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TROUBLt Today's Weather Mild and partly cloudy, with light to moderate easterly winds. (J. T. Drip on Page 17. U.

S. weather map, temperatures on Page 18.) WMtB ram WL mum COMIC PAGE FIVE CENTS THIRTY-FOUR PAGES UNITED PRESS TELEPHOTOS ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPHOICS VOL. 69, NO. 321 ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1953 UNITED PRESS AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

ASSOCIATED PRESS FEATURES TWISTER WRECKS BUILDINGS Persms r-J; 1111 AND HUMANS On Trill Dim i I 1 T-k rX t- T- It ffv A a New England since 1878, slashed across central Massachu- setts before sundown last night, carrying violent death and widespread destruction through the city and suburban I fV-V2 Four hours after the twister defense units were acuvaiea. ltMsr struck tne oeam ion was siuii uuv. TTirtMoc nhrori ihPied to the area from Boston. All dead at about 36. available state police were mob.l- ized.

Only emergency vehicle RED CROSS officials said more were permitted to enter the dis- 500 were injured with about asier arid. yesterday ripped 100 in Worcester hospitals. The tornado struck the populous section within 24 hours after a A vicious tornado that brought death and destruction to Worcester, cross the Assumption College campus, seriously damaging school buildings. Virtually everyone of the 50 homes in the Kenilworth section of Shrewsbury were flattened. This section is located on a hill.

similar disaster whirled through the midwest. The list of tornado dead in nine storm -ripped Michigan and Ohio De Gasperi May Capture Control Of Lower House Among the Worcester dead were a 74 year old grandmother, Mrs. Annie MacDonald Hutton, and her granddaughter, Barbara Ann Hutton, 6. The fury of the tornado was vividly described by Mrs. Mar- A list of casualties in the Midwest tornado on Page 2.

cities, including Flint and Cleve Ian, soared to 139 yesterday, and CoHette, 34. who said "it Doctors and tivilians'go from patient to patient in Worcester, after a tornado struck I Government veterans' housing project. (AP Wirephoto) Native Guide Climbed Mt. Everest Twice KATMANDU. Nepal Shepra tribesman Tensing Bhu-tia climbed Mt.

Everest's peak twice last month, it was learned last night. Reports reaching here said the famed Himalayan guide made the first climb on his own May 29. Thus he was the first man to reach the top and live to tell the tale. Then, noting that his New Zealand fellow climber, Edmund Hillary, had broken down from exhaustion, the doughty Sherpa descended and helped Hillary reach the top, the reports said. blew a divan and the refrigerator officials feared it would go higher.

right out the window." House Group Voles To Extend Reciprocal Trade WASHINGTON iw The House Ways and Means Committee voted 23 to 2 yesterday to approve President Eisenhower's request for a one-year extension of the reciprocal trade agreements law. The controversial legislation, for 19 years the keystone of a liberal tariff policy, was continued in substantially its present form despite strong attempts to amend it. Reps. Thomas A. Jenkins, Republican of Ohio, and Noah M.

Ma More than 1,000 persons were injured, and property damage ran into many millions of dollars as the result of six savage twisters which raked sections of a 350-mile belt above and below Detroit Monday night. MONDAY twisters in Michigan: pounded sections near Tawasi City, Brown City, Ann Arbor, andj Erie in Michigan, and Ceylon, and Wood County, Ohio. Over 650 were bruised and bat- ROME (IPV- Premier Alcide de Gasperi's pro Western government won a clean majority in the Italian Senate last night and was running neck and neck with extreme right and left wing parties for control of the vital Chamber of Deputies. Final resXilts in the Senate race Full Dress Truce Telks Recess Indefinitely While Officers Work On Details Rhee Won't Leave Korea, Official Says At least 111 persons were killed tered but escaped death in the I in Flint alone in a disaster ranked Flint tornado which like a jfabled giant trampled on homes and lives in an eight mile swath. MUNSAN Allied and' Adm.

Arthur Radford, next Red truce delegates recessed in- chairman of the U. S. Joint Chiefs 2 iiami Rejects SEOUL An official definitely today subject to call of of Staff, planned a meeting this announced by the Interior Ministry showed the democratic parties in de Gasperi's coalition had won 125 of the 237 Senate seats and received 50.2 per cent of the popular vote. However, in the lower house with 1,500 precincts missing the government parties had received Some 450 Michigan state police aided by scores of police and firemen, and civil defense workers from neighboring communities, worked to brush back the avalanche of destruction. MASS.

Republic of Korea spokesman said either side while lower level staff afternoon with Rhee. It was sup. today President Svngman Rhee officers iron out the last technical posed to be a courtesy call by would not fly to Washington "at details of an armistice ending the Radford, now on a military in-this critical moment." Rhec's throe year Korean war. spection tour. government has angrily denounced: Th mattnr nf tnrlav However, the ton American Dade County son, Republican-of Illinois, were just under 50 per cent the I aidtQJtf the only vni.e.F aiummi III! r-r-T irrMi imi itimii 1 rsusyvi I iu2i egainst renewing the law which scheduled to expire Friday.

Governor G. Mennen Williams the impending armistice with the meeting at Panmunjom military man would be in a po-maintaincd his vigil at disaster Communists. uas disclosed. Staff officers -ition to S've added emphasis to headquarters a window shat-j The spokesman, Karl Hong Ki, resumed their talks soon after the tllc -T- N. Command truce stand tered dime store in downtown the President could not leave: p)enary truce session ended na Korea should be unified Flint.

the country when it is facing "a by peaceful negotiations after a The governor wired President most critical situation." "hile all major policy issues truce and not bv more blood-let- popular vote. The government parties needed 50.01 per cent to win control of the chamber and establish a stable government. Mr. Eisenhower requested the! MIAMI IJF Miamians vot simple one-year extension to per- ed yesterday against merging PRCVtKtNCf A I Before the final results of the nut an overall study by a special City and County of Miami. rafe had bcen announced Eisenhower asking tha'.

Michigan THERE WERE reports earlier commission of trade problems and areas struck by tornadoes be de- side the conference hut cast a cloud over the prospects of an sy WnS el Ul bU UI.IOOIVI t-UO. 1 11V. M. Vol i Interior Minister Mario Scelba announced the government had won control of the upper house. He said there was no reason to be dent acted quicklv, declaring the il "a i i 1 1 i 17 i 1 1 il 1v v.

Lt vi i The proposed merger lost by 1,098 votes on the basis of complete but unofficial returns. This does not include 1,233 absentee ballots to be tabulated Wednesday but these are not expected to change the i re-i ri is.orean anu-iruce moos armistice proposal and thousands The A ci-c boiled through streets of the Re- demonstrated in Seoul's gions major disaster areas lieve that the pattern set in the of Koreans Senate voting would not be fol-jas the state's worst weather trag-iNational Red Cross gave 5100,000 streets. public's cities and towns. The National Assembly shouted defiance Whole families fr Flint disaster relief. The sum than casualties.

The fact that the truce delegates met for only 12 minutes yesterday at Panmunjom was taken to mean they have little left to do but to study and approve the work of staff officers. At yesterday's staff officer meeting, large maps were taken, into the straw hut for the secret Session. This suggested work on a demarcation line for the setting up of a buffer zone two and lowed in electing the lower but'edy in history, more important Chamber of! were wiped out. was matched by General "ul their impact on foreign policy. He won his strongest backing from the Committee Democrats, who opposed even the minor changes in the bill on grounds the Administration had not rec-commended them.

The law was passed originally and repeatedly extended under Democratic administrations. Chairman Daniel A. Reed, Republican of New York, refused to let the trade program come to a nonce 01 uie simui in ouuui Deputies. half VV 1 HIV I i 1 1 i 1 VI 1 The worst of the tornadoes dipped its snout up and down devastating! plants in Flint, a strip of Korean opposition to an armistice ALSO READ: Marquis Childs which may be signed at any hour! column, Page 8, and interpretive leaving Korea divided. It accused I article.

Page 15. factory worker homes and whirl The vote against merging was 26,932 and the vote for consolidation was 25.834 in the largest turnout of voters ever participating in a special Miami election. Only 15 per cent of the 130,033 President Eisenhower of er.ain iRhee on bv offering South Korea! nnt armktio mutual defense of armistice terms. Teiping Radio U. S.

Won't Bring Troops Home Immediately a half miles wide. ed them into a horrible death trap for those within. IN MASSACHUSETTS property damage was extensive, particu blasted President Eisenhower's pact. vote until he received "air registered voters in mis city of assurance from the White House 249.276 was required to insure WASHINGTON ijft Secre- and GOP Congressional leaders eiecuon. i.iuie man larly in the towns of Holden and tha it would not be changed on he 19.505 required had been east tary of Defense Wilson told vh re thT to nad floor to extend the excess prof- "oon and the total vote waSgress yesterday it will be 'six be centered the months or more" before any U.

S. its tax also The report that Rhee might carry his case personally to Eisenhower came from Jim Robinson, NBC correspondent in Korea, who quoted a high South Korean official. He said Rhee would urge Eisenhower not to let his representatives sign the armistice. move for a post-armistice secuntv change agreement signed Monday pact with South Korea. c- i bv North Korean Senior Delegate An Allied spokesman said of the Gen.

Nam and the AIlied Sen. Panmunjom meeting: delegate, Lt. Gen. William K. "Today's session again was an Harrison, erased the last major executive session.

Plenary sessions truce barrier. were recessed pending adminis-i It set up machinery for riis-trative work done by staff offi- posing of a voluntary repatriation cers." basis of more than 46.0O0 cap. turcd Reds who are unwilling to passed can begin moving out of! The merger bill was ivui ca duel mi dl llllMlLC 12 bv the State Legislature and reached. Fighting Limited To Patrol Action Some 100 houses were leveled in Holden. Exact information was lacking because normal communications were broken by the storm.

Rescue workers dug feverishly into the ruins fearful that many persons were buried in the debris of their homes. signed by Gov. Dan McCarty. It had solid backing of the Dade County legislative delegation but there was strong SEOUL LP Only the sharp! opp0sition from the city com- THE indefinite recess was re- return home, quested by the Reds The Reds for long opposed vol- The bitter stand of South Korean untarv repatriation. But vester- Wilson's statement marked the first time a high Administration official has set a specific minimum on the time American troops would have to remain in the war-ravaged republic after the fighting ends.

FOREIGN Minister Pyun Yungj Tai. who also is acting prime, Vv A vvici -jtwv! crack of rifle fire of patrols and most city em- missioners ployes. broke the stillness last night of a war which has tapered off Press earlv vesterday that "South President Svngman Rhee in oppos- day, Peiping Radio broadcast the Koreans will fight if any Indian ing armistice proposals ap- details of the plan and boasted Within the Worcester city lim sharply as truce negotiators Russian Wives its several houses in a housing project were smashed. One build troops or anv other Communist "min, una asici-imni vuimnni uit troops try to" come in to South. to Allied commanders and truce basis for negotiations originally moved close to agreement.

A heavy overcast kept most Allied war planes grounded. Com Of Americans President Eisenhower and other officials have said U. S. forces would have to stand guard there for some time, but have mentioned no definite period. Testifying before a Senate Ap- ing of the huge Norton Company, machine tool plant, was blown down.

Highways into the area were munist propeller driven planes, which bombed Seoul Monday. Qt VlSQS night, approached the South Ko-j Korea to guard prisoners" during proposea oy mis siae. an armistice. Rhee met late into the night 7T with his Army officers while the UNLESS SOUTH KOREA OKAYS TRUCE streets outside boiled with clem-l Before they were dispersed bv Sv4 7fl fVff oolice. about 100,000 Koreans 1 I OCi VC jammed in a matter of moments Death lurks in this swirling tornado that hit Erie, Monday.

It was one of several to hit Michigan the same day and brought a number of deaths and wide destruction. (AP Wirephoto) Tr propnauons subcommittee, word of the disaster spread. rean capital, again last night butt MOSCOW UP The dropping Embassy said yesterday the So-icnaliengea an esumaie "National guardsmen were ordered turned away without any bombs. viet government plans to grant Joinl cnieis 01 siau inai Russia to duty in Worcester and civil an exit visa to the Russian Iauncn an atomic at-of Eddy Gilmore, the Associated jtack aRamst the United States by On POW Commission Pres hiirenii rhipf in Mficcnu- mid-19o4 Jet Crashes, Burns; Two Parachutes Seen surged to barricades guarding thej U. S.

Eighth Army compound and; hurled rocks at U. S. military police, who stood guard withi fixed bayonets. in a move lifting restrictions on Experfs Reporf Nothing her and others in similar posi- 1 r. CLERMONT, Fla.

A jet trainer plane believed to be fromi a it- rnrrp near said the same action is be- "There is no reason to think they would have atomic bombs in quite that volume," he said. Wilson thus disputed testimony by Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, retiring chief of staff, that the former Truman Administration's BERN, Switzerland Switzerland decided yesterday itj would not serve on a five-nation jprisoners' repatriation commission; in Korea unless South Korea ap-: proves the truce. inc ocvit c.

,1 k.v.naH 1 vl iv ii nil I V. in V. IU Orlando crashed One U. S. military policeman was grabbed by the shouting, demonstrators, but Korean police rescued him uninjured.

Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor Russian wife of Robert miles south of here last Tucker Ameri- of Kansas City. an three night.

can translator. 143-wing air force goal was the W. G. Mickler, foreman at; Xhe embassy also Unusual About Tvisters By The Associated Press Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee. Despite an estimated 420 deaths' ThC "ation'S to11 that year was 794.

and damages of 200 million dollars PattOn's Son Leads from tornadoes this Spring, the' U. S. Weather Bureau says the: Company Of Tanks number and character of twisters' is not unusual. I EASTERN FRONT, Korea confirmed minimum needed to counter the II1IIII1IIHII U. S.

Eighth Army me decision was announced Dy met for the second straight day jthe Federal Council (Cabinet). rv vs iniiiitaH Bradshaw's citrus groves, said he tnat the Russians of this agreement. Meanwhile, however, the Federal Council has decided to advise the gov-ernments which have charged Switzerland with the task (of serving on the prisoner-of-war commission) that Switzerland could not accept this mandate unless it were received from all parties to the Korean conflict, including South Korea, and unless Switzerland were permitted to exercise it in full independence and in the common interest of both sides in the conflict." rirooViutoc loav it. mreai oi a soviet atomic aiiaciv. saw two open parachutes leave thev intend to grant exit visas Switzerland, Sweden.

Poland, Czechoslovakia and India are the the plane and drift toward uhe t0 two miner children of Turning to the Korean situation, yesterday with Rhee. It is up to; Taylor to see that all Allied! troops observe armistice terms south end of Lake Louisa. five nations that would serve on I Ethel Balashova, an embassy Wilson declared that even after a 'employe, from Los Angeles. jtruce is signed, he wants to con- which the South Koreans threaten; the commission undcr t(rms of Mrs. Balashova has been the buildup of ammunition Most of the fatalities this vear i from three tornadoes -the famous World War II ried to a Soviet citizen and di-isupplies there.

This presumably the truce now being arranged in Korea. Sweden said earlier yesterdav vorced in a Soviet court which would be insurance in case the those which ground into Waco. 1S company or lamvs, Spki pf- named after his father in the cur-i granted her custody of the chil-' armistice should end in new at mt last month; Flint, jrent fighting for Luke the Gook's dren. i tacks by the Reds. Worcester, Monday night and if 1 a i Stock Market she had agreed to participate in the commission, whose task it will be to supervise prisoners of war castle.

Patton, 29. Washington, D. lasi nigni. i The embassy said the Soviet Government has cases of other Soviet wives of American citi Some 130 tornadoes have been NEW YORK ic rnmrrianflino' rfr rrf fnr IT Selling! who refuse to go home. News Of Society On Pages 20-22 waves hit the Stock Market yester zens under consideration.

reported this year The average! tank compan; supporting South number of tornadoes reported t- vearlv hv the Weather Koreans lnfantrymen fighting to jeany the feather bureau dislodge North Korean Commu- day and drove many prices down Inside The Times Bridge Page lt Canasta Page 14 Classified Pages 26-31 Comics Tages 14, 32 Editorial Page 6 Financial Pages 25, 26 Horoscope Page 14 Local Pages 16-19 Obituaries Page 18 Pulse Of Pinellas Page 24 Puzzle Page 14 Quiz Hall Page 14 Radio Page 32 Rambler Page 16 Society Pages 20 22 Sports Pages 11-13 Xfceatrc Page 33 The Council said that the United States and Communist China had simultaneously requested $2 to S3 or more a share. Railroad supraPM hit a new irom lai mrougn moi was im. nists from the fonvard half of the In that 36-year period, 7,995 Ike To Speck On Radio Today President Eisenhower's address before a business meeting at the Jaycee's National Convention in Minneapolis, will be broadcast at 4:30 this afternoon- by WTSP and WDAE. low for the year, following similar Switzerland to serve on the eom- miss iuu in dituiu iui me djiiee- nado deaths were listed about 222 ment reached Monday on ex Missionary Tells Sfory Of Life As Red Prisoner STORY ON PAGE 3 last week. Brokers said much of change of prisoners.

The state- yesterday's selling was done by ment added: For News In Brief Read 'Headlines' On Page 2 people who buy and sell on the! per year. The greatest single day's death toll from tornadoes was 689 on March 18, 1925 when a series of twisters hit Missouri, Indiana, basis of the market's technical po-j "The Federal Council is not sition. yet in possession of the final text.

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