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4 Clou dy with occasional rain to night becomin partly cloudy tonight and Tues- day. Little change in Hirh San' Francisco, Oakland 57 to 62. Low tonight 45 to 50. Southerly winds? 35 to 30 m.p.h. today diminishing tonight i EDITION ISTAIUSNI MttUART 21.

1174: ASSOCIATE! PRESS. LYME 0 1 8 ft 1 1 VOL. CLX! 10 DAILY OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1954 2(X SUNDAY NO. 159 i rt it ii Merger Wil, Boots Erb Drive Sparl All fl I es -D af Ss ro ttft off QWf Hunt Oii Two Counties Send Searchers Out After Young Sacramentan JACKSON (Amador County), Dec. i.

Search parties from two counties plowed through rugged, mow-blanketed country 35 miles east of here today on snowshoes, a tracked" weapons carrier and a special snow jerp in search of a Sacramento man, Big For Man tost In Deep Snow -i- i aices Coffee as. Health Gains VATICAN CITY, Dec. Of) r-Pope Pius XII had coffee and! broth today. He ate three times! and managed to keep down thel tooa in tne most heartening de velopment' since his physical collapse last Thursday. His: hiccups are becoming lighter and less frequent His brief periods or rest are grow- Acqua, substitute pro-secretary of state, announced: i i a n.m.

naspr. ahvp Jf i i We are. happy to report that Pop I I 16 Nations Agree on Means V. To Force Releases, Charging Breach of Korea Armistice UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 6.

-Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. announced today that the United States and her 15 Korean war Allies had reached agree: ment on a resolution calling for the release of 11 U.S. fliers held by red China. Lodge made his disclosure after a private meeting irf the 16 nations. He said that all had agreed to co-sponsor jusi now the Holy Father's operate with i President Eisen physicians have advised thatk missing for 24 hours.

One snowshoe-equipped search tne proposal tne u.im. party or live men set out in a snow storm last night, a few hours alter Wilson A. Fisher, 22, hil lino rfirinl imnrnv.rvi.ntl continues." SLOWLY ftAINfKft i out inc lo-vcar-via nna oi A i 1 gm uie iwmn wauiouc inurcn. re- mains-senously ill. His rength very aiowiy, ai lTt -T ine x-ope is nox enjoying tne complete rest ordered by his Viijrtls, IOr ne insisis on cu rying on his Lpontificarmission even UUnng UU3 worst UineSS OI his 15-year reign.

I I I General Assembly, but hei declined to give the terms df the Informed quarters said; however, that it contained these points: 1 Declaring red China guilty of violating the Korean artruV -stice by holding the American flyers and other Allied per sonnel. 2 Asked U.N. Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarikjold td usjs his good offices to try to obtain -the release of; the American fliers and others held by the, Peiping regime, The 16 Allies ended their meeting just as the 15-natioa iv ii it iixv mi ai live Draws Fire Of GOP Head Democrats Disregard Pledgt to Support President, He Charges WASHINGTON; Dec. 6. (A Republican National Chair Leonard WJ HalL nittins back at his new Democratic counterpart, said today the Democrats have "thrown into the ashcan" their pledge to co Hall issued; a statement reply ing to yesterday; si assertion by the new Democratic national new uemocrawc national chairman, Paul M.

Butler, that vase a voiuiis a ww a it to either hi3 Admin. ltatrttion or thei Republican "rf tk- WhH- 5tlf H. clined comment, but Hall spoke hAur, -ftr nfir- rinjJ with shermah Adams, the Prci1nt' nrin-ini airi Th ran hn nn that Democrat leaders, now that the 1954 election is over. sible way Butler said Eisenhower had shon a lack of capacity to lead the Administration and his party and Also thatl had become "more. nd more apparent that a military background is not a ful1 complete preparation ior Chief Executive.

nl A1no on 4 wsen sar overwoeimingiy eiteiea io dc itneir uniei executive ana justi tied inrresenting this reflection Hjeif wmeciive capacity eiect capable triciais, smith flxir I Defends Eisenhower I BATON ROUGE. La, Dee. uLouisiana Gov. Robert Kennon strongly defended president Eisenhower todav as an -outstanding leader" after the new National Democratic a Di-o-Eisenhower at- Democrat- and chairman 'of the National Governor Cnnfrnr I Today- the Vatican announcedletaniin Wall i4 4at.t miw oy r.uio irom na sicitDea, the Pope will give his blessing Vtdi et oroi to tne city and ire determined to undercut Pres-the world to close the Marian ident Eisenhower in everv dos- of Sacramento, disappeared while looking for a Christmas tree; When that five-man party had riot been heard from by early this afternoon, the Amador County sheriffs office dis patched a converted weapons carrier and the El Dorado County sheriffs office at Placer ville sent in four-wheel-drive Jeep, modified for snow use, with a six-man party. The EI Dorado County party, led by Deputy Sheriff Hiram (Tex) Walker, expected to reach the Somerset and Grizzly areas about 2 p.nt, then work along back roads in the vicinity.

The other two search parties were working toward Walkers searchers from State Highway It was from this highway that Fisher set out yesterday after A companion. Julio Molina, 25, returned to their car. parked about 1 miles west of the Peddler Hill ski lodge, but Wilson failed to turn up. Fisher is a tool inspector and Uolina a draftsman at the Mc- ByAFL. CIO New Members to Be Sought in South -And Atomic Plants.

ty VICTOX RIESEl LOS ANGELES, Dec 6. The thousand top leaders of CIO may be wistfully folding their big tent, but they are far from stealing away into the night Rather they're planning new or ganizing and political drives for millions of workers in the South, in new atomic era industries, and among the non-unionized everywhere, once CIO is merged with the AFL sometime next May or June. Everywhere among the dele gates to the CIO's 16th con ven tion most likely its last after exactly 19 hectic years there; is an eagerness to revive the pile-driving unionizing days of 1937. It was a mature and real istic Walter Reuther who set the new tone in a detailed verbal report to the CIO high command here the other day. FAST IS PROLOGUE As he told of his negotiations with AFL 'leaders, Reuther's theme, and the sentiment of his colleagues, added up to "what is past is prologue." The "Redhead" spoke of the potential membership in the new indus tries.

As an example, he picked out the vitually unorganized chemical field, in which there are now hundreds of thousands of non-union workers. In this field today there are two rival unions, one in the AFL and one in CIO. Once labor is these two unions could merge. With the and manpower oi a movement ox 15,000,000 members them, they fcnlonir the chemical industry as CIO once did in steel and So it could also be in the fields of -plastics and atomic energy and in the 'South and Southwest, -the new labor fron tiers, in which industry is throwing up big new plants. INDEPENDENCE STAYS' Those who heard Reuther are the leaders of 33 international CIO unions, all of which will go into, the AFL with their inde pendence he told them.

These are veterans of labor organization the men who helped build organized labor from 3,000,000 members on Nov. 9, 1935. when CIO was launched, to 17,000,000 today. That meant 14,000,000 members in 19 years. These leaders Continned Page Cel.

year on Wednesday. BLESSING GIVEN isTbe aoostOlic blessinr was given the people of Rome from the sickroom yesterday. Daily, the Pope is receiving a few high prelates on Vatican business. All this consumes a measure of the meager store of energy built up during his rally. For a week the Pope was fed en otirely by indirect means.

Yes- tefday he sipped a few Steering Committee began debate on whether to. put question on the agenda of the General Assembly for full de bate. The Steering; Committee i made up of Assembly vice preslr Seven its'tl)s members repre- -sent Korean allies-itha Unite spoonfuls, of broth. physi- nowfr. tians said his recovery Ajnencaii people are accelerate if he could begin -to Justified in resenting this per-eat a' v- onI the man, they Clellan Air Force Base at Sacramento, m- i The first search party set out last night into the rugged, at 1 1 rj a ra Wd pS Dictatorship 5 TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Detf.

Vice President Julio Lozano took over as dictator of this Central American republic The short, 60-year-old busl- nessman assumed power consti- tutionally after a boycott by two parties prevented congress from picking a president from the two Fined $250 InBustPrank Charles (Boots) Erb, restau rant operator, pleaded suilty to day and was fined $250 on a charge of malicious mischief in connection with the Nov. 18 pub licity stunt that resulted in1 the red-paint smearing of a new bust of Jack London. Jack Hendrickson, press' agent, jointly charged with Erb, pleaded innocent last week; He was ordered to appear Jan. 7 for jury trial. Both were before Municipal Judge James S.

Blaine Erb; presented a letter, from the Port of Oakland, testifying that he had already paid $93 to re move paint from the London bust and its -COMMUNITY SHOCKED Judge Blaine commented that if the stunt had been perpetrated by high school or college it might have been con sidered a prank. "But when it involved mature business men, it shocked the he said. He commended Erb for admit ting! responsibility and making restitution for the damage done. In addition to imposing the fine on Erb, Judge Blaine placed him on probation for a period of one year, ur.der a suspended sentence of 10 days in jail. OUT OF HAND Police Capt Jack Brierly said Erb admitted the London Square raid was planned as a phony Biz Game stunt A group of youths was persuaded to paint -red letters on sidewalks near Erb's restaurant, posing as Stanford students.

The prank got out of hand when 'the London bust dedicated only the day before, was smeared. Brierly said Erb named Hen drickson as the originator of the stunt and claimed Hendrick son promised it would get "good publicity" for the restaurant. Twisters in South Kill 1, Injure 48 Ala, Dec. OB 4- Tornadoes diDoed sud denly out of leaden skies in eastern Alabama and western Georgia Sunday and killed one person, injured at least 48 and wrecked scores of homes. Property losses ran into hun dreds of thousands of dollars Alabama counted 57 homes, destroyed and 100 more damaged while Georeia renorted 220 badly battered and some demol ished.

Grim Alabama National Guard troops, under orders to shoot; necessary, guarded Wellington's shattered homes against looters while Red Cross and Salvation Army teams aided stricken residents. Elsewhere in the two-state area, emergency crews worked to replace utility, poles and wires ripped down by the sav I age twisters. Inside Today Cartoons like pictures sometimes tell the story morexraphically than words. For, example, turn to edito rial page: THE NEWS METER GREEN CROSS DITTIES Consider bow the feathered From traffie jams lie flies i away, While nomas jays, aBthlnking saps. Walk blindly laU lethal traps.

I JACK BURROUGHS. WHERE TO FIND IT Bridge Scores I 11 Churches 14 Classified 4i Comks 11 Crsswrd Faixle 22 Editorial At Financial 28, 39 Gardens Geraldino Is That So Mary Margaret McBride. Masie Review Radio and TV 11 22 31 12 A Riesel Society and Clubs 2s, 25 Sports 32 Theaters 3I, 31 Uacle Wiggily 11 ViUls 32 Weather 22 Eden Blasts Red China Violations LONDON, Dec. 6. WJ i Foreign; Secretary Anthony Eden today termed communist China's conviction of American airmen as spies a direct vio lation of terms of the Korean armistice agreement Speaking in answer to a La borite question in the House of Commons, Eden said: It is not allowable to any na tion which wishes to act by civilized standards to treat of ficers, noncommissioned officers or men in uniform as spies and to treat them in the sort of way they have been treated by the Chinese government.

CONDUCT. DEPLORED On behalf of Her Majesty's government and all civilized na tions, I deeply deplore this con duct. The Chinese action in holding these men back is a di rect violation of the terms of the Korean' armistice agreement" Eden said he not for a moment accept references by the Labor members of Parliament to these men as spies." He said he fully endorsed pre vious condemnation by Minister of State Anthony Nutting of the Chinese jailing and added: Eleven of the men concerned were in uniform shot down on military, operations on behalf of the United during the Korean As such they should have been repatriated on the conclusion of the Korean armistice. SP3T ROLE UNACCEPTED La borite John Baird had asked 'why'; instructions were given to Nutting at the Nations to condemn the Chinese government ''because they had punished' United States spies." Conservative cheers filled the chamber as Eden! said firmly: "I cannot for one moment ac cept Baird's references to these men as spies. Another Laborite, Mrs.

Bar bara Castle, asked what repre mentations had been made by the U.S. Government for Britain in an air and naval blockade of China. "The: answer' is none," Eden said. Thirteen Americans were sen tenced by the Chinese commu nists to long prison terms. Two were civilians.

The 11 referred to by Eden were members of one air crew which crashed. AID FOR CHINA Mrs. Castle asked whether Eden would "resist American pressure, direct or indirect, through the United Nations, for this country to tighten economic pressure on China, and will he, for a change, try giving China help in her economic reconstruction by enabling her to get the goods she needs as the best way to paece in the Far East?" Orinda Girl Dies Of Gun Wound ORINDA. Dec. 6.

Miss Rob erta Krotz, 17, a brilliant Stan ford student and member of prominent family, died today after shootine herself in the head with a .22 rifle. The girl died in Merritt Hos pital approximately two hours after the shooting. The sheriffs office is investigating. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Donald P. Krolz of 44 Monte Vista Road.

Her father is a Standard Oil Co, executive and the -mother is prominent in Orinda club circles. The sheriffs office received a call at 9:10 a.m. today from an unidentified person, asking that a doctor be dispatched to the Krotz home because "a woman has shot herselt" Dr. Carl W. Smith treated the girl there, and had her taken to the hospital, i Roberta won an honorary scholarship -to Stanford from Acalanes High School last year She was described as a straight A student and entered Stanford in the fait She came home from school recently, reportedly be cause of ill health.

Red Hearing Reopened by Sen. McCarthy WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. aV- The Senate Investigations Sub committee began closed hear ings on alleged communist infil tration in defense plants with Senator Mundt S.D.) presiding and chairman McCarthy Wis.) absent I Mundt showed up about 2:15 p.m. (EST), 15 minutes after the scheduled starting time and told newsmen Mrs.

McCarthy had called him and asked him to pre side. She said McCarthy's sore elbow still was bothering him. He has been under treatment for- -the bruised and' infected elbow, injured when a hand shaker pushed it against a glass tabU top, and canceled a sched uled speech in Cincinnati Satur day night because of it. Mundt said he told Mrs. Me Carthy that he could conduct a hearing only until 3 p.m.

be cause of a previous appointment, Mrs. McCarthy then said she be lieved her husband could be on hand by that time, Mundt re ported. Another Senator was present, Senator Potter Mich.) but he told reporters he had not come to the hearing to preside. None of the three Democratic members was present All were reported out of the city. James N.

Juliana, acting staff director for the subcommittee, declined to identify any witness to newsmen, beyond saying they would be from steel plants in eastern Pennsylvania. McCarthy had said beforehand that 42 subpenas were issued and that a considerable number of plants in the northeast were in volved. He said the hearings would "right up to the first of the year." Juliana said it is most likely" public hearings will start tomorrow; The hearings were- to be the first held by McCarthy since the Senate last week voted, 67- 22, to condemn his conduct on grounds he obstructed "constitutional processes" and tended to bring the Senate into "dishonor and Red Premier "i 'Freedom' for TOKYO, Tuesday, Dec. 7. un Premier Cho En-lai of communist China, in his first comment on the mutual defense treaty; declared yesterday "The Chinese people will liberate; Taiwan (Formosa) without 'fail.

Peiping radio said Chou spoke at a reception given by Carl Johan Sundstrom, Finland's minister to Peiping, on the occasion of Finland's national day. Chou asserted that the United States was planning to to justify its "aggressive oc top contenders last October'schaitman criticized; the Presi general elections. dent's "lack of capacity" to gov Broadcasting from the BlueUrn and unite the' WnnieV Room of the presidential manor at mianignv aecreea himself Chief Of State and named the newly elected National Con- made in answer to ndyisory council. Heremarks by Paul M. Butler, new chairman selected Bridges Loses First Tilt In Citizenship Court Test i saa it win orait a new tion.

5 overthrow of the U.S. Government 5 Gladstein's objection to these was that they have already been answered in previous Goodman said' the questions had not been specifically answered, as to dates, and com- in k.jai, ir suing io aajri no why not say so and be done I Statet, Britain, France, Auitra-'y lia, Thailand, Colombia and the Netherlands. I. Two1 other members are, from the Soviet, Union and its satellite Czechoslovakia, while tha rest represent China, Burma. Ecuador Cuba, Iceland and RESISTANCE PLANNED The Allies were prepared withstand demands by Russia; for red China to be invited here for the debates and then vote; for the Assembly to take up the question.

An Assembly session Thurs- day had -already been planned. Because the Security Council, meets tomorrow on Israel's dis-pute with Egypt over Sue Canal shipping barriers, there was little likelihood of the As-' sembly meeting before Thurso day. ACTION ON CIVILIANS Over the weekend, a State Dei partment statement indicated the United States is seeking U.N. action on the two American civilian employees of the Army whose sentences Iwere an nounced along; with the Jl airmen. The civilians, John.

Downey of New- Britain, Conn? and Richard Fecteau, of Lynn; were captured when thei plane was shot down in Novem -ber, 1952, but were not listed ill the first 'American call for action. Pledges Formosa cupation" of Formosa by that pact and again tailed for the "liberation" of that Nitional-; ist island stronghold off the southeast coast of China. The U.S. 7th Fleet guards For- mosa from invasion, i "Steps taken by the United-' States in Europe and the Far East create another fear of war and aggravate a I world situation, which has been since the end the Korean; war," Chou said! Peiping said Chou's refer-: ence to Europe was the U.S,;i policy of pressing for the re- arming of Western Germany Coot country as a snow, storm broke over the area. By today, is had deposited up to a foot of new snow on the ground, bring tag the total pack on the level to more than two feet This party was led by Mervin Amick, operator of the Peddler Hill lodge.

According to his wife. Gladys, he had planned to be back at the lodge within a few -hours. Senator and Wife Vacation in Bahamas WASHINGTON, Dec. 64b- Senate Majority leader William F. Knowland of California, ac companied by his wife, left by air this morning for a week's vacation at Nassau -in the Ba hamas.

An aide said it was the Sena tor's first vacation in years. He plans to return to Wafeh ington next weekend, then go to California next week. So they Say ABRAM L. SACHAE, President Brandeis University in Bos ton, said: Today's college president has io devote so. much energy to finding financial support for his school that the tin cup is replacing the cap and gown." WALTER IL Jodd (R, physician himself, said: -If the doctors of the Nation cooperate in keeping fees down socialized medicine will never be necessary JLE WEST revealed the secret of her youthful look: I wait three miles a day, eat lots of proteins and never think about jnything that might bother me." ANTHONY EDEN, Britain's foreign secretary, protesting red China's: detention of 11 Amer-Icsn fliers, said: "On "behalT of her majesty's and all civilized cations, I deeply deplore this conduct It Is a direct violation ef the terms the Ko-'rean BUCK SHAW, coach of the 43n.

said cf Joe Perry following the club's, 35- win over Green Bay: "As far. as am concerned he is the best fullback in the league. I never coached a better one." with it? flag ocean carriers; outbound The final' three requests from West Coast ports today in asked Bridges to certify the the fifth day of the ship radio-correctness of the 1949 perjury men's strike against maritime trial testimony "of the late Mrs.lfirms. Irene Patti Harris, wife of at Bridges' longshoreman. 1 She had testified Bridges had admitted his communist party membership at a waterfront meeting.

Gladstein said these requests -were irrelevant and inadmissible but Goodman overruled him. i in' fJm-ar Orlcant There has been? more real (progress during the Eisenhower (administration -than under any previous president, Kennon told a news conference Strike Eased To Let Yule Tree Ship Sail A special Christmas tree ship Und vessels of the Luckenbach Um wre the only American The cargo of holiday trees, 100,000 of them, left the Bay, at fn Hawaiian Packer, jlmg was concession bythe striking CIO American Radl Awociatioi whose presi- aeni oieinperg, ma from labor, government and civic rrouDs Actually, the Facker was ready to sail Friday with its deck cargo of evergreens from Washington, and Oregon, but under Federal laW vessel may, go to sea without a radio- 1 if i Luckenbach ships! also re- ceived radiomen on board when the line signed separate agreement Saturday the ARA, ratifying, a contract negotiated last June. Despite the fact that Luckeh bach is considered an Coast; line, its action was regarded as a defection Irom tne ranks on the Pacific Maritime Association; which' holds that the contract doesn't exist i STORES Harry Bridges lost a prelimi nary skirmish today in the open' ine hattle of the United States Government to take away his citizenship won in 1945.. Federal District Judge Louis E. Goodman overruled the ob jections of the left wing waterfront leader's attorney that Bridges should not have to answer 24 pre-civil trial ques tions asked by the Government.

These queries are an ordinary procedure in civil suits and the defendant has the right to ob ject. The hearing today was on Bridges objection, brought by his attorney, Richard Gladstein. Bridges was not in court Judge Goodman ordered Glad stein to answer the requests for admission not later than two weeks from todayDec 20. THREE-PART REQUEST In this. the Government's fifth attempt in 15 years to deport the president of the independent In ternational Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, the re quest for admissions were di vided into three parts.

The first requests one througn 13. related to documents and papers coming out of Bridges' naturalization proceeaings. Gladstein objected to these and refused to certify them genuine. He said "I suspect the Govern ment's Goodman said: "Don be so suspicious Mr. Gladstein," and pointed i out the Government sought the admissions to expedite the coming triaL Requests 14 through 21 were questions as to Bridges' alleged communist party membership on specific dates and whether the party stands for violeat1 Al Tmt itriMipniP me issignratm i now oper-ALL THIS RIGAMAROLE atf in resDonse to oleas Gladstein's general objections were phrased as follows: "I utm i imnii tne ieaerai ruie on admissions require us to go through all this rigamarole.

It's purely repetitive." ---v Next -Monday another, pre- trial hearing is set on Bridges'! objection to some 400 govern-lman. Oakland's Own MARGUERITE H1GGINS ment "interrogatories" which seek answers on 'the controversial: labor leader's possible association's with 28 national and West Coast communist leaders This procedure will be similar; to today's hearing. Bridges was convicted of perjury in the 1949 eriminaL trial but the Supreme Court set the conviction aside because it ruled the statute of limitations had expired. COVERS RUSSIA Storting Wednesday in The TRIBUNE MANY DOWNTOWN OAKLAND OPEN UNTIL 9 TONIGH1 'ft.