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-VV4 v. TOE STATE dKDUMNAL HOME EDITION The Weather Partly cloudy and warmer Sunday. High today 80. SUNDAY rSSUE ONE HUNDRED-FIRST YEAR LANSING EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1953 96 Pages ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, NEWS SERVICE PRICE TEN CENTS -y -'X Jet Streaks Reds Claim West Balks tl I sT. I T.

1 -s Intelligence Net Under Scrutiny Report of Hoover Commission Group Expected to Advise Changes By DON ALD i. GOXZALES Big 4 Talk To and Fro Across U. S. Rejection of Vienna Site Blasted by Pravda At Unreasonable LONDON. Sunday.

May 22 CD-Moscow radio today broadcast a WASHINGTON. May 21 (UP) A special Hoover commission task force headed by Gen. Mark W. Clark has completed an exhaustive Investigation of high-level United States intelligence operations around the world, it was learned today. The special inquiry board will make far-reaching recommendations, most of them secret, to Improve the gathering, processing and Pravda editorial denouncing the War Hero Flies 'California Boomerang' To Lone Rush Lunch in New York, Dinner Back in Los Angeles dissemination of vital Intelligence information of many agencies, in eluding the super-secret Central Vietnamese HitBaoDai By JACK STEVENSON LOS ANGELES, May 21 JP Streaking into Los Angeles in tim for dinner, a wartime-decorated national guard pilot Saturday completed the first sunrise-to-sunset round-trip coast-to-coast flight Happy but weary.

First Lt. John M. Conroy, 34, flying alone in ah F86A Sabre jet, nicknamed the "California Boomerang," made good his plan of having breakfast in Los Angeles, lunch in New York city western powers for making what It called "unreasonable demands about the place' end duration" of the proposed top level Big Four conference. Just a week ago at Vienna Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.

Molotov assured the western foreign ministers that Premier Bulganin would attend the so-called Summit conference. Molotov at that time made no Issue of where the meeting would be or how long it might last He suggested Vienna. As proposed now. the conference would bring together Bulganin, President Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Eden, and French and his evening meal DacK ios- Nationalists Arrest Aides Of Absentee Chief For Treason Ike Offered Polio Power SAIGON. South Viet Nam, May Premier Faure somewhere In Europe, probably In August.

Stockholm has been mentioned most re Angeles again. "I'm very, very, very tired," Conroy had told the 34th Air Division radar flight following service at Kirtland AFB, in asking for radar tracking to keep him on course on the final leg from Albuquerque, N. M. To do it, the World War II purple heart veteran had to travel miles a minute between his take-off at 5:59:45 a. m.

P. D. T. and his final i oaring pass over a cheering crowd here at 5:26:18 p. m.

P. D. T. His average speed for the 5,085 miles was about 445 m. p.

h. and 21 LV Prei.iier Ngo Dinh Diem's government and its Nationalist supporters struck two new blows today at absentee chief of state Bao Intelligence agency. It is expected to criticize overlapping of some activities and in many cases to recommend closer co-ordination. There is evidence the inquiry is regarded by those who shared in It as anything but a "whitewash." The task force expects to submit two reports to the commission headed by former President Herbert Hoover. Under present plans, a bulky report of the overall Investigation Is to be delivered to President Eisenhower.

This will be so highly classified only one copy will be made. The second report will be gleaned from the first It will go to congress, which authorized the inquiry, and presumably will form the basis for public release of some information. This data would be deemed useless to unfriendly powers. Sonw indication of the importance of the study Is shown in the way the task force finished Its work. It Is understood that most, if not all.

records accumulated are being destroyed. Procedures also suggest that the Investigation wai made as independently as possible from the various operating intelligence agencies. Mr. Hoover selected Gen. Clark, retired from the army and now president of the Citadel military college, to head the task force.

Later, the former president re cently as the probable western choice of place. VIENNA REJECTED Democratic Leaders Think Dal. Both moves strengthened th Pravda. the organ of the Soviet drive for the playboy ex'-emperor's Communist party, said the west eventual ouster. Salk Vaccine Handling Job for President WASHINGTON.

May 21 CT) rejected proposals to hold the conference in Vienna "where all the The government ordered the and trial on treason charges necessary conditions already exist, and have instead, suggested Lau of two top aides of Bao Dai and sanne, although it is well known four other leaders of the civil war which erupted against Diem April thnt such facilities are not avail Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas Saturday threw his weight behind a proposal by Sen. Hill (D-AIa to give President Eisenhower standby authority to control the manufacture and distribution of Salk polio vaccine. able there." 28.

Lausanne hnd been suggested Spirit of Lindy LOS ANGELES, May 21 UP Lt. John M. Conroy's coast-to-coast round trip flight came 28 years to the day after Capt Charles A. Lindbergh landed in Paris on his famous solo hop across the Atlantic. It took Lindy 33 hours 29 min originally by the United States as a choice over Geneva if the meet This action was followed by a national revolutionary committer's announcement it had sent tie- ing was to be held in Switzerland.

With him are his wife, Jeanne; his daughter, Barbara, and two sons, Billy, 1, and Timothy, 3. (AP Wirephoto) FAMILY GREETS FLYER Back In Los'Angeles, his roundtrip coast-to-coast flight completed between breakfast and dinner, First Lt John M. Conroy heads for a restaurant with his family. Stockholm was mentioned in the grams to President Eisenhower and last few days. Hill, who heads the senate labor committee, predicted that congress will brush aside objections from the Eisenhower administration and enact discretionary controls legislation.

Johnson, the senate Democratic "They have declared that the the heads of 42 other nations informing them of the organization's conference must not last more than vealed that the study would cut two to three days," the Pravda Nation Buries Fears utes 30 seconds to fly from New York to Paris, 3,610 miles. Conroy flew 5,085 miles in 11:26:33. And he doesn't think the mark will stand long. across "other major intelligence support of Diem and its claim that Bao Dal has been deposed. REPUBLICS WAY PAVED activities of the government" This out the intelligence actlv.

editorial went on." although it clear to anyone that serious consideration of any urgent international problems cannot be complet leader, said he doesn't want to choose between several bills which the labor committee will consider StayAlerta U.S. Urged Nguyen Bao Toan, the commit In Parade of Power Itles of the C. I. army. navy, air force, and the national security the elapsed time of 11 hours, 26 Monday.

But he said he personally ed In such a short time. VAUSE' REPORT tee's president, told reporters the telegrams were aimed at preparing the way internationally for the proclamation of a republic before minutes and 3J seconds mciuaea six fast refueling stops. lavors giving Kisenhower "bread discretionary authority and, powera By ELTON C. FAY The long editorial also denounced in that Held. Conrov was sreeted by his over- agency under scrutiny.

Israeli, Egyptian WASHINGTON, May 21 Wl The nation, emerging from under ioved wife. Jeanne, and three as "absurd what it described as the Ideas of President Eisenhower SECRETARY OPPOSING a barrage of speeches on the mounting menace of Soviet power, took South Viet Nam's general elections. This voting is scheduled to take place within the next two or three youngsters, Barbara, 4, Timothy, 3, and Billy, 1. They had also seen and Secretary of State Dulles on "I think it would be desirable to a look Saturday at its own military strength. Sen.

George Sees Russia With 'Bold Proposals' In Big Four Talks the Big Four confer- in Fracas Citizens bv the millions swarmed to parade routes and milled Troop vest in the President power to exert control over this program and he him off at dawn. -FAMIL" ON' HAND around guns, tanks, ships, planes and weird missiles at the "open Pravda said the two American could decide whether he needs to houses" of the military establishment on Armed Forces Day. months. Diem already has taken several steps making it clear to Bao Dai that he no longer has any influence in South Viet Nam. Emerg "Mv.

it's been a long day," said statesmen had given a "false po do it," Johnson said. litical evaluation of the present Reminded that Secretary Hobby address at San Angelo, re Mrs. Conroy. "Surp has." he aereed. GAZA, Egypt-held Palestine May 21 CV Six truckloads of Israeli troops attacked an Egyptian out-nost near the village of Deir El international situption" in their of the health, education and wel WASHINGTON, May 21 (UP) Chairman Walter F.

George (D-Ga.) of the senate foreign relations Romeo Free newed his previously expressed warnings that the United States ing from the civil war with a stronger hand, the premier formed fare department has opposed eract- television report to the American nation last Tuesday night. "Come on, daddy, supper's walt-me." said little Barbara. And the ment of controls legislation now, committee, said today the United 'probably is behind Russia in the a ne-v government without consulting Bao Dai, abolished his imperial whole family went to the airport race for perfecting "the ultimate States must not abandon Its bases Johnson said that doesn't alter his opinion that the President should have "any authority he may need." restaurant for an air age dinner. military weanon, a missile which guard and whipped through a hun Eallah in tne uaza strip eariy today, an Egyptran spokesman said. The Israelis suffered some casualties In a two-hour exchange of fire, he added.

or reduce Jts armed forces in Short Time dred other smaller measures the The breakfast-to-supper flyer actually finished 2'. 4 hours before can be tired Irom one continent against a target on another. The "I am not passing on the ques Europe1 in the near future. absentee chief of state would never official sunset. On his return flight "I don't think we can give up Egypt lodged a complaint with No ln-Laws High School Pair Steers Parents Totcard Altar, Note Folloirs Path tion of whether the President now has the inherent power to act," he said.

"But we should have such have approved. VACATIONXR OFF STA5IPS the mwed armistice commission. from New York, he broke the old eaRt-to-west flight record of 7 hours, no minutes and 4 seconds, set Sept, 3, 1947, by Paul Mantz in Arsenal Discovery Puts Another complaint alleged that Israelis shot a shepherd in the arm Russians, said Symington, have been working on the project for a decade and by now could have them, armed with both fission and hydrogen warheads. PUSH-BUTTON PREVDAV anything or rest on our oars at this time," he told newsmen. "It's more important to move forward as we have been doing than at any controls as are needed to assure equitable distribution of the The general post office topped these off today by announcing that near the same village last night.

on Aug. 31 it will withdraw from an F51. Conroy's westbound flight time. We can't let our guard down circulation all stamps bearing Bao took only 5 hours 27 minutes INOCULATIONS STALLED now. Although the citizens who Dai portrait.

seconds. His speed hit boo m. p. n. Quick End to Bond In Kidnaping DETROIT, May 21 CT) Murray Sinuk, 28, hefty Romeo accused of trying to force a reluctant for George, commenting on reports The nationwide inoculation pro Eao Dai, the ex-emperor of An- watched the parades and displays todav didn't see intercontinental that the West German government nam who was named Viet Nam's missiles they did get some previews chief of state by the French in is rushing its rearmament program lest it be checked by Russian moves gram remained virtually stalled meanwhile pending the outcome of a new scientific conference Monday on a possible tightening of safe of the beginning of push-button war.

1949, has been basking on the French Riviera for more than a at the Big Four conference ex mer girl friend to the altar at gunpoint, stood mute on a charge of BERKELEY. May 21 (UP) Dayna Hutchins of Berkeley, Is going to be one new housewife without in-law problems. The reason Is she is marrying her step-brother. The hazel-eyed. University of California senior and her fiance, Thomas Taylor.

22, are partly responsible for this enviable marital beginning. It was In 1951 at the couple's ty standards for the vaccine. year. But recently he dropped his There was no official comment There were Nikes the army's missile which hunts down bombers at any speed and height in dark or pigeon shooting and kindred pas kidnaping Saturday. pected this summer.

The Russian disarmament proposal made public May 10 specifically called on United Nations members to dismantle bases in foreign from government sources, but some frequently. The flight was made to show the combat potentialities of national guard pilots, planes and personnel, Conroy said. BRIEF SCARE He had a orief scare in Albuquerque. On arrival there, it was found his jet had a leaking oxygen valve. But it righted itself and no repairs were necessary-En route to New York, Conroy landed at Denver and Springfield, 111.

At New York's Mitchell field, times to rush off to Paris and plead Recorder's Judge Frank G. Sche- ML II of the vaccine manufacturers said tor continued rench support. daylight. There were the Matadors of the air force unmanned bomb Last week France, the United manske ordered Sinuk jailed under $10,000 bond pending examination countries and to withdraw their States and Britain agreed to back their technical specialists had been called in to the meeting. They reportedly were told that new safety requirements may be in the mak troops from Germany.

Thursday. IWATCnTOWERj Pretty June Dallen, 21, found graduation from Berkeley high Asked if he thinks the United States should withdraw from some with Sinuk in a motel near Monroe ing. Diem in his present actions toward setting up a sound government and indicated that for the time being thy are stringing along with the premier's handling of Bao Dai. nine hours after abduction was Surgeon General Leonard A. of its bases in Europe, George said: "Oh no, not now.

I wouldn't say reported Thursday night, went to Scheele is due to make a detailed ers with robot piloting and target-determining mechanism. The navy had its antiaircraft and bombardment missiles. There were operating displays of electronic instruments radar search, antisubmarine detection methods. Jet planes bombers and fighter-bombers able to tote atomic weapons to distant targets, fighter-interceptors which take over control from the pilots and themselves aim court to sign a complaint against in perpetuity. That would depend on events.

I don't think we could he nibbled a specially catered lunch brought to the runway on a truck while national guard crews checked wan mis reouii uao ual re Do They Want Roadsor Money? report to the White House soon on the technical and scientific problems involved in manufacturing and turned to his Cannes villa today at lum. She said he forcibly took iic-r from the home of a friend. give up any bases or diminish our the wheel of his Mercedes but he forces in the immediate future. and refueled his plane. Westbound he stopped at Col testing the vaccine.

Press Secretary plans to be back in Paris Monday, FBI, STATE STEP IN George said he expects some "very bold proposals" to come from James Hagerty said today he did umbus. Ohio. Tulsa, and Al Sinuk won his release on the not know exactly how soon the re buquerque. N. before the final kidnaping charge Friday by post the Soviet Union.

These might deal with disarmament or the creation port would be ready. leg to the San Fernando valley ing a $1,000 bond, but was jailed Sperry to' Reopen NEW YORK, May 21 iJP C. I. O. school mat Dayna mother, a handsome widow with three children, met Tom's father, a widower also with three children.

"They told us to drive carefully on our traditional all-night graduation party," Dayna recalled, "then we Introduced them." "Tom asked me to marry him graduation night," Dayna said, and less than a year later the older couple were married in a simple ceremony at home. "We kind of tiad a hunch they were going to be married," Dayna recalled. "The only way I can explain It, Dayna said smiling, "is that like daughter, like mother, and like son, like father." airport. and shoot down enemy planes were on the ground and in the air. IMPORTANT SECRETS of a neutral zone in Europe, he said.

The lieutenant's boomerang Red Front Bv HOWARD J. RUGO (journal Staff Writer) Certain members of the Lansing city council, the Ingham county board of supervisors and the county road commission have come out In opposition to the Coleman arterial highway expansion bill. At meeting last Thursday night 14 representatives of these groups What the citizens didn't see could workers agreed today by a vote of better than two to one to end their month-long strike at the Sperry Gyroscope company plant at Lake flight was his own Idea for Armed Forces Day. Although it was a solo flight, the successful completion of the project required close co-oper be the most significant the carefully guarded, developing weapons hidden away at such places as ation by an estimated loO national a short time later when police discovered an arsenal of prohibited weapons they said was his. Now federal agents want him for possessing machine guns in violation of the national firearms act and state police want him on charge of carrying concealed weapons because of a pistol found in the Monroe motel.

ARMOR IN SUITCASES A friend of Sinuk's called police Success. The company immediately an' Label Asked For Brigade Luce to Return ROME, May 21 (UP) The U. S. embassy disclosed today that Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce will return to Washington next week for talks on the deepening Italian political crisis. Muroc and White Sands and Pa- guardsmen from coast to coast, adooted a resolution calling the nounced that the plant would reopen Monday and should be back tuxent and Key West and Los Ala mos.

At most points the crews refueled the plane with its jet engine into full production by Thursday. What they did see in the parades, running. DOWNED AND WOUNDED like the big one here at Washing ton which Vice President Nixon and Conroy flew B17 bombers In VHF Channel Called Vital Defense Secretary Wilson watched, was heavy with tradition. Marching troops, bandsmen in scarlet Europe during World War II, and was shot down and wounded on his 19th mission. He spent six jackets, the national emblem and months as a prisoner of war.

The To Educational Television unit colors shinging bright in the senior pilot was awarded the dis sun, helmeted infantrymen step after reading of his arrest to report Sinuk had left two heavy suitcases with him last Sunday. In them, police said they found two machine guns, 10 automatic pistols, a rifle, a thousand rounds of ammunition, three sticks of dynamite, a box of dynamite detonating caps, a length of fuse, a flare gun and a switch-blade knife. One machine gun was a German type; the other British. Police said Sinuk told them he collected ping smartly along in cadence. tinguished flying cross, the a I medal with two oak leaf clusters Thousands of miles from the pa the channel on a commercial li and the purple heart.

proposed legislation "piemature" and "not realistic or fair to the counties and cities." Three Lansing aldermen, who also are members of the board of supervisors, signed the resolution later, and effort are being made to obtain additional signatures of Lansing and East Lansing officials. Legislative action on a highway program, they said in the resolution, should be postponed until after completion of studies being made by the Michigan good roads fedeiation. Results of the studies, they said, would be available before 1956. DO NT LIKE FOR5IULA What they apparently don't like about the Coleman bill is that the counties and cities would get only 25 percent of the estimated in new highway revenue to be raised by a H4-cent Increase rades and the open house displays, By BILL BURKE (Journal Staff Writer) Educational television will have cense. WKAR-TV operates on a WASHINGTON, May 21 UP) An examiner for the Subversives Activity Control Board (SACB) recommended today that the Vet- erans of the Abfaham Lincoln Brigade be listed as a Communist front organization.

If the full board approves the findings, the Veterans of the Erig-ade, which fought with the Loyalists during the Spanish civil war of the 1930s, would be required to under the McCarran Internal Security Act and inform the government of its officers and its fi- nancial affairs. Kathryn McHale, SACB member who conducted lengthy har-Ings, concluded in a 243-page report to the full board, that: "Upon the overwhelming weight of the evidence in this proceeding, it is concluded that the respondent is directed, dominated and con at lonely places where no spectators came for Armed Forces Day, there commercial license in UHF. After six years In the air force he flew for a non-scheduled airline and two years ago went into the swimming pool contracting business. Now he does his flying with tion VVKAR-TV in view of the past year's experience. The college has found its UHF station costly and the audience dis-couragingly small.

Independent surveys of television viewers in central Michigan have shown that M.S.C.'s telecasts don't It was then that the Television wece other tokens fighters flying vigil along Arctic perimeters to get into the popular VHF (very high frequency) range or perl for Corporation of Michigan (T. destroyers with sonarmen lis which also was after the channel for all-commercial use, approached the national guard, mostly week the guns while in the army and that he obtained a federal gun dealer's license. They added, how lack of viewers. This warning was voiced Saturday tening for the tell-tale sound of a ends. It -was with the guard that M.

S. with a proposition. strange submarines propellors an army sentry on an outermost he switched from bombers Jo fight ever, he had failed to produce the even make a. mark on the public through the present UHF operation, he said. DIVIDED TIME by Dr.

Armand L. Hunter, director of educational television at Michigan State college. er planes. license. The college would build, own and "We will find It difficult to jus operate a TV transmitter and tow The college is making an an-or-nothlng bid for VHF channel 10 in Alaskan island, looking across a strait into Soviet territory a radar on a far away mountain top searching the skies ceaselessly to warn of the approach of any aerial striking force.

tify a $300,000 annual investment in educational television if we don't er in Parma-Onondaga with a specified number of broadcast hours central Michigan as a co-applicant In the gasoline tax and a 10 percent have any viewers," he said. Dr, set aside for T. C. commercial Hunter would have to justify the boost In truck weight taxes, i nis would be split two-thirds to the trolled by the Communist party of the United States a Communist with the Television Corporation oi Michigan. To salvage its year-old educa operations.

program to the state board of ae counties and one-third to the cities. T. M. would maintain its own action organization and that the riculture which governs the college. tional television program and ob .17 Political Drama- Stories The Century The other 75 percent would go to Red Tax Talk Bid studios, employ its own separate POOR SIGNAL tain a premium TV wave length.

the state highway department lor respondent is primarily operated for the purpose of giving aid and support to it and the world Communist movement" staff and operate under its own distinct call letters. the college hes agreed to split the A Word Iicture ..................81 The UHF signal is technically un Story of the Farmei construction on heavily traveler trunklines. And 40 percent of that satisfactory, he said, and it may The corporation would pay its Snares Diplomacy 48 broadcast day with commercial concern. Bitterly opposed to the co-appli amount would be spent on trunk- take many years before the bugs Snapshot Contest Opent on June is The full board is expected to share of the operating costs of the are ail worked out of this high transmitter plus 20 percent of its line by-passes around cities and vu. laees.

cants are three other applicants for range medium. Health .56 Letter From Home S3 issue its report within the next month or two. If it agrees with the examiner, the organization may proms before taxes to the college. the channel who propose to operate "Even if the signal were satis But that doesn't satisfy them. BERLIN, May 21 W) East Germany today renewed its offer to The operating cost would be de strictly commercial television sta factory, far too few people have They want the new money dis then appeal to the courts.

termined by the hours on the air. discuss witn west uermany on a tions. converted their standard VHF re tributed on the same formula as In hearings before Miss McHale, The college agreed to the con- governmental level the high Com LEGISLATIVE STIR ceivers for the UHF reception." the organization's president Cmdr. tract and the two parties applied munist taxes levied on Berlin's Adult Education ,....14 Ail About You Automotive .80 Bedtime 28 Bible ...51 Books ....76 Bridge Building 58 -6 Camera V. 77 Capitol Jottings ......49 Classified Only answer for Michigan State, ininttv In ho PPP fnv phunnol 10 I Milton Wolff, conceded there were The controversy has flared up at least once in the state legislature some Communists within the group truck traffic with the west The offer came a day after the according to Dr.

Hunter, is to obtain the last available VHF sta The application is, now pending with the commission. when several state senator at Soviet, French, British and Ameri tion In central Michigan which is but said it is neither subversive nor under Red domination. Wolff said brigade members were Cries went up from the three tempted to restrict the college from VHF television through a rider on can ambassadors held a fruitless channel 10, allocated for the Par- other corporations that educational Markets ....................84 Music 78 National Observer lt Outdoor ....................70 Radio i. 30 Service Notes 77 Society Sports Stag lines Zt Stamps 18 Teens 7- Theater ,...7274 -Three Minutes .....2 Travel TV ..31 Women's 9 ma-Onondaga area. present highway revenues 44 percent to the state, 37 percent to the counties and 19 percent to the cities.

Their attitude seems to be that tf they can't have their way they'll do what they can to obstruct any highway program. Their main interest, it seems, isn't In buildinj roads but in getting the money. HANDS OUT NOW A couple of months ago when the so-called Peltz bill sailed through the appropriations bill. television intends to deprive free early fighters against Fascism. Since the Spanish war, he said, the Reports from the house of representatives indicate a new attempt enterprise of a commercial television outlet Difficulty is that channel 10 Is commercially-designated and three other commercial operators want may be made this week to stop Another charge was that M.

S. C. Comics Crossword iDoga Editorial Features i Fraternal Garden meeting here on the dispute. The Bonn Republic and the western powers do not recognize the East German government They have failed to get the Communists to take up the tax matter on an interzonal trade level, which would avoid the problem of governmental recognition. that last VHF outlet should have offered this contract to ........24 1 ........81 ........78 (5 the college from operating on channel 10 by re-introducing the rider.

veterans have devoted most of their activities to attacking Franco Spain. We specialize in cleaning straw and Panama hats Call Tall-madge Cleaners adv. all parties concerned on a bid basis. Vhen the federal commission FCC) refused to Dr. Hunter said he could not The college also was accused of reserve channel 10 for educational recommend continued operation of Golden Yean television, the college applied fori See TV Page 2, CoL 8e WATCHTOWEB Pf.

2, CoL Unt (ultra high frequency) sta.