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WEATHER FORECAST 0 Predictt: Fair. Cold Tonight Continued Fair Tomorrow THE BRIDGEPORT POST COUNTY EDITION With Fairfiold County VOL. LXXI, NO. 264 Entered Matter. rrtdiepnrt.

Conn RRILXihmRT 2, CONN. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1954. 41O Sl RrMt'port. Com. SIXTY-POUR PACES SECTIONS CtNTS Symbol of American Courage Is Dedicated PRESIDENT SEES SOVIET EASING TOUGH POLICY Picketing Continues at Underwood Reds Growing More Con! Over Plane, Eisenhower Says ISSUE CLOUDED States Still In Favor of Dixon-Yates Contract Dedication in Washington of a 650-ton bronze statue reproducing the historic flag-raising on two Jima today commemorated the 179th anniversary of the creation of the U.

S. Marine Corps as a fighting unit. The 75-foot, $850,000 bronze symbol of American courage and faith was paid from contributions by individual Marines. The memorial site is located not far from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National cemetery, near the Potomac river Rows of chairs were placed at the memorial site yesterday in preparation for today's dedication service. STATUE HONORS Warrant to Charge Ex-Mate MARINE CORPS In Slaying of Woman, 26 At Unveiling of Giant Reproduction of Iwo Flag Raising Fateini Shot For Part In Plot Against Shah By HERB ALTSCHULL WASHINGTON, Nov.

i A i Gen. Lemuel Shepherd Jr.dedicated today a massive statue honoring tha T.T, Marine Corps, and called it not "just a monument to the departed graphic message, to the future." Shepherd, the Marine commandant, dedicated the 75-foot reproduction of the historic flag raising on Iwo Jima on i 179th anniversary of creation of the Marines as a fighting force. President Eisenhower headed the list of distinguished guests invited to witness dedication of the monument. "Symbol of Courage" "May jt stand for ages yet to come as a symbol of American courage and i a i of indestructible faith, and of i of purpose," Shepherd said in prepared remarks. "For with that spirit, however may bs the trials i lie ahead, our nation will endure an1 the.

cause of human freedom will triumph." Nine years in the making, giant statue of the six men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima's Ml. SurJbachi is the handiwork of Felix De Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor who began working on it while serving in the Navy fti 1845. The statue, cast in bronze, is reputed to be the b'pgest of its i ever created. Survivors Attend Joe Rosenthal. the photographer who snapped the historic flag raising scene for the Associated Press on Feb.

19. 1945. in town for the dedication. So were the three survivors of the World War II flag raising. The survivors are a i Pfc.

Rene A. Gapner of Hookset. (Continued on Page Fourteen) OFFICIAL WEATHER TEHRAN, Iran. Nov. Former Foreign Minister Hossein FaUmi, rebrand of Mohammed Mossadegh's government, died before an army firing at dawn today for his part in the 1953 plot to unseat the Shah.

Fatemi was convicted and sentenced by a military court just a month ago. 'appealed the ve'rdict, but Shah Mob-am- med Reza Pahlevi confirmed tHe death sentence last Sattir- day. The execution was carried out in secret at QhaSr barracks. It a surprise, Since, army sources said last week-' end it would be delayed indefinitely because Fatemi was seriously ill. BOND IS POSTED IN LETTER ATTACK J.

F. McCoy of Milford Charged With 'Scurrilous' Criticism of Ribicoff BRIDGEPORT AND VICINITY --Sunny, cool today: high in the Tonight clear, cold; low of 30 on the coast and the mid-20s in the Interior. Tomorrow, continued fair and cold: high mid-40s. NEW YORK CITY--Same as for Bridgeport. LONG ISLAND SOUND i moderate north to northeast.

Sea amootn. Visibility excellent. TEMPERATURE Low today 9 Lowest yesterday Highest (Nov. 9. 1953' 55 Lowest 9.

W'ater temperature. 8 a (Pleasure Beach) 51 I I A I Today (12 hours to 8 a.m. For month 1854 to date Barometer (11 a a i 30 fiS i i (11 a.m. reading! 41'; NEW HAVEN, Nov. 10 -John F.

McCoy. 68-year-old Milford real estate and insurance man. today posted $1.000 bond in Superior court 1 a his arrest on charges of being the author of "scurrilous letter?" circulated i the recent stat" political campaign. Mr. McCoy was granted a con- i a i Friday give i an i to obtain counsel.

McCoy is charged with ridicu- C-'n-ernor-elect Abraham A i a Jew. on religious grounds. The letter he is accused 1 of i i circulated in mime! ocraphed copies i the cam- I -aiirn a promoted Democratic 1 State Chairman John M. Bailey to a legal action. 1 Mr.

McCoy was arrested yesterday a Superior Court Judge Samuel i issued a bench warrant charging real estate man four times violated a state statute which forbids ridicule of a person by a i because of color or creed. He also was charged i breach of peace. Arrested in Home McCoy arrested at 6:25 a in his home. 42 street. Morningsirle.

M'lford. He (Continued on Page Fourteen) NEW CANAAN, Nov. 10--A w-ir- rant will be issued today for Stanley F. Zdonick, 38, of Nauga' tuck, in connection with the fatal shooting of his 26-year-old ex wife, Mrs. Margaret Ford George, i Police Chief Henry E.

Keller dis- i closed. Mrs. George's body was i found Sunday, hidden in a wooded area here. I Cliief Keller explained a warrant charging Zdonick with assault with attempt to commit murder. I or witji murder, will be signed by Town Prosecutor John C.

Sturges, or Mead, assistant prose- i cutor. I Police Search Speeded i The he saiu depend i on the judicial limitation of town court. The Naugatuck man has been missing since Nov. 1, the I same day Mrs. George was seen Beth were observed together in i Zdonick's blue and red Buick on that a according Michael Rosa, Waterbury a operator and brother-in-law to the slain woman.

Spurring the a i i search for Zdonick, Chief Keller said, the discovery a the missing had purchased a .22 caliber nine- shot revolver from store on the same day he and Mrs. George were seen last. Ordered Revolver Oct. 30 Investigators disclosed their investigation of Zdonick's activities just prior to his disappearance i brought to i the purchase of the revolver, i police said, he had ordered from the New Haven store on Oct. SO.

Mrs. George's a the autopsy revealed, was caused by a solitaiy .22 caliber bullet wound in the head. Police said could not deter- mineas yet type of weapon used in the homicide. Meanwhile, a report a a homicide warrant had been issued for a suspect was spiked by State's At' torney Lorin W. Willis who said he is still a a i i reports from investigators on the case.

Suicide Clue Probed The possibility a Zdonick may have ended his i in his car in an isolated area a where the victim's body was discovered, sent State police patrols over little-used roads in the lower county yesterday and today. The couple had dated since she separated from her second a James T. George of Windsor. Mrs. George'? body was claimed yesterday by a i a taker, to a where services will be conducted Thursdav.

WASHINGTON Nov. President Eirenhower said today i Russia seems to be showing a some- what more conciliatory attitude in I the latest plane shooting i i than has been the earlier; similar episodes. i The President told a news i ence the American 'photo-making! plane shot down by Soviet fliers off the Japanese coast on Sunday bid i a right to be where it was in this country's view. But these things are not alwivs, i as clear cut as they seem and this one is clouded to some Eisenhower said. The President said he thinks a i i i i case the Russians a shown a considerable difference "f'' I attitude toward American than they have in the past although he doesn't know what may come it.

i Favors Contract Eisenhower also told his confer- i ence he still is for the Dixon-Ya'es power contract here at home be- cause no better way has been of- i fered to get the needed electric i ergy. He said there's nothing in the contract that can raise by a eingle cent the costs of power to Tennes- i see Valley authority customers. If there any politics in this thing it i isn't by his choosing, he said. On other matters: Chinese attacks--There is no atom of truth. Eisenhower said in reports that Generalissimo WATKINS OPENS SENATE DEBATE; DEFENDS PROBE Sayr.

Committee Sought to Be Fair; Rules Out Role M'CARTHY ATTACKS He Calls Probcrs 'Unwit- tint Handmaiden'' of Communist Party MASS pickets continued to parade in front of the Broad street entrance of the Underwood corporation plant today without incident under the survailance of police. Mass picketing took place at both the Broad street and Allen street entrances of the main plant of the strike-bound company. WITNESS BARES Peaceful Picketing Staged SLAYING DENIAL At Three Underwood Shops Bay Village Mayor Urged Sheppard to Confess If He Did It By RALEIGH ALfcSBROOK CLEVELAND, NOV. 10--(API The mayor of Bay Village disclosed today he once urged Dr. Samuel H.

Shcppard, his close i to confess he. his wife "if by any chance" he did it. Sheppard refused, he said, declaring he "couldn't have done it." Mayor j. Spencer Houk made this statement on the witness stand before a the osteopath Mass i i by members of Local 267. IUE-CIO, continued i out i i this i in of the Underwood a i a at Broad and Allen streets, i Pickets formed shortly a 6 m.

at all three of the company's plants here. Token pickets con- i in front of two smaller on Gilbert and streets. I However, by 8 a.m. between 200 and 300 persons assembled In groups i picketing in front of the South End plant. 20 Cops On i Another group of about 100 office workers and company i i a had gathered on the other side of Broad Stale Bonus Sought For Korean Veterans for the bludgeon murder of his wife.

in a company parking lot. A Marilyn. Sheppard claims a bushy lalo 20 patrolmen un- haired burglar killed Marilyn. command of Capt. John P.

Recounts Visit Curry was stationed at the Broad Houk wan recounting how the I treet 1ant No attempt made handsome osteopath dropped in company officials to enter the his City hall i on July 21. the a Chiang day an inquest into Marilyn's Nationalist forces nave''been or- death staged. a tnd A a of i i hy i to a a the communist-held Chinese main- mayor testified: "Sam came i land. The chief executive said dmvn. Actually, I office a lul started the involved In the i i i Friday a labor a a a failed to Agree upon try to deal with our partners as conversation.

I asked him If he had I 8n i contract. Negotiations ever had a better friend than I i a and were i a was." said "He said did i b'oken off a 12.30 a.m. Monday, anybody ever question And 1 At lj lr said no. "I appealed to him. 'Sam, if by any chance you did do this, come such and make agreements with instead of giving orders.

Bipartisan foreign policy--Eisen- hower said he has many good friends i i the Democratic party and contemplates no i i i culty on this question. As to how efforts will be made to achieve bipartisanship, he said he didn't know. That was in response to a question as to whether he might do something along the lines follow. ed by former President Truman in appointing John Foster Dulles. i now Secretary of State, and John 1 Sherman Cooper, now a U.

S. Senator, both Republicans, to contact members of Congress with respect to a bipartisan policy. HARTFORD. Nov. A $300 bonus for Korean war veterans was provided today in a bill prenared for submission to the 195S Legislature.

The measure, filed in the Secretary of State's office nearly two months before the General Assembly convenes Jan. 5. was submitted by State Senator John Minetto (R-Cosheni. It provides a $20,000.000 bond issue for similar to ones given (I veterans. Any Connecticut I 0 who served In the armed forces during the Korean war would gibU maximum ot the of for each month of service.

NAVY VET, 38, DIES AFTER FOOT RACE WASHINGTON. Nov. 'API Senator a i a told the Senate today the six-member eom- i which recommended censure of Senator McCarthy had sought i to act i "whatever wisdom. calmness, fairness, courage and de- votion we might muster." "But we are not here to argue a our interpretations must I followed." Watkins said, adding a the committee would act as "prosHcutor" of the case, i Watkins. as chairman of the i opened the formal de i bate on the censure issue which brought the Senate into extraordi: nary session Monday.

McCarthy Attacks McCarthy already had leaped ahead with a a a al- thoujth predicting "I will be stired." a released last night, for i i a publication, a prepared speech which he said he intended to deliver in the Senate, probably i today. In it. he called the Watkins i i the i i Innd- I a i of the Communist party, i As for himself. McCarthy said he is "the symbol of resistance to subversion" and declared "the nation's a is in some respects tied" to his own. a i also gave reporters prepared but with the stlr- illation a it was not to be pub- Illshed until he began speaking.

i Watkins noted that the committee had recommended censure on grounds Mc- Carthv acted "contemptuously" toward a Senate elections subcom- i "repeatedlv abused" Brig. Gen. Ralph 1 when Zwicker was I fore McCarthy's Investigations siib- I committee list winter. a i a i "In directing attention to the committee's' action, the committee wants it understood that it is net by any means suggesting a the maiUr, Succumbs In Ridgefield After Half-Mile Run between the 1 is an I i i a i job contract i Includes the following item': i piece work, job evaluation, senior; tty protection, grievance procedure. vacation holiday and ift- suranc" improvements and provi- I sions and a union security i At tne Irtish line in a i I The wage issue, according to foot race yesterday when a heart DR.

T. F. CUMMINGS DIES IN 75TH YEAR dispute. The company, which a a i tabulating machines, pays an average hourly wage of $1.70. Charles R.

i a company personnel director, a conferring i i police and union officials, said a controversy stil! Dentist Here Two Decades; Pas' Exalted Ruler of Elks Lodge out and say so. I figure if it was done tiif you. it done in i I apfrci'eii to hliii on Ihe basis his entire family and all his friends were being Involved. Denied Slaying "Sam replied' he couldn't have from both sides. Is not ailment proved a a to the loser, done it.

and he hadn't done it. and ne of th mo! 'l 1IC)pU 'V snortlv a got up to leave." Houk also told of a visit to his city hall office by Sheppard and his osteopath brother. Dr. Stephen Sheppard. just 10 davs a Marilyn was found murdered tn her bed July 4.

This time, he Steve and Sam discussed i him a theory a a crazy a a schizo- i a have killed Marilyn. This theory was a the ed person had put her "on a pedestal as a goddess" and had murdered her was a The psychiatrist's name was not given. The psychiatrist told them. Houk related, that such a person i a ily would not bother the victim. Nov.

10. Death L. Rockwell, 38, former postmaster. Dr. Joseph Sloan, medical examiner, a i death to coronary occlusion as a result of violent exercise.

Mr. Rockwell of Governor street "nuea over plant maintenance. The raced Harry Pancotti, of 42 Barry boiler room and power house situation has been discussed with fire Officials, he declared. The union, according to Mr. Weidman, has refused to allow mainte- a to the plant.

The i other a claimed the company has refused to sit a each claimed a i superiority over the other, according to Dr. Edward J. Wagner, to wnose rff'ice he was a i about 7 o'clock a he became i They raced from Blssell's Drug stoie on Main street to the Elm's inn and hack, a distance of a dl the issuance of about a a mile. Dr. Wagner said 6 KIL! EO.

4 INJURED IN HEADON CAR CRASH i Dr. Thomas Francis Cummings. 74. cf 373 Fairview avenue, a dentist who maintained a practice i at 1115 Main street more a 40 vears. died todav at 1:55 a.m.

i BEAUMONT. Texas. Nov. i hospital where he A youths were i was a i Oct. 17 for surreal on of fOijr )nj ref r( pc rfd mpn ir Himrnu.

tn death today following a a i headon a collision i.n fog-shrouded U. S. Highway 69, a few miles south of h-'e. a Highway a a K. Wood said the accident occurred in a dense patch of fag shortly i i T.

T. a a i i of to a i a and payroll personnel. Tom Williams. IUE-CIO field representative, said todav the union he was told. Later in the evening, a member of Mr.

Pancotti's a i said he was "sick in bed" and could not Key Democrats Hold Dim Hope For Major Taxpayer Relief In '55 UN. MOON. STARS Wednesday. Nov. 10 Three day of a i day of a i Sun sets at 4:39 p.m and 6:35 a tomorrow.

The Moon rise. at m. in the i i Aries, and is in Perigee At a.m today it only 221.500 mnes from the a the a it heei since a a 194R a Nov. 17. THE TIDE Today 10:20 a.m 10:52 4:07 a m.

4:45 p.m. i Low- Tomorrow 1 1 1 1 11 3 rn. a in 1.35 m. WASHINGTON. Nov.

10 A Key Democrats who led a i i earlier i year for a in- i i a ir.cone tax cut hold out i hope today for any substan- i a taxpayer relief in 1855. even the Democratic party will control Congress. They indicated a less favorable budget situation may postpone a I i i a income a i 6 or at permit a smuller cut a advocated in the Congiessional session. All 10 holdover Democrats on the a i i House Ways and a i were polled for their i on a possible i i i a income a cut year. Of the i who replied, i voiced doubts about prospects for sii'-h a cut.

declined to a any forcca.n and feili i said the outlook bright. on Monday an nounceci will i a i early in th new Congress to tioo-'t mdlvidual exemptions for each a payer and by $100. The present i is $000. When Democrats tried unsuccessfully to a a i i a provision to a big tax revision hil! earlier i year, ail 10 Ways and Means i Democrats supported the If enacted. would a slashed revenue about $2.300.000.000 a It also would have relieved shout seven i i taxpayers of any Federal income tax hill Opposed by the Eisenhower a i i a i Democratic move was beaten in the House.

210-204. A i i a proposal wan. a a in the Senate. Services will a place Friday at 8:30 a in. in hi? home, and at 9 o'clock in St.

Patrick's church with a solemn requiem Burial wili be In St. Michael's cemetery. Born in i Dr. Cum- mmss was a member of the Connecticut Dental society, a past exalted ruler of Bridgeport Lodge 36. BPOE.

and a member of the Council of Catholic Men. He is survived by sons. Donald F. of a Thomas Jr. of Fairfleld.

and Robert i ef Bridgeport: a a Dorothea Elizabeth Cum- niings of Bridgeport: a brother James Cummings of Bristol: four sisters. Eliraheth DeChamp of Mrs Catherine O'Connell of Richmond. Mrs. Mary Conley of Bridgeport, and i Grace Burns of Pasadena. Calif seven grandchildren and one great-grandson.

EVENT TONIGHT MARKS JEWISH TERCENTENARY tenance and purposes if a no production guarantee Is made by the company. Jennings Expresses Concern Fire Chief E. wfis unavailable for comment to- (Continued on Page Fourteen) (Ihuckle A Fire a resuscitator used at Dr. Wagner's office in an a to revive Mr. Rockwell.

A a i of Ridgefield. Mr. Rockwell was the town's postmaster during a a i i a Hte a the late George Lounsbury Rockwell. Sr known as "the i i a of Ridgefield." vas a direct dencendent of a a Rock ne of the original i i The Beaumont Enterprise, said wreckers were required to pull tangled autos a a at "Do your daughters live home?" "No. they're not married yet." Bridgeport's Jewish Tercente- a celebration will be i a a ed i at o'clock i a program in the Klein auditorium.

The observance is part of a nationwide a to "Man's Opportunities and Responsibilities Freedom," applied to Jewish participation in the development of America over a JOO-yeaT period, Living Scale Here Rated High; Fcod, Auto Spending Take Lead Bridgeport residents are liv- for food 24 rents Ing on a scale above average lor of the dollar. the and are more It mears a and for food, cars and other A i food was being bought loc.illv equipment a a i else The purchases in various This was disclosed in an analyst 1 grocery stores, bakeries of Bridgeport's consumer and the like at the a i part cf a i a study by i ra'e of 5 per a i Management tn i how The average for the a i people spend i money and for p-r a i In New Er.g- States jt was $1.065 and in the Among the rtelerminants are a of Connecticut. $1.205 general of earnings and a i larger proportion of i income The i i scale also 1is- 'ised for buying. Food purchases in local Operated School Bus Mr. Rockwell was a a Ridgefield i school and was a o' P'airfield county.

He served in a years i World War II. A the war. he was proprietor of Rockwell's garage At the time of death, he was a school bus a in the employ of J. a i a He a i cousin of Mrs. Richard i wife of the Vi President of the i States a rf nephew of Gov ernors of Connecticut, the late PS ed for which no recommendations for censure have been made.

Neither is it suggesting that the Senate is under any obligation to i follow its recommendations." I 40 Charges Lodged Altogether, some 40-odd charges were lodged against McCarthy by Senators Flanders i Ful! bright (D-Ark) Morse (Indi Ore). The Watkins committee grouped thece charges Into i categories. a recommended censure on two categories. 1 Along its conclusion that McCarthy was contemptuous of an I elections subcommittee, it lumped a specific charge that he had used I vulgar language about Senator Hen; drickson a i McCarthy had described Hendrickson as "a i i i a i brains or In his speech today. Watkins said "we to the problem no preconceived opinions as to how it should be attacked, nor to what conclusions our investigations would lead us." None Sought Probe Job The a Senator said none c' the six members sought appoint- to the i and all acted in an unbiased manner.

McCarthy has a charged bias on the part of Watkins. Sena- tor i Johnson iD-Colo) and 1 Senator Ervln 'D-NC'. a i a relating the ap- (Continutd on Fourteen) DEATH SENTENCE FACES ROCHE, KILLER OF FIVE NEW YORK. Nov. 1( Convicted John Francis Roche.

27. who a i he a a death sentence in tha chair for murder of 14- year-old Dorothv Wetwater. Rorhe was found i of murder i- the ht'st yesterday fcr the rape-slaying of thv hifch girl A jury i deliber- ummend mercy. He will be sentenced Nov. 30.

Page Fourtesn) TIRED 'DOING NOTHING'. FEDERAL WORKER QUITS Index FPANKL1N. Nov. 10. -( A i resigned from his Federal post because he was "just sit- clo'ed in the outlays for i around all day and doing noth and used cars and automotive to a sizeable i and accessories.

i the Ixcal business in i J. Leo Bourassa Miid yrstcrdav category he worked only 24 hours In 51 davg last year a complied I figure of $79.030.000. means a a $51.245.000 In the yesu. as a a to the Small out of everv a jpent in i second only to food. It marked a ness a i i i a i shons.

27 went for food. considerable A a over the This a a the nvrr- 1 a i in the United States (Continued on Fourteen) 37. Nov. 4 to SBA Mid ho resigned head Wcndoll B. 57 Classified Section 86-57 County Mows 33 19 Iditorials 32 Health.

Dr. Brady 41 Anno 40 Homo and 39 Obituanos Petlor. Wostbrook 13 ftadio-TV S4 Soctoty SoHottky. Goorgo 33 StctiOn 44-4646 toroon 9.