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SIX Stalin's Only Daughter Seeking Freedom in U.S. she said, "Let God help them. I know they will not reject me and one we shall meet I will wait for that." A round-faced woman of 42, smilingly declined to say whether she has been granted her wish for permanent asylum we English, with relatively Ml accent, she told newsmen, am very happy to be here, hope next week I will be able vnn at a press conferen and answer any questions you have." Ducked In Washington, the State Department alro ducked questions as to whether she had been granted asylum. State Department press off i cer Robert J. McCloskey told i news conference there: "She frea to remain here as long ai wishes and is free to leavi whenever she wishes." Hi that the Soviet Em hassy in Washington had been informed Fndav morning in Miss Stalina was on her way here from her last haven Switzerland.

Mice stalina's defection i her wish to come to the United States has caused anxious ments- in Washington, where was feared her defection might effect warming U.S.-Soviet rela- However, publicly at least, Moscow has taken the attitude it rinesn care wnere cpnh Stalin's daughter goes, lonz as there is no attempt The riva'. Soviet propaganda feast help or initru ngest struggle in my heart all use I v.ould ha Miss Stalina's Russian pass-nmt bears a temporary U.S Gisa issued last month in New Delhi, where her defection be It is valid until .1 McCloskev said "she is free if she chooses to ask for an exten A friend in India has scribed Miss Stalina's defection as nothing more "than the tinuation of her bid to escape from the memories of the past But she reportedly is bringir her memories with her in tl form of an manu crint on life with her fathi completed in 1963. It is scheduled for publication by Harpei 44 Row Oct. 16. Staying With Friends Miss Stalina arrived at Ken nedy Airport aboard a trans atlantic jetliner from Switzerland.

She looked trim in a suit and dark green blouse. She said, "1 will stay with friends." In her statement, she told ol leaving Moscow last December fnr India with the ashes ot man described hv the Soviet government as her husbar "I fully expected to ret Russia within one month's However, during my stay in India 1 decided I could not return to Moscow," she said. "It was my own decision, based or. my own feelings arc experiences, without leave my children and not seel them for quite a long time. did everything to force myself to return home.

But all was in vain. I felt it impossible to go back and went instead to the United States. Children in Moscow "Despite the strong motives and deep desires which have led me to the United States. I cannot forget that my children are in Moscow. But I know they will understand me and what I have done.

"They also belong to the new generation in our country. which does not want to be fooled by old ideas. They also want make their own conclusic about life." In Moscow, Miss Stalin son, Joseph, 21, said he had spo ken with her about a week ago on the telephone and sne naa mentioned no plans to go to the United States. He lives in an apartment near the Kremlin with his wife and his sister, Yekaterina. 15.

Miss Stalina's statment did 1 leave Russia and come here to ask for your hospi talily? There are many reasons "Since my childhood 1 havi have begun to think, to discuss, argue ana wc are not sc uch automatically devotee lymore to the ideas which we Religion Changed "Also religion has dt i change me. I was brought up a family where the aver any talk about God, but hen I became a grown-up per-m, I found that it was impossi le to exist without God in one's been taught Communism, and I did belive in it.as wc all did, my generation. But slowly with age and experience I began to think differently. "In recent years we in Russia Her came to that conclusion myself, without anybody's help Dreacnine. But int sreat chanac because since tnau moment tne main ougmas i Communism lost their signif cance for me.

Instead of struggling and causing unnecessary bloodshed, people should worK more gether for the progress of hu-; nity. I There are no capitalists and Communists and ideologies. There arc no capitalists and Communists for me there are good people, or bad people, hon- ir disnonest, ana in wnat- ever country they live, people same everywnere, ana best expectations and mor al ideals are the same. "My father was a Georgian, mother was of a very much ixed nationality. Although I've lived all my life in Moscow, I believe that one's home can be anywhere that one can feel Pampered Darling Svetlana was the pampered darling of Stalin, the ruthless dictator who was undisputed master of the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953.

Her mother, Nadia Allilueva, died in mysterious circumstances Miss St ment, Svetlana sai "He belonged to family of India. He 17 against her father's wishes and the union was short-liv Since then she reportedly I had four or five husbands. ancient rlerful man and my children and I loved him very much "Unfortunately, the Soviet authorities refused to recognize our marriage officially because he was a foreigner and 1 cause of my name, was consid ered as a kind of state property. "Even the question of whether I should be allowed to marry a citizen of India was decided by the party and the government. Moreover, we could not travel together to see his homeland anywhere else outsiae oi Russia.

"Despite my entreaties, tne government refused to allow me to lake him to India, his home- land.before he died. After he died, the government finally allowed me to take his ashes home. For me it was too late. Couldn't Be Silent "My husband's death brought lfeKUti long-repressed tcclings land tolerant any Miss Stalina was said to asked the Indian governm for asylum. But reportedly request was refused hecausf the possible adverse effects Last March 6, she appeared.

the U.S. embassy Delh seeking asylum in this believed to nave oecn on the embassy level and Miss Svetlina was flown to Rome. There she learned that her request had caused some con- of possible harmful elfects on warming U.S.-Soviet relations. Miss Stalina was diverted to Switzerland, where she was granted a 45-day visa on condition she refrain from any kind of political activity while on State Department news Closkey said "were worked part of March. McCloskev ingemcnts for United Statesl in the latter- lid Prof.

Georgt Kcnnan, former U.S. ambassador to Moscow and now with Princeton iversity's Institute for Advanced Studies, "expressed willingness to be of assistance to her on a purely personal basts." On Kennan's advice, Miss Bietsch Named To Council Post In Stratford (Continued from Page One) and Edward McMaugh (D-lOth Dist.) was absent. Faced with a Republican majority of five Councilmen to four Democrats, Council Chairman Patrick J. Keogh opened the special meeting, only to have Councilman Walter Auger (R-lst Dist.) call for a ten minute recess. During the recess, Republican and Democrats strategists caucused, and when the meeting resumed, the unanimous vote followed.

Nominee Described Frank Lecardo (D-2nd. Dist.) nominated Mr. Bietsch, describ- him as a person boi Stratford, a graduate of Stratford high school, a Korean war nteiong resident oi tne Mr. Bietsch, who was born June 1935. is a special agent for the Beneficial Standard Life Insurance Company, associat ed with the Ralph Smith agency, of rerry boulevard, Strat ford.

He is married to the former Lida L. Spada. They have a son, Hans Louis, eight. ctmn supported by Dem ocratic leaders and the Demo cratic Town committee, Mr. Bietsch was chairman of the Citizens for1 Good Government com mittee which circulated petitions for the recall of Mr.

Venezia and brought about the recall elec Formerly associated with Mu tual of Omaha in New Haven county, Mr. Bietsch represents life accident and health pro grams Beneficial Standard, and serves the Greater Bridgeport area. He was named "Rookie of the Year" and "Most Improved Field Aeent" in Decembe He is a member of the. Stratford Old Timers Athletic assoc Fourth District Bid Democratic party leaders said representatives of the Venezia forces on Thursday called Demo cratic Town Committee Chairman James H. Aspinwall to inform him that Albert Martin, Fou District leader, and olher me bers uf the Town committee in the Fourth district had met ant wished to propose their own can didate for the vacant seal.

Mr. Bietsch, however, thi only appointee mentioned tor tnf post at tbe council meeting. Before the meeting last night, it was learned that Republican party leaders had threatened tneir position oi bring about a moratorium al Council committee appointments until October, or to bring about a division of upcoming appoint ments between the two parties. Republican Councilmen follow ing the meeting said, "There no deal, no agreement, no mo torium, and no division of i pointmenls. Democratic party leaders confirmed the statement and said Mr.

Bietsch was seated unencumbered by party litments." Council Chairman Keogh said appointments to the Department of PU0IC WorKS Flood Erosion committee, Police Building committee, and ordi: mmittee, all formerly neio hv Mr. Venezia, will go to tne lew Fourth District councilman Among those seated in iiuncil chamber as Mr. Bietsch vas installed were Mrs. Bietsch, nembers of the Spada family, tnd members and volunteei vorkers of the Citizens for Good Government committee Mexican Cops Prepare For Crime at Olympics MEXICO CITY (APi-Mexi can police are asking foreign police departments through the embassies for files on major criminals in each country to prepare lor an expected invasion of crooks who may prey i 1968 Olympic games' visitors In his fourth graf. A noli official said he an "Olympic conscience" desist from operations for the Stalina engaged an Amei law firm.

McCloskey said the onlv Americans to sec her Kennan, representatives of the law firm and representatives of her publishers. Harper Row. A representative of the law lirm, Alan Schwartz, accompa nied Miss Stalina on her flight here from Swilzerland. HOMEOWNERS SPECIAL EVERGREENS-FLOWERING SHRUBS -SHADE TREES All PRICED BELOW WHOLESALE FREE- LB. BAG GARDEN LIME TO EACH CUSTOMER PRESENTING THIS AD A SILVERMAN'S FARM OPEN DAILY 'TIL 7:30 INCLUDING SUNDAY THE BRIDGEPORT TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1967 Text of 'Cancer Prayer' We thank Thee eternal God for Thy love and compassion toward us.

Bless this day, we pray Thee, all who suffer from the scourge of cancer, and all who love and care for them. May those who minister to them In the healing arts be Instruments of Thy will to bring health, nope and life. For each we ask grace to endure, strength, to serve aad a demonstration of Thy power to heal. For those who are engaged in research and study on cancer we ask Illumination from Thee that cure and prevention of this disease may soon be found. Crown with success, we pray, the work of the dedicated volunteers and staff of the American Cancer society, who diligently labor to raise funds to support service to cancer patients, health education and research.

May we exercise common sense by protecting ourselves and our loved ones through regular medical examin- May we be preserved through the ministries of healing and Thine own power for further service to Thee. Help us to be part of the answer to this prayer we make through our giving of the money and the time with which Thou hast blessed us. West Ender Jailed; Broke Into Truck John Mundock, 41, who Eavc address as the Howard hotel, received a 45 day jail term yesterday in Circuit court when he pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering. ge Luxe ijtapieion oraereo ian committed during pro-1 ig in the underwood build- Lumber and Main shortly before noontime Thurs day. According to authorities in-, tness attempted to hold Mun duck when he the defend it taking tools out of the ve cle, but he escaped.

Police said they were able rest Mur.dock from a discrip- tion provided by the witness, and bring him back to the seem where he was identified as thi thief. SLRB Reserves City Police Union Case Decision (Continued from Page One) basis of requests to this effect by 44 out of about 65 supervisory-level officers SLRB agent John Gaspic, in a subsequent conn Thomas J. Barrett, the city governments cnict negotiator, contended at yesterday's hearing pal employes' bargaining bars having a new election in a unit, or altering the composition of a unit, during the term of an existing except "lor good cause." tie noteo tne present city-Police union contract has almost another year to run. James F. Stapleton, counsel for the Police union, claimed the on this matter isn't intended to apply to city employes not Dy an existing cumraci ess there had been an agreement between the contracting parties against a bargaining unit's seek- expand tne unit memDer- ship and no such agreement is involved in the present case.

Mr. Stapleton said an SLRB de-! sion in a similar plea in Wind-ir, allowing a change in the unit composion, was upneio Dy tne courts. rguments on the merits oi the Bridgeport union's plea, Mr. Barrett, inrougn testimony Dy John J. Linley, city personnel director, and Police Supl.

Joseph A. Walsh, sought to show that sergeants, lieutenants and tains have supervisory dutie; stantially different from duties of patrolmen and detectives, therefore should remain outside union bargaining i Mr. Stapleton conceded those ranks are supervisory, but point ed out the SLRB last year per dttcd such officers to vote oi hether they wished to he in thi union bargaining unit, and he as scrtcd there has been no changi duties since that board Mr. Stapleton also brought that the city has a contract with Fire union, which represents all ranks in the Fire department cept the fire cnief and clerk of the Fire board. He said al; the stale law links Police and Fire personnel in connec- witn oargaining.

But Mr. Barrett said the law also specifies that Police and Fire personnel can't be in the same bargaining unit. He said this shows the legislature's feeling that the interests of the two departments are not identical. Dempscy to Confer With LBJNext Month HARTFORD (AP) Governor Rempsey will meet wilh President Johnson in Washington May 3 in a discussion of federal-state relations. Dempsey is chairman of the Committee on State and Federal Relations of the National Governor's Conference.

He said Thuisday he will go to the While House with Gov. John Volpe of Massachusetts and Gov. Buford Ellington of Tennessee. The governor said he intends to testify on (he same day before the Senate Public Works Commit tee on the subject c( air polli tion. Cancer Prayer Day Tomorrow Tomorrow has been designated Cancer Prayer Day in the Greater Bridgeport area and the Bridgeport unit of the American Cancer Society has asked ministers and priests to assist in the program in their churches.

A special "Cancer Prayer" has been distributed for the occasion. The prayer day was observed yesterday by synagogues in the area. The program has the approval of the Greater Bridgeport Council of Churches, the Chancery of the Diocese of Bridgeport and the Greater Bridgeport Board of KaDois. tne Kev. a.

Lortez Tip- ion, executive director oi Council of Churches, is sei as chairman. ne the observance the Rev. Mr. Tipton stated, "We want to bring to the attention care and eventual conquering of cancer. We teel this is an cialiy worthy undertaking appreciate the enthusiasm cooperation we have receive He noted that tomorrow "Lights On" day in the ci Cancer Crusade, a day residential volunteers tvil making a special effort ii house-to-house canvas.

Bonn Bugging: Ban Goes to Legislature BONN, West Ge (Xp)- west Germany governing r-r-ties have introduced legislation ban manufacture of bugging aparatus for ggneral use. The government could permit lvesdropping in exceptional circumstances, and violations would be punished by a maxi- um three years in prison and 52,500 fine. MRS. GIORDANO Mrs. Jenny Giordano, 46, who; husband went berserk April and stabbed her before setting fire in which he and three of the children died in their home at i Job Hill road.

Trumbull, re mained in "fair" condition last night in St. Vincent's hospital. She is under treatment for multiple stab wounds of the chest arms, back, neck and face. Bomb Raids Continue; Spring Invasion Feared SAIGON (AP) U.S. bomb's rpiLimert to the Hanoi area Friday to hammer North Viet- aiiroaa yarns trains for a second straight day, ported.

ilitary headquarters re B52s pounded a communist infiltration route witnin tne demilitarized border zone positions below tnei c.n„ih Vietnam. The sat uration bombings by U.S. B52s reflected allied concern over a possible spring invasion by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops massed on both sides of tne Doroer. Navy and Air Force ded by a long-awaited break the weather, continued an intensified air war in the nortn. hile U.S.

Marines tougnt one sharp skirmish South Viet nam. Rail Yards Hit Air Force Phantom struck at a rail yard 38 mile; northeast of Hanoi and pilot: claimed destruction of 40 to 61 boxcars. Other Air Force planes hit at a rail yard 46 miles north of the Communist capital fliers reported cutting tracks in many places and ling In strikes Thursday pilots re ported destroying a 60-car train snooting up uuc- they caught in a rail yard. tne iorays uvei uic north Friday, U.S. pilots again sighted Communist mkj imer- counters, U.S.

headquarters etion over tne norm it s. Navv bombers aircraft carriers shuck at mi facilities, gun positioi age areas and truck The Navy fliers concentrated targets in the Ihann ttoa ana Vmh section of North Vietna One flight of carrier planes claimed destruction of two dt esel locomotives and 15 boxcars while another flight reported destrovine or damaging nine tracks and a gun position. Ground Action In South Vietnam, ground continued in its two-week 11. although U.S. fought a sharp engagement f-n day in the northern province Quang Tin.

fighting lasted throughout most of the day Friday and that the Marines called troop reinforcements, air strikes and artillery fire. Initial reports said the Marines killed 46 Commu- it troops. Marine casualties tre not reported. During the fighting, 17 miles northwest of the provincial tal of Tarn Ky, a big helicopter was hit by ground fire while evacuating wounded. One crewman was injured and the helicopter sustained minor damage, u.s.

neanquaneri said. Also in South Vietnam, U.S B52 bombers of the Strategit Air Command hit a Communis! supply area and fortifications before dawn Saturday. The ta get area was 120 miles wes southwest of Saigon in Chau Doc province and close to the Cambodian border- in the ground war, American. strategists kept North Vietnam U.S. Marines and army, many vi.tna_.s(.

units of which are gathered just north of the border zone. With estimated 40,000 North Viet-amese infiltrators and Vict Cong operating in the northern- part of South Vietnam, it was believed a spring offensive might be in the making. rroposai Kciusea Contributing to an air of ur gency about allien aetensive preparations was a rejection from Ho Cho Minn's regime of a proposal Secretary of State Dean Kusk Wednesday tna would have cooled off the demil ilarized zone hotspot. Rusk offered at a meeting of the southeast Asia treaty organization's Council of Minis- Washington to extend the six-mile-wide zone to 26 miles adding lOmiles on each side the strip that is supposed to sep arate the opposing A broadcast dispatch from Hanoi said the idea was turned down as "a trick aimed ouflaging the U.S. war and setting up a vast no land perpetually parti tioning Vietnam.

tne America charge that North Vietnam violated the 1954 Geneva agree- under which the zone was free of armed activity, Hanoi declared it was the Americans who "sabotaged the of the demilitarized Coupled with this was a North Vietnamese report that more than 100 civilians were killed wounded and many homes wt destroyed Thursday in the first U.S. atr raids on Haiphong Civilian Deaths Claimed A broadcast dispatch declared the raiders hit many densely populated areas on the port's periphery and several factories and other industrial establish ments within the city in thii Navy jet pilots who made that th raids, had reported mine. of their bombs was more than 50 feet off the targets ar electric power plant in a north west sector of the city and an other just east of the city limits Rear Adm. David C. Rich ardson, commander of Task Force newsmen aboard carrier Kitty Hawk Thurs day night after surveying recon- aissance pnotoeraens inai very, very few" houses around the plants were destroyed.

inougn tne aiues nave more than 100,000 servicemen in the five provinces making up the 1st Corps area, they might have trouble scraping up tne nticmen to match enemy field forces at any one of the possible invasion points. Not Enough Men Lt. Gen. Lewis W. Walt.who commands U.S.

Marines ing of necks on the rolls, but recently counted only 14,000 for infantry duty in the field. The rest were in artillery, air and supply serv ices or tied down in security details. It was to ease this situation IsssssW I c.ot?™n$ Qfc.fi. Piano this month sent Walt th- man 196th Light Infantry Brigade and some battalions number never officially an nounced of the 1st Cavalry, Airmobile, Division. With enemy bands oper behind ihem and three divisions perhaps 35,000 Hanoi regul sed ahead with the bulldoz- 12-mile-long "death the coastal plain two les below the demilitarized U.S.

They are harassed by enemy mortar fire, mines and snipers. The Marines alone have suf fered 65 casualties in gouging the first 2.6 miles of the strip and" they expect more be fore it links the South China Sea with the mountains at Con Thien. Though the project has offi cial blessing, competent Ameri- MiGs South Vietnamese sources agree tne main lnjnira-: tion routei are in the farther west. They also agree that the denuded area, however red and fortified across its 220-yard width, will do nothing to halt artillery, mortar ana rocket attacks, from across the U.S. and South Vietnamese headquarters listed no significant ground engagements ir their communiques Friday, Vietnamese spokesmen said government troops killed Communists in scattered actions hursday.

The air war held the spotlight. Cloud cover broke up south ol Hanoi, lifting a monsoon weath- handicap for American pilot! over sections of the Communist North Vietnam. Claim Plane Do Radio Hanoi said plane was shot down. There was no confirmation in Saigqn. The North Vietnamese ordi nanly claim many more downed than are acknowledged by the U.S.

Command, sometimes they are first with real development. Hanoi announced Wednesday that its Soviet! downed two American planes in dogfighting southeast of Hanoi. The U.S. Command, in its initial report on the same action, said U.S. fliers downed a MIG and probably destroyed four others during raids on an army barracks in that area.

No American losses were mentioned. Friday it came out here officially: the MIGs shot down a propeller-driven U.S. Air Force Skyraider. A two-seated F105 ji Thunderchief also was lost and a spokesman said he did rule out the possibility it also was downed by a MIG. Th cause of the Thunderchief crash, however, was classified as "unknown." The thre on these craft were all li: missing.

Security Is cited as the for such delays in telling the full story, tne iaea is to screen hunt for the missing men though the North Vielnames! obviously know where they wen! down. They said at the time pilot of one was captured. Fast Move on Clean Water (Continued from Page One) to set standards for both interstate and intrastate waters. The move has to be made by July 1, he said, to enable the to become eligible for fed eral grants that could come up to $47 million by 1S71. Grants To Go Up The federal contribution for anti-water-pollution facilities in municipalities, he said, is now 30 per cent of the cost, the same as the state contribution will be under the new law.

On July 1, the federal grants will rise by stages to a total of 55 We have to report to the fed-Jl government what we pro pose to do," Curry said. "We have to report on how we intend mplement the federal pro-n, to monitor streams and to prove we did it." Work will start almost Imme diately after the governor's signing of the bill on the en forcement provisions of the new Lurry said. The 94 municipalities. 500 in dustries and the "few private polluters" will be told how the state wants them to proceed to abate the pollution problems. t-urry said orders probably ill be issued in groups over ic next six months or so, wilh hearing scheduled for those who want to be heard.

The procedure under which Superior Court can be asked to halt an order from thi Water Resources commission. Violations or an order are punishable by fines running up to $1,000 a day for each offense. Powell to Delay Request for Seat Til Suit Settled (Continued from Page One) i suit to over I of March The election certificate for Powell's re-election April 11 to rvew YorK loth district seat has not yet arrived here, but it is expected to be processed and sent within the next week. But a decision reached within le last 3S hours by Powell and is attorneys means that, even hen It arrives, he will not try immediately to claim his place. The appeals court plans to hear arguments on the suit, which was dismissed by a district court earlier this month, next Thursday.

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