Daily News from New York, New York • 287

SUNDAY NEWS, APRIL 23, 1967 3 A Capitalist I. Haven for 5 vet la na By ROBERT McDONALD and WILLIAM FEDERICI The Soviet Union's most prominent defector, freckle-faced Svetlana Stalin, will relax until Wednesday in a plush home in Locust Valley, an exclusive North Shore community in Nassau County, THE NEWS learned last night. Feeling extremely relaxed, the 42-year-old daughter of Josef Stalin told friends: "The trip was hardly a strain and it feels so wonderful to completely relax." All the comforts of home and then some were accorded Svetlana at the home of the parents of Mrs. Priscilla Johnson MacMillan, the Russian scholar wTho will work with her in translating Svet-lana's 250-page, 80.000-word manuscript to be published here. Efforts to reach Svetlana yesterday at the Kaintuck Farm of the socially prominent Mr.

and Mrs. Stuart Johnson resulted in Johnson telling The News: "She is not here now. My daughter has taken her for a walk around our town." Svetlana's hideaway was discovered by The News despite desperate security measures. The car carrying the red-haired Svetlana and her advisers took a devious route last nifrht in efforts to shake newspapermen. A Westchester Detour First they went clear up to the Westchester County line.

Then they headed for Nassau County, where they disappeared. Security at Kaintuck Farm is excellent, with private guards all over the estate-like home. Allegedly, local and federal enforcement people are not "taking care" of Svetlana. Sources close to the lively lady from Russia told The News that Kaintuck Farm will be Svet- the publishers of the book announced a change in schedule. "The press conference will be held on Wednesday instead," he said.

When questioned about the change he replied: "General Westmoreland will be in New York on Monday." And her attorney, Edward S. Greenbaum, announced that the first earnings from serialization of her book "will be contributed to charities in India, Switzerland and the U. It will be published in the fall. Does She Mean It? While Svetlana walks around the wealthy countryside of Locust Valley, thousands of Russian emigres living in the New York area will have to wait until Wednesday to decide "if she really intends to renounce Communism," sources said. A spot-check-survey by Thb News of the thousands of Russians who fled the USSR during Stalin's purges showed all taking a wait-anad-see attitude.

They all had one question. "Does she Svetlana mean she has renounced Communism completely or just for herself?" They all demanded a clear-cut anti-Commie statement before they would be willing to accept her as part of their community. Several priests of Russian Catholic churches around the city expressed concern for her. Edward S. Greenbaum Svetlana's attorney lana's home for a while.

It is a "very comfortable place with serene surroundings," they said. At Friday's press conference, immediately after stepping off a Swissair jet from Zurich, the comely Svetlana told reporters she would hold a press conference tomorrow at which time she would relate many reasons for her defection from Russia. Yesterday, a press agent for Svetlana Stalin located on North Shore of L.I. Tornado Town Picks Itself Up Gets to Work By ALTON SLAGLE Staff Correspondent of The News Oak Lawn, April 22 The sounds you hear in Oak Lawn today are the buzz of a motor-driven chain saw, the roar of a bulldozer, the scream of a siren. And everywhere the voices of people.

Not despairing voices. There is no time in Oak Lawn today for tears. They are the voices of the hundreds who want to help. They line up in the sudden 38-degree weather outside thi new white brick municipal building from which this Chicago suburb of 60,000 persons is governed. "I've got four years of rescue and salvage "There are more clothes and blankets in the car.

Where do I put them?" .12 Bodies Laid Out at VFW Post That's the mood in this heroic little town just hours after a tornado dipped ami clawed at its vitals, leaving 27 bodies laid out in the main room of the Johnson Phelps VFW post, which normally would be the scene of weekend frolic. "I've got some generators and stuff you can use "Me and my friend, we're pilots. Maybe we can help observe or something The answer from across the long fiber-board table in the City Hall foyer is often the same: "Sorry, we're filled up. If you'd like to leave your name and phone number Or "You're too young, sonny." The tired, kindly man here talks to a tow-headed seven-year-old with eager eyes. "Electricians? You register across the street and upstairs." That's the police station, where dozens of eager workers and one who is something else again huddled in out of the cold.

Arrested for Looting as Rescuers Dig He must be a something else. An Oak Lawn cop arrested him for looting a store while rescuers dug nearby for bodies in the wreckage of a market. It will take $20,000 bail to spring him, and no one in Oak Lawn is prepared to put it up today. "He'll rot," said the Rev. Richard Bailey, young pastor of Oak Lawn's Congregational Church.

Later in the day a second man was arrested. Police said he tried to loot a trailer leveled by the winds. That only two looters were found reflects the stern warning from Sheriff Joseph Woods that looters would be shot on sight. If the looters didn't come, the morbidly curious or perhaps curiously morbid did. All day they have driven through Oak Lawn in a slow procession, urged by cops to keep moving on and out of the way.

They've come to stare at the unnumbered homeless filing inside the Masonic Hall for meals. At the man sitting in his picture window, staring at the place where yesterday his garage roof had (Continued on page 8, col. 1) (VPl Telefoto) Mrs. Ruby Houston checks tornado damage to her kitchen in Oak Lawn, 111. Storm Toll at 55 and Rising mile-path across northern Ill-ton, Woodstock and Glenview as well as Chicago.

inois. An estimated 1,500 persons were injured and damage was figured well over $20 million in the communities of Oak Lawn Belvidere, Stone Park, Hometown, Evergreen Park, Barring-ton, Lake Zurich, North Barring- Twisters touched down from Oklahoma to Ohio and continued today in Michigan, where 20 tornadoes left one dead, at least 40 (Continued on page 6, col. 1) Chicago, April 22 (UPI) The wreckage left by the worst tornado onslaught ever to smash northern Illinois yielded new bodies today. National guardsmen patrolled devastated towns with orders to shoot looters on sight. i The death toll of the vicious band of twisters which hit eight states yesterday stood at 55, the Red Cross reported.

Scores of persons, many of them children, were still missing and the fatality count appeared certain to rise. Eighteen twisters carved a 175- Tornado Alert Off in East A tornado watch in southeastern New York, easte.n Pennsylvania, interior northern New Jersey and the extreme northwest corner of Vermont was canceled by the Weather Bureau at 4 P. M. yesterday, four hours after it had been put into effect..