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Ml BOND AFTER mm MOVE WILL KEEP 'FAIR SHARE' OF ITS TROOPS IN EUROPE CONV ICTIONON PERJURY IRE French Government Salisnd GIVES ASSURANCE With U.b. Assurances on till But Cabinet Spokesman Says He Cannot Speak for Parliament, Where Treaty Is Bogged Down. 1 1 BY GERMAN ARMS Message to Six Nations Seeks to Spur EDC Ratification Prom ises Efforts to Share Atomic Data. Text of Message on Page 1C AUGUSTA, April 16 (AP) President Eisenhower pledged today that a "fair of American troops will be maintained in Europe as long as" "a threat to the security of the Western nations exists. In a six-point message to the Prime Ministers of six western European countries the President sought to assure French ratification of the European Defense Community project by promis ing in effect that rearmament of West Germany would not be permitted to endanger France.

France long has sought such formal assurances before joining in the creation of a six-nation army designed as a bulwark; against any Russian aggression. The proposed EDC has been ratified by Belgium, West Ger many, Luxembourg and The Netherlands. Only Italy and France have yet to act. Favorably, Received in Paris. (in Fans, a French govern ment spokesman said Premier Laniels Cabinet considers the Eisenhower declaration as satisfactory as Britain's similar assurance earlier this week.) The President also pledged con tinuation of efforts to provide for sharing with United States allies more information about the use and the effects of tha hydrogen bomb and atomic weap ons on military and civilian per sonnel.

Mr. Eisenhower said in his message that the essential elements of the position he out lined had been discussed with both Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress. In Washington, there were indications of a feeling among' some lawmakers, however, that the President should go further as to consulting Congress. Chairman Saltonstall Massachusetts, and Senator Rus sell Georgia, of the Sen ate Armed Services Committee told a reporter they had not been informed of any promise to retain United States troops on the Continent indefinitely. For Clearing With Congress.

Saltonstall said he thought the Administration should clear with Congress any new long-range commitment. Elaborating on this later in a CBS interview, Saltonstall said Mr. Eisenhower's pledge "might be a very wise thing to do," and added: "But I think it would be even wiser to get some resolution or some statement from Congress saying we agree. That would make appropriations easier, It would clear the air with the people all over the country." Saltonstall also said "the whole European situation has been discussed with members ol Congress, but the promise keep our troops in there indefinitely has not been discussed with Congress since the commitment has been made." Saltonstall said later in an interview he would ask Secretary of Defense Wilson to learn the "official nature of the commitment." At the State Department, of ficials said the Administration had consulted in advance with leaders of both parties in the Senate and House. They would not name the leaders.

These officials took the position that the President's pledge in no way prevents the United States from either reducing or increasing the number of troops on the European continent. They said tne policy statement, their view, goes no further than previous American pledges on maintaining troops in Europe. A WOULD NOT BE IMPERILED PARIS, April 16 (AP) France's government said today it is entirely satisfied with President Eisenhower's assurances of United States support for the European Defense Community. But a Cabinet spokesman said he could not speak for the National Assembly, which demanded the assurances. The French Foreign Ministry spokesman said Premier Joseph Laniel's government considers Mr.

Eisenhower's declaration fully as valid as Britain's similar pledge earlier this week to keep troops on the European Continent as long as western Europe's security is Both the British and American promises were made in an effort to calm French fears of a rearmed Germany and to expedite ratification of the EDC treaty, now bogged down in the French National Assembly. The Foreign Ministry spokesman pointed out that the National Assembly had made the United States-British assurances a condition for ratification of EDC. He said the Cabinet could not say whether the American FASHION NOTES FROM BE THE IRON CURTAIN BERLIN. April 16 (API Worn-j en in the Soviet zone are reject-! ing Communist-decreed spring fashions and are clamoring for glamor. And, United States High Commission officials said yesterday, the women have won a style skirmish with East German au thorities for slit skirts, seduc tive negligees and other items from Parig spring collections.

"Demands for flattering West ern-style spring clothes," a commission report said, "have forced Soviet zone functionaries to au thorize production of fashions they ridiculed as examples of Western decadence only a few months 2 U.S. CARRIERS IN OPERATION NEAR INDOCHINA WASHINGTON, April 16 (AP) Two United States aircraft carriers, the Boxer and Essex, have been operating in the South China sea, between the Philippines and Indochina, for the last month because of improved weather conditions in that area, officials said yesterday. But Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, denied reports that the use of air and naval forces is being considered to aid the French and Indochinese in their struggle against Communists.

He was quoted to this effect by a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before which he appeared yesterday. OFFICIAL SAYS U.S. TROOPS MAY HAVE TO SAVE INDOCHINA WASHINGTON, April 16 (AP) A high Administration official declared his belief today that, if Indochina cannot be saved from the Communists by any other means, United States forces should be sent there. He said, he believes Indochina can be saved without using United States troops. But he declared that if there were such an event as the withdrawal of French forces, the United States government would be obliged to send troops into the country.

Strange Plague Windshields LT. LOUIS SHOULDERS, his with his wife in court titer the WEATHERMAN GETS WET, TOO, IN AREA'S THUNDERSHO WERS The rain-thirsty St. Louis area got splashed yesterday and last night when thunderstorms brought rain pelting down and sent pedestrians scuttling for shelter. Weatherman Harry F. Wahlgren was one of those who got soaked.

Rainfall was general over Missouri. Locally, rain accompanied by wind gusts up to 57 miles an hour and some hail-measured from as little as .33 inches at Lambert-St. Louis Field to 3.10 inches at Dupo, just across the river. The showers brought the year's rainfall to 5.3 inches, making the year to date the fourth driest on record. Normal rainfall to this date is 9 92; the driest was 3.58 In 1919.

At the St. Louis Weather Bureau, rainfall for the 24 hours ended at 7 a.m. was .88 inches. Washouts were reported In several areas. Wahlgren said yesterday's downpours varied greatly In Intensity In various sections.

He was in the wrong section near the post office. "The bottom dropped out as I left the office, and I went home dripping, said Wahlgren dryly. MAIL TRUCKS WILL BE PAINTED RED, WHITE AND BLUE WASHINGTON, April 16 (AP) Postmaster General Summer- field has announced plans for a more colorful mail service. The department is starting a program to convert the olive drab mail truck to red, white and blue. The department has experimented In these colors for trucks in Miami, Boston and New York.

Summerfield said the tests showed the bright colors to be easier to keep clean. New red, white and blue trucks are making their appearance today in Washington and Hopewell, and other cities will get them as their trucks come up for repaint jobs. Summerfield noted that the olive drab standard for mail trucks came about more or less accidentally. The War Department had a surplus of camouflage paint after World War I and turned it over to the Post Office Department for use on its trucks and the color has remained the same ever since. The department is also figuring on painting street mail boxes red, white and blue.

if if Bv a Poat-DIi patch Photographer. eyes filled with tetrs. shown guilty verdict was returned. PETE SAFFO, AFL JAILED Judge Moore Orders Him. Held Until He Answers Grand Jury's Questions.

(Picture on Page 6A.) Pete Saffo, AFL Teamsters Union organizer, was found in contempt of court today by United States District Judge George H. Moore and ordered held in city jail until he answers 20 questions asked him by Federal grand jury. The questions relate to pur chase in March 1953 of revolv ers and bolsters by Local 688, Warehouse and Distribution Workers' Union, and the carrying of weapons by union officers. Mortimer Rosecan, attorney for baffo, asked for bail on the ground that there was a "sub stantial question of law" involved in the case, but Judge Moore denied the request. Rose- can asked that a stay of execution be granted until Monday, but that also was denied.

Saffo had refused to answer the questions on the ground that he did he might incriminate himself. Judge Moore had held a lengthy hearing earlier this month and an additional one-day hearing this week, after Saffo had refused to answer the questions. Before finding Saffo In contempt, Judge Moore asked him he was ready to answer the questions, and replied, "No." Judge Moore said he found that "the implication of the questions and the setting under which they were asked could not have a tendency to incriminate the witness." He added that Saffo "disobeyed and resisted the lawful order" of the court to answer each of the questions. And He Is Still Tuned In. LOS ANGELES.

April 16 (AP) Actress Dorothy Ford, got a divorce from auto agency executive Thomas B. Chambers yesterday on this testimony: "He would come home; sit down and look at television. He would eat dinner looking at television. Then he would look at television until he went to sleep. If guests came over he would still look at television.

If anyone objected, he turned the set up louder." Chambers got television set under a property settlement. LEADER FO ON MP TO DELAY START Plans to Open Hearings Thursday Despite Demands for Investigation Into Release of Pentagon Charges. WASHINGTON, April 16 (AP) Senator Karl E. Mundt South Dakota, pushed ahead today with plans to begin televised hearings in the Mc- Carthv-Armv rasp Thursday scheduled, despite demands from the McCarthy camp for another investigation into tne maKing niihlir- nf the Armv's formal charges against Senator Joseph R. McCarthy Wisconsin, and his investigators.

Mundt, acting chairman of the Senate Investigations subcommittee for the inquiry, expressed hope the public hearings would start as planned despite the latest uproar, and reports the Army would be asked to rework its "bill of particulars." The demand for a Dre-hearinB invpstieatinn came from Mc Carthy and Roy M. Cohn, the subcommittee regular counsel, following the release yesterday of the Army's 29-point statement of specific charges against the Senator and his aids. Cohn Wire From New York. tplperanhed from New York for "an immediate inves tigation" to find out who violated a subcommittee decision not to make public the Army charges until McCarthy's de tailed accusations against tne Army also had been, submitted and could be made public. He called it a one-siaea smear.

Both sides had been instructed by the subcommittee to submit in writing the charges they were prepared to suDstaniiaie under oath. Cohn made clear he was not referring to Senator Stuart Svmincton Missouri, -the subcommittee member who eave out the Armv list 0t charges. Symington said he did so because ot previous -piecemeal leaks" to reporters about Ihf Armv document. However, in his call lor an investigation of the matter, Mc-rarthv safH in Houston. that hp was "verv surorised that Symington violated me senate rule.

He sam any rentagon officials who "leaked" parts of the report earner snoum oe cited for contempt. (The New York Herald Tribune said in a Washington dispatch that "it is known on good authority that Ray H. Jenkins, imnartial counsel for the sub committee, supported Senator Symington in his determination tn release the text." and only one of the six members of the subcommittee objected. McCarthy Saw cnarges nrsi. (Pnintini? nut that the sub committee plan of procedure al lowed Cohn and rrancis carr, executive director of the sub-iriPP tn see the Army document before preparing the McCarthy-Cohn formal countercharges, the Herald Tribune said reporters covering the investigation had protested that if the McCarthy side couia see me Army report it was unfair to keep it from the public.

was learned unofficially that the Army objected to Senator McCarthy and Mr. Cohn hav-intr apppss to the Army report before submitting their own brief," the dispatch said.) The Armv statement auegea that McCarthy and his aids "sought by improper means and by "threats" against Army people to obtain favorea treatment of Pvt. G. David Schine, a former unpaid consultant on the McCarthy group's staff. Except for pointing up McCarthy's alleged role in the affair, the "bill of particulars" was similar to the charges contained in the Army report that was made public in mid-March, bringing the situation to public attention.

McCarthy at that time counter-charged that top Army officials were using Schine as a "hostage" to stop a subcommittee investigation of Army treatment of alleged Communists. Second Obstacle. A second obstacle to getting the hearing under way on schedule came to light today with reports that the Army "bill" was "too general" in some of its language to suit some subcommittee members and staff lawyqs. One informed committee source said the group will discuss whether to send the document back to the Pentagon for revision or to demand a supplemental statement to clear up some points. There was also a question as to whether McCarthy's bill of particulars would be soon forthcoming.

Cohn in his telegram threatened to withhold "any further information" until the matter of "leaks" on the Army document is settled. "Until this matter is adjusted and we can be assured that there will be no repetition of it," Cohn said, "we can hardly be expected to be the only ones required to abide by the rules laid down." Mundt said he will submit the telegram to the subcommittee, perhaps Monday, when he said he expects McCarthy will be back from a trip to Arizona and Texas and available for discussions with the group. McCarthy now is on a fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico. OF AW INQUIRY RATE POLICY 1 PRICE OF NATURAL GAS ADOPTED BY FPC 4-1 Ruling for 'Fair Field Value' Instead of Actual Cost Gives Panhandle Eastern an Increase. WASHINGTON.

April 16 (AP) The Federal Power Commis sion adopted a controversial new rate making policy yesterday in approving a $12,778,864 rate in crease for Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. The commission, by a 4-to-l vote, decided Panhandle's rate should reflect the "fair field value" of its gas reserves. By this ruling the commission rejected the contention of its staff that Panhandle's rates should as has been the past practice in rate making be based on the company actual costs in developing the reserves. Chairman Jerome' Kuykendall joined Commissioners S. L.

Digby, Nelson Lee Smith and Dale Doty in the majority opinion. Commissioner Claude L. Dra per dissented, contending a large part of the increase is in my opinion, wholly unjustified." Panhandle put a $21,400,000 annual rate increase into effect Feb. 20, 1952, under a bond requiring return to its customers of any part of the increase that the commission did not approve. Reduction of the rate hike to $12,778,864, the commission said, will result in a refund of at least $32,000,000 to Panhandle's 48 utilitv customers In Kansas, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan.

Effect on Consumers. Consumer rates will be af fected indirectly. Many of the riistrihutine utilities got rate in creases based on the higher cost of buying Panhandle gas. wnere utility rates are reduced state regulatory commissions may direct the utilities to make refunds to their customers. (Panhandle has no customers In the St.

Louis area, so the rul ing would have no immediate ef fect on rates here.) The new Panhandle rates go into effect May 1. The majority opinion said the commission had devoted considerable attention to what it called its transition to a more realistic pricing policy for gas produced by pipeline companies. The commission said its new approach was designed to encourage, rather than penalize ex ploration, development and production by the pipeline systems themselves. An FPC statement accompany ing the decision said the public interest will be better served by permitting Panhandle to receive for the gas it produces a price "reflecting the weighted average arm's-length payments for identical natural gas in the field where it is This method allows Panhandle an average price of 8.4398 cents per 1000 cubic feet for its own produced gas." Staff's Contention. The rate-making method urged by the commission's staff proposed that Panhandle's gas reserves, the equipment used in producing them and its operat ing expenses all be included in its rate base along with facilities used in transporting and selling the gas at the investment cost they represent.

The commission said the staff's position gives "scant attention to the economic aspects of the question or to the long- run economic consequences of the course which it advocates." The commission said the staff apparently based its position on the fact that it has been the long established practice of the commission and has been sanctioned by the courts. The commission said it had re viewed various Supreme Court decisions on the matter and had concluded the commission is le gally free "to deal with this eco nomic matter in accordance with its experience and best judgment as to what constitutes sound pub lic policy." Protests In Congress. Word that the commission had planned to accept the "fair field value" method, of rate making leaked out several days in ad vance of the decision and met with protests from Congress members representing gas consuming areas. Representative Oakman Michigan, had estimated adoption of the new theory would boost the potential value of Pan handle's 3 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves by more than one billion dollars. -The reserves had been valued for rate mak ing purposes at around 000.

Oakman and Senator Fergu son Michigan, have introduced legislation which would bar the commission from de- Continued on "ajs 6, Column 5. BOOST Attorney Gets 15 Dayi to File for New Trial Jury Out 2 Hours, 16 Minutes 2 Bal-lots Taken. By JAMES A. KEARNS JR. A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, April 16 Lt. Louis Shoulders, convicted yesterday of perjury, was at liberty on $10,000 bond today as his attorney began efforts to obtain a new trial for the veteran St. Louis police officer. Shoulders faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $2000 fine, but sentencing was withheld by United States District Judge Albert A. Ridge pending filing of a motion for a new trial.

Judg Ridge allowed Henry G. Morris, St. Louis attorney who represented Shoulders, 15 days to file the motion. In the meantime, Shoulders was permitted to remain on bond posted following his indictment. Jury Out More Than Two Hours.

A jury of 12 men deliberated two hours and 16 minutes yesterday before finding the 53-year-old defendant guilty of lying under oath a federal grand jury that was investigating disappearance of $303,720 of the $600,000 Greenlease ransom. When the clerk of the court read the jury's decision at 4 p.m., Judge Ridge turned to the jurors and said: "That is the proper verdict to reach in this case." Shoulders showed no emotion then but was visibly moved a few moments later when he embraced his bride, the former Miss June Marie George, who was present for the end of the four-day trial. "Well, that's what I expected, didn't Shoulders said to a Post-Dispatch reporter as soon as the verdict was announced. While the jury was deliberating, he had offered to bet he would be convicted, contending that -defendants have little chance with, federal court juries, Two Ballots Taken. The jury, which began iW deliberations at 1:44 p.m.

after going to lunch, took two ballots. The first was "8 to 4 for conviction. On the second, the jurors were unanimous in voting Shoulders guilty. Interviewed later, the Jurors said their decision was based primarily on these factors: The defendant, while testifying for himself, gave an account that differed with his grand jury testimony. Patrolman Elmer Dolan, who helped Shoulders capture the Greenlease kidnapers and was himself later convicted of perjury, did not take the stand as a defense witness.

The Government offered many more witnesses than did the defense to substantiate its case. Prosecution testimony Indicated two suitcases containing the ransom money were not seen in the Newstead avenue police station for a considerable time after Carl Austin Hall, kid nap-killer, was booked. Almost all the Jurors agreed that Shoulders hurt his chances for acquittal by taking the stand. "I believe he would have been better off not to have Jtfaxie L. Biggs of Clinton, said.

"That's my opinion also," George S. Braton of Kansas City added. Convinced from Start. The jurors said that they were convinced, from the outset of their deliberations, that Shoulders had to a grand Jury when he was questioned last Oct. 28 about the handling of Hall's two suitcases.

Only the question of deciding whether the defendant willfully Continued on Paee 9, Column 4. Light Frost Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight with light frost; warmer tomorrow afternoon and nirht; highest temperature today near 60; low tomorrow morning In upper 30s; highest tomorrow atternoun ntr TEMPKRATURKS ARMY OUT i a.m. a.m. 3 a.m.

4 a.m. 5 a.m. 6 a.m. 48 48 47 47 46 46 47 48 49 OF STEP with Joe Sam 9 a.m. 10 a.m.

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40 SO r2 54 54 maxl- a 'fi- Ilium imio normal minimum 48. VMi.rflav'a hiah 79 ai 4 p.m. 50 at 11:59 low w.lnfflll th.ll year, 53 lncnes; normal v.vt incurs. (All weather data, Including forfcatti and temperatures, eupplled by U.S. Weather WIATHItl0 Kit u.

PT, ttureau. Miiml-Ullnol fiinvaHt; and weather In nther title, Patt 3A, tol. J. Pollen count 24 houre to Sycamore. 338: poplar, 42; oak, 42, elm, Si moWiy 6.

Sunset, 6:39 p.m.; sunrise (tomorrow), 5:22 a.m. Stage of the Mississippi at St. Louis, 7.4 feet, unchanged; the Missouri at St. Charles, 11.7 feet, unchanged. Bureau.) and British declarations would prove satisfactory to Parliament.

The spokesman said the Government was particularly pleased that Mr. Eisenhower specified the American position had been discussed with congressional leaders of both United States parties. Although the President's statement was delivered by the American Ambassadors to all the six governments of the European Defense Community, it was clearly intended to quiet French fears that the United States might in the future abruptly withdraw its military forces from western Europe. The French spokesman said the declaration was precise in stating this would not happen if the European Defense Community is established and the six-nation European army cre ated. The spokesman also stressed President Eisenhower's description of the EDC as "an integral part of the Atlantic community." He said the declaration of American assurances is a reaffirmation of American policy in Europe and should serve to Continued on Page 6, Column 4.

CLUE TO Social Security Card Discovered in Fire Ruins 3 Held on Murder Warrants. A clue to the identity of the charred body of a tourist court fire victim, mistakenly buried last Friday as th at of Albert Paglino, was uncovered today when St. Louis county deputy sheriffs found in the ruins of the tourist cabin a social security card issued to Willie Burchett of Omaha, Neb. The card was in the scorched remains of a billfold, which con tained also snapshots of a boy and girl, each about 6 years old, and a business card of a Wentz-ville tourist court. Meanwhile, county authorities today exhumed the body of the fire victim from a grave in Resurrection Cemetery, with a view to identifying the body and determining whether death resulted from the fire.

Held on Murder Charge. Paglino, who turned up in a South Kingshighway tavern the day of the funeral, was held at Clayton on a first-degree murder charge, along with his wife, Betty Ann, and a pallbearer at the funeral, James A. McCor- mick. Capt. Harry Newbold of the county sheriff's office said he would question the three about a blanket containing stains resembling blood and a Yiearly empty gasoline can found yesterday in Paglino's automobile.

At Omaha, police identified Burchett as a transient worker with a long record of arrests there and throughout the country, mostly on minor charges. He was last arrested in Omaha Dec. 14, 1953, on a concealed weapons charge, for which he was sentenced to 30 days in jail. The Omaha address on the social security card, 308 South Continued on Page 6, Column 5. of Damaged Arouses Seattle One thing is certain, tne claims of damaged windshields are mounting into the thousands.

One thing else appears certain, nothing else seems to be suffering not side windows, store or house windows, or eyeglasses. The damage claimed varies from actual holes to pit marks, chips, scratches, mars, crumbling, blemishes, blurs, blots and cracks. First reports of the trouble started at Bellingham, 90 miles north of Seattle, three weeks ago. Law enforcement officials are convinced that some vandalism was Involved in the Bellingham cases. Then, this week, other communities south of Bellingham said they had suffered an outbreak of trouble.

Wednesday night it broke out in Seattle. The police switchboard could not handle the complaints. However, a state patrol official declared he had not found one actual case outside of Bellingham that could not be laid to normal travel damage. IDENTITY OF III BURIED AS ANOTHER ND in SUNDAY'S ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH (Picture in Everyday Magazine.) Mamie's Life With Ike First installment of Mrs.

Eisenhower's story of her happy marriage as told exclusively to Dorothy Brandon. Here are the First Lady's lively remarks and bright anecdotes, her laughs and heartaches. EVERYDAY MAGAZINE. Importance of Indochina Why Indochina Is the key to saving rich, strategic Southeast Asia from Communist domination. First of a series by Raymond P.

Brandt, Chief Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. EDITORIAL Section. Staging Unusual TV Show Two pages of photos by Paul Berg take you behind the scenes of the Edward R. Murrow "Person to Person" show. Although Murrow appears, on the air, to be interviewing Gloria Swanson face to face, they actually are miles apart, he in the studio, she in her apartment.

PICTURES. New Chancellor at Washington U. Ethan A. H. Shepley's roots go deep in the school.

Four generations of his family have received degrees there. By Dickson Terry. EVERYDAY MAGAZINE. SEATTLE, April 16, (AP) Superbomb, supernatural or superstition, there was no doubt about it today, the people in the Puget Sound country are stirred up over pock-marked windshields. Mayor Allan Pomeroy of Seattle is trying to get the President of the United States to do something about it.

He is among the believers that something, rather than someone, is damaging thousands of automobile windshields with an unknown but possibly atomic substance. He has asked the President to "instruct appropriate federal agencies to co-operate with local authorities on an emergency basis." Police laboratory tests Indicate the damaging agent is an ash that could come from a pulp mill or "could be atomic material," he said. Tests with a Geiger counter showed no radioactivity, however. There are doubters, too, who think a lot of people are victims of mass hysteria. Message to Six nations.

In an Administration statement of policy, the President sent a message to all six nations from his vacation headquarters here saying: 1. The United States will continue to maintain in Europe, including West Germany, such American troops "as may be necessary and appropriate to contribute its fair share of the forces needed for the joint defense of the North Atlantic area while a threat to that area exists 2. The United States will consult with fellow signatories to the North Atlantic treaty and with the EDC nations "on questions of mutual concern," including the armed forces strength to be placed at the disposal of the supreme commander In Europe, Gen. Alfred M. Gruen-ther.

3. The United States will en- Continued an Page 6, Colcnn 3. i "4.