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PART I Nos Times ALL THE TIME Analita ALL THE NEWS LIBERTY UNDER THE LAW TRUE INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM LXXIII TRAGEDY OF SURF-Mr. other in grief after failure yard of his home, toddled Beach Home Toddler Feared Drowned in Sea A 19-month-old baby strayed yesterday from his fenced Hermosa Beach yard, toddled down to the surf and presumably was drowned and swept out to sea. The child, Michael McDonald, was the son of John and Lillian McDonald of 30 19th Hermosa Beach, only a few houses removed from the beach. Got Phone Call Hermosa Beach police said they received a telephone call from Mrs. McDonald at 9:40 a.m., reporting the baby missIng from their yard.

She said he was there when she had checked 10 minutes earlier. As a search for Michael was. getting started, Miss Beverly Murdock, 22, of 1612 Strand, notified police that she had spotted the boy's body in the surf and then, instead of telephoning, had run several blocks to the police station for assistance. Search Continues Police and lifeguards continued to search the area throughout the day until nightfall but could find no trace of the missing child. The search will be continued today.

Rates on Fire (U.P.) Fire insurance rates on SAN FRANCISCO, April dwellings, in will all soon parts drop of from California, spokesmen for the State's major insurance firms announced today. The unexpected windfall will save California home and apartment house owners an estimated $5,000,000 to $6,000,000 a year. Al Gilbert, general manager of the Pacific Fire Rating Bureau, said the reductions will amount to as much as in San Francisco and not less than for other sections of the State. The new rates will apply ouly to single-family dwellings and multiple housing units of not more than four families. Insurance Will Drop in State IN THREE PARTS CC and Mrs.

John McDonald, to find son Michael, 19 months. down to the surf, and presumably Hermosa Beach, turn to each old. The boy strayed from was swept out to sea. Times photo by Jack Gaunt. BELIEVED DROWNED- -Nineteen-month-old Michael McDonald, son of Mr.

and Mrs. John McDonald of Hermosa Beach, is believed to be a victim of the surf. Peress Case Turned Over to Justice Dept. WASHINGTON, April 2 The Army today turned over to the Justice Department for possible action the case of former Maj. Irving Peress, New York dentist who figured in the row between Sen.

McCarthy and Army officials. The announcement of this action was made, without clarification, by Asst. Secretary of Defense Fred Seaton and the Pentagon's general counsel, H. Struve Hensel, at a news conference. General Called Seaton and Hensel, under questioning by reporters, would say only the action was taken as a result of investigations conducted by the Army and by a special task force at the Pentagon appointed Secretary of Defense Wilson.

The Peress case broke Into the open early this year when McCarthy haled the dentist before the Senate Investigations Subcommittee at a closed-door session in New York. McCarthy later said Peress refused to answer 32 questions SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1954 42 PAGES DAILY, 3000 LEFT HOMELESS BY FIRE IN KOREA PUSAN, Korea, April 3 (Saturday) (AP) The third disastrous fire in five months swept through a crowded refugee section of this port city today, killed at least four persons and possibly 27. Some 3000 were left homeless. The U.S. Army fire department said it feared the death count will rise sharply when the ruined shanty town is searched.

Five hundred homes and two food warehouses were destroyed. American and Korean firemen quelled the blaze after a three-hour fight. For a time the fire threatened the U.S. Quartermaster depot here, largest in Korea. Bank at 7th and Broadway Robbed of $1166 Repeats Phrase A bandit robbed the 7th and Broadway branch of the Banking of America 10 minutes before the 3 p.m.

closing time yesterday and escaped with nearly $1166. Two bank employees chased the bandit through downtown (crowded sidewalks and up an alley but lost him. They told police they thought he disappeared through the rear entrance of a midtown cafeteria. Uses Rear Door The bandit entered the bank through a rear door from 7th St. He walked quickly up to the pay window of Kathleen Corbett, 21, of 1752 Serrano Ave.

and shoved a note under the grill. Miss Corbett said she did not read the note. She said that the man repeated in nervous, almost hysterical tones: "Pass over all your moneyall of it, all of it!" Repeats Phrase She said he kept repeating the last phrase over and over. Terrified, she pushed all the cash from her pay drawers onto the counter. The man shoved the money into his pockets and walked quickly out through the 7th St.

door where he had entered. Miss Corbett turned to Asst. Cashier Harlan W. Adolph. Adolph said that she was so frightened that it was seconds before she could speak.

Then she told him: "I've been robbed," and pointed at the fleeing man. Adolph sounded the alarm and two bank employees, Chief Teller Dan Droaz and Clerk Ted Kruger, ran through the crowds of customers toward the closing door. Take Up Chase They told police that as soon as the bandit reached 7th St. he took to his heels down the crowded sidewalk. They chased him, several steps behind.

They said they saw him turn into an alley between Broadway and Spring St. When they reached the alley, the bandit had disappeared from sight, they said. Bank officials said that the bandit escaped with $1166, mostly in. $1, $5 and $10 bills with possibly a few $20 bills. A pea soup fog yesterday caused a shutdown of International Airport for approximately three hours and then spread into Los Angeles, cutting visibility to about three miles.

Hazy sunshine brought the mercury from a low of 47 deg. to 72 at 12:44 p.m. Visibility International Airport was cut to one-sixteenth of a mile between 1:30 and 4:30 a.m., causing a rerouting of aircraft to Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank. Today's forecast calls for increasing high cloudiness, hazy sunshine, a high of about 67 deg. and a possibility of showers tomorroy, from a Pacificborn Little precipitation is expected from the storm, the weatherman said.

Yesterday's humidity ranged from at 4:30 a.m. to at 12:35 p.m. Mercury Hits 72 Deg. as Fog Cuts Visibility Gen. Hoyt S.

Dies at 55 Former Chief of Staff of Air Force Victim of Cancer WASHINGTON, April 2 (P) -Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, who helped build up America's power in the air, died today of cancer. The handsome general, Air Force Chief of Staff from 1948 until his retirement last year, was 55 years old. Walter Reed Hospital announced the cause of the death.

Mourned by President President Eisenhower issued a statement expressing sorrow over the General's passing. In addition the President and his wife sent a telegram of condolance to Mrs. Vandenberg. His public statement follows: "The nation mourns the passof a devoted and able military leader, Gen. Hoyt S.

Vandenberg, and will hold him in grateful remembrance. "Gallant commander, a decade ago, of our Tactical Air Force in Northwest Europe; unswerving advocate of the precepts and cause of the UnitStates Air Force; a forceful fighter for a strong national defense- -Gen. Vandenberg was a courageous and tireless leader. He has left a lasting imprint on the service he loved SO well and on the nation he served with all his strength and skill. "News of his untimely death brings sorrow to his host of civilian and military friends, among whom I was privileged to be numbered." Patient Since October General Van, as he was known to airmen everywhere, had been a patient in the Army's Walter Reed Hospital here since last October, when he was admitted "for observation and checkup." He was in virtual seclusion during the months of his illness, too sick to receive many visitors.

The Air Force declined to state the nature of his illness but private physicians who attended him in a 1952 operation said it was found then that he was suffering from cancer of the prostate gland, and that subsequently the milignancy spread to the hips, spine and other bones. The second man to hold the Turn to Page 4, Column 2 Train Hits School Bus; 23 Injured YAZOO CITY, April 2 (P) A freight train crashed into a bus loaded with 30 high school students at a crossing today, injuring 23 teen-agers. Only one of the students, Jessie Pittman, was hurt seriously, but 12 were hospitalized. Bus Driver J. H.

Moore, 50, said he tried to stop but the brakes did not hold. The train stopped block away with part of the demolished bus still clinging to the engine. The locomotive knocked the bus about 25 feet. Engineer A. Cutrer of McComb said he didn't see the bus until just before the crash.

FEATURES INDEX Russian People Given Warning on H-Bombs Renewed emphasis by the Russian press on the destructive nature of hydrogen bombs, such as those tested by the United States, stirs speculation over improved chances for East West agreement control of weapons. Story on Page 4, Part 1. On Other Pages ASTROLOGY. Page 9, Part 2. CHURCH NEWS.

Pages 2-3, Part 2. CLASSIFIED. Pages 9-19. Part 2. COMICS.

Page 6, Part 2. CROSSWORD. Page 19, 2. DRAMA AND MUSIC. Pages 16-17, 1.

EDITORIAL. Page 4, Part 2. FINANCIAL, Pages 14-15, Part 1. HOPPER. Page 16, Part 1.

POLYZOIDES. Page 6, Part 1. RADIO TV. Page 5, Part 2. SHIPPING.

Page 8, Part 2. SOUTHLAND. Page 7, Part SPORTS. Following Page 8, Part 1. VITAL RECORD.

Page 8, Part 2, WEATHER. Page 8, Part 2. VOMEN. Pages 12-13. Part 1.

French Hold Against Indo-China Besiegers PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK ON RADIO, TV MONDAY WASHINGTON, April 2 (P)-The White House announced today that President Eisenhower will go on television and radio Monday night for a half-hour discussion of fears and concerns of the American people. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the President had spent a lot of time thinking about the subject of fears, and believed he should discuss it with the people. Hagerty also said Atty. Gen, Brownfell will speak over radio and TV next Friday on a legislative program designed to deal further with the "Communist conspiracy in our country." Asked if the speeches would be related, Hagerty said: "Yes, because one of the concerns the President will discuss is the concern of Communism in this country." The President will speak over NBC, CBS and ABC television networks, with Du Mont probably joining in, The NBC, CBS, ABC and Mutual radio networks also will carry the speech, HOUSE VOTE KILLS PUBLIC HOUSING Bill Aimed at Lower Down Payments for New or Old Homes Given Approval WASHINGTON, April 2 (AP) -The House tonight voted to kill President Eisenhower's public housing proposals and then passed a bill carrying his over-all housing program, Final passage of the hous-1 ing bill came on a roll call vote of 352-36.

In a final showdown roll call, capping a week-long battle, southern Democrats and many Republicans teamed up to run up a count of 211 to 176 against the President's plan for public housing. President had asked for authority to build 35,000 units year for the next four years- a total of 140,000. The are rented below costs to low-income families, with a government subsidy making up the loss. Lower Down Payments 35,000 Units Left Then the House passed a bill aimed at lower down payments and monthly payments for new or old homes or for home improvements, and a stepped up slum clearance program. The measure now goes to the Senate.

Both Democrats and Republican leaders in the House fought in vain to add authority for new public housing to the legislation. Southerners led the fight against the program, denouncing as "Socialistic." They said it "made the people wards of a bureaucratic state." The last roll call on public housing was on a Democratic motion to give the President just what he originally asked for. Earlier, House Republican leaders had attempted to salvage the program with a proposal carrying out the President's program for the first two years. They said this would have been satisfactory to the The decision left on the books authority to complete 35,000 units on which contracts already have been made. These could be built in the fiscal year starting July 1.

A vote of 141 to 68 also stripped from the wide ranging which he using bill a provision Turn to Page 7, Column 1 One of Last 5 Civil War Soldiers Dies AUSTIN, April 2 (U.P)Thomas Evans Riddle, 107, one of the last five surviving veterans of the Civil War, died tonight at the Texas Confederate Home. A daughter, Mrs. A. F. Williams, Wichita Falls, was his bedside.

Riddle, a native of Byers, served 18 months with the 12th Tennessee Infantry. He suffered an attack of pneumonia Jan. 16. His heart began to fail Feb. 9.

'Stand, Die' Order Issued to Defenders HANOI, April 3 (Saturday) (U.P) French forces, fighting under orders to die before retreating, held fast to the heart of battered Dien Bien Phu against waves of Communist attackers early today, and the French high command said the situation had become "less critical." Reports from the besieged fortress said the rebel attack showed signs of weakening, and good weather allowed French pilots to maul the Communists with bombs and napalm jellied gasoline. The weary and outnumbered French troops were under orders to die rather than yield. Col. Christian de Castries, commander of the gallant but outnumbered French garrison, issued his stand-and-die order after a fresh Communist division had stormed into the western defenses and plunged within 1000 yards of the heart of the fortress. Desperation Shown out many other parts of Longshoremen Yield and End New York Strike NEW YORK, April 2 (P)- The old International Longshoremen's Association beaten to its knees by a historic Federal mandate, today halted the longest waterfront strike in New York's history.

An unprecedented 24-hour-old ultimatum from the National Labor Relations Board did the trick. The strikers were told to get back on the job or else stay on the sidelines in a coming bargaining election. "The strike is over and the men will go back to work tomorrow morning," the union announced. Take News Glumly The ILA struck 29 days ago, demanding a contract. But it went back to work without one.

Strikers at the piers when the end came took the news of their defeat glumly- but many were eager to work again. A few hours before the ILA gave up, the State Supreme Court ordered the strike halted. At the same time, a Federal judge banned any more picketing on New Jersey piers. But the ILA was already Turn to Page 3, Column 21 His order, radioed to French headquarters here, reflected the desperation of the 11,000 French Union defenders at the end of the third day of an all-out assault by some 40,000 Communist troops. De Castries reported to Gen.

Henri Navarre, commander in chief here, that he had ordered his staff officers, cooks, pilots of grounded planes "and all other auxiliary personnel" into the fight. The last meager reserves were in action, chips down. The biggest battle were, Indo-Chinese war was roaring toward a climax. Thousands of screaming Red troops hammered the French Union defenders back into a tight triangle with an area of less than one square mile. After three days of ceaseless assault the Communists had overrun a vast part of the four-by-six mile valley.

Plight Extremely Serious Southward 500 miles, a strong Communist column invaded the sleepy kingdom of Cambodia in Lower Indo-China. It thrust 40 miles inside and seized the town of Voeune Sal in the northeastern corner of jazz-loving King Norodom Sihanouk's domain. French army quarters saw the first Communist Viet-Minh incursion into North Cambodia as an effort to throw the French out of balance throughout Indo-China. The Voeune Sai area, a desert in the dry season and marsh during spring rains, is of little strategic value, The French regarded the Dien Bien Phu battle, the heaviest of the war, as one that might prove decisive as well. The Red command hurled three divisions of its siege force at the shrinking French defenses on the third day of the all-out assault which Turn to Page 6, Column 3 about alleged Communist affiliations, invoking his constitutional protection against possible self incrimination.

Stevens Retorts McCarthy then summoned Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker, commandant of Ft. Kilmer, N.J., a much decorated World War II hero, who had handled Peress' discharge.

McCarthy in effect said Zwicker was unfit to command. That led Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens to accuse McCarthy of harming Army morale. Hensel said the Pentagon would not disclose the nature of the matters sent to the Attorney General's office because he said they involved a number of "peculiarities." THE WEATHER U.S. Weather Bureau forecast: Fog or low clouds this morning, hazy sunshine this afternoon.

High near 67 deg. Increasing cloudiness tonight and tomorrow, chance of showers tomor row. Yesterday's high, 72; low. 47. TOP SALARY $294 A MONTH Teacher, 82, Leaves Estate of $1,049,400 Olaf Halvorson, 82, Halvorson immigrated from Los Angeles city schoolteacher Norway as a young education man and whose top salary was never completed his in the more than $294 a month, left Middle West.

He joined the Los an estate of $1,049,400.61, it was Angeles city schools in 1917. He revealed yesterday when his taught Latin, Spanish and sOwill was filed in South Gate Su- cial studies. perior Court. Small Pension' Halvorson lived quietly and 6603 Mar- He retired on what school ofconi. unostentatiously Huntington Park.

He ficials described as a "very at died Aug. 8, 1953, with few, if small pension." of his neighbors having The will covers community any, that there a mil- property and any idea was holdings of Halvorson and his joint tenancy widow Sophie, who is named lionaire in the vicinity. Halvorson, according to RobAna attorney, executor. ert Mize, Santa built his fortune from mod- The document sets up minor teacher. trusts for three grandchildren, est savings as a with the bulk of the estate goFirst Sizable Stake ing to Mrs.

Halvorson. Upon "He made his first sizable her death, the will sets forth, stake in oll-rich Santa Fe the estate is to go in equal Springs holdings," Mize said. shares to two sons, Morgan and "But the major portion was Homer Halvorson, and to built up through careful invest- daughter, Miss Borghild Halments over the years." I vorson. all of Hunting on Park. 4.