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a as WEATHER Largest Circulation Of Any Cincinnati Newspaper CINCINNATI VICINITY: August Paid Circulation High Around 90. SUNDAY: 276,273 Partly Cloudy, Warm. Chance Of Isolated Thun- THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER DAILY: 203,964 dershowers. Low Near 67, Pollen count, 19. Classified Want Ads: GA 1-6300 FULL DETAILS, MAP ON PAGE 42 Telephone PArkway 1-2700 114th YEAR NO.

159-DAILY THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15. 1955 International News New York United Times Press AP Associated Wirephoto Press 5c retail copies, trading zone. beyond NEWS SERVICES: 10c ADENAUER MISSION CALLED POLICY VICTORY FOR WEST SOVIET SPIES Fail To Get Key To French Embassy Code Material Success Would Have Meant Danger To Security Of All Western World CANBERRA, Australia, Sept. 14 (AP) secret agents in Australia Societ, to find the key which might have jeopardized security system entire Western world, the royal commission on espionage reported today. It said that the MVD (secret police) network, based in the Soviet embassy here, used a French woman diplomat in an effort to obtain secret cipher books from the French embassy.

The report added: "It can well be imagined that the French cipher system is universal throughout all the organs of their foreign office. If the MVD could, unknown to the French, have got a key to their communications, the security, not only of France, but of the whole Western world might well have been in jeopardy." French woman, Mrs. Rosemarie Ollier, is now in France awaiting trial on a charge of "endangering the external security of the state." RESULT OF INQUIRY The report was the result of a long investigation into statements by Vladimir Petrov, former third secretary at the Soviet embassy in Canberra, fled his post and obtained asylum in Australia last year. The commission said Soviet spies had much success in obtaining confidential information from Australia's external affairs ministry up to 1949. There has been no trace of a significant leakage since then, the rePoCenter of the spy ring was the Soviet embassy from 1943 until 1954, the commission said.

The report said Petrov and his wife did not know whether a Soviet military spy organization still was operating in Australia. But it quoted them as saying it would be unwise to assume that it was not operating pecially in relation to guided missiles and the like. Petrov, the report said, expressed the firm opinion that such an organization in fact, still operating in Australia. TO PURSUE CASE Labor opposition leader Dr. Herbert V.

Evatt, who appeared as legal counsel for two witnesses at the commission's sessions, said in Canberra tonight that he would pursue inquiries into the Petrov affair "until the truth is fully revealed." The commission gave this account of how the MVD men operated: Hoping to find either willing or unwilling informants, they "sought to make contacts in all walks of life." They concentrated on public servants, members of foreign diplomatic missions, politicans, journalists, business figures, scientists and refugees from Communist-controlled nations. The report named Australian Communist party organizer Walter Seddon Clayton as "an active agent of the MVD." FBI Seizes More Of Greenlease Bills CHICAGO, Sept. 14 (INS) Three more $20 bills of the missing half of the Greenlease ransom were found by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents today in the Chicago Federal Reserve bank. Since August 4, 21 of the bills have been found in Chicago while 10 turned up in other citie: Robert C. Greenlease, Kansas City automobile dealer, paid $600,000 for the return of his kidnaped son.

Bobby, for whose kidnap-slayino Car' Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady were executed. Half of the ransom was recovered. Crash Is Fatal To Kentuckian At Texas Base LT. GEORGE E. SCHMITT Navy Lt.

(j. George Earl Schmitt, 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Schmitt, 422 Third Dayton, was killed yesterday at Bellville, when his jet Panther plane crashed.

He was a student pilot at the naval training station there, the Associated Press reported. Lieutenant Schmitt enlisted in the Navy in 1948 folowing graduation from Dayton High School, where he was a football star. His family was notified of his death yesterday in an official telegram from Capt. H. M.

Avery, commander, Chase Field, Belleville, which said the youthful flier was killed Wednesday in an airplane accident. During his senior year at Naval Academy he attained the rank of midshipman, serving as a platoon commander. In the Navy he received his class letter on the brigade football championship team. He made his first solo flight in a jet aircraft in October, 1954. No details of the crash were given in the message to his parents.

His father is an employee of a Cincinnati baking company. His mother, Mrs. Vera Schmitt, is a widely known singer in Northern Kentucky. Services will be in charge of the Vonderhaar Stetter funeral home, Newport, after arrival of the body from the Texas Air Force Base. He is survived also by a brother, Roger Schmitt, who is a student at Dayton High School.

CHICAGO. Sept. 14 (AP)- Rodney Dee Brodie, Siamese twin who had a close brush with death his third year of life, will celebrate his fourth birthday with a small party Friday. The party will be at the University of Illinois Re1 search Pucational and EdHos- pitals, where Rodney was RODNEY brought in May suffering from 8 deep brain hemorrhage. Rodney's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Royt Brodie, will drive up from their Ferris, home for the party. There will be ice cream, cake, funny paper hats and other trimmings. Rodney, the first head-joined Siamese twin to survive a separation operation, now weighs 28 pounds and is 39 inches tall. He was separated from his brother, Roger Lee, December 17, 1952.

Roger died a month later without regaining consciousness. Birthday Party Set For Rodney Brodie; To Be Four Friday Polio Strikes Four More CLEVELAND, Sept. 14 (AP) -Four new polio cases reported today brought the year's total in the Greater Cleveland area to 187, compared to 290 at this time last year. Hurricane Hilda Kills Two; New Storm Is Building Up MIAMI, Sept. 14 (AP)Cuba counted two dead and widespread damage from hurricane Hilda today while a new tropical storm, Ione, threatened the Northern Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico.

A man and his daughter were killed when Hilda's destructive winds smashed their home in Northeast Orient Province and other homes along the Cuban coast were destroyed or damaged as Hilda moved into the Caribbean south of the island Republic. Rains flooded parts of Cuba, causing heavy damage to coffee and other crops but no official estimates were immediately available. Ione sent hurricane warnings up in several North Leeward Islands and northeast stown warnings were ordered up on the Puerto Rican coast from Erecibo to Humacao. Forecasters in the Miami Weather Bureau said a high SULTANATE Is Seat Of Snags In Moroccan Crisis, Word From Paris French Solution Hung Up On Constant Bickering Despite Promises N. Y.

Times Cable PARIS, Sept. 14 Further snags tonight threatened the French government's program to end the Moroccan crisis. This program, whose principles were accepted by the cabinet Monday, provides for an end to the dispute over the Moroccan throne and the formation of a representative Moroccan government, with which France will negotiate reforms, But the constant bickering and working at cross purposes that have characterized the government's handling of the Moroccan problem continued to hamper it, although an official statement insisted that last Monday's decisions had not been questioned "and remain valid." The government is seeking departure of the unpopular sultan, Sidi Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa, and his replacement by a council of guardians of the throne. Once the major cause of Moroccan disunity has been removed in this way, the government will be formed. COUNCIL SEATS DEBATED It was understood tonight that the question of membership of the throne council had not been settled in a manner acceptable to the Nationalists.

This dispute was believed in turn to have held up all moves to oust Ben Arafa, since it is desired to effect the two moves almost simultaneously. A declaration of French intentions regarding Morocco's political future, which was virtually completed today by a of seven ministers, is group also thought to be held in abeyance until it can be announced that Ben Arafa has been replaced by the throne council. Until today it has been agreed by both the French and Nationalists that two of the members of the throne council would be Si Bekkai, former pasha of Sefrou, an independent Nationalist, and the aged El Mokri, who as grand vizier is the sultan's chief minister. A third member was to have been a neutral chosen from the Ulemas, the doctors of Koranic laws. LIST CHANGE OFFERED Surprisingly, the French were said to have suddenly proposed that both El Mokri and the third man be replaced by Ben Hayoun and El Moktar Korchi, respectively pashas of Agadir and Casablanca, and strong supporters of Ben Arafa, Thami and El of Glaoui, his the chief pasha backer, of Marrakeshists in Paris were understood to have protested this move and to have consulted with Gen.

Georges Catroux, who had recently visited the exiled sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef in Madagascar as an emissary of the French government. He had reached an agreement with Ben Youssef on the government's plan. Ben Youssef will be transferred to France in October, and he has agreed in turn not to press his claim to the throne. An understanding had also been reached with Ben Youssef regarding of Si Bekkai and the presence grand vizier on the throne council. French officials were reported working late to iron this difficulty in the hope that once this was done the program could finally get under way.

It Happened Fidos Change Their Name To Escape Dog's Life TOOTING, England, Sept. 14 (AP) -A man who grew up as David Fido disclosed today he had changed his name. "In some ways," he said, "It. was a dog's life. I was called bow wow and a lot of other things, but it was really my daughter Marian who insisted on the change." He 11-year-old Marian told him she wanted to be a teacher when she grew up and she was afraid she might be handicapped with the name Fido.

The new name is Chalkey. Indicted As Girl's Slayer WARREN, Ohio, Sept. 14 (AP) -A Trumbull County grand today indicted Kenneth Jordan, 18, Eatontown, N. on first -degree murder charge in the stabbing of 15-year-old Sylvia Tanner. The girl's body was found in a lover's lane near the city outskirts July 25.

Jordan, who was stationed at the Vienna Ohio, airbase, signed a statement admitting the killing, the prosecutor said. Former Mayor Killed BUCYRUS. Ohio, Sept. 14 (AP) Albert P. Sonner, 61, former mayor of nearby Crestline, was killed today in a car crash in Crestline.

BONN REPUBLIC Is Paving Way To Get Thousands Of War Prisoners Adenauer Recalls Pledge Of Immediate Action By Red Premier BONN, Germany, Sept. 14 (AP) West German officials rushed preparations tonight to receive the thousands of war prisoners Chancellor Konrad Adenauer says the Soviet Union has promised to release. Shortly after the 79-year-old Mr. Adenauer stepped from the plane that brought him home from his Moscow talks with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, officials disclosed that the returnees would be housed at Camp Friendland, near Goettingen and the East German border. Mr.

Adenauer told welcoming crowds, him here verbal Mr. promise Bulganin that had the German prisoners in the Soviet Union would be returned quickly. "I do not doubt that Premier Bulganin will keep his word," the chancellor added. HAS PREMIER'S WORD Mr. Adenauer's delegation to Carlo, Schmid, a member of the Moscow talks, said in a broadcast tonight that the Russians refused to put the promise into writing.

A communique issued at the close of the talks announced only an agreement to set up diplomatic relations between Bonn and Moscow and to name committees to study the development of Soviet-West German trade. Mr. Schmid, deputy president of the Bundestag (lower house of Parliament), said Parliament would have to decide on September 22 whether to approve the establishment of relations. Speaking to the wildly cheering crowd of thousands that greeted him at Bonn's airport, Mr. Adenauer smiled broadly and said: "Premier Bulganin told me that even before I arrived back in Bonn, action to return the German war prisoners would already be started.

"Bulganin, as well as Krushchev, further declared that if other Germans are still held in the Soviet Union, we can submit a list of their names. They will then try to find them." Nikita Krushchev is the pow. erful Communist party boss in Russia. GREETED BY THRONGS Mr. Adenauer contends that 100,000 or more German war prisoners are still held in Soviet labor camps.

The Russians insisted during the Moscow talks that they have only 9626 convicted war a criminals serving sentences. The largest crowd ever to assemble at this capital airport greeted the 79-year-old chancellor on his the conference. Shouts of "Good old Adenauer" and "The old one always does the job" went up as he stepped from an Americanbatt Super Constellation. The opposition Socialist party commented: "The conclusion of the Moscow negotiations leaves open a group of difficult questions which require further information and a thorough testing." Mr. Schmid, the only Socialist in Mr.

Adenauer's delegation to Moscow, had this to say: "The Russians place the greatest importance on the establishment of diplomatic relations with Bonn. They informed us that without this, no decision on the war prisoners or on the reunification of Germany could be expected. "We may be sure that the resumption of diplomatic relations between Moscow and change the world political constellation." -AP Wirephoto DENIES 20-YEAR DEBT Farmer William H. Yearton appeared in Federal court at Chicago after voluntarily surrendering to a U. S.

marshal on a contempt warrant. For 20 years the U. S. government has been trying to collect $100 it says Yearton borrowed from the Farm Credit Administration. Yearton, who has a farm at Elburn, 50 miles west of Chicago, says he does not remember owing the government anything.

The case was continued until next Tuesday. WANTED MAN Is Held For City Burrill Stafford A Fugitive, FBI Says, Since Escape Under Fire In 1952 Burrill William Stafford, 27, convicted here of burglary grand larceny in 1949 and wanted since 1952 when he escaped from police in a shower of bullets, has been arrested in Milwaukee, Wis. M. W. McFarlin, special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation office at Cincinnati, said yesterday in announcing the arrest that Stafford had been living under the name of Thomas Walters since his escape from Cincinnati.

He also was married under that name. A native of Cold Spring, Stafford was sent to the Ohio State Penitentiary, Columbus, in June, 1949, on the burglary and grand larceny charges, and was then paroled in the fall of 1952. On December 3, 1952, he and three companions, passengers in a stolen automobile, were surprised by Cincinnati police. Stafford's associates were taken into custody, but Stafford himself got away with police shooting after him. He was at the time wanted by state authorities as a parole violator.

In addition to being wanted in Ohio, Stafford was being sought in Covington, in connection with a burglary in February, 1953. He is believed to have escaped from the scene of the burglary by crashing through a plate-glass window while Covington police captured his partner. McFarlin said Stafford's photograph and fingerprints were distributed across the nation last April. Stafford will be returned to Cincinnati to answer parole authorities and 10 face the automobile-theft charges dating back to December, 1952. Marine Killed On Leave COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept.

14 (AP)- A Marine corporal, home on leave from Pacific area duty, was shot and killed today while watching an argument in front of a tavern. The victim was Corp. Louis M. Lupo 21, Witnesses said Corporal Lupo had no part in the dispute. Police were questioning a bartender who said he fired a shot accidentally.

Double Play On Reich Due? Kremlin Summons Grotewohl MOSCOW, Sept. 14 (AP)- he said, Soviet Premier Nikolai Twelve hours after West Ger- Bulganin gave him a verbal man Chancellor Konrad Ade- promise to free German prisnauer left Mos- oners. cow the Soviet Some Western observers conUnion an- sidered the Grotewohl invitation no unced to- as a Russian double play: First, night East Ger- to reassure the East German many's Com- government that the Kremlin munist Premier was not selling them out in its Otto Grotewohl negotiations with Adenauer, and, would arrive second, to put a squeeze on AdeFriday for nauer to negotiate on a high talks with Rus- level with the East German sian leaders. Communist government, which The a n- he has refused to recognize. nouncement Although the Tass announcedistributed by ment said Grotewohl would not the Soviet news arrive until Friday, Berlin GROTEWOHL agency Tass sources contended the East Gersaid the negotiations would con- man had been housed in premier cern "questions of interest to all a luxurious country villa outside sides.

Moscow all during the AdenauerIt was believed these would Bulganin talks. include reunification of Germany The Grotewohl announcement and release of Germans still held came as something of a shock to prisoner in Russia. Western observers. They are In Adenauer's five days here expected Russians would he agreed to establishment of talk with the East Germans but diplomotic relations between not 50 soon after receiving Bonn and Moscow. In return, Adenauer, AGREEMENT Noted By U.

S. Reich Unity Distant, Washington Adds State Office Sees Change In Moscow BlueprintGeneva Goals Cited WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UP) The State Department today hailed the new agreement between Russia and West Germany as a major Western victory and said it marked the abandonment of Russia's "bankrupt" German policy. Officials said, however, that the agreement did not offer much in the way of hope for early German unification. This issue will be discussed at the Geneva Big Four foreign ministers meeting with Russia, starting October 27.

Henry Suydam, State Department spokesman, fired some sharp jibes at Russia in praising the agreement as proof of the wisdom of Western postwar diplomacy. He said the Soviets had negotiated with West Germany "over head" of Russia's "East German satellite." showing beyond a doubt "the artificial character of a regime which obviously is totally with- -AP Wirephoto MARINES "ENLIST" MISS OREGON Miss Dorothy May Johnson, who as Miss Oregon was runner-up in the Miss America contest, receives a mass salute from Marine reservists at a naval gun factory in the nation's capital. She was "enlisted" as an honorary Marine and named the "Sweetheart of the Marine Corps Reserve." She was the official guest of Leatherneck magazine during her Washington visit. Federal Agents Set For Narcotics Drive Under '55 Ohio Act Enquirer Bureau Special WASHINGTON, Sept. 14-Federal Narcotics Bureau officials today were ready for stepped-up action in Ohio Friday when the state's new, tough narcotics law becomes effective.

"It looks like the end of the road for Ohio dope peddlers," declared Commissioner Henry J. Anslinger. "That old law was completely ineffective. This new law is the best in the "We're ready for a concerted drive out there," said Carl De Baggio, assistant chief counsel. "We expect to rush many of our cases through state courts." The Ohio law, passed in July, carried penalties up to life for narcotics violations.

It was based on recommendation to the Legislature by a state narcotics investigation directed by State Atty. Gen. C. William O'Neill and a a citizens narcotics advisory committee. Weak penalties in the old law had made Ohio an "island state," surrounded by states having higher penalties and, as a result, an attractive spot for addicts and peddlers.

"Our agents were active in Ohio, of course, developing their own cases and working with state agents," said Mr. De Baggio. "But they were handicapped by the low penalties allowed in Federal and state courts." Federal law, he said, provides for minimum sentences of two years, maximum sentences of five in narcotics violations. The Ohio law a "nonminimum law -was even worse. It provided such penalties as "not more than $500" or "imprisonment for not more than five years" for a series of vaguely defined narcotic crimes.

The minimum sentence in state courts could be "zero." Not so the new Ohio law that Federal officials greet so enthusiastically. Among the possible sentences that they approve, according to Mr. De Baggo, are: Illegal sale of narcotics, minimum 20 years, maximum 40, "one of the highest penalties in the nation:" sale to minor, minimum 30 years, maximum life: inducing a minor to use drugs, minimum 10 years, maximum 50; unlawful possession, two to 30 years. The Federal official also praised provisions of the law that prohibit probation for certain types of crimes and allow seizure and forfeiture of vehicles used in narcotics violations. Berry Sees Local Need For Single Metropolis There is need for the consolidation of the various cities and villages into a single metropolitan government in Hamilton County, Councilman Theodore M.

Berry said yesterday at a meeting with the Hamilton County Budget Commission. Fiscal officers from the county's cities, villages and townships attended the meeting in the of George Guckenberger, county auditor, to office, gestions about the distribution of the county's share of the state sales tax. Mr. Guckenberger and other members of the commission, C. Watson Hover, prosecuting attorney, and Paul A.

O'Brien, county treasurer, said the county had received $1,239,010 for the last six months of 1955. Most of the representatives urged the commission to give them a bigger cut of the tax melon, which in the first six months of the year was distributed to 29 cities or villages, 13 townships, the county and county park board. It was indicated that the distribution will be made on the same basis as heretofore with the city of Cincinnati receiving 59.96 per cent of the money. Mr. Guckenberger said the new villages of Blue Ash and Fairfax would be included in the new distribution.

The money is distributed on a formula of need. After Harry Mohlman, secretary of the Cincinnati Real Estate Board asked, "Why don't you all join Cincinnati ti and get better government?" Mr. Berry said the time was near when the community would have to tackle the problem of a consolidated metropolitan government. The councilman said he believed the city of Cincinnati would be willing to pool its resources and enter into a sound, practical, basic financial program. Mayor James R.

Carruthers, Glendale, asked the commission to include his village in the distribution. Glendale heretofore has not received a portion of this tax because the commission felt it did not meet the need requirement. Mr. Carruthers pointed out that Glendale residents, the same other residents pay sales taxes and should get share of the refund. He said the village had cut its budget, because of short finances, and is in need.

out independence." GENEVA "TEST" AWAITED the other hand, he said the Moscow talks gave "enhanced stature" to the West German Republic. Suydam said Germans would be disappointed that the Moscow talks failed to make "greater progress" toward German unification. But he said it was such a "major achievement" could not have been hoped for in the brief meeting. He noted that the question of unification will be a primary issue in the foreign ministers' meeting. Robert Murphy, Deputy Undersecretary of State, said the United States would "test" Soviet willingness to reunify Germany at the forthcoming Geneva talks.

In a speech in Philadelphia, Mr. Murphy agreed the Soviet-German accord showed Moscow was abandoning its postwar German policy. SECURITY SEEN AS KEY The Western Big Three hope to offer Russia some type of major European security pact at the Geneva meetings that would relieve Moscow's fear of a powerful, united Germany and make possible the longsought unification. In his lengthy statement, Suydam traced the history of postwar Russian and Western disputes over Germany. He said the West German republic was set up in the first place because of Russia's sigeance" and "unreasonable insistence" on German reparations "which they fondly hoped would be financed by the United States." "After all these years," he added, Russia "has now found it necessary to invite the German chancellor to Moscow and offer the establishment of normal diplomatic relations between countries.

"The abandonment now by the Soviet Union of its bankrupt German policies is a tribute to the success of the constructive policy which the Western governments and the Federal (West) German Republic have consistently pursued during these past years." Sun Smiles In U.S. (Mostly, That Is!) (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Bright sunshine boosted afternoon temperatures to mild levels across much of the nation Wednesday. The mercury climbed from the 50s into the 80s in most of the Midwest. The Atlantic coastal states had midday readings in the 70s and the Pacific Coast in the 50s to the 80s. Showers sprinkled an area from San Francisco northward, easing the danger of further forest fire damage in that region.

A few showers and thundershowers also were reported in parts of the Midwest and the Southeastern states. Midday temperatures included Needles, 104; Gila Bend, 103; Yuma, 102; New York, 75.: Atlanta, 73; Miami, 89: New Orleans, 85; Omaha, 90; Chicago, 77; Denver, 89; Bismarck, N. 81; Seattle, San Francisco, 66, and Los Angeles, 81. pressure area hovering at 20,000 feet over the Bahamas may keep Tone from threatening the U.S. Atlantic Coast, just as it forced Hilda down into the Caribbean.

Ione was discovered 320 miles east of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and 1400 miles southeast of Miami. Although the storm's top winds are only 70 miles an hour, hurricane warnings were posted immediately in the Northern and Virgin Islands. The San Juan Weather Bureau was 50 sure that Ione would develop quickly into a full-blown hurricane, it referred to her as a hurricane in its advisory released at 3:17 p. m. (Eastern Standard Time).

Ione at 5 p. m. was centered about 250 miles east of San Juan and only some 50 miles east of Anguila. The eye of storm was expected to hit the small island or pass just to the north tonight. IN THE ENQUIRER Page Birthdays 3 Bridge 17 City Mirror 3 Classified 27-37 Columnists 4, 25 Comics 26 Court News 14 Crossword 22 Deaths 27 Editorials 4 Foreign 46 Horse Sense 9 Page Markets 44-45 Miller Obituaries 20 Radio TV 19 Smiles 2 Society 16 Sports 39-43 Star Gazer 15 Theater 24-25 Washington Weather 42 Women's 15,18 Word Game 5.

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