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JUNE 25. 1954 FIFTY-SIX PACES PRICE FIVE CENTS rr vo fflilmtentei Mete UJffiK If! II II 11 0 COUNCIL PLAUSSENATE VOTES TO HIRE ONLYYEAR'S REVIVAL SC55J DEMOCRA TS ENDORSE TUNNELL FOR SENATE, 30 TO 19 SO VIET DEMANDS SHIP TAKEN NEAR FORMOSA BE RETURNED AT ONCE OF TRADE LAW Board Says Owner Refused Entry Rights for Road Tough Red Note Asks Severe Punishment Of Those to Blame For 'Unlawful Ace Action Merely Prevents His Hindering Progress, Does Not Jeopardize Compensation, McWilliams Asserts The State Highway Department last night Issued a statement In which the agency said that right of entry to the land of John M. McGovern for the widening of Route 41 north of Hockessin was made i. ill ill! State School Board Bans Released Time For Religious Study 7 Mr-v. WflWJ afr WwmSt 111 -I ANTI-COMMUNIST SOLDIERS, carrying modern automatic weapons, stand before a church in Esquipulas, Guatemala, first town taken by the (AP Wirephoto) 800 PUSEY, JONES WORKERS VOTE FOR WALKOUT through the courts after Mr.

Mc- Govern refused the state trespass1 rights to proceed with the work. Col. W. A. McWilliams, In the statement, said that: "Action by the state simply prevents the owner from hindering progress and delaying public works.

It does not in any way jeopardize his rights in compensation for damages to his property. The state has abided by the law in every respect, Mr. McGovern objected to the right-of-way which cuts off five feet of his liquor store near the Pennsylvania State Line. He also complained that he was not consulted prior to the covering over of a portion of his parking lot and the ripping up of his light standards. This complaint resulted in the following statement from the Highway Department last night: "In the course of construction of See ROADS Page 13, Col.

3 Betty Marie Trader Is Victim of Accident South of Houston A 20-months-old child. Betty Ma rie Trader, was fatally injured yesterday when accidentally run over by a farm tractor operated by her father, Albert Joseph Trader, on his farm, south of Houston and east of Route 13. According to state troopers at Bridgeville who investigated the accident, Mr. Trader had filled his tractor with gasoline for work In the field and Just before starting out of the barnyard looked around to see if any of his children, who had been playing in the yard, were near the tractor. Seeing none he started forward and then suddenly observed that the front of the tractor was raised.

Stopping the machine he climbed down to Investigate and found the little girl under the tractor. The machine, police said, ran over the body of the victim. She was taken to the Milford Memorial Hospital and pronounced dead upon arrival. Funeral services will be held on Sunday at 2 p. m.

at the Boyer Funeral Home, Harrington, where friends may call tomorrow evening. See ACCIDENTS Page oj- TINY GIRL KILLED AS DAD'S TRACTOR RUNS OVER BODY NTS Law Committee to Meet With Solicitor To Draw Up Proper Type of Ordinance Osowski Protests Against Approval of More Intra-Departmental Transfer Of Funds After 3 are Made City Council moved last night to require that employes hired in the future must live in Wilmington and mast remain in the city as long as they hold their Jobs. The Council at Its weekly meeting accepted a motion by Joseph A. Bruno. Third Ward, that its Law Committee, headed by Pierce V.

Marvel. Ninth Ward, meet with the city solicitor to discuss the proper type of ordinance. Another item to excite the meet ing was a protest by John J. Osowski. Eleventh Ward, against approval of any more intradepart- meni transiers of funds.

This was the last meeting of the current fiscal year and there were several requests from departments for this privilege. The one that brought Mr. Osow ski to his feet involved three re quests from the Public Building Commission. It was presented bv Edward R. Bell, Sixth Ward 3 Resolutions Presented There were three resolutions and they were introduced by Mr.

Bell with the motion that they be read and. then voted upon as one. The first called for a transfer of $356.41 from the capital and equipment fund to the pension account; the second asked for transfer of $90.75 from administration and general ex pense to the electric system account; the third transferred $356.41 from capital and equipment to pensions. "It seems to me," said Mr. Osowski, "that year after year, at the end of the fiscal year, we are called upon to make these transfers.

These people should be required to give specific reasons for their requests. All we are told is that they want the transfers." President Frank J. Obara said that as far as the $90.75 for the electric system was involved that didn't seem a large sum. "I doubt very much," he continued, "whether Mr. Gass or Mr.

Reynolds could guess the amount of the electric bill. After all, this Council held numerous meetings in the Mayor's office, about 19 in all, and worked late at night on the budget. That used more Juice." The president was referring to C. See COUNCIL Page 7, Col 3 FOR TAX ERRORS Mayot- Asked to Get County Pledge in Case Assessments Found to Be High The Taxpayers' Protective Association yesterday asked the Mayor to obtain assurance that any inequities in the 1954 assessments on city property that are brought to light in the new general assessments be credited to the tax statements of 1955. The 1954 assessments to which the association refers are those made on city real estate by the county and to which the association objected.

In a letter to Mayor August Walz, the association writes in part: "We earnestly recommend that you try to secure for us from New Castle County officials a promise that all 1954 inequities in county tax charges brought to light by the new general assesment of Wilmington be See TAXPAYERS Page 7, Col. 5 I REBATE Action Is First Official Backing Of High Court Associate Justice Original Motion Not to Favor Any Candidate Now Lost By 31-19 Vote Special to the Morning Neus GEORGETOWN, June 24-The Sussex County Democratic Committee tonight endorsed James M. Tunnell. Jr, of Georgetown, an associate Justice of the State Supreme Court, for nomination as U. S.

senator. The motion to bac the young Supreme Court justice for the post came at 'the end of a lengthy meeting of the committee at Democratic headquarters in Georgetown and was passed by a vote of 30 to 19. Another motion was then made to make the vote unanimous and it passed by a voice vote with only one member dissenting. The action of the Sussex Democratic committee thus was the first official endorsement of Justice Tunnell for the post of U. S.

Senator, although a move to put him in the race has been under way for some months. It came after a hectic four-day period in Democratic state politics which saw the name of former Gov. Elbert N. Carvel entered at a meeting of th.e Democratic state policy committee Monday night, only to be withdrawn by Mr. Carvel on Wednesday, (Even as the Sussex Democrats acted, members voted at a special meeting of the Pen-cader Hundred Democratic Club at Glasgow to support the re-nomination of Senator J.

Allen Frear, Jr. The meeting, attended by approximately 30 members, was presided ove? by Carl Scott, president.) The motion to adopt a resolution backing Justice Tunnell for the nomination came after another motion had been presented on the floor calling on the committee not to endorse candidates until after the state convention of the party. This motion, made by Levin T. Shockley.l committeeman of the first district of the 6ixth representative district, i was voted down by 31 to 19.. A resolution, read by Howard S.

Abbott of Georgetown, former state tax commissioner but not a member of the committee, was then presented by Norman Jester, committeeman from the ninth district (Georgetown). The resolution In full: "Resolved that the Sussex County See DEMOCRATS Fare 7, Col. 5 Colorado Springs Selected as Site For Air Academy WASHINGTON, June 24 WV The Air Force announced today that the nation's Air Force Academy, counterpart of Annapolis and West Point, will be built at Colorado Springs, In the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. In making the announcement, Air Force Secretary Talbott said he "felt very humble in my duty to select a site" and that he foresaw that the academy is "destined to play an essential part in the future of our country." Talbott also said a temporary See ACADEMY Page 13, Col. 6 REGISTRATION FOR VOTING Registered yesterday 626 Signed up earlier 8,776 Total to date 9,402 iext chance Today from 9 a.

m. to 9 p. m. In the Public Building. TOP U.

S. OFFIGIALS CHILLY TO EDEN'S ASIAN PROPOSAL Churchill Due in Capital! Today for Week-End Of Talks With President By Associated Press June 24. -Top American officials coldly brushed aside today a surprise British proposal for a Western agreement with the Communist world to guarantee peace in Southeast Asia. The British plan, publicly proposed by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden yesterday, appeared to have widened sharp differences between the two governments on the eve of Prime Minister Churchill's meeting with President Eisenhower. Their talks open tomorrow at the White House.

The White House and State Department declined to comment openly on Eden's plan or answer In any way his criticism of America's Asiatic foreign policy. But, privately, top officials made no effort to disguise their indignation that Eden should have aimed this volley of public criticism at the United States Just prior to a conference which was set up to har- See CHURCHILL Page 4, Col. 1 Reciprocal Agreements Bill Passed, 71 to 3, Despite Democrat Cry It's 'Empty Gesture' Minority Plan to Liberalize Act, Extend It for 3 Years As Eisenhower Originally Proposed, Beaten 45 to 32 By Associated Press WASHINGTON, June 24 The Senate tonight passed a one-year extension of the 20-year-old reciprocal trade agreements law despite Democrats' cries that the extension was "an empty gesture." The vote was 71 to 3. Senators Butler Malone (R-Nev.) and McCarran (D-Nev.) voted no. Before the final decision the chamber beat down, 45 to 32, a Democratic move far a liberalized, three-year extension, as originally favored by President Eisenhower.

The one-year bill now goes back to the House for consideration of minor Senate amendments. Its passage complies with the latest stand of President Eisenhower, although he originally sought the broader plan. This plan called for a three-year extension with new powers for the President to cut tariCs up to 15 per cent. It was rejected by a solid lineup of 39 Republicans, who also were Joined by six Democrats. The proposal was offered by 22 Democrats and one Independent as a substitute for the one-year ex tension bill passed by the House June 11 and backed by Senate Re publican leaders.

Supporting the substitute were 32 Democrats. (Senator John J. Williams (R-Del) voted against the substitute, while Delaware Democratic Senator J. Allen Frear, was announced ai paired against it.) Eisenhower at first asked for a three-year extension of the 20-year- old law with new powers to cut tariffs 15 per cent over that period. But this met a cold reception from key Republicans, particularly in the House Ways and Means Committee, and the President announced last month he would accept for the time being a simple one-year extension of the present law.

However, Senator Gore (D-Tenn) contended the President really still wanted his first proposal, and Gore embodied it in the substitute which 22 senators Joined with him in spon soring. Gore declared the United States should liberalize its trade policies, not only to help Its free world See TRADE Page 11, Col. 1 $10,000 Georgetown 'Cap Tops Delaware Park Card With 6 Jumpers Entered By TURFMAN News-Journal Turf Writer Mrs. J. R.

H. Thouron's The Mast, the country's best Jumper last year, seeks his third consecutive triumph in the $10,000 added Georgetown Steeplechase Handicap, the "about two miles' Jumping event which attracted a field of six. The test tops today's card at Delaware Park. The Mast, thoroughly at home over the high brush Jumps, Is second hlghwelght under 153 pounds, conceding the honor post to Mrs. Vernon C.

Cardy's Sun Shower, with 156 pounds. The other candidates are James F. McHugh's Sundowner, 140; Mill River Stable's Monkey Wrench, 135; Lowry Watkin's Tourist List, 134; See RACES-Page 47, Col. 8 Inspection Lanes Open Tomorrow Fof th eonvtnienct of motor- liti whoit cart muit rtrtg-itttrid by Jun 30 tht Motor VthicU Iniptction lanti in Wilmington, Dovtr, and Gtorgt-town will bt opn tomorrow, Junt 2s, from 1:30 a. m.

to neon. HAS FEATURES RACING PR Ml Warns of 'Measures To Safeguard Craft In Area; State Dept, Denies Accusation By Associated Press MOSCOW, Friday, June 25 Russia, in a stiff note to the United States, reported a Soviet tanker carrying parafline was intercepted in the China Sea off Formosa Wednesday, and accused the U. S. Navy of seizing the vessel, its crew and cargo. The note, made public today, de manded the immediate return of vessel, crew and cargo and "severe punishment of the American ofHciaLs responsible for this unlawful act." It threatened to take "appropriate measures for safeguarding the security of Soviet merchant ships sailing in that area." This threat could presage possible Soviet naval patrols In the water approaches to Indo-China and Southeast Asia.

(At Washington, the State Department denied the Russian charge and in Pearl Harbor, Admiral Felix B. Stump, U. S. Pacific Fleet commander said, U. S.

warship has seized any Russian ship." Chinese National- 1st warships, some of them ob- talned from the United States, have been operating off the China coast against Communist shipping. (At Taipeh, Formosa, Chinese Nationalist authorities withheld comment. Unofficial quarters there noted that if the Russian ship had been seized by a Na- tionalist warship, the Soviet Union for propaganda reasons would protest to the United States.) In Europe and the Far East ker osene usually is cauea paranin. though the term sometimes is applied to other petroleum products as well. One of Toughest Notes Yet U.

s. Ambassador Charles E. (Chip) Bohlen was summoned to the Soviet Foreign Ministry late yesterday to receive the note, one of the toughest yet exchanged be tween the two countries. It threatened to plunge U. relations to a new low.

The U. S. Embassy said Bohlen See SOVIET NOTE-Page 4, Col. 7 McCarthy's Right To Secrets Denied Anew by Brownell WASHINGTON. June 24 (U.W.

Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell, Jr, today hurled a new challenge to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's claim that he is authorized by law to receive secret information from government employes. But Brownell declined at a news conference to speculate on whether McCarthy had violated the law In receiving the so-called "FBI letter" that figured prominently in the Army-McCarthy hearings.

Meanwhile, Acting Chairman Karl E. Mundt told re- See MCCARTHY Page 13, CoL Index of the News Pages 33 14 29 4 50 toSS 46 4 II 42, 43 11 38 14 4 43 39 to 32 34 47 to 50 11 2 Amusements Bill Frank Billy Rose Births Classified Comics Deaths Editorials Financial Frederick Othnun Hunting and Fishing Marquis Chllds Obituaries Radio and Television Society News South Jersey News Sports Westbrook Pegler Woman's Page Mrs. Leonard, who delivered an affidavit to Meyner two weeks ago that her father had admitted embezzling $300,000, said her action was taken "with the assurance and reassurance of Governor Meyner that the matter of daddy's default would be treated as decently and quietly as was humanly possible." Yet, she added, "we have allowed almost two weeks of dancing on tta grave, of condemning my father tor every mistake committed by, and See HOFFMAN-Pat 11, Cat I I UN COUNCIL TO AIR GUATEMALA BLAST AT ITS NEIGHBOR Urgent Session Called On Charge Honduras Aids Rebel Invasion By United Press UNITED NATIONS, N. June 24. Guatemala bluntly warned today the invasion of its territory from Honduras "seriously" threat ens the peace between the two na tions and the United Nations Se curity Council was summoned to an urgent session to deal with the matter.

The Security Council was sum moned to meet tomorrow, after Guatemala Foreign Minister Gull lermo Toriello forwarded to the UN a message he had sent to Hon' duras demanding that Honduras stop supporting a rebel army that has invaded Guatemala. Toriello told Honduras in the note that "I fail to understand how the government of Honduras, in view of the neutrality implied by its state mcnt, can allow its territory to be used as a base for the aggressive operations and the invasion being carried out by mercenary troops against Guatemala, thereby seriously See GUATEMALA Page 4, Col. 3 Newman, oi me tw mock unurcn assault with intent to murder Kirby nigni waicnman at the garage, on March 7. This charge was dropped by the state when Ellingsworth pleaded guilty to the charge of assault with intent to rob. Newman's attorney sought probation for him, telling the court that the defendant was a difficult problem in that "he has had some mental trouble" and adding that he supports three children.

The counsel also said that since a similar experience years ago Newman has not been in serious trouble, but Judge Layton, referring See SENTENCES Page 13, Col. 5 DOVER, June 24 (Special). The State Board of Education has adopted a resolution ruling against released time from school for religious education. The basis of the stand taken by the board is the principle of separation of church Bnd state, together with the financial support given the schools by the state and the specific hours constituting a school day. The resolution adopted by the board was announced today by Dr.

George R. Miller, state superintendent of public instruc- See SCHOOLS Page 11, Col. Action After Wednesday Looms, 21-Cent Pay Increase Sought A strike of the approximately 800 workers at the Pusey Jones plant looms as a definite possibility as the members of the Marine and Shipbuilders of America, Local 3, CIO, have voted to strike unless negotiations now in progress between the union and the company settle the differences now existing. A spokesman for the union, Ted Richie, chairman of the negotiating committee, said that another meeting with company officials has been scheduled for next Monday night when a federal mediator will be called In to help settle the dispute. The contract of the union with the company expires at midnight next Wednesday, June 30.

The vote of the union members gave the negotiating committee full support fin their efforts to reach an agree ment and to call a strike of the workers if the effort is unsuccessful. Mr. Richie said the union is seeking a 21-cent an hour Increase over its present hourly rate, as well as a pension and welfare fund and a guaranteed annual wage. Company officials last night re-See STRIKE Page 7, Col. 2 Senate Unit Nixes Flexible Price Supports By 8-7 Vote; Aiken Sees Floor Reversal WASHINGTON, June 24 Eisenhower Administration's plan for flexible price supports for farm products took an 8-7 beating in the Senate Agriculture Committee today.

Chairman Aiken (R-Vt) predicted the Senate ultimately would reverse the decision. A bare majority of the committee voted as the House Agriculture Committee had previously voted 21-8 to keep the government support prices at a high, fixed level for another year on the basic crops. These are wheat, corn, cotton, rice, tobacco and peanuts. For more than a week, the IS Senate committeemen had been on notice that the crucial vote would come today. Senator Young (R-ND), an unrelenting critic of the See FARMFage 11, Col.

I EISENHOWER FARM PLAN DEALT IT Man Gets 4-Year Sentence For Odessa Holdup Attempt Bingo, FEPC, Home Rule Favored in AYR Platform A 10-polnt party platform in principle only and without specific wording was adopted by the general membership meeting of the New Castle County Active Young Republicans last night, Including a plank in favor of bingo, FEPC, a state human relations commission and home rule for municipalities in Delaware. Judge Caleb R. Layton III. described armed robbery as a "cowardly thine" in SuDerior Court yesterday as he sentenced a man involved In an attempted holdup at an Odessa garage to four years in Jail. Williams Charges U.

S. Lost $43,000,000 in Back Taxes By JACK RUSSELL Washington Correspondent News-Journal Papers WASHINGTON, June 24. Senator John J. Williams (R-Del) today revealed that the government lost almost $43,000,000 in settling 180 delinquent tax cases in the Third New York Collection District of the The defendant was Joseph H. Street, who had been charged with Tells French House of Talk With Chou En-Lai, Wins Delay on Cabinet Debate PARIS, June 24 ffl.

Premier Pierre Mendes-France reported to Parliament today on his two-hour talk in Switzerland with Chou En- Lai of Red China. He asked the National Assembly to defer debaie on the makeup of his new cabinet, and won on that point, 433-23. He said he is pushing ahead as quickly as possible for a halt to the fighting in inao-cnina wnicn ne has promised to bring about by July 20 or resign but that France intends to keep her position in the Far East and will Insist on an honorable settlement. If the fighting must continue, the premier went on, France probably will be unable to carry on alone and may be forced "to ask another na tion to help shoulder the sacrifices." See PREMIER-fage 13, Col. 1 MENDESME AIRS WAR PARLEY It was just at the close of the meeting that an attempt was made to introduce a resolution, condemning Senator McCarthy and asking that he not be invited to participate in the Delaware Republican campaign.

This resolution while personally favored by many of the AYR was tabled on the grounds, as one speaker put It, that "we do not want to allow the McCarthy issue to overshadow the importance of oi state platform and our state issues." The planks of a platform in See AYR Page 7, Col. 1 Edward L. Zimmerman, 35, both of Pine Grove. They were pronounced dead on arrival at the Delaware Hospital. According to witnesses, lncludlag Chief Austin Melvln of the Middle-town police, who saw the accident.

Miller's automobile, which they said was traveling at a high rate of speed, went through a stop sign and failed to stop at a dead-end street, crashing into a heavy duty fence and continuing on for more than 40 feet See INQUESTSTaje 13, Col, 2 Meyner 'Dancing on Grave' Of Hoffman, Daughter Says Driver Found Negligent In Crash Causing 2 Deaths Internal Revenue Bureau, rocked by scandals In 1951 Williams released a preliminary report by Acting Commissioner 0. Gordon Delk on 625 tax cases In excess of $25,000 which were delinquent as of Jan. 1951, when an Investigation launched by Williams resulted In the removal of the district collector of Internal revenue. Delk furnished Williams detailed' Information on 180 of the cases which have been settled since the shake-up. Because of executive order prohibiting the disclosure of income tax Information not a mat-Set WILLIAAISFsge 11, Col.

4 NEWARK, N. June 24 Ada Hoffman Leonard tonight bitterly accused Gov. Robert B. Meyner of "dancing on the grave" of her father, former Gov. Harold Hoffman, and double crossing her by his handling of the case.

"We can no longer permit young, callow charlatans of 'statesmen' to climb to power over the sealed Hps and the broken heart of a man who could have mentally and morally bought and sold them all." she said in a statement read to a news conference. i Adam E. Miller of Pine Grove, driver of a car in which two passengers were killed when the vehicle crashed into a truck at Mid-dletown on May 29, was found negcligent by a coroner's Jury in the Levy Court Room of the Public Building last night. The inquest, conducted by Coroner C. Everett Kelley, also probed the death of another auto accident victim, but freed the driver of all blame.

Killed in the Middletown accident were Harold L. A. Sattizahn, 29, and 7 A. OP 11 I- I -I I--.