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1 BOSTON, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13. 1337 48 PAGES SEVEN CENTS Tiv GLOBE "NEWSPAPER CO -A Vow A -J 4 mmm fflffl i mm. i Ironsid med Bid for Old es Spu Globe Santa Gets Shivers From Warm-Hearted Givers Donors' Parade Gools Off Shop By PAUL V. CRAIGUE Globe Santa had a big shiver for himself yesterday. Reasons included the fact that it was 1 Sec.

Dulles Leads Trek Of Aides To NATO President Will Leave at 5 P.M. In Columbine By JAMES E. WARNER WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 President Eisenhower presided today for two hours and 13 minutes over a meeting of the top-level, top-secret National Securi-ty Council on the eve of his departure for the NATO meeting in Paris. The President will leave here aboard his personal plane, the Columbine III, around 5 p.m.

Friday for the Paris meeting of the Western Alliance, increasingly crucial in the light of demonstrated Russian missile and satellite capabilities. He will arrive in Paris about 2 p.m. Saturday (9 a.m. Boston time). The Russian capabilities were a top item at the N.S.C.

meeting, as they have been in other levels of government since the Soviet launching of Sputniks I and ILand the fail rather cold in the workshop at 319 Washington as hundreds of Mayor Hynes' friends kept the doors open, filing in to make donations. Some of the trembling was occasioned by the mounting pile of bills, as Santa surveyed empty shelves in his warehouse, then went on an $11,000 buying trip to keep thetoys and games and warm clothing flowing into bundles of Christmas happiness for needy children. ill wy-v WHITE HATS FOR TRAFFIC OFFICERS Sgt Francis E. Devin of Boston Traffic Division models new service cap which all traffic officers will wear beginning today. TO REMAIN AT BOSTON BERTH U.S.F.

Constitution, "Old not be moved to the West Coast. That brought Santa Fund expenditures for this season to more than S50.0C0. If you'll glance at the table of contributions elsewhere in this paper, you'll find that they total $4721.26. But the lack of balance isn't as bad as those' figures make it eeem. Although there's a long way to go, the contributions are coming in faster as the holiday Racketeer Dio Convicted, Faces 31-Year Jem Santa Fund Contributors Sue -50 Ida 8 0 Anonymouj 10.00 W.

Beacon Hill 10.00 Kerne Tewks" 1.00 20 00 School, Maiden 5 0 Kenneth Rodes, Wmthrop 100 CONTRIBUTORS Page Sixteen H-Bomb Ban N. Russia ot joy approacnes. as oi yesterday, the rate of acceleration H- ff. Lincoln Junior High was guuu euuugu iu jusiuy hopes that every request could be filled. GLOBE SANTA Page Sixteen Mid-Europe Urged in U.

-UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Bee. 12 (AP) The Soviet Union proposed tonight that the United States, Russia and Britain renounce the stationing of nuclear weapons in East and West Germany. The proposal was made by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov before the 82-nation Political Committee of the U.N. General Assembly.

Launching the debate on the question of peaceful coexistence, Kuznetsov also urged the two GeVman governments to ban the production and use of nuclear weapons on their territory. If they would agree to such ban, he said, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia would do like No Longer Donor and Protector, This Country Depends on NATO As Much as Allies Depend on Us US Needs Europe Now By WALTER LIPPMANN The crucial difference between the coming meeting Ship to Stay In Boston, Navy Says Experts Decide Long Tow Would Ruin Constitution Old Ironsides has won another victory! The (lan of a California promoter to "borrow" the venerable USF Constitution as a Coast amusement Park exhibit has been outgunned by the law, indignant civic pride and com-' mon sense seamanship. Old Ironsides will fly her "tattered ensign" in the shadow of Bunker Hill Monument ad infinitum by an act of Congress, July 23, 1954.. Boston and the Bay State will fight to a man to keep the 160-year-old frigdte at the Boston Naval Shipyard. And the First Naval District will go down fighting to retain their commandant's flagship.

Besides, the fine old vessel is too old to make the trip. Los Angeles promoter. Lloyd Settle, 32-year-old Navy veP eran, has been turned down by the Navy Department on his scheme to tow the stately man o' war to the West Coast. Settle wanted to use the drawing power of the frigate at a mammoth amusement and recreation center in the Los Angeles area. He told the Navy that voluntary contributions of $lJ2 million could be raised to help maintain the Constitution in her old age.

OLD IRONSIDES Page Nine Chance to Talk Is Potent Lure To Hub Cabbies By JOHN TWEEDY Boston's taxi drivers last night accepted with enthusiasm two challenges presented by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce: They pledged their efforts as salesmen to boost Boston's convention and tourist TAXI DRIVERS Page Nine iGiooe Photo or Cnaries Carey There Riley will raise his rif NEV YORK, Dec. 13 (Friday) (AP) Racketeer Johnny Dio was found guilty early today on extortion and conspiracy charges. He faces a maximum sentence Of 31 years. Found guilty on the same charges was John McNamara, president of Teamster Local 295. A General Sessions Court jury of 10 men and two women deliberated two hours and 45 minutes before bringing: its verdict to Judge John A.

Mullen. The suave, 43-year-old Dio, whose real name is John Dio-guardi, escaped conviction last Spring in the acid-blinding of labor columnist Victor Riesel. But he was sentenced in September to two years on conviction of extorting money from" an employer in return for labor peace. Dio reputedly is one of: the kingpins of labor racketeering in the New York area. DIO Page Forty-four Comic Dictionary NEIGHBOR A person whose upright piano is often a downright V- 1 0f the North Atlantic allies and many meetings that have pre- i ce(jed 1 the is that for the first time 8 i iS? I.

(GioDe by Gil 7 Navy Ships Fighting Storm, 4 in Trouble WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (AP) The Navy said today seven of its ships are "battling moun-' tainous seas" in the eastern with one destroyer badly damaged, a man dead and three critically injured. Some of the destroyers in the force are low on fuel. The Navy said they may have to be towed by larger ships until the seas subside enough to permit refueling. The ships are the destroyers Gearing, Manley, Vogelgesang and McCard, the tanker Sala-monie, the transport Gen Hodges and the carrier Tripoli.

The Manley, badly damaged, is headed for Lisbon, she is -due tomorrow morning. U.S. Naval Headquarters at London received a message say-, ing her superstructure was caved in. NAVY SHIPS Page Twenty-ont mother in a Norwood nursing home. Acting Gov.

Robert F. Murphy, with several mem.be'. of the Executive Council wiL accompany Riley to the Victoria Rest Home, where Ars. Margaret Riley, 77, is a patient. Atom War Threat Mounts, Soviet Asserts in Notes we are asking at least as much as we can give.

If 1 if i When NATO was first organized nearly 10 years ago, flie United States was not only invul-. nerable itself, but it was able to guarantee effectively all the NATO allies. LIPPMANN In the beginning, the Atlantic Alliance, though in form it was a collective security pact, was in substance an American guarantee to protect Western Europe. LONDON, Dec. 12 (AP) The Soviet Union stepping up its letter writing campaign-said tonight it is sending notes to all U.N.

members warning that "the danger of nuclear war has greatly increased." The announcement by Radio Moscow coincided with a U.N. debate in New York on a Soviet call for peaceful coexistence and came four days before a NATO summit meeting in Paris: The broadcast was beamed to the West on Moscow's English-language service. It said the new notes declared "aetion must be taken at once to prevent a war and improve relations between countries." Word of the mass distribution of new notes came hard on the heels of a flurry of letters ure of the much smaller rival first American satellite. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, with other officials, left by air for Paris this afternoon following the White House meeting. Departing from custom, Dulles had no plane-side statement today.

It is not known yet whether Mr. Eisenhower have a statement at plane-side here tomorrow, the White House said. But he plans to have a statement Saturday afternoon upon his arrival in Paris. Dulles, going ahead to do "preparatory" work for the American delegation which the President will head at the 15-nation conference, is scheduled to arrive in Paris about 10 a.m. Saturday, Paris time -(5 a.m., Boston time).

EISENHOWER Page Fourteen Affirmative Spirit On Bulganin's Plea Urged by Stevenson WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (UP) Adlai E. Stevenson called on President Eisenhower today to make a reply "affirmative in spirit" to the latest proposals of Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin for easing East-West tensions. Stevenson, two-time unsuccessful Democratic nominee for President disclosed that he had given the Administration some suggestions about the Eisen-hower reply. ADLAI Page Forty-four It HERTZ MtMtmtk Mm CAg I tobi he Motor Mart Coma I HU.

2-9f00 TIltSE IS SHORT! ONLY 1 0 WORE SHOPPING DAYS LEFT TILL CHRISTMAS 3H0? BOSTON "Shjppirsg if hi Esg'ind" The -i ton Retail Tn4 Boar wise, creating "a vast zone, populated by more than 100 million people, will emerge In Central Europe, excluded from the sphere of atomic armaments." Kuznetsov also proposed: 1. A treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union which would "proclaim the firm belief of both our states in developing the relations of friendship and peaceful cooperation between them." 2- Take measures to stop "the present propaganda in the press and over the radio, engendering the feelings of mutual distrust, suspicion and malevolence." UNITED NATIONS Page Twenty-five from Soviet premier Bulganin to western government heads. Recipients of the letters included President Eisenhower, Prime Minister Macmillan, French Premier Felix Gaillard and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The messages generally have covered the same Soviet proposals for renouncing nuclear weapons and tests and other actions as steps toward peace. The letters to Gaillard and Macmillan were made public tonight.

Bulganin told Gaillard the NATO meeting was called "to accelerate war preparations" of the western alliance and urged France to try to influence other NATO members to consider Soviet proposals. RUSSIA Page Eleven KEBLINSKY Chairman Frederick A. Cronin said information centers will be set up in the project area to interview tenants and determine their housing needs. A large percentage, Cronin said, is qualified for occupancy in low-cost public housing projects. Land takings are expected to start Feb.

1 with demolition scheduled in late Spring. The demolition program will be coordinated with the removal of tenants and may -take three years, Cronin said. WEST END Page Twelve Boston Department and Specialty Stores Generally will epea this tvenin? for the convenient ef Christmas (hoppers but will not be open Saturday tvening. Beginning in 1949, when the Soviet Union first mastered the atomic bomb, the original ano basic principle of NATO became increasingly uncertain. For as the Soviet Union acquired nuclear weapons and the means of their delivery, the American guarantee became less and less inclusive.

Before that we had been able to insure cur allies not only against invasion but against 6erious bombardment. Ousting of 2500 Families In West End Starts Soon M.T.A. Rail Line Extension Headed for Legislature 1 (U'fpn 1 -A? jY 1 i fx sit! i I By the early '50s, particu- larly in the months immediately preceding the famous summit conference in Geneva in 1955, there was no longer any certainty, indeed not much likelihood that our allies would escape devastation in case of a great war. LIPPMANN Page Twenty-one legislative commission on mass transportation issued a statement saying the proposal to utilize rail facilities for rapid' transit service is "quite feasible." B. M.

Page Twenty-four Today's Festival Events At Faneuil Hall 10 to nonn--Organ recital. At Boston Common High School Glee Club. 1 Robert Gould Shaw Schoo' Choristers, W. laxbury. :30 Mt.

Alvernia Academv Glee Club. Organ recital. 7:30 St. Philips Service Club Choir, South End 8 Organ recital. A plan to use Metropolitan Boston railroad lines for extension of rapid transit service far into the suburbs is being formulated for presentation to the 1958 legislature.

After a closed-door meeting yesterday with Boston Maine Pres. Patrick B. McGinnis, a By JOSEPH A. The huge task 'of relocating 2500 families who will be displaced by the $43 million West End redevelopment project will be started within two weeks, it was learned last night. The Housing and Home Finance Agency in Washington announced approval of an $11,242,000 loan and a $9,396,939 grant to the Boston Redevelopment Authority as the Federal government's contribution to 'the costs of purchase and clearance of the 48-acre tract.

Boston Housing Authority reopening!" A Yl NEW REGISTRAR OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND FAMILY Clement A. Riley of Norwood and wife pose with daughters, Maureen G. Riley, 20, left, and Mrs. Barbara Catalan o. Riley to Take Oath at 111 Mother's Bedsidr By WILLIAM J.

LEWIS In an unusual ceremony, Clement A. Riley will take oath today as Registrar of Motor Vehicles at the bedside of his elderly hand and repeat the oath Murphy, with his mothc witness. NEW REGISTRAR Page Twcnty-jour.

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