON un - Official re-
porters of debote to the House
seldom make mistakes to identify-
ing members—but e erew haircut
evidently threw them last Friday.
The Congressional Record quotes
Rep Holt (R-Calif), who has won
a crew haircut since his days to
the Marine Corps, as asking a
question or two about mining dur
ing debate on a bill to create a
small business administration
Holt, who has no mining to his
Los Angeles County district, dM a
little investigating.
The questions, he found, were
asked by Rep Rhodes (R-Ariz).
who came to Congress wearing his
hair fairly, long, but decided on a
crew haircut last week.
.
LEAVES FOR WAR-TORN HOMELAND — Gen Paik Sun
Yup. South Korean army chief of staff, prepares to board an
airliner at Kansas City’s municipal airport Sunday en-
route to Korea. Gen. Paik waa at Fort Leavenworth, Kan,
when informed by the South Korean ambassador in Wash-
ington of President Syngman Rhee’s order recalling South
Korean army officers training in the United States. The offi
cer at right is Nam Song In. (AP Wirephoto)
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