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WEATHER Fair and Warmer Throufrh Tonight and Thursday Temperature at Noon 63 EVENING GAZETTE RENO A Newspaper For the Home Information and Enjoyment For Every Member of THE FAMILY Nevada's Greatest Newspaper PHONE 3-3161 RENO, NEVADA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, J1956 3-3161 mm ULIULl LnJ LI lb 1 Severe Censure Laid da On eva i s- i I V': A -A if I Al- V. i a Office Is Administered For Benefit of Few, Hold By ED OLSEN Associated Press Correspondent The Ormsby county grand jury climaxed a three- month investigation into state land dealings today with a call for the impeachment of Surveyor General Louis PHONE 3 nJ HUNTED Above is photo captured by British in search of mountains near Nicosia on Cyprus of Cypriot guerrilla leader "General" George Gri-vas. British authorities believe they have the rebel chief caught inside a cordon of 2900 soldiers despite fire Cypriots set which killed 19 British soldiers. (NEAradio-telephoto) Mining Claim Charges Aired Democrats Hit Al Sarena Award WASHINGTON, June 20. UP) Democratic investigators today accused the interior department giving mining rights to a company which took "not one cupful ore" but cut two million board feet of timber from national forest land.

The Democratic controlled house government operations committee called on the attorney general to seek cancellation of the disputed 15 mining patents granted Al Sarena Mines Inc. "in order to protect the interests the United States." DAVIS IS TARGET The Democrats hit particularly Clarence A. Davis, undersecretary of interior, for what they termed illegal and deliberate action towards granting the patents. Committee Republicans were preparing a stiff dissent. Davis has testified he acted as required law.

The report climaxes stormy hearings begun last fall which were marked by opposing cries "timber grab" and "political smear." The hearings were held jointly by house and senate subcommittees. The 13 patents granted to Al Sarena of Feb. 15, 1954, involve 475 acres of the Rogue River national forest in Oregon. Yanlc Popular at Oxford i If ill ii inmr rir 28 PAGES 10 CENTS ficials AID FUND program, said the allied force th program helps support is several times the strength of our own It also "helps to maintain important strength in allied forces and navies," he said. 'To cut military assistance materially at this time would present serious risks to the defense of the United States and the free world and would require a complete re-evaluation of our international position and of our own military budgets," Wilson said.

ADVANCED WEAPONS He stressed the approximately 500 million dollars in the program to provide advanced weapons. These would include "high performance aircraft and missiles, and supporting equipment, particularly early warning and communications equipment" with which the United States is modernizing its own forces," Wilson said. "The advanced weapons are largely scheduled for delivery to NATO," he said, emphasizing what Wilson described as "the crucial importance to our foreign policy of maintaining this 03 EIGHTIETH YEAR NO. 72 Fiery Airliner Crash Info Sea Takes Lives Burning Plane Dives Two Miles Into Atlantic NEW YORK, June 20. UP) A Veezuelan super airliner burst Into flame nearly two miles high early today and hurtled down ward like a giant meteor into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 74 persons.

It was the world's worst disaster in regular airline service. Ships reaching the site, some 32 miles east of Asbury Park, N. radioed hours later that three bodies or parts of bodies had been recovered in shark-infested waters there. The vessel on the scene had reported: KO SURVIVORS "Found no survivors. Expect to find none." One American family of four was among, the 20 Americans aboard.

The pilot of a coast guard plane sent out to try to guide the stricken four-engine, super Con stallation back to New York's Idlewild Airport after it reported engine trouble said later of the falling airliner: "It was a frightening sight. It was a big ball of flame. It all happened very fast." He added: "The plane began to jettison fuel and then five seconds later a ball of flame broke out. The plane caught fire and took a spiraling dive into the water. "It was falling 4000 feet a minute.

It hit the water with terrific impact. The plane was enveloped by flame on impact." It was nearly two miles high when it began the fatal plunge. The coast guard pilot, Lt. Cmdr. Frederick J.

Hancox, 35, of Wan-tagh, N. said the airliner dived through bright moonlight at an angle of about 60 degrees until It hit the water at 1:32 a.m. COULD NOT LAND He said there was a "loud explosion" and that there were flames on the water for about 10 minutes. He said he couldn't land his own craft, although it was an amphibian, because of the danger of doing so in darkness. Later he spotted an oil slick and debris, including "clothing, handbags and miscellaneous items in the water." The airliner crashed about 32 miles east of Asbury Park, N.

and 40 to 50 miles south of Idle- wild just 10 minutes of flying time. It had taken off for Caracas, Venezuela, from IdlewDd at 11:18 p.m. Approximately an hour later the pilot, Capt. Luis F. Plata of Venezuela, radioed that he was having engine trouble and was turning back.

He was then 250 miles east of Norfolk, Va. Later he calmly advised that he was "dumping gas" a routine fire-preventing measure when an emergency landing is anticipated and then came his final, dramatic words: "Gas caught fire." Twenty-two of the passengers were Venezuelan youngsters who had been attending high schools In this country and were going home for Summer vacations. A Venezuelan offical said all were members of well-to-do families. Dulles, Pineai Ask Arms Ban WASHINGTON, June 20. UP Secretary of State Dulles and French Foreign Minister Christian Pineu agreed today that world security can be assured only by an atomic disarmament program "safeguarding the world against surprise attack." The two western foreign policy chiefs, winding up three days of talks, also declared in a communique that "concurrent solution of major problems such as reunification of Germany" should go hand in hand with any big reduction in armed forces.

The statement also pledged the two countries "strong interest" in economic aid to the world's underdeveloped areas. In a luncheon speech after his conferences with Dulles ended, Pineau called on the United States to lead the west in a new, friendlier policy toward Russia. He auggested basing it on a far bigger economic and human contacts with Communist countries. nrro) of of Of at by of UPh too SIIEPILOV TURNS ON THE CHARM Russia's new Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov holds a little girl up for a smile and a few words during visit to model village of Bernesht, Egypt, during his tour of Arab countries and Greece. Shepilov attended Egypt's National Day celebrations including a speech picturing Russia as "the natural friend and ally" of dependent peoples.

Bernesht, on the Nile, is the showplace of Egypt's social improvement program. (AP wirephoto by radio from Cairo U.S. to Continue Aid to Yugoslavia The jury accused Ferrari of administering: his office "for the benefit of friends, relations and public officials in disregard of his oath of office and the public trust." The 17-member grand jury's recommendation for Ferrari's removal from office by the 1957 legislature was the final recommendation in its 25-page report delivered to District Judge Frank Gregory this morning by Foreman E. II. (Bud) Miller.

Fifteen members of the jury were present in court. GRAND JURORS ARE THANKED Judge Gregory lauded them for a "most thorough and complete investigation" and said they would be criticized "mainly by those interested in the plundering of the public domain." Ferrari was reported to be out of the state and unavailable for immediate comment on the jury's report. Swinging with a broadax, the grand jury let its chips of criticism fall in all directions, but Ferrari came in for the most severe censure. In its conclusions, the jury found "That the office of the surveyor general has for many years been administered for the benefit of the few, with a complete disregard for the public interest and state welfare. "That particularly, since 1931, Louis Ferrari as surveyor general has administered that office for the benefit of friends, relations and public officials, know-ingly, voluntarily and in disregard of his oath of office and the public trust.

"That Louis Ferrari, as surveyor general, has been and is guilty of palpable misconduct in the administration of his office, has exercised his discretion and judgment for the benefit of the few, and his actions in the administration of his office in connection with the land transactions herein investigated should be. and are hereby publicly condemned and censured." The jury added "We have no present criminal recourse in any of the transactions herein reported." LAND PURCHASES ASSAILED The jury described as "not in the public interest and welfare" land purchases by these state officials and employes State Mine Inspector Mervin Gallagher and hfo wife, State Treasurer Dan Franks, Assemblymen William Byrne, William Embry and George Von Tobel, all of Clark (Turn to page 20, Col. 1) McLeaish Says Benson Urged His Resignation Drinking Charge Is Denied by Farm Loan Head WASHINGTON, June 20. UP) Robert McLeaish who quit abruptly late yesterday as head of the arriculture department's Farmers Home Administration, said today it had been "strongly suggested" that he resign. Secretary of Agriculture Ben son told him, he said, that it might be best if "I got out of the picture." CHARGE OF DRINKING McLeaish was before the sen ate post office and civil service committee.

Previous witnesses had told the group that McLeaish often drank excessively. McLeaish emphatically denied to the senators that he was a drunkard or addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors. H. W. Brawley, executive di rector for the committee, asked him whether, in view of his testimony that he was not addicted to intoxicants, he felt the sug gestion from Benson that he re sign was "unfair.

"I don't think it was fair or unfair," McLeaish replied. "I'm not a member of the civil service. I serve at the pleasure of the president." A Texan, now 57, McLeaish was appointed to the FHA post in 1953 by President Eisenhower. The job pays $14,800 a year. The agency makes various types of loans to farmers.

PARTY IN MONTANA The senate committee began getting testimony Monday about heavy drinking by McLeaish and some other FHA officials. These accounts came chiefly from former women employes. One of the stories told to the senators was of a party in Montana at which, the witness said, FHA officials went around "kissing all the girls," including wives of subordinates. And yesterday a Texas insurance man testified his firm lost a contract it had held with FHA since 1939 after ignoring a suggestion from McLeaish that it hire agents who were "Republican friends." McLeaish told the senators he had a meeting with Benson yesterday and told him he felt the present situation "i3 not good for the organization." He said that so far as he knew there was no recommendation from the White House that he resign. In submitting his resignation McLeaish said he did so for reasons of his health.

He said he has suffered from hypertension. whisDered to a reporter, "did I ever think I'd be a Yank at Oxford." The auditorium of Oxford's ancient Sheldonian theater rang with applause as the degree was conferred. It swelled in volume as Truman faced 94 crimson robed Drofessors in the packed auditorium and flashed a broad smile. "I've attended a lot of these convocations," said an old pro fessor after the house became quiet. "I don't remember when there was ever so much applause.

Mr. Truman is very popular in this country." Mrs. Truman, sitting several rows behind her husband also wiped the tears out of her eyes. Election Plans Of President Remain Secret No Hint Given To Officials, Hagerty Says WASHINGTON. June 20.

UD-President Eisenhower's press sec retary said today the recuperat ing chief executive still has given no member of the White House staff any hint as to whether he will remain in the presidential race. Press Sec. James C. Hagerty also said that Eisenhower has no plans to send any message to a Republican group which will meet here Friday to make arrange ments for the party's presidential nominating convention opening in San Francisco Aug. 20.

TOSSIBLE MEANING There had been some specula tion that the president might dis close his future political plans to that groups the convention ar rangements subcommittee of the Republican national committee. On the other hand, the pres ident's decision against sending any message to the group might mean that Eisenhower has decided to stay in the presidential race. Hagerty said in response to questions last week that Eisen hower had not discussed politics or his personal political future with any member of the White House staff. Asked today whether that still was the case, Hagerty replied: "Yes." A reporter noted that Eisenhower has had several private conferences with his chief aide, Sherman Adams. He asked whether Hagerty was able to say that in no instance had politics been discussed at such sessions "Yes I can," Hagerty replied.

"There hasn been any discus sion." NIXON DENIAL Hagerty noted that Vice Pres ident Nixon is the only visitor Eisenhower has had outside of his personal and official family and West Germany's Chancellor Kon- rad Adenauer. The press secretary reminded newsmen that Nixon said cate gorically on Monday that he and Eisenhower talked no politics whatever. Hagerty added with a smile that Eisenhower did not discuss his political future with Adenauer. On the medical side, the pres ident's doctors took satisfaction from the fact he has stopped los ing weight. School Aid Bill Cleared WASHINGTON, June 20.

UP) Over the opposition of southern Democrats, the house rules committee today approved a bill pro viding for federal aid for schools. The action means that the bill, which had been bottled up in the rules group for several months, will go before the house for a vote, perhaps next week. Southerners have opposed bringing it out because of prospects it will stir up a big fight over race segregation in the schools. Rep. Powell has said he will try to put on an amendment forbidding federal grants to schools which maintain WILSON OPPOSES SLASH In the circumstances, officials said, it was hardly possible for Tito to burst out with a protest that Zhukov had gone too far.

NO SECRET DEAL These American authorities say they do not believe that Tito has made any secret military deal with the Russians. They recall that only two days ago Tito de nied to U. S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen that he had said in a speech at Stalingrad that Yugo slavia and the Soviet Union would march "arm in arm" in any future conflict.

The Tito denial, which could have an important bearing on U. S. policy toward Yugoslavia, was made to Bohlen in Moscow and reported by Bohlen to the state department. About the same time that the administration stand became known, Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) said that President Eisenhower's promised "reevaluation" of aid to Yugoslavia apparently was called off after Eisenhower "was stricken and unable personally to enforce his declared policies." Eisenhower told his news conference June 6 that policy toward Yugoslavia would have to be reevaluated in the light of developments connected with Tito's Moscow visit.

BLASTS DULLES LETTER McCarthy took up the subject in a statement filed with the senate foreign relations committee in support of his bill calling for immediate termination of all previously appropriated aid to Yugoslavia. Sen. Jenner (R-Ind) is co-sponsor of the measure. The senator described as an astounding ducument" what he said was a letter Secretary of State Dulles wrote Committee Chairman George (D-Ga) saying the state department is "vigorously opposed" to cutting off aid to Yugoslavia. McCarthy quoted Dulles' letter as saying Tito's visit to Moscow "marks an acceptance by the Soviets of the defeat of their efforts to press Yugoslavia into the satellite mold." He added that when Dulles "states that the new Yugoslav-Russian alliance represents a defeat for the Soviet Union, he is insulting the intelligence of this committee." WASHINGTON, June 20.

CD The Eisenhower administration plans to continue economic aid and some military assistance to Yugoslavia despite Marshal Tito's increased collaboration with the Bulganin Khrushchev regime in Moscow. State department officials said today it appeared to be in this country's interest to continue the assistance programs which are reported to total around 65 million dollars for this fiscal year ending June 30. In addition, Yugoslavia has obtained 000 of U. S. surplus farm commodities which is paid for in local money.

EFFORT TO EMBARRASS State department officials said that there was some evidence that the Soviet government, de spite its newly tightened links with Tito, was trying to embar rass him during the closing hours of his three-week visit, in his relations with the west. Marshal Georgi Zhukov, defense minister, in accepting a medal from Tito for his leadership of Red armies during World War II, said he was sure that if war came again Russia and Yugoslavia would once more march "shoulder to shoulder." But the ceremony wasn't all serious. The public orator, Thomas R. Higham, speaking in Latin, roused a round of loud applause when he referred to Truman's sensational election to the presidency in 1948 when public opinion polls predicted his defeat. Referring to Thomas E.

Dewey, Truman's Republican opponent, the orator said Virgil may help in describing his plight. "The seers saw not your defeat, poor soul. "Vain prayers, vain promises vain Gallup poll." Truman, who had been shown an English translation, shook with laughter. Harry Truman, Touched, Applauded At Presentation of Honorary Degree IN MILITARY WASHINGTON', June 20. UP) Secretary of Defense Wilson told congress today that suggested sharp cuts in foreign military aid would make necessary an increase in U.

S. armed forces, "at a very much greater cost in man power and money." In testimony before a senate appropriations subco i 1 1 Wilson asked approval of funds to finance a three billion dollar military aid program under which, he said, this country is "helping to support approximate ly 200 divisions in the armies of our allies." TOTAL, IN" BILL. The house cut one billion dol lars from President Eisenhower's military assistance request in re porting out a bill to authorize a $3,800,000,000 foreign aid program of military and economic assistance. The senate foreign relations committee Monday approved an increase of 703 million dollars above the house figure, 600 million dollars of it for military assistance. Wilson, testifying on a bill to provide the actual money for the OXFORD, England, June 20.

Harry Truman, who was poor to go to college, today received an honorary degree from Oxford, one of the world's most distinguished universities. Tears filled the eyes of the former U. S. president when Lord Halifax, chancellor of the university, conferred the degree of doctor of civil laws with this eulogy: "Truest of allies, direct in your speech and in your writings, and ever a pattern of simple courage Truman smiled, choked up, and then quickly whipped out a handkerchief and blew his nose. "Never, never in my life," he.