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Senate Group Cuts Foreign Aid $162 Million Circulation YESTERDAY Net Paid 38,547 Forecast rrom 0. a Wntto Bums TONIGHT: Clear, cool; low 42-47. Friday: Fair, warmer; high 73-78. Weather Map, Page 22 tab-Gazette VOLUME 46 "KO 2Q1 Associated Press (Ap), Gannett New Bervtce (GNS) tu, t.vu Wlreph0t01 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation! ELMIRA, N. THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1953.

80 Cent! per Week Delivered by Carrier FIVE CENTS EIM 1 last eirmaini Minor Aid Cut Seen Eisenhower Victory Washington The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's $162 million slice off President Eisenhower's foreign aid bill was relatively minor, but its House counterpart takes up the knife today. The Senate group, finishing its work yesterday, left the total in the authorization measure at $5,312,000,000. This was considered a first-round victory for the administration in view of the big slashes demanded by some lawmakers. Cyrbs Sfrafte, Tornado Wrecked Worcester Reforms Seen But the House Foreign Affairs President Makes a Deal hlr Air View of .1 VS! to fife Discontent Berlin (AP) East Germany' Red rulers announced sweeping cutbacks last night in the com-munization of the Soviet-occupied territory and signed a peace treaty giving the powerful Protestant Church big concessions. Uoth startling developments Western quarters figured the Kremlin ordered them apparently were aimed at making the East zone a more attractive candidate for unification with the more prosperous and free West Germany.

Hkytz S. BLONDE, BLUE-EYED Margaret Svendsen listens intently as President Eisenhower thanks her for doll she gave him and asks if it would be all right if he gave it to his little grandson. "That would be real nice," the six-year-old Minneapolis girl replied. Margaret, herself in Norwegian garb, had dressed the carved wooden doll in a Norwegian bridal gown. She told President Eisenhower the doll was a gift of "Norwegian Republicans." (AP Wirephoto).

ABOVE IS an aerial view of damage inflicted near Assumption College, Worcester, by Tuesday's hurricane. Three nuns and a priest were killed at the college. In foreground are some of the homes blasted by the tornado which left 82 dead and more than 800 (AF Wire-. photo). $7 5 Million Damage Allied, Red Of ficers Speed Truce Draft Munsan UP) Allied and Red staff officers raced today to complete an armistice draft as South Korea boiled with new demonstrations and a threat to disregard any truce.

Three of the five UN Command negotiators left this base camp temporarily as lower-level staff officers worked on details of the truce document in secret sessions at Panmunjom. In Bay State Storm Worcester, Mass. Kenabiiitation operations were in full swing today on the second day after New England's worst tornado cut a swath of death and destruction through central Massachusetts. And as steps were taken to speed the appropriation of federal Committee begins its closed-door votes today with a big bundle of amendments, including a number of cuts, already offered. Some of the House group's members have talked of slashes running as high as $2 billion but there was evidence these would be strongly resisted.

Rep. John Vorys (R-Ohio), who led the successful fight in the committee to make a big reduc- tion in foreign aid last year, said in an interview he would not offer any amendments this time. The measure approved by the Senate committee is well under the $6,001,947,000 voted for for eign aid last year. Chairman Robert Chiperfield (R-Ill) of the House group said he did not believe the military items, which comprise the bulk of the measure, should be re duced much, if at all. He said economic aid could stand some paring.

Chairman Alexander Wiley (R-Wis) of the Senate committee told newsmen he thought the figures approved by his committee should have A "pretty good" chance of winning final Senate concurrence. He said the Eisenhower ad ministration already had cut the foreign aid program more than $2 billion under what former President Truman proposed for fiscal 1954 starting July 1. However, the mutual aid program has a long legislative road ahead. In the Senate, the Arm ed Services Committee wants to take a look at the authorization bill before floor debate begins; it could propose reductions of its own. After this bill is finally sent to the White House, a second one carrying the money must make the trip through the Appropriations Committees and another siege of floor debate.

The Senators did not cut any of the major military or economic items allocated to specific areas of the world. The only big reduction they voted was $150 million in a proposed $250 million global special weapons program. This program is an innovation with the new administration. Mutual Security Director Harold E. Stassen explained it was designed to help America's allies take advantage of the newest advances in modernizing their military equipment He said it was potentially the most valuable expenditure in the bill However, Wiley said his committee felt the $100 million it voted would permit Stassen tcr show what the program could do.

Profits Tax Extension Seen Doubtful Washington Senator Richard Knowland of California, acting Republican Senate leader, today tabbed extension of the excess profits tax one of President Eisenhower's major requests to Congress as definitely doubtful. Knowland omitted mention of it in a forecast of prospective Senate actions this session. Asked by reporters about the omission, Knowland said the tax extension was "not necessarily dead." But it is tied up in the House Ways and Means Committee, Knowland observed, adding that he was "frankly not certain" it would emerge from either House or Senate action. Knowland said if the bill did come out of committee he thought it stood a better than 50-50 chance of enactment Truck Overturns, Scalding Asphalt Kills Mother Hollywood CD Ten tons of scalding asphalt poured over a young mother and her year-old baby yesterday when an out-of-control dump truck overturned, spilling its steaming load into their convertible. Mrs.

Leonora Kunz, 31, was fatally burned. Her son Andrew, with third degree burns over most of his body, is in critical condition. The two were almost buried when the tarry substance cascaded into their open car. Policemen and bystanders freed them from the crushed machine by dipping the asphalt away with bare hands. Halt HintMove Aimed at NATO Bonn, Germany Communist announcement of conciliatory reforms in East Germany hit with considerable political impact in West Germany today.

There were two major interpretations: 1 The Communists have made a shrewdly-timed move aimed at preventing West Germany's rearmament in alliance wjth the free world and torpedoing pro-American Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in this Sum. mer's critical elections. 2 The Russians are actually coming through with "deeds, not words" in their peace of. fenslve as demanded by the West. Some Communist gestures offering hope of reunifying this divided country had been expected since Moscow began issuing peace feelers following Stalin's death.

But many here believed the Berlin gestures were intended not merely for Germany, but for world-wide effect, especially in the United States. They were linked with recent developments in Korea and Austria and seen as an additional step in Moscow's answer to President Eisenhower's April peace challenge. In a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors last Apr. 16, Eisenhower called on Russia to prove the sincerity of its peace overtures by agreeing to global disarmament and taking concrete steps to ease world tensions. Members of Adenauer's government were hesitant to com- ment on the Berlin announcement, other than to say that "anything which improves the lot of 18 million enslaved and hungry Fast Germans must be welcomed." Report Reils End Claim on Turk Strait Istanbul Unofficial and unconfirmed reports from Ankara today said Russia has abandoned her claim to joint control of the Dardanelles and the areas of Kars, Ardahan and Artvin.

The Turkish government was rigidly silent on the reports, but the informants said it may make a statement after it has received the text of a new Soviet note. The reports, if true, would indicate that the Soviet Union has extended its "peace offensive" to Turkey. The new Soviet offer was said to have been contained in a note handed to the Turkish ambassador in Moscow which expressed a desire lor improved relations. In 1945 Russia demanded a share in control of the Dardanelles, the strategic strait linking the Mediterranean and the Black: Sea. She followed that up by put ting a claim to the rugged Kars, Ardahan and Artvin areas on the Turkish-Soviet border.

All these demands and claims wera firmly rejected by Turkey. GENEVA HOTEL DAMAGED Genea Fire today did $10 000 damage to the third floor oi the Hotel Algonquin, They appeared also designed, to quiet the widespread fear and discontent among Fast Germany's 18 million residents whirh have sent thousands fleeing each week to the West Announcing the communiza-tion cutbacks directed by the ruling Tolitburo of the East Cerman Communist Party, Premier Otto Grotewohl said the group "is aiming at the reestab-lishment of the unity of Germany which requires from both sides concrete measures to bring this about." The concessions to the Germans from their Red rulers also gave new ammunition to West German opponents of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's campaign to bring Germany's western half into military alliance with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nations. The sudden Communist "switch" look Western circles by surprise and most top Allied and German leaders refused to comment. One high American official described the Red announcement as the "most sig-nicatit" of postwar times here. Some Western officials here expressed belief that the moves were only a prelude to some other important Soviet action, perhaps a Kremlin call for a four-power mectis? on Germany.

The Politburo directives provided for: 1 No further extension of the collective farm system. 2 Making state bank credits available to private businessmen. 3 Returning confiscated prop erty and full civil rights to persons who come back to East Germany after fleeing to the West. 4 A general amnesty for all prisoners serving one to three years on charges of having damaged the state-owned economy. 5 Issuance of ration cards to all persons.

The state recently withheld cards from 250,000 East Germans, regarded as outside the favored Red circle. The pact to end the bitter church-state battle was announced jointly by Grotewohl and Bishop G. Dibelius, head of the Protestant Church for all Germany. Its nine points, covering most of the main issues, sharply reversed the government's hostile attitude of the past few months. The Protestants are the most powerful religious group in East Germany.

Bishop Dibelius' flock includes 16 million of the East's 18 million and 25 of the 43 million in the West. The church-state pact, announced following a three-hour meeting between Dibelius and Grotewohl, provided: 1 Recognition of the church's right of assembly. A government order requiring the church to announce all its meetings in advance leaving them liable to a police ban, will be reviewed and relaxed. 2 "No further actions against the Youth Communities and other church groups. All pupils expelled from schools because they were active in the church outfits, rather than the Redsponsored Free German Youths are to be re-admitted to their classes.

3 Review of court sentences against more than 100 pastors now in jail on charges of opposing the state; "unjust punishments" will be rectified. Confiscated church property will be returned. I All state subsidies to the. church long customary in Germany to be paid promptly. and state funds and the payment area counted this toll: Dead 82, with two still unidentified.

Missing 13. Injured about 800. Homeless about 7,000. Damage estimated by Gov. Christian A.

Ilerter at $75 million. Rescue workers continued their search through the wreckage of hundreds of homes and business establishments in 12 communities for more bodies openly expressing hope they'll find no more. Some 2,000 National Guardsmen patrolled the devastated area to prevent looting and keep un-autnorizod persons away. Col. William F.

Bigelow, military commander of the Worcester National Guard Area, im pose a strict 5 p. m. (EDT) cur few Jaw in the area after reporting 'there's been looting. Just how much we don't know." Ful'y 1,000 homes were re ported demolished and 3,000 dam- aged in Worcester. i Another 150 homes were said to have been demolished or darta in the other stricken communities Hoiden, Shrewsbury, Petersham, Barre, Rutland, Grafton, Westboro, Southboro, Temple-ton aud Paxton.

With the full-dress meetings in recess subject to call by either side, Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, senior Allied delegate, visited the U. S.

Third Division at the battlefront and Rear Adm. John C. Daniel and Brig. Gen. Egbert Glenn went to Tokyo.

Any major armistice action requires their presence. They could speed back within a few hours. Meanwhile, South Korea balked more and more in its "no unification-no armistice" stand. As thousands of demonstrators tramped the streets of Seoul and Pusan, acting Premier Pyun Yung Tal hinted i that South Korean troops would refuse to withdraw from the 2li -mile-wide buffer zone to be set up between Allies and Reds in a truce. After a special Cabinet meeting, Pyun said 4 South Korea "can not and will not accept any part of the armistice terms." Pyun has been the most outspoken and vitriolic of government leaders.

President Syngman Rhee, In a message to the South Korean people, said a truce under current terms means "death to South Korea." He said he had been explaining this point to the other Allied nations and, "we intend to do so continually." However, Rhee warned his people against "unruly conduct" toward UN personnel during "this time of national Life's Like That! In Stitches crisis" and said any such unfriendly acts would be subject to stern punishment. In Washington, worries eased that some of the five nations might withdraw as members of a repatriation commission to control some 46,000 Red war prisoners who refuse to go home. The commission would take custody of the POWs for 90 days while Red agents made "explanations" and "assurances" in an effort to win them back to their Communist homelands. Sweden said it would serve and the two Communist nationsPoland and Czechoslovakiawere considered likely to accept or they would never have been nominated by the Communists. Swiss Foreign Minister Max Petitpicrre said at Bern his coun? try "could be induced" to serve in order to avoid delay in an armistice.

This appeared to reverse a previous announcement that Switzerland would not accept unless the South Koreans approved the truce. Reader's Guide Comics Date Book Deaths Editorials 40 Radio 17 16 Society 7, 8 23 Sports 41-44 6 Television 17 Morse Code 12 Theaters 39 No Britches Reds Rip Hole in UN Line Seoul Lit Chinese troops In almost regimental strength cracked through a main line Allied in central Korea today and fought off bitter counterattacks by two South Korean forces. To the west, troops of the 15th Regiment, U. S. Third Division smashed back six Communist attacks as an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 Reds hit American and South Korean positions along the front.

The Third Division reported killing and wounding about 600 Chinese. A briefing officer said two Chinese battalions broke throu i i the main line position defended by South Koreans, then quickly reinforced to almost regimental strength perhaps 3,000 men. The breakthrough occurred southeast of Outpost Texas. An Army spokesman said the breakthrough is serious, but that entire area of the battle front is not threatened. The Reds drove South Koreans from three important hill positions in cracking through the line at several points along a yard ironi, me Army said Medic Draft Bill Revised Washington () The doctor draft law is in shape to be extended two years, but doctors with substantial military service will be exempt House-Senate conferees agreed yesterday on a version compromising differences between bills passed by the two branches.

Doctors, dentists and veterinarians who served 21 months since Sept. 16, 1940, have no further obligation except in all-out emergency. Those who served 17'months are technically subject to call, but officials said they would not be reached under foreseeable demand. Obligation remaining for others ranges from 13 months for those who served between 15 and 17 months to 24 months for those who served less than nine. of insurance policies, the stricken Radar Setup Proposed As Tornado Safeguard Baltimore tn A nationwide radar network to track tornadoes and reduce the loss of life and property from such "catastrophes has been proposed by a weather expert.

Capt Howard P. Orville, former head of the Navy's Me-teorlogical Division, estimated such a system could be built at 35 key weather stations. He suggested it would cost about $5 million a year over a 10-year period. French Crisis In 4lh Week Paris iff) The French govern ment crisis entered its fourth week today and President Vin cent Auriol looked again for a premier following the National Assembly rejection oi a tnird candidate, Georges Bidault. In the Assembly balloting earlier today, the 627-mcmber Lower House failed by one vote to give Bidault the 314-vote 'absolute majority he required for i confirmation.

The count was mg a pistol and posted 54UU bond. After the June 3 arrest Franks told the story of being given $19,000 by J. C. Henderson, Texas rancher in state prison at Huntsville on a 50-year murder sentence. Henderson verified the story and said he believed the money will help Franks go straight.

Franks and his 16-year-old bride, Betty, had planned to leave shortly for Los Angeles. Frank's attorney posted $200 lor his release. Ex-Con Back in Arms of Lmv After $19,000 Gift by Cellmate Houston 'T Alton Franks had I Following his arrest last week, trouble with police again last Franks was charged with carry- Oklahoma City UPl Justice John Brett was overruled by fellow judges of the state Criminal Court of Appeals yesterday. They felt he had gone overboard for comfort. It was a hot day.

Their judicial robes were warm. When it came time to go on the bench, Judge Brett lifted his calf-length gown in the chambers and confided: "Look, no pants:" Justices Dick Jones and John C. Powell won the resulting discussion, 2-1. Brett wore his britches in court RESCUER NEEDS RESCUE Roanoke, Va. IP Five-year-old Jerry Wayne was hit by a car and escaped with cuts and bruises.

But C. R. Hurd, who saw the accident started from his home to help the child, fell off his front porch and suffered a broken leg. TWAS A HARD BLOW Worcester, Mass. Wi Undamaged by Tuesday night's tornado was this sign on the Worcester City Hall: "Worcester now leads the nation in safety.

Help keep the record, now 15 deathless days." night and it appeared the 19' year-old former convict won't be taking a California honeymoon trip for a while. He wTecked the flashy hardtop converflble he bought with part of $19,000 given him by a cellmate, and was charged with speeding and driving without lights. Franks was arrested by the same highway patrolmen who arrested him June 3. Patrolmen G. V.

Mayfield and R. W. Wright said he drove 90 miles an hour trying to escape them last night i.