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ALABA JOURNAI THE WEATHER Mostly cloudy with showers and occasional thundershowers this afternoon and tonight. Cloudy and colder Sunday. MO MIS A MONTGOMERY, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1953 12 PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS 65th YEAR NO. 93 The Associated Press The United Press owy MA And Okeh I POWs For Of Ailimig Marines Watch Mighty A-Blast Davis Named U. S.

Attorney For Montgomery District By MARTHA GARRETT President Eisenhower today nominated Hartwell Davis, 46-year-old city attorney, to be U. S. attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. standing broad jump, billiard contest, Golden Glo.ve contest, basketball and football contest. A new bus will soon be ready for use by the club, H.

F. Vandergrift, a club director, told the group of 100 boys attending. A field day was planned at the club today, with champions being named and prizes awarded to winners in track and other athletic contests. Club members will observe "Go to Church Day" tomorrow, with each of the boys attending his own rhurch. This will end Boys Week here.

Judge Walter B. Jones, president of the club, presided at the banquet. (Photo by Kraus). "BOYS OF THE YEAR" HONORED AT BANQUET An award for "Boy of the Year" was given last night to Sonny McMurtrey (left) by State Rep. Clyde Sellers at a banquet meeting at the Montgomery Boys Club.

The 13-year-old boy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Mc-Murtery, 8 Pill St. Joe Kirk, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph A. Kirk, 43 Eugene received the Athlete of the Year award from Melvin Daw-kins, (right), Montgomery businessman. The dinner and presentation ceremonies were held in observance of National Boys Week. Medals and emblems went to nearly 70 champions in free-throw shooting in the basketball events, North Alabama Given Warning Of Tornadoes During Morning The Weather Bureau issued the following severe weather forecast at 8 a.m., CST, today: "There is a possibility of a few tornadoes in extreme northern Alabama this morning." However, the storm indications seemed to be confined to that area, according to the Montgomery weather report. There is no danger now of tornadoes in this vicinity.

Taft Calls Senate To Meet On Stalled Tidelands Bill WASHINGTON (UP) Senate Republican leader Rob The nomination was submitted' to the Senate for confirmation. Davis was assistant U. S. attorney here for 18 years until his resignation March 17, 1951. E.

Burns Parker was attorney at the time, and served in that office until he retired because of ill health in January of this year. The new U. S. attorney is a member of the bars of Alabama, Georgia and Florida. He was ad mitted to all Of them in 1931.

A graduate of Alabama Poly technic Institute and the Emory University School of Law, he also is a member of Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity and Sigma Nu social fraternity. He is Methodist steward and has served as Secretary-treasurer of the Conference Board of Lay Activities and as a member of the General Board of Evangelism. Davis began his law practice in Opelika and practiced there until 1932, when he came to Montgomery where he has resided since that time. He is married to the former Elizabeth Mardre of Auburn and they have two children. President Says Yacht Is Luxury Orders Williamsburg Out Of Service By MARVIN L.

ARROWSMITH AUGUSTA, Ga. W) President Eisenhower has ordered the presidential yacht Williamsburg out of service and into the "mothball fleet" because "the White House believes it is a symbol of needless luxury." Eisenhower's press secretary, James C. Hagerty, used those words in announcing the decision today at the President's vacation headquarters. Between now and June 30 when the Williamsburg will be stored away by the Navy the yacht will be used twice weekly for Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay cruises for wounded war veterans, Hag-erty said. Used By Truman He added that the yacht, which was used frequently by former President Truman, will be taken out of presidential service May 31.

The secretary estimated annual cost of operating the yacht at A saving of that much won't be realized, however, because that figure includes the salaries of its crew of 123 officers and men who simply will be transferred to other duty. Actual cost of operating the ship itself is estimated at about $75,000 a year. Used Only Once The only time Eisenhower used the yacht was on March 26 when he met aboard with Premier Rene Mayer and other French government officials. Eisenhower reportedly decided before his inauguration when he was returning frdm Korea last December to lay up the Williamsburg. After he took office, however, there were reports that he had changed his mind and would keep the yacht.

The Navy said March 12 the Williamsburg would continue to be the presidential yacht because of its advantages for uninterrupted conferences. The Williamsburg, a 244-foot diesel-power craft, was built in 1931 at Bath, as a private yacht designed -for ocean travel. The Navy acquired it in April, 1941, and converted it to a patrol vessel. Truman acquired the Williamsburg in 1946. -As Hagerty announced the decision to lay up the Williamsburg, Eisenhower was reported feeling much better after a bout with food poisoning.

The President remained in bed most of the morning yesterday, but got out in the sun during the afternoon at the Augusta National Golf Club. He sat on a bench at the first and 10th tees for a while and watched fellow club members tee off. White House To Issue ert A. Taft called the Senate into an unusual Saturday session today in a move to speed action on stalled tidelands Plans Also Set For Meeting On Truce Talks Prisoner Swap Is Slated To Start At 6 P.M. Sunday By ROBERT B.

TUCKMAN MUNSAN, Korea WV-U. N. and Communist staff officers today agreed tentatively on a time sched ule for Monday's historic exchange of disabled prisoners of the Ko rean War. And they completed arrangements for a meeting of liaison of ficers tomorrow to set a date for resuming the suspended full scale Korean armistice talks. The tentative schedule calls for the first exchange of sick and wounded prisoners at 9 a.m.

Monday (7 p.m., Sunday, EST). All five delegates of the U. main truce team were in Korea today. They could be in Panmun-jom, the weathered truce talk vil- U. N.

Is Unanimous In Hope For Truce UINIlfcL) NATIONS, N. T. (JP) In a rare unanimous vote, the U. N. general assembly today expressed hope that the proposed talks at Panmunjom will result in an early armistice in Korea.

The action had been foreshadowed when the assembly's 60-n a i political committee took a similar unanimous decision two days ago. The resolution, originally offered by Brazil, provides that the assembly will hold off any Korean discussions here until the outcome of the Panmunjom talks is known. The assembly will remain in recess, ready for a quick meeting, if an armistice or other Korean developments require action. lage, in a matter of hours when the fast-breaking developments of the past couple weeks add up to a call to re-open the stalled talks. Lt.

Gen. William K. Harrison head of the U. N. delegation, and Air Force Brig.

Gen. Edgar Glenn, another member, flew here from Japan today. To See POW Exchange Harrison came to observe the exchange of sick and wounded POWs, set to begin at Panmun- lOm Monrfav and in ho hriesfaA tn latest developments. Harrison told newsmen he has no objection to talking truce with the Reds in Panmunjom even while an exchange of disabled prisoners goes on only a few yards from the conference hut. He would make no predictions.

'I just play from day to day," he said. Already at this advance truce headquarters of the U. N. Command is a third team member, near Adm. John C.

Daniel He (See POW SWAP, Page 5) Red POWs Stage Hunger Strike PUSAN. Korea WPi Snme ihm. disabled Chinese Red captives waiting in a hospital here for repatriation went because they were not permitted 10 cook tneir own food, the U. N. Prisoner of War Command said today.

The fast ended at noon today. The command did not sav how many prisoners were involved or when it began. "We have been hrinpincr TnnA in them every meal regardless of whether they eat it or not," said Col. Franklin W- Reere of Srran. ton, hospital camp command er, "iney did drink the milk that was Drougnt to tnem at each meal." Dr.

Otto Lehner. head nf ih International Committee of the Red Cross, who is at the scene, said: ''If the nrisoners nf war refnca to eat, the detaining power is obli- gaiea io give tnem every meal and bring it to them anyway. These. Chinese sirlr anri urnnnrle are getting a hospital ration for every meai wnicn is tne same Hospital ration all PW hospital patients have received in the past." The Chinese ate at noon today after a talk by Col. Richard D.

Boerem of Ontario, deputy commander of the POW Command. Rules Ready discredited" and "comDletelv n. successful." "It endeavored to set up a non-workable standard for employ, ment," he added, "because it sought to probe the employes mind to establish subjectively a narrow test of the employes order." He said the new program, while weeding out the disloyal, will also hit at "security risks" on the presumption federal workers "shall be. reliable, trustworthy, of good conduct and charcter Ferguson Asks $6 Billion Cut In Arms Spending Signs Indicate President May Slow Western Build-Up By JACK BELL and ERNEST B. VACCARO WASHINGTON Iff) Sen.

Ferguson (R-Mich) called today for a six billion dollar cut in arms and -atomic amid signs, the Eisenhower administration may support a slower buildup of Western defense. The proposal by Ferguson, chairman of the Senate armed service appropriations subcommittee, came in the face of an assertion by Sen. Symington (D-Mo) that U. S. military strength is lagging further behind Russia's every day.

Attention On Speeches Attention centered on a speech Secreary of State Dulles will make tonight at 10 o'clock before the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The speech will be broadcast and telecast nationally by the American Broadcasting and rebroadcast at 11 p. m. by the National Broadcasting Co. Sen.

H. Alexander Smith (JR-NJ), acting chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before which Dulles lppeared yesterday, quoted him as saying the speech wiU discuss the rate of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization buildup. Dalles' Statement After his closed-door meeting with the committee, Dulles told newsmen in effect that President Eisenhower's peace proposals before the editors society Thursday bad put Russia on the spot. If there is no prompt response from Russia, Dulles said, "in a great respects it, will be quite apparent it is necessary to move ahead on all fronts, East and West, to develop a strong The Eisenhower plan end the cold war, disarm the world and invest the savings in combating want was handed directly to the Kremlin. The State Department said a text of the speech was submitted to the Soviet Foreign Office in Moscow Thursday night.

American envoys in some 70 foreign capitals acted similarly. Symington's' View Symington told the editors' society yesterday that, even if the defense budget is not reduced, the U. S. will continue to grow "weaker every day in relative military (See FERGUSON, Pace 5) Mattison Discusses Merger Of Appeals Gorman E. Mattison, Charlotte, N.

was the featured speaker at a luncheon sponsored by the Alabama State Chamber of Commerce and the Montgomery Citizens Study Committee on Multi- Sle Appeals, at the Blue and Gray oom of the Whitley Hotel at noon today. Mattison. who is executive director of the United Community Services of Charlotte, discussed the steps taken in that city last year to reorganize its Community Chest and Council. The reorganization also included combining the campaign efforts of the Community Chest, Red Cross, Cancer, Heart and numerous other drives for money. Myron J.

Rothschild, chairman of the Multiple Appeals group, presided at the session. President Recovering From Food Poisoning AUGUSTA, Ga. (UP) President Eisenhower was reported much improved today after his brief bout with food poisoning and hoped to Set back on the golf course. On orders of his doctor, Maj. Gen.

Howard M. Snyder, the President spent much of yesterday in bed, but came out oi doors in the afternoon to bask in the hot sun and watch the more fortimate fellows playing on the Augusta National course. If congressional business permits, the President will be joined here for a golf game tomorrow by Sen. Robert A. Taft.

Editors Told Against News By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON UPi Important gains in their struggle against news suppression except in the realm of atomic energy were reported today to the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE). But James S. Pope, chairman of ASNE's Freedom of Information Committee, advised 400 editors in their annual meeting here to adopt an attitude of "watchful waiting and suspended judgment" on information policies of the Eisenhower administration. In some, moves the Republicans have seemed "fearful of full pub From Foxholes Explosion Called Most Spectacular Of Spring Series LAS VEGAS.

Nev. fP Twentv- two hundred marines crouched in trenches today witnessed the most spectacular atomic blast of the spring series a shot that flashed blinding white then turned a beautiful rosy orange during an unusually long-lingering afterglow. The predawn detonation, first to involve marines maneuvering in helicopters, was set off from a 300-foot tower. Stage Tactical Maneuver After the exDlosion the eround troops, from Camp Pendleton, auu tamp ii i. scrambled up and advanced in a tactical exercise toward a mock enemy.

Their trenches were 4,000 yards irom ground zero. Leap-frogging over them came 200 more marines in 40 Sikorsky helicopters aDDlvinff vertical en velopment tactics, similar to those carried out in World War II by gliders and paratroops. Six marines and six soldiers rode out the blast in trenches well in advance of the main body of troops. Authorities would not dis close tneir distance from the blast. Nine volunteers were stationed 2,500 yards from ground zero in a previous test.

The exercise commander. Brig. Gen. William C. Bullock, said there were no casualties.

Flash Seen In Los Angeles The brilliant flash was seen in Los Aneeles. 250 miles awav as an orange-yellow glow illuminating the entire sky. Observers here felt no shock wave and heard no sound from the blast, sixth of the spring test series. Ninety-five planes, including 12 giant -B-50 jet bombers, were in the air over the test site on various missions. An AD-2 Navy propeller driven Drone, which was to have flown through the mushroom cloud, did not maice its ilignt.

Authorities did not disclose the reason for this. Rabbits were exposed to the blast for military effects tests. Sheep were used, too, to show the Marines the effect of a bomb on living things. Test Pattern Opens For TV Station Here WCOV-TV went on the air last night at 10:45 with its first test pattern, according to Hugh Smith, general manager of the Montgomery television station. Channel 20 test nattprn was on the air for about an hour in its preliminary run and reports showed reception to be excellent during that time, Smith said.

The station was flooded with calls from Montgomerians and irom people belma, Luverne and Prattville who said thev re ceiving the picture clearly. leievision unannel. 20 test pattern was scheduled to go on the air again today at 10 a.m., ac- COmDanied bv 500 rvrle trmo with voice identification of the station every 15 minutes. ine test pattern will continue intermittently throughout the day, with announcements being made before leaving the air, omiin explained. "Commercial operations, with the first programs will begin next Wednesday afternoon- at 4:30.

We will be on the air until 10:30 Wednesday nieht and for the first week will operate daily on this scneauie," tne TV station manager said. "The purpose of this initial test pattern is to allow us to make nnal adjustments at the station of all eauinment and to allow service personnel to make necessary adjustments on television sets being installed and serviced. "From now until commercial air time Wednesday we will rrm- tinue to air a test pattern starting eacn morning at Homebuilding Activity Same Now As In 1952 WASHINGTON (JP) The government reported today that homebuilding activity for the first quarter of this, year just about equalled the same period in 1952. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said there were 245,000 housing starts tne January-March period this year, compared with 246,500 units started in the same period a year ago. Starts this past March totalled 97,000, or 26 per cent more than the 77,000 in February.

But the rise was not so large as usual for this time of the year, when home construction begins to pick up after the winter lag. The bureau said final figures showed 1,127,000 new permanent non-farm dwellings were started in 1952, one of the biggest home- building years on record. This was about 3 per cent above the 1,091,300 units started in 1952, but 20 per cent below the 1950 record of 1,396,000. HARTWELL DAVIS Viets Threaten Another Town Civilians Removed From Laos Village HANOI, Indo- China (JP) French and Laotian troops today evacuated civilians from the little town of Xiengkhouang in central Laos in the face of a threatened Vietminh attack. The French made it clear they had no intention of defending the town of 3,000 -people, but planned to stake a defense about 18 miles north of it in Des Jarres Plain, which is part of the big Than Ninh Plateau.

French and Laotians cleared the civilians out of Xiengkouang, 200 miles southwest of Hanoi, as Communist led Vietminh troops stepped up their invasion of Laos. While the Vietminh forces pouring in from northern Laos pursued a French Laotian column withdrawing from Samneua, in northern Laos, one of the Viet-minh's best divisions, known as No. 304, drove towards Xiengkhouang from the coast of An-nam. French Mobile units have already clashed with this division, killing 45 Vietminh men in one encounter. Earlier, it was announced that French Union forces had pulled out of their defense post at Nong.

Was Last Outpost Nong, 156 miles west of Hanoi, the main French bastion in north Indo-China, was the last French-held post before the key Laotian defense center of Xiengkhouang toward which some 3,000 to 4,000 French and Laotian troops have been retreating since they abandoned the town of Samneua, 108 miles southwest of. Hanoi. Xiengkhouang is a main outpost on a road leading to Luang-prabang, the residence town of Laotian King Sisavang Vong. It is 84 air miles south of Samneua but many more by the densely -jungled land route. No serious fighting has yet taken place between French Union forces and the Vietminh troops which pushed by the thousands into Laos earlier this week.

There was no immediate indication of how close the invaders might, be to Xiengkhouang but French sources said panic stricken inhabitants had fled from the town. The villagers left on their own initiative presumably in fear of the oncoming Vietminh. Postman I5 Allergic To Postage Stamps MEMPHIS UP C. W. Copley suffers from a strange allergy.

Every time he licks a postage stamp his tongue swells up like a balloon. Copley's a letter carrier. Order egislation. The GOP leadership firmly re jected a proposal that further debate on the controversial bill be put off until after a vote on the expiring controls law. Sen.

Wayne Morse (I-Ore) one of 20 foes of the offshore oil bill who made the delay proposal, immediately charged that Taft must bear responsibility for putting "non emergency legislation ahead of an "emergency" bill. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn) Social Workers Elect Officers Birmingham Man Heads Association J. B. Hill, superintendent of the Alabama State Industrial School for Boys, Birmingham, was elected president of the Alabama Conference of Social Work and Affiliated Groups today at the final business session of a three-day conference.

Birmingham was chosen for the 1954 annual meeting. Hill is a past county director of public welfare in Alabama and has served many years with the Birmingham Red Cross. William Kaufman, executive director of the Mobile Community Chest, was elected first vice president. Other new officers are: Miss Margaret Graham, Russellville, director of Franklin County, Department of Public Welfare; second vice president; Miss Phyllis McCollum, executive director of home service, Birmingham Red Cross, secretary; Mrs. Kathleen Ellis, executive director, Montgomery Travellers Aid, treasurer; and Miss Elizabeth Bryan, Montgomery, director of the bu-(See SOCIAL WORKERS, Pg.

5) anowers orecast tiere The weather here will be mostly cloudy with showers and thundershowers this afternoon and tonight. Tomorrow will be cloudy and colder with showers and a high of 50 predicted. The noticeable drop from today high of 75 is caused by a big mass of cold air moving in from Canada, the weatherman said. High yesterday in Montgom ery was 75, low last night, 51. The Heavy Winds Strike 3 Arkansas Counties NEWPORT, Ark.

(JP) Heavy winds struck three northeast Arkansas counties early today, leaving widespread property damage, a number of injured and at least one dead. The Red Cross at Little Rock said a Mrs. Lewis was killed when her home at Waldenburg, in Poinsett County, was blown down. Property damage was reported heavy at Waldenburg, and at Weiner, Algoa, Black-ville Olyphant and other communities in Poinsett and adjoining Jackson County. The winds also hit in White County, which bore' the brunt of the March, 1952, tornadoes in which more than 100, persons were killed.

Damage was reported in the vicinity of Bradford. Traffic on the main line of the Missouri Pacific Railroad between Little Rock and St Louis was delayed by telegraph poles blown across the track. Motor traffic on Highway 67 also was delayed by felled trees and ntility poles. ow of 45 forecast for tonight shows little change in the p.m. temperatures.

Small Craft Flags Fly The New Orleans Weather Bureau issued the following small craft warning at 6:25 a.m. (CST) today. "Hoist small craft warnings 7 a.m. CST east of Morgan City, to St. Marks, Fla.

southerly winds 20-30 miles per hour shifting to northerly tonight and early Sunday." Earlier today, the weather (See WEATHER, Page 5) Dietetic Association Opens Session Here The Alabama Dietetic Association held a business meeting at the Whitley Hotel this morning before opening the regular spring session. Main speakers will be Miss Geraldine Piper of the U. S. Public Health Service, division of chronic diseases and tuberculosis, Washington, D. and Miss Mary Belle Roberts, chief psychiatric social worker, division of mental hygiene, Alabama Department of Public Health.

Officers attending the meeting are Miss Elma Benton, president, who is chief of the dietetic service, VA Hospital, Birmingham; President-elect Dr. Bessie L. Davey, Uniyersity; Miss Ida Flowers, secretary, Alabama College, Montevallo, and Miss Janyce Ward, treasurer, chief of dietetic service, Jefferson Hillman Hos pital, Birmingham. was expected to be the first speaker in today's debate. He is an opponent of the measure.

The bill would give coastal states title to offshore oil lands out to their "historical" seaward boundaries three to 10 1-2 miles. The House has passed similar legislation. The 20 Senate foes of the measure wrote Taft they were willing to "lay aside" the prolonged tide-(See TAFT, Page 5) Doctors' Group To Ad mil Negroes Gadsden Man Named Association President BIRMINGHAM UPT-The. Alabama Medical Association today appeared a report saying affiliated county medical societies can admit qualified Negro doctors to membership. A report by the Association's Board of Censors to that effect was adopted by convention delegates without dissent.

No Negro doctors are members of the State Association at present. Dr. E. V. Caldwell of Huntsville, Board chairman, said the Association's Constitution permits membership of "all legally constituted and reputable members of the profession." Up To County Societies The action placed the responsibility for admitting Negro doctors entirely in the hands of the county societies.

Membership in the affiliated county groups automatically qualifies doctors as members of the Alabama and American Medical Associations. Negro doctors now are barred from practicing in most Alabama hospitals, which permit only members of the Medical Association to care for patients admitted to the hospitals. Gadsden Man Heads Group Dr. J. O.

Morgan, Gadsden, was elected president, and Dr. Joe Donald, Birmingham, presidentelect. Dr. W. R.

Carter, Repton, was named vice president of the southwest district, and Dr. Hugh Gray, Anniston, northeast district vice president. Dr. J. O.

Finney, Gadsden, and Dr. J. L. Branch, Montgomery, were elected to the Board of Censors. In other action, the Association named Dr.

William D. Anderson, Tuscaloosa, and Dr. Josiah H. Smith, Selma, to succeed Dr. William D.

Partlow, Tuscaloosa, and Dr. Frank W. 'Wiggs, Montgomery, as members of the Physician's Advisory Board. Dr. Caldwell said the Board of Censors will request the Legisla- (See DOCTORS, Page 5) Of Gains New Government Security To Go Into Effect, Brownell Says ment employes with personalitytIoyalty program, inaugurated by quirks that may make them care-1 President Truman in 1947, has been Suppression lic knowledge." Pope, executive editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, said.

He expressed hope these gestures arose merely "from inexperience, from initial caution, from misunderstandings." "We nave been led to believe," he added, that an executiv eorder issued in September 1951, by former President Truman authorizing civilian agencies to set up tight security classifications of information "will be withdrawn or sub-(See EDITORS, Page 5) CHEAPER BY FAR THAN DRIVINQ TOOB CAR. TRAVEL TRAILWAYS. PHONE 4-633S tadr.) WASHINGTON fUP) The Eis enhower administration today appeared ready to put into effect its long-awaited new security program for government employes. Attorney General Herbert Brownell has said that the order outlining the new program will be issued by the White House "in the next few days." Brownell said this will abolish the loyalty program now in effect. Justice Department officials in dicated earlier that the new security order will be aimed not only at subversives but at other govern less about protecting government secrets.

"Blabbers Too They said such persons would include homosexuals, alcoholics, and just plain "blabbermouths." Brownell revealed some of the details of the new program in a speech Friday before the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He told the newsmen the old WHEN YOU GOTTA OO. OO TRA-ILWAY8. AMERICA'S FINEST BUB SERVICE. PHONE 4-5328 UdT.).