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The Daily Missoulian LXXXII. No. 88. Missoula, Montana, Tuesday Morning, July 27, 1954 Price: Five Cents 'Cold Feet' Blamed By Rhee WASHINGTON (AP) President flew to Washington Monday, Syngman Rhee of South Sorens an outspoken complaint that the Communists were not driven out of Korea because "some people had a little cold At the same time, he said "I still thank The Almighty that your boys came to Korea and to our rescue." The peppery old statesman-he is 79-was a notable exception to the rule that says visiting. dignitaries should confine themselves to pleasantries when they first arrive.

State Department officials were not disturbed, however, pointing out later that Rhee was simply restating a view he often has expressed before. The welcoming party at the airport included Vice President Adm. Arthur W. Radford, Sec retary of State Dulles, Gens. Matthew B.

Ridgway and James A. Fleet of Korean War fame, and others. Rhee spoke so softly, however, that the official probably did not hear his complaint. He spoke into a microphone connected with loudspeakers SO far away that his words did not come back to the group. Dispatches from Seoul have indicated that Rhee, in his talks with Eisenhower, will ask for military equipment for 10 to 20 more divisions than the 20 his republic now has.

He also is expected to ask for more economic aid from the United States which is now providing South Korea with about 200 million dollars worth a year. Eisenhower is expected to ask Rhee to soften his antagonism to ward Japan and to shelve for the present his dream of uniting North and South Korea. Nixon, in greeting Rhee in behalf of President Eisenhower, said the Korean War has proved this: "Where a will to resist exists, there is no reason to doubt the ability to resist. "Your young men and people have captured the imagination of the free world for your magnificent battle against totalitarianism at great odds. There are no peo ple for whom the American peo(Continued on Page 3, Column 2) Montana Land Problem Under Study WASHINGTON At least part of the submarginal land acquired by the government in the depression 1930s should be sold to private ownership, Edward Crafts of the U.

S. Forest Service told a House Interior Subcommittee Monday. Much of this land is in Montana and North Dakota. The subcommittee is studying the problem of what to do with seven million acres taken over by the government under the Bankhead Jones Act. Chairman D'Ewart (R Mont) said legislation dealing with the problem probably will be considered by the new Congress convening next January.

Crafts testified an effort should be made to sell the better lands to private individuals and to turn over other land to the Interior Department for possible reclamation projects. Nearly two million acres of this land is in Montana and more than one million acres is in North Dakota. There are lesser acreages of such land in some two dozen other states. The Bankhead-Jones Act enables the government to buy submarginal land which was considered incapable of supporting farm families. No provision was made for reselling the land to individuals.

However, some of the land now has been found to be worth farming and some of it contains marketable timber. Weather Missoula and vicinity Partly cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday with not much change in temperature. Maximum Tuesday between 85 and 90 degrees. West of Divide Partly cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers Tuesday and Wednesday. Highs Tuesday 80-90.

Cooler Wednesday. YESTERDAY IN MISSOULA Maximum 90 Minimum 59 At 6 a.m. 62 At 6 p.m. 84 At Midnight 62 Precip. None YESTERDAY ELSEWHERE City Max.

Min. Pep. Billings 85 65 Tr. Butte 80 61 Tr. Cut Bank 56 Drummond 88 56 Glasgow 78 69 Tr.

Great Falls 91 66 Hamilton 92 58 Havre 93 71 Tr. Helena 91 65 Lewistown 81 59 Tr. Livingston 89 65 Miles City 100 Seattle 65 50 Spokane 84 57 Immunity Bill Gets Subcommittee Nod WASHINGTON (P)- bill designed to persuade witnesses to testify before congressional committees, courts and grand juries granting them immunity from prosecution for what their testimony reveals, won approval of a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Monday. The vote was 3-2. Chairman Chauncey Reed (R- Ill) said the full Judiciary Committee will take up the measure on Wednesday and he predicted that Congress will pass it before adjournment this year.

But Celler (D-NY), who joined Rep. Walter (D-Pa) in opposing the proposal in the subcommittee, disagreed. Celler said he doubted that either the full Judiciary Committee or the House would approve it. Celler called the bill "a shocking reversal of American justice," and said it would undermine the constitutional ban against compelling a person to testify against himself. Walter said the proposal is "dangerous" because it gives too much power to one individual.

T. C. Spaulding, Long- Time Professor, Dies Prof. Thomas C. Spaulding, 69, former dean of the Montana State University Forestry School, who was to retire from the faculty in September, died at a local hospital Thomas C.

Spaulding Monday night following an extended He was born July 16, 1885, at Richmond, and moved to Anaconda when 4. He was graduated from MSU in 1906. He then worked as a ranger with the Forest Service in the Deer Lodge Forest. Later he was supervisor on the St. Joe and Lewis and Clark Forests.

He joined the MSU faculty in 1915 and was appointed dean in in Billings in 1911, they have 1915. He married Willie, Clanton resided in Missoula at 830 Gerald Ave. Prof. Spaulding served in World War I as a captain in the Sunset (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) More Children Reported Using Libraries By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON (P -Parents worried lest television turn their children into goggled-eyed monsters who can't read a book or even want to--got good news Monday. Youngsters still read.

And, the experts add cautiously, maybe TV even helps their reading habits. Ralph Dunbar of the Office of Education said library circulations for the entire nation appear to be going up somewhat. "The exact reason," he said, "we just can't But along statistics sent in by librarians from all over the country, he said, come observations by the librarians. These show librarians no longer tremble in their cells at mere mention of the word television. "They seem to Dunbar said, "that television may be a boon, rather than hurting them.

Incidentally, an Akron librarian came up with the most novel reason for increased, use of lihe wrote the Office Education, braries. "The of television," "have been greatly reduced. Now many come, primarily to escape it." Apparently a reader who buys a television set goes through three stages: 1. The new set comes into the home, and he can't escape it. Sits mesmerized through it all.

Even wrestling. 2. The great day. Learns he can turn the thing off. 3.

Begins to sit up and take intellectual nourishment again Finds TV programs that whet his interest to learn more. This pattern seems to fit viewers of all ages. Miss Maxine LaBounty, co-ordinator of children's services for the local library, said she isn't sure whether television or the (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) Two Red Fighters Shot Down Collision Near Huson Puts 8 in Hospital Eight persons, including a woman and her four children from Missoula, were hospitalized after two cars met with terrific impact in head on collision near Huson on U.S. Highway 10 Monday night. An attending physician said the following persons all suffered shock: Mrs.

B. J. Helean, 38, 110 W. Franklin contusions of the face; a daughter, Connie 7, apparently uninjured; a daughter, Julie Ann, 3, lacerations; a son, Phillip 9, broken jaw and lacerations; a son, Richard 14, a fractured arm and a fractured jaw; Mrs. Helen Johnson, Spokane, arm fractures; and.

John G. Souders, 63, Billings, a shoulder injury, The condition of the other hospitalized person, Phillip Anderson, 18, Council Bluffs, Iowa, was not available Monday night. Two highway patrolmen arrived at the scene shortly after it happened, about 6:15 p.m. Ambulances from Lucy's Hayes Mortuary and the Marsh, Powell and Livingston Mortuary rushed all but one of the victims Missoula. The other, one of the Helean boys, was taken by a passenger automobile that passed by the accident.

All were taken to St. Patrick Hospital. The patrolman said the Helean family and Mrs. Johnson were trav- with eling in one car going west, Helean driving. Souders and Anderson were traveling east with Souders driving, they reported.

They said an eyewitness, Dave Bishop, Portland, reported he was driving his pickup truck east and had signalled to make a left turn about three-tenths of a mile east of Huson when he saw in his rear-vision mirror a car coming up on his vehicle fast. He (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) Ruth B. Rohde, First Woman Envoy, Is Dead COPENHAGEN, Denmark (A) Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde, 68, the first woman envoy of the U. S.

to a foreign power, died here Monday. She was the daughter of the silver-tongued William Jennings Bryan. Mrs. Rohde served as U. S.

minister to Denmark from 1933 to 1936, climaxing an eventful career as a lecturer, member of Congress, writer, war nurse and university teacher. Extremely popular with the Danes, who knew her from her diplomatic service, she returned to Copenhagen early this month to thank King Frederik for a medal he bestowed on her earlier this year. She was admitted to a hospital last week suffering from heart trouble. Doctors said death was due to coronary thrombosis. Mrs.

Rohde was appointed to the Copenhagen post in 1933 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She gave it up following her third marriage, at the age of 50, to Borge Rohde, a captain in the palace guard of the late King Christian X. The couple returned to America where Mrs. Rohde resumed the writing and lecturing career that had been her mainstay before she became a diplomat.

Mrs. Rohde was born in Jacksonville, Oct. 2, Her father, the three-time contender for president on the Democratic ticket, moved his family to Nebraska while she was a child. She was educated in public school in Lincoln, and later attended a young ladies school at Godfrey, and the University of Nebraska. She was first married to William Homer Levaitt.

an artist. This union ended in divorce in 1909. In 1910, she married Maj. Reginal Owen, of the British army's royal engineers. Five years later, during World War she followed him to Egypt as a nurse in a voluntary aid detachment.

Maj. Owen died in 1927. Mrs. Rohde began her lecturing in 1919 'to earn a living for her invalid husband and her family. Her enormous success as a public speaker led to an appointment to teach the art at the University of Miami.

She was a member of the faculty there from 1926-28. Her students campaigned for her when she ran for Congress. She held a Florida seat from 1929 to 1933, the first woman representative from the "Old South." She was defeated for reelection in 1932. The following year, the Senate unanimously confirmed her appointment as minister to Denmark. She was the second woman diplomat in the world, the Soviet government having sent Madame Alexandra Kollantay to Norway in 1923.

Mrs. Rohde was the mother of four children. Ruth and John Bryan were children of her first marriage. Reginald Bryan and Helen Rudd were children of Maj. Owen.

New Move to Limit Debate on Atomic Bill Fails WASHINGTON (P)- Another publican Leader Knowland to Energy Bill failed early Tuesday. what appeared certain to be with Sen. Morse (Ind-Ore) Parking Problem Considered By Commission Plans for making four blocks of Broadway a parallel parking zone are being looked upon favorably by the City Commission, it was reported Monday evening at a meeting of the governing body. Mayor James A. Hart said a sampling of public opinion indicated that the proposal would meet general favor if put into practice.

No action was taken at the meeting beyond the reports; but Hart said that, early plan would legislation be to is change likely. the parking system on Broadway for two blocks east and two blocks west of North Higgins avenue. This recommendation was several times in recent years made, state and federal highway officials, the commissioners were, told. sioner C. Honzel, assigned by the commission to study the matter took a petition to businessmen in the affected area and asked for points of view.

Of 18 businessmen, 16 signed the petition favoring the change and the two other persons were not strongly against the idea, Honzel said. "I received no rebuffs," the commissioner added. Police Chief Dan Rice has studied the matter from the point of view of changing the parking meters, which are fixed in position for angle parking. Rice told the commission that on the four blocks of Broadway involved there are 161 meters, 80 of which would have to be removed. The cost of removal would run from $1 to $4 per meter, Rice said.

He suggested further that $50 be allowed for replacing bus stop sign and existing posts. The commission also has a plan, although admittedly not as far advanced, to change the system of parking on North Higgins avenue in the 300. 400 and 500 blocksthe section from Broadway to the Northern Pacific Railway passenger station. Rice has conducted a survey, but no petitions have been prepared, Commissioner Honzel said. Rice says that 47 of the 104 meters in the section would have to be removed with the cost at the same rate as on Broadway.

The mayor asked for expressions of public opinion. Hart said the commission and the police department are considering plans to chalk car tires so motorists cannot "rent parking space for 8. or 10 hours at the rate of 5 cents per hour." T. G. Swearingen, maintenance engineer at Montana State University, complained by letter that garbage at the University isn't being picked up properly and that the garbageman Swearingen named Frank Bauer has said he would raise the residence halls garbage rates 20 per cent.

Hart declared that garbage collection matters are high on the agenda of future business of the (Continued on Page 3, Column 3) Peace Officially Begins North Viet Nam SAIGON, Indochina -The Indochina War ended officially in North Viet Nam Tuesday morning after nearly eight years of bitter, bioody fighting. The French High Command announced the cease. fire agreed at the Geneva Conference became effective in the north at 8 a. m. (8 p.

m. EST Monday). From now until Aug. 11 progressive orders in other portions of Indochina are schedstop uled to restore peace to the battletorn country, one of the richest areas The of French Southeast high command here said the hours preceding the official cessation of hostilities were quiet. "Absolutely nothing happened in the Tonkin a spokesman said.

Earlier, however, the French had said the Vietminh on Sunday and into the early hours of Monday pounded more than 50 posts in the Red River Delta manned by Vietnamese troops. The said two posts near Hanoi, the war capital in the north, had fallen to the Communist- forces due to Vietnamese desertions. The French command ordered its troops in the north to stand fast, and to fight only if attacked. Truce Schedule The truce is scheduled to be come effective on Aug. 1 in Central Viet Nam, Aug.

6 in Laos, Aug. 7 in Cambodia and Aug. 11 in South Viet Nam. For the Red River Delta Tuesday's truce means an official halt in war after seven years and seven months of savage conflict between Moscow trained Ho Chi Minh's forces and those of France and her non-Communist Vietnamese allies. Total casualties in the long and bitter fighting approached the million mark.

The cost France and the United States some 10 billions of dollars. The struggle probably will continue to exact a toll in blood even if the cease-fire is honored strictly. Mines sowed along roads and paths, and in rice fields, could claim victims for months. The truce will be supervised by a commission made up of India, Poland and Canada. The delegates will hold the chairmanship.

By Aug. 11, all French and Vietnamese a forces must be withdrawn into 10-mile zone around Hanoi. Ousted HACounsel Fights Dismissal WASHINGTON (P Burton C. Bovard, ousted general counsel of the Federal Housing Administration, announced Monday night he will summon Presidential Adviser Sherman Adams and other high officials as witnesses at a hearing on his discharge. The hearing was asked in an appeal filed with Civil Service Commission in which Bovard said his dismissal threatens "the security of all civil service employes." Bovard was one of several top officials fired after the housing agency came under investigation in connection with profits made by builders participating in government-insured housing projects.

He said the newly appointed FHA commissioner, Norman P. Mason, who charged him with neglect of duty, had "no personal knowledge of his performance of duty." attempt by Senate Relimit debate on the Atomic The Senate headed into a fourth all night session prepared to talk "for a few hours." Knowland's request to. debate came after the Senate whipped through half or more amendments. Debate on each was short and to the point. Senate had showed indications earlier of moving toward a final vote on the big bill.

Just before midnight Monday Sen. Morse got the floor and offered an amendment. Knowland jumped to his feet at that point and asked unanimous consent for a final vote on the measure Wednesday. He offered an agreement to limit debate on Morse's amendment to one hour He hoped to finish up on all amendments at this session he told the weary Senate, and then vote on final passage after noon Tues day. Morse objected--and the objection of one senator was enough to kill Knowland's request.

Knowland immediately countered by moving to table-kill without debate amendment. The Senate, on a near par ty line upheld the majority leader's motion to table by a 43 to 34 roll call vote. The nature of Morse's amendment was never explained on the floor of the Senate and no printed version was available. Six Democrats voted for the mo(Continued on Page 2, Column 3) Czech Bishop, Priests Sent to Prison BERLIN (A) The Supreme Court of Communist Czechoslovakia has sentenced Stepan Trochta, Roman Catholic bishop of Litomerice, to 25 years in prison on charges of spying for the Vatican. The official East German news agency ADN, reporting the Prague trial, said three Catholic priests also were given prison terms ranging from seven to 20 years on charges of supporting the "criminal activities" of the "former" bishop.

The four churchmen were accused of spying for years "by order and on behalf of the Vatican" with the purpose of overthrowing the Communist Czech regime. ADN did not report when the trial was held. Trochta, whose diocese is in northern Bohemia, was one of four Catholic bishops who swore a loyalty oath to Czechoslovakia's Communist government March 12, 1951. Previously, all Czech bishops had held out against a 1949 law requiring them to take loyalty oaths as a condition of collecting their salaries from the government. (Vatican sources were not available on the sentencing.

There was no record that Trochta was ever defrocked for taking the loyalty oath and presumably he was still a bishop in the eyes of the Missing Security Chief Believed To Have Been Drugged by Reds BONN, Germany (A Dr. Otto John, West Germany's missing security chief, was lured into Communist East Berlin and may have been drugged by a Red agent, the government said Monday. "The facts do not substantiate the theory that Dr. John left West Berlin with traitorous intentions, it said. Federal Interior Minister Gerhard Schroeder read to a crowded news conference the German government's first official report on the strange disappearance of the man who directed West Germany's -intelligence fight against the Communists.

Rejecting Communist assertions that Dr. John has deserted to the East, Schroeder said: "It is a fact that Dr. John wanted to return from Berlin to headquarters in His schedule clearly pointed to his intention to go back to Cologne. For instance, he made a plane vation for the return flight on July 22 even on the afternoon when he disappeared." The security chief went to Berlin on July 18 to attend the West German Parliament's presidential election there and ceremonies memorating the abortive plot of Pilots Ordered To Fire If Attacked WASHINGTON (P)-Two American Sky Raiders flying a rescue mission over the South China Sea shot down two Communist fighter planes which fired on them, it was disclosed Monday in a forceful U.S. restatement of the tradition to fight back if a attacked.

A Chinese Communist gunboat also opened fire on the American planes but they did not shoot back at it. There were no American casualties. Adm. Felix Stump announced that American pilots in the area have been ordered to be "quick on the trigger" if attacked. He put it in these words: "If any U.

S. plane is attacked or approached with obvious hostile intent, it will fire back. "In other words, you don't have to wait and get your head blown off to fight back. Stump is commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet. In Washington for talks on the Far East situation, he told of the fight back policy at a news conference the Chinese Communist planes for "their belligerent interference with a humanitarian rescue operation being, conducted over the high By "high seas" the department meant the attack occurred in neutral territory.

Secretary of DeWilson, in a statement, placed the scene at more than 12 miles from the coast of Hainan Island, a Communist outpost. The was 8:05 p.m. MST Tuesday night, which would be in daylight Monday morning in that time zone. All of the planes involved were described as propeller driven, rather than jet. The Douglas Sky Raiders are multipurpose ships which got into action before jet fighters (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) Lard Chemical Prevents Cancer Start By ALTON L.

BLAKESLEE SAO PAULO, Brazil (PI Ordi- contains a chemical which works to prevent the start of cancers in animals, an American scientist said Monday. Injected into mice, it counteracts a potent chemical which otherwise would give the animals cancer. This effect was reported to the sixth International Cancer, Congress Monday by Murray J. Shear of the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md. He said the next task was to learn if this substance in lard can retard or otherwise strike at already established cancers.

Shear said the lard worth further study potential test drug and for help in learning more about the mystery of how human cancers begin. There is no evidence, he added, that eating lard confers any benefit. Any chemical which induces cancer is known as a carcinogen. The lard chemical is an anti-carcinogen. Some other chemicals are cocarcinogens.

But itself, a co-carcinogen does nothing. But when a carcinogen also is present, the co-carcinogen makes that chemical much more powerful and therefore much more likely to start a cancer. An explanation of the workings of these chemicals which either promote or combat carcinogens might help to explain some of the mysteries of the human cancer, itself. Do these chemicals exist in the body? Or can we get them only from without? Shear also described studies which could add to the controversy over whether cigarette smoking is responsible for lung cancer. He reported finding that the air of American cities contains fine particles of dirt and other contaminants which, when made into a concentrated tar, are potent causes of cancer in mice.

This dirt is not the large particles of soot (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) Opposing Aircraft About Same Vintage WASHINGTON (P) -The Amer. ican and Red Chinese planes which clashed off Hainan are propeller-driven craft of about the same vintage nine years old in their first version. The American aircraft probably packed the heavver punch. The Red LA7. named after the Russian designer Lavochkin, is a lightweight fighter that sacrifices protection for speed.

The Douglas Sky Raider has been developed into an all plane and standard equipment on Essex class carriers like the Philippine Sea and the Hornet. Congress Backs Action of Navy Planes WASHINGTON (PI Congress generally voiced spontaneous bipartisan approval Monday on the way S. Navy planes stood up to attacks by Red Chinese fighters. Some members expressed concern that such incidents might set off World War III. Sharp criticism of U.

S. military activity in the Far Sast came from two Democrats, Sen Symington (D-Mo) and Rep. A. L. Miller (R-Neb) Nebraska.

"It looks like somebody is spoil ing for a fight and I don't like it," Miller said. "The next thing that may happen is that a submarine will sink one of our ships. "I don't think we are justified in bringing our planes, ships and personnel to patrol the coast of China to protect British shipping and planes. Let Britain do it." Symington reminded the Senate that he had called attention last Wednesday to "the growing st strength of the Communists on the land and sea and in the air." "I do not believe we are taking adequate steps to defend ourselves," he said. Sen.

Mansfield (D Mont), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the U. S. plane crews "did the right and only thing they could do when they shot down the aggressive Communist planes. "Freedom of the seas has long been an, established American principle," Mansfield said. "It is my hope, though, that we will consider this situation with calmness, get all the details possible and then act in our own best interests." Rep.

Robert D. Harrison (R- Neb) called the incident "disturbing" and said it would seem the Chinese were not sincere in their apology to London for shooting down the British airliner. Priest Stabbed By Woman Before Altar June 20, 1944, on Hitler's life. "Many clues indicate that Dr. John has been lured across the border under false Schroeder said.

"Every motive of Dr. John for a voluntary crossing of the border into the East is lacking. All his connections show he is a Westerner, not an Easterner." Schroeder said it is possible that, a Communist doctor who accompanied anti-spy chief in a taxi across the sector border last Tuesday night "used methods to influence Dr. John with drugs which this doctor learned from Hitler's personal physician." Schroeder called the physician, Dr. Wolfgang Wohlgemuth, the key figure in John's disappearance.

"Dr. Wohlgemuth is an expert in the use of the minister said. "It is known that he took over the practice of Hitler's personal physician, Dr. Morell, who specialized in drugs. Therefore the possible use of drugs in the case of John cannot be excluded." Dr.

Wohlgemuth, a longtime friend of John's, asked the security director to help him prepare a certificate that would enable an elderly widow to obtain a a pension. The widow was a friend of both men. When John went to Berlin, he and Mrs. John met the physician at a restaurant to discuss the certificate. The physician pointed out that the medical information needed to prepare the certificate was in a hospital in Communist East Berlin.

He suggested that John come to his office later in the evening to prepare the certificate. John did so and then he and the physician drove to East Berlin. A policeman on the East-West Berlin border saw them across. In further support of the ernment's contention that John was lured into the East, Schroeder said the security chief did not take any official documents with him. In answer to questions about John's character, Schroeder said: "No concrete instances have ever been reported to me that required disciplinary action against Dr.

John. But I personally have never made any bones of the fact that I did not regard John as the right man for the position that he held." He conceded that John had once carried on correspondence with a German who is considered a viet agent. SAN FRANCISCO UP A woman a priest at of St. Gabriel's Church becaltar Before the horrified eyes of a little group of worshipers, the woman plunged a two and a half inch blade into the back of the neck of the Rev. Fr.

Bernard C. Cronin as he stood between two altar boys reading mass. Then she pulled out the knife, laid its crimsoned blade by the slumped body of the priest, walked to a rear pew and bowed her head. She was still praying there when police arrived. She to leave of her own accord had refused, to be handcuffed.

Later Mrs. Natalia Avanzino told police the tight lipped woman assailant was her daughter, Josephine. She said her daughter had been "sick since she was four years old" and was "very religious." The mother was unable to explain the incident, saying her daughter never had caused trouble or been violent bejore. Father Cronin, 44, just had bowed to the altar and stood upright when the woman, about 40, walked up behind him. "Suddenly I felt a blow on my he is recovering.

neck," a he said at a hospital where "I thought my neck was broken. must have let out an awful cry. I thought I was paralyzed but they told me later it was shock. "I heard everything that went on though, even when they snapped the handcuffs on her. I guess nothing that fast has ever happened to me Some worshipers lifted their bowed heads time to see Father Cronin slump to the foot of the altar and thought he had suffered a heart attack.

The assailant, who refused steadfastly to give her name, acted somewhat irrationally, wit1 (Continued on Page 2, Column 3).