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THE WEATNEt Gartteuwi cold toufcht; ThvSua: today tomorrow (Other WetUwr OB 4:59 6:53 13) DO YOUR PART This has been a bad year Mr traffic deaths in Virginia. Please do your part to see that the lion gets no worse. VOLXCI--No. 137 RE 2-3456 PETERSBURCOLONIAL HEIGHTS, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1955 PRICE: FIVE CENTS Crash Of Airliner Kills 27 And Injures 46 i 4 AEG Members Oppose Plan For Show Of Force Commissioner Murray's Proposal To "Impress" World Leaders Runs Into Opposition In Senate WASHINGTON W-Four atomic tnergy commissioners were lined up solidly today against a colleague's plan for a dramatic "show of force" to impress on world leaders the urgent need lor peace. The proposal, made by AEC Commissioner Thomas E.

'Murray Jn a New York speech last night, also met some outright opposition in the Senate. But some senators said the idea was Worth considering. Murray's idea outlined at the Golden Jubilee Dinner of the Fordham University Law School was to call representatives of all the nations to a he termed a "meeting at the atomic summit." Such a meeting, he said, would be held at Eniwetok in the Pacific Proving Grounds used by the AEC. There, he said, these leaders -particularly the i a and Communist Chinese an H-bomb explosion in what he envisioned as a "show of force, a declaration of American power and a demonstration of the strategy of deterrence." Shortly after Murray's 'speech was released, his four AEC colleagues issued a joint statement declaring that "commission tests In the Pacific have never been designed as a 'show of force' but are solely for the development of weapons necessary for defense of the free world." They said the AEC several months ago formally rejected motion to invite foreign observers, including Communists, to nuclear tests in the Pacific. "The commission has never, changed Its position on this matter," they said.

"Mr. Murray's proposal, therefore, is contrary to the judgment of the Atomic-Energy Commission." CLAIM SECRET REVEALED NEW YORK WV-The New York Times said today that Atomic Energy Commissioner Thomas E. Murray, who urged in a speech last night a "show, of force" H- explosion, has revealed one of the major secrets in making the bomb. In a story by-lined by William L. Laurence, the Times said Mur- actually a very large fission bomb." The newspaper added: that anyone with intimate knowledge of the secrets of the hydrogen bomb has revealed one of its major secrets, the principal source.

Fall Output Of Vaccine Under Way Polio Experts Declare Major Bottleneck Has Been Removed KANSAS CITY W--Polio experts say the green light is on for full- production of safe, potent vaccine through removal of a troublesome bottleneck. Simultaneously, they answered some doubts and questions raised bj' some health officers concerning the vaccine at a meeting of the American Public Health Assn. In essence, experts said there is no reason to doubt the efficiency or safety of the Salk polio vaccine. One spiked a rumor that Canadians stopped making vaccine because they kept finding live virus in the vaccine. Dr.

R. D. DeFries of Toronto said the reason was they're building a bigger plant to carry on a much bigger vaccination program next year. Others, including Dr. Jonas E.

Salk, who developed the vaccine, cited evidence that the vaccine could protect very young infants, that vaccination had nothing to do with, the outbreak of this year's epidemic in Massachusetts, that use of even a single shot had drastically reduced paralytic polio in the United States this year. But a couple of health officers held to their reservations that some inoculations of vaccine might have been the cause of spread of polio to other members of the family. Virus experts disagreed, or said the assumption was. by -no means proved. A committee of experts appointed by the U.

S. Public Health Service reported the cause of a troublesome bottleneck in vaccine production had been found and corrected. It lay in differences in wavs manufacturers earlier this year strained or filtered "soups" of live virus. This filtering is done before the viruses are exposed to a lethal bath of formaldehyde, to killl all the viruses used in the vaccine. ray "made it clear that the' purpose of filtering is to en- called hydrogen fusion bomb is' sure that all viruses are separate, equally exposed to the chemical.

But the committee found evidence that sometimes the filtering was perhaps too coarse, or else done too far in advance. Sediments "or clumps of viruses inside the clumps could not be exposed to from which the weapon 'draws the chemical and could survive the its explosive power." jbath. The said Murray disclosed that uranium 23S--plentiful and cheap, but normally considered nonfissionable--now can be used in the H-bomb "in its natural form." Prior to this development, the newspaper U-23S "had to be converted at great expense into the man-made plutonium." In the orthodox atomic bomb, the explosion is produced by a fission process--a splitting apart of atomic particles in a mass of plutonium. On the oth'er hand, a hydrogen explosion occurs when atoms (of heavy hydrogen) fuse together, releasing tremendous amounts of energy. Scientists say such a hydrogen explosion must be triggered by an ordinary atomic or fission explosion.

Now, according to the Times story, it appears that a third step has been added. The hydrogen explosion, once set off, triggers a third process--this time the fission of a large quantity of uranium 238. The story said some physicists had already speculated that such was the case on the basis of radioactive particles scattered by the test blasts in the Pacific. DeHardit Begins 1-Year Sentence Ex-Highway Group Member At Reformatory George" P. DeHardit former member of the State Highway Commission and one-time Gloucester County Commonwealth's attorney, today entered the federal reformatory in Prince George County to begin sen-ing a one- year sentence on an income tax evasion charge.

DeHardit was brought to the reformatory near by U. S. Marshal Richard A. Simpson. DeHardit was convicted a year ago of evading part of his 1946- income taxes.

His case was appealed up to the U. S. Supreme Court which turned down a plea for -review last month. Federal District Judge Sterling Hutcheson refused to reduce De- Hardit's sentence and a $5,000 Federal Reserve Board Increases Interest Rate WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve Board has ended its recent-pampering of the business boom with a double crackdown on resurgent credit expansion. Effective d-a the reserve board permitted six reserve banks "to shove the discount rate the interest -cost at which they lend their member commercial banks-up from 2Vi to 2 1-2 per cent.

That is the most restrictive' lending cost enforced by the board in 20 years, since the first half 1935. Since then, until late this year, the reserve bank lending rata had never topped 2 per cent. The new discount rate was authorized for the reserve banks at New York, Philadelphia, Chlcngo, Cleveland and San Francisco. A similar increase for the nation's six other reserve hank? is cxpcrtrd on the basis of previous experience. As a second step to curb credit, the reserve.board disclosed that it returned this week to sales on the open market, of federal securities owned by the reserve system.

Funds used to buy these securities thus become unavailable for lending. The two moves followed an ebul lient upswing since the first of this month in business activity. The spurt created sudden new demands for credit on a large scale, and put a strain on production signalized in upward-moving commodity prices. It was learned that the continued tendency of basic prices such as those for metals to move up, while farm prices continued to drift downward, and a new upward trend to stock market nricos were key factors in federal reserve thinking which led to the new crackdown. REVIVED AFTER BEING "DEAD" OVER TWO HOURS--Paul X.

Xblondi, left, 16, is aliye today after being clinically dead two hours and 34 minutes. At right core some of the Guardsmen volunteers in Fiamingham, who gave 14 pints of blood to help revive Ablondi. The youth was injured in the of a gas torch. His heart stopped beating while he was on the operating table. A surgeon opened his chest and with aid of others the youth's heart was pumped manually for over 2Vi.

hours. Mrs. Muriel Greely checks donors, left to right: Robert Greenwood, Lawrence Tupper, Thomas Egan, Ernest Coulson, Theodore George and Paul Miles. (AP Wirephoto) Labor Leaders Call Off Strike Argentine Government Victorious In First Challenge Of Authority BUENOS, AIRES tf) Argentina's five-day-old government, ap- parently'victorious in the first major challenge to its authority, last night Peronista labor leaders had called off their faltering general strike. The announcement came after old-line Peronista leaders of.

the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), deposed by the government when they issued their strike call, had met with Labor Minister Raul Migone. The communique said the CGT leaders had "resolved unanimously to cease three-day walkout. CGT, mainstay of the toppled dictator Juan D. called the strike in an obvious attempt to discredit the provisional. government headed by Maj.

Gen. Pedro Aramburu while it was new and untried. The strike.knocked out some ktey industries such as meat packing but "free laborers" in the transportation and communications industries defied the strike call. While speaking softly, the government continued to wield a very big After jailing some. 300 strike leaders most of whom now have been releaseci it was reported cracking down on nationalistic officers in the armed services and even on some of the clergy.

CONFESSION SAVES MAN FROM ELECTRIC CHAIR FOR 60-DAY PERIOD 10 steps and.7 1-2 hours separated 21- year-old Hurbie Franklin Fairris Jr. from the electric chair. Then word was flashed to H. C. McLeod, warden of the Oklahoma that postmidnight execution- was off.

Gqv. Raymond Gary, after a series of hurried telephone conversations, granted Fairris a 60-day stay of execution so the State- Pardon and Parole Board could study new, evidence disclosed yesterday. The reprieve was granted after 24-year-old Raymond Carrol Price, one of companions the night Oklahoma City Detective- Bennie Cravatt was shot to death, told two Catholic chaplains at the penitentiary not Fairris--had shot the detective. Price is serving a life term' for his connection in the shooting during a holdup of an Oklahoma Cit3 supermarket July 16, 1954. Price and James Skinner, 22, pleaded guilty and were given life sentences.

Fairris went to trial and was convicted of the murder of the, detective. All three are from Dallas. FORRESTAL SET FOR SEA TRIALS NOV. 28 NORFOLK W) The Navy is scheduled to take the supercarrier Forrestal out to sea Nov. 28, it was disclosed here yesterday.

It will mark the first time the vessel has gone to sea under Navy control. Previously, the giant went on brief trials in the Atlantic under supervision of her builder, Newport News ship- vard. I i-ITTi-E J.IX Ike Plans Next Move In 4-Power Deadlock ALLEGED SABOTEUR DENIES HE PLANTED BMB ON AIRLINER. DENVER- M--John i Graham flatly denies planting a bomb on the airliner that crashed and killed his' mother and 43 other passengers, the Rocky Mountain News said today. Federal authorities announced Monday that Graham, 23, had signed a "written But the newspaper in a copyrighted interview quoted Graham as saying: "Yes, I signed a statement.

But it's not true. They toia me they were going to put my wife in jail, and I'd better get-it straightened out myself." Asked by reporter Al Nakkula if he meant FBI' agents had used duress--kept-questioning "him until he confessed-- Graham an swered: "Well, they started about noon that Sunday and didn't stop until 1 signed a confession about 4 a.m. the next morning. Oh, they took me out for dinner and gave me drinks of water and, such. Graham" appeared i in court yesterday.

His arraignment was postponed Nov. 28 to allow him to retain counsel. He is charged with murder in the death of his mother, Mrs. Daisie King, 54. She.

was among passengers of a United Air Lanes' DC6B that crashed Nov. 1 near Longmont, killing all aboard. Indians Greet Soviet Leaders Bulganin And Khrushchev Arrive In New Delhi NEW DELHI, India OB Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin a n.d Russian Communist party chief Nikita S. Khrushchev arrived in New Delhi today to begin an 18- day goodwill tour of India. The two top Russian leaders were'greeted by Prime Minister Nehru and other high Indian officials at New Delhi's military airport, where thousands of persons had been assembling since early morning.

Indian capital was decorated lavishly for the welcome to the Russians, "whose visit was' set up five months ago when Nehru toured Russia as a guest of the Soviet government- Appeals Nehru for discipline among the crowds were warned that disorders during th Soviet visit would be a blot on In(Continued On Page 6) Top Officials Coqfer With President--Dulles Reports To People Tonight On War GETTYSBURG, Pa. W--President Eisenhower moves farther into -the area of decision in -the new, post-G a international situation today. The President scheduled a second talk with Secretary of State Dulles, mainly to approve the draft of the public report Dulles will make on the four-power deadlock in a nationwide radio-TV tonight. Dulles arrived yesterday. Dulles' talk will be carried "live" by CBS-TV at 7:30 EST.

A delayed is planned by NBC p.m., and radio broadcasts are scheduled by NBC p.m. and "ABCT arid CBS at 10:30 The Eisenhower-D 1 l.e talks, which began yesterday, go well a mere rehash of the sour turn East-West relations have taken since the original summit conference at Geneva between Eisenhower and the 'Russian, British and French Prime Ministers'last July. Now the question is: What next? And, partly by happenstance, some of the American 'officials deeply concerned with the answer to -this question were calling today on the President. First on the schedule as he would "be any Friday if Eisenhow- were in was Dillon Anderson. He is the President's special assistant in matters relating to the National Security Council.

The full council, which charts over-all American strategy, will meet with Eisenhower early next week. Later Eisenhower was to see Lewis L. Strauss, chairman" of the Atomic Energy. Commission, whose chief responsibility is developing the kind, of weapons which are the big determining force in political- military planning these days. Flying in with Strauss Gen.

Alfred -M. Gruenther, commander of NATO forces in Europe." There were indications in official quarters that Dulles' report to the people Geneva might be less pessimistic than reports from the foreign ministers' conference had seemed to indicate. DRIVE RENEWED GENEVA IS Leaders in Western Europe's unification drive believe failure of the Big Four conference to reach an East-West settlement will give a new spurt to their long-stalled movement. Ever since the July summit conference, and while the world waited for the "acid test" of Soviet intentions here this month, European unity idled on the sidelines. Many Europeans expected or hoped the foreign ministers meet- (Contmued On Page 6) Temperature At 26 Here For Second Time In.

Nov. Why core who wears the pants os long os there's enough money jn the The temperature in Petersburg took another big dip again early today, following yesterday's drop of 28 degrees. Yesterday's i was 57 -degrees as compared with So on Wednesday. At 7:30 this morning it was 26, tying the low of this month for the second time. The first time the temperature was 26 was on November 9, with the lowest recorded on November 6 between- 5 and 6 a.

m. By noon today the temperature stood at 47 degrees with -Bright sun blue skies. The fiye-day forecast for is that temperatures will average between three and five de- 'grees below normal, with rather over the weekend, i There is a slight possibility of snow in Petersburg tomorrow, with the precipitation ending early Sun- dny. Warmer weather wil! move I in again Monday and Tuesday, with rain scheduled Tuesday or Wednesday. (By The Associated SJTOW PELTS WEST Snow and rain fell in Western states today but violent storms which lashed broad areas of the nation this week appeared diminishing.

The windy, snowy, cold weather was blamed for at "least 13 deaths. Nine persons were missing and presumed dead. Four other persons 'were reported snowbound in the mountains near Boulder, which was hit by an 18-inch snowfall Monday. The arctic air which has gripped the northern Rockies and Plains states for several days appeared nearly broken this morning. The WeatV.or Bureau reported only a few areas reporting below-' zero temperatures.

Temperatures in the ley belt (Continued On Tnge 21) Small Loan Limit Increase Urged Legislative Council Asks That Maximum Be Raised To $600 RICHMOND W)---Maximum loan limits applied' by law to small loan companies should be increased $300 to $600. the Virginia A i Legislative Coutdlv (VALC) said" today. This was one of the recommendations dealing with Virginia's small loan law made by the Council in a report to Gov." Stanley. The governor had asked the VALC last Sept. 1 to study the law, particularly a proposal for boosting the individual loan limit, with a view to recommending any changes deemed essential.

A $30d loan ceiling has been in effect since 1918 'when the a was enacted by the General Assembly, VALC noted the purchasing- the 191S limit "is far less today when it was originally fixed." Regulation of the small loan companies is vested by law with the State Commission which now allows an interest rate of 2 1-2 per cent per month on the unpaid balance. The VALC's recommendation to boost the ceiling also provided for continuation of the present interest rate on that portion of a loan not in excess of and a rate of 1 1-2 per cent a month on the portion in excess of. $300. who are forced to resort to small loan companies in or- (Gontniued On Page 21) Silence On Red Query Brings Fine Author Assessed $500, Given Suspended Term WASHINGTON (SI--Author Harvey O'Connor was and giveh a one-year suspended jail sentence'today for refusing to say whether, he was a Communist when he wrote books used urU. S.

overseas libraries. O'Connor told U. S. Dist. Judge Joseph, C.

McGarraghy he felt "the real reason I am here-in court today is because I wrote books." He added that he regards the First Amendment as crux of this case." That a makes the guarantees of free speech and free press. Before imposing sentence, the judge ruled O'Connor was guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to tell Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) whether he was a member of the "Communist conspiracy" when he wrote the books later used by the U. S. Information Service in libraries abroad.

McCarthy at the time headed the Senate Investigations subcommittee in a hunt for "Communist subversion in the government. The brief, courtroom proceeding today was unusual in that O'Connor instead of hfe lawyer, Gerhard P. Van Arkel. did almost all the a i Van Arkel, however, promptly announced he would appeal. O'Connor, wearing dark glasses, started talking as soon as the judge asked him he had anything to say.

Page 18 Church News 12 Classified Colored News 24 Comics 20 Editorial 4 Hopewell News 21 Junior Editors 7 Local News 7.7 Markets '23 Obituaries 7, Radio, TV Sports 14-15-lfi Weather 7.7 'H'owen's A'cics 5 Returning GIs Are Victims Of Pla nes Plunge Nonscheduled Transport Falls Into Residential Area Of Seattle, Explodes And Burns--Home Set Afire But Mother And Children Unharmed SEATTLE- (AP--A nonscheduled airliner, its engines sputtering as it left an icy runway, crashed into'a residential area early today, killing at least 27 persons and injuring 46 others as it exploded and burned. The big Peninsular Air Transport Co. plane was headed for ChicSgo and Newark, N. with 66 servicemen who had just returned from the Far East and were trying to get home for Thanksgiving. Also aboard the DC4, which had its home base at Miami Springs, were a woman, iwo-children crnd a crew of four.

The woman and children were among survivors. The plane first clipped a tree on a hillside south, of its Boeing Field takoff point, bounced off the ground and shattered as it burst into flames. Parts of it skidded into the back of a house and set it afire but a young mother and her five children inside escaped unharmed. 14 Believed Lost In Nev. Plane Crash Air Force Transport Takes Plunge High In Sawtooth Mountains LAS VEGAS, Nev.

An Air Force transport with 14 persons aboard crashed high in the saw- tooth Charleston Mountains while en route to the Nevada atomic bombing range yesterday. An arctic rescue team from March Air Force Base, braving temperatures, combed on foot through the snow early today in an attempt to reach the wreckage at about the foot elevation. Air Force spokesmen said there was little chance any of the passengers survived' the crash. Identification of those aboard was withheld pending notification of relatives. Air Force headquarters in Washington, D.

said the aircraft, believed to be a C54, carried Air Force personnel and "some civilian consultants." It was not disclosed how: many of each. The mission was described as "routine." An AEC spokesman in Albuquerque, said -the AEC had no embargo on information about the crash and had no 'special interest in it, indicating that no atomic scientists were aboard. Adlai-Kefauver Ticket Is Seen Dems Voice Confidence In Prospects Next Year CHICAGO MV-Talk of a possible Steyenson-Kefauver ticket spread today among Democrats. looking forward with new-found cojifidence toward" next year's presidential The party's state chairmen took the center of the stage today after the Democratic National Committee voted unanimously yesterday to open its 1956 convention doors to additional delegates. Paul Ziffren, California national committeemau who helped sponsor the idea, said the expanded convention represented a new high of optimism among party workers.

"We've got a lot of Democrats who want to get in on the ground floor in the business of electing the president," he said. A total of 2,744 delegates and Mrs. Donald Renard said she heard a explosion. The next minute my yard was full of soldiers." Bodies of the dead, dying and injured were strewn 'about. Flames fed by gasdline which had spewed, from full tanks roared into the air.

Some of the soldiers streamed into Mrs. Renard's house as she opened the door. Some were badly hurt; some groaning; some crying. Several had burned hands and burned clothing. Within seconds calls were out for every available ambulance in Seattle and King County but their arrival was slowed by the ice and snow-covered streets.

the ambulances arrived, dozens of. the soldiers were wandering or lying -about scene, some in a state "of''shock, others needing only minor "treatment. Charred bodies were scattered through the still burning wreckage and it was some time before firemen could dampen the flames and start the grisly job-of collection. "My sea up and, the back end just tore itself out. There were eight or nine on -me," PFC.

William 25', Warwick, Korean combat veteran said in describing the crash; "I grabbed my he said, from a hospital bed, "and pulled him out from -under the seat and we got out of Johnson had only minor Cpl. Everett 21, Long Island, N. said he was in the second seat from the front. "I had just buckled my ne said, "and the. next thing" I knew I was walking around on the 'ground with my still: strapped to I must have been torn out of there'." TV Pfc.

William- 20, Washington, D. seated next to. Johnson, said the. plane's back" just seemed to break off. "I don't really know what happened.

there were guys all over me. We got out through the big I'm lucky to be alive. 1 The soldiers dreds who had front Seattle toward homes and separation centers after arriving day morning'on the transport Gen; R. L. Howze from, the Ear The government' had contracted with a number of nonscheduled airlines, including Peninsular, to speed the men home for the holi-.

1 i The crash was the fourth involv- (Contmued On Page 21) Survivor 'List- SEATTLE ffl--The Army today issued following partial list of military personnel survived crash of chartered- airliner here: Ft. Lawton Hospital: E. W. Leatherraan, 107 Springdale, Cumberland, Md. Pfc.

P. Tamberin, 2613 Chap- Ian Wheeling, W. Va. Pvt. J.

T. Jamieson, 125 Seminary Greenstmrg, Pa. Pfc. A. W.

Moinarko, Johnstown, PA. Pfc. James Smith, Rte. Fred- 1,896 alternates will be eligible to attend the 1956 convention. They will have a total of 1,372 votes.

Individual members of the national committee had their own ideas about the identity of their erick. Md. presidential nominee, but Mayorj Renton Hospital: David Lawrence of Pfc. W. R.

Johnston, 452 Center (Continued On Page 21) I Norfolk, Va. Prisoner Nabbed After Escape In Official's Car SUFFOLK (5V-State here, captured a convict about two hours after "HP escaped from the State Penitentiary in Richmond in a car assigned to the superintendent of the convict road force. Officials said the escapee "was Thomas E. Deagle, a mechanic's helper in the trusty construction force. Shortly before 9 a.m.

he rode away in a state car from the garage across the street from the -penitentiary. Deagle was serving eight years on four convictions of store breaking. He was sent to the penitentiary in October 1953 from Princess Anne Some other trusties and one guard saw the black top of iho! cnr disappearing down the drive-' way, but the guard thought it a being taken to the filling station for servicing. D. P.

Edwards, the superintendent of the State Convict Road Force, said that when he had to leave his office for about ten minutes. got in the car parked between his office and the garage and took off. Edwards had his own personal key. but the employe who had brought the car out of the garage had 1 in it the garage koy "used in moving' the car around for servicing. The 28-ypar-old Deagle had been assigned as a mechanic's helper fo; more than a year.

home wns listed as Virginia Hcach. He stands six nj inrh, i pounds, has brown hitir, blue oycs, and of a ruddy.