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Fri. Sat. I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Weather Forecast Southern California Night and morning clouds along coast spreading inland over coastal valleys early mornings, otherwise mostly clear Wednesday and Thursday: slightly warmer Wednesday except near coast. San Bernardino rang Tuesday: 93-53; year ago, 98-67. Central and Northern California Mostly fair Wednesday and Thursday.

6i mi Slmrnr-ifmu VOL. LXI, NO. 283 THIRTY-TWO PAGES (AP) Associated Press (UP) United Press 6e copy 11.75 a month WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1955 IM elsn li It Bi 1 ZfV-rw iMIiT SEfllEDFIl Chi inese ieas to Congress Voles 'Revolutionary' Reserve Plan Measure Containing Compulsory Feature Sent to Eisenhower New Weapons Sent to Reds in East Germany Mobility, Firepower Of Soviet Divisions Reported Increased BONN, Germany UP West Be 'Sounded Out' At Geneva Meet WASHINGTON (-j-Secretary of State Dulles said Tuesday the Urilted States will sound out the Red Chinese on the possibility of a cease-fire in Formosa Strait when ambassadors of the two nations meet in Geneva Monday. ffyey; 286 ESCAPE OLD FOLKS' HOME FIRE Smoking ruins are all that remain of roof of the Methodist Home for the Aged at Topeka, Tuesday after fire caused evacuation of 286 residents 100 of them bedridden. While there were no fatalities, a number of the residents were overcome by smoke and several required hospital treatment.

Some of the bedridden were on the fourth floor near the origin of the fire, which started in attic of wing at right. (AP wirephoto) Talbott Defends Action of mm He also told an audience of news- men that "The war danger has receded" as a result of the Big -Four conference in Geneva last week. A major goal of the new meeting in neutral Switzerland, the secretary announced, will be "to find out whether the Chinese Communists accept the concept of a cease-fire" around Formosa. In the past there have been intermittent clashes between Nationalist Chi nese who hold the Island of Formosa, and Red Chinese in the area. PRINCIPLE ACCEPTED Dulles said the United States is already on record as accepting the cease-fire principle in other divided countries like Korea, Germany and Viet Nam.

While this country is supplying military equipment to the Nation alist Chinese, he went on, it is on the basis of a Nationalist pledge that no force will be used in their dispute with the Peiping regime except through joint agreement with the United States or in case on an emergency. Dulles told his news conference another aim of the upcoming Gen eva meeting will be "getting back the Americans still detained in China." In a conciliatory gesture toward Peiping, Dulles tied only two strings to the U.S.-Red China conference announced Monday: No implied diplomatic recognition of the Peiping regime, no predjudic-ing of the rights of Nationalist China, America's ally. LIFTS LID ON TOPICS But Dulles lifted the lid on topics the Chinese Communists could bring up if they wanted to. He pledged: "We shall listen to hear what they are and if they directly involve the United States and Communist China, we will be disposed to discuss them with a view of arriving at a peaceful settlement." Dulles emphasized he sees no early and easy solutions, as a result of the Summit meeting but that diplomats can now practice diplomacy without fear of war because "The war danger has receded." Helicopter Removes Two Injured Seamen HALIFAX, N.S. (ff-Two badly, burned and injured seamen were under medical treatment her Tuesday after being brought by Canadian Navy helicopter from the deck of a U.

S. ship 50 miles at sea. One of the men was identified as Arthur N. Wert, of Harbor City, Calif. Hospital officials said he was "seriously ill," but they declined to identify the other man because relatives had not been notified.

The California was bound for Sept Isles, from Philaael-phia when a high pressure steam valve in the engine room exploded. Asking Opi WASHINGTON Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Soviet Radio Reports Ike's Talk in Full MOSCOW In an unprecedented move, Moscow radio Tuesday night broadcast the text of President Eisenhower's Monday night TV-radio report to the American people on the Geneva Summit meeting. The full text also was carried by the official Soviet news agency Tass for newspaper publication. Never before in the memory of Westerners living in Moscow has a speech by a Western statesman been quoted in full.

The account of the President's broadcast included his remarks about the wide gulf so far dividing East and West "a gulf as wide and deep as are the differences between individual freedom and regimentation." The Moscow radio report took 15 minutes to broadcast. Weather Hot Over Midwest (By Associated Press) Southern Gulf winds blew hot and moist over the Midwest and Plains States Tuesday, bringing along 100 degree temperatures and discomfort to millions. At midday it was 101 degrees at Rockford, 111., and 100 at Sa-lina, Kan. Chicagoans sweltered in 99.3 degree heat in the late afternoon. This was four tenths of a degree higher than the year's previous high at 98.9 set on July 8 for the date, the previous high being 95.1 in 1910.

So far this month Chicago has had 13 days of 90 degrees or high-er. and the U. S. Weather Bureau said the current heat wave may last five days longer. The hottest Chicago July on record was in 1952 when there were 15 days of 90 or over.

The moist air brought 90 or above temperatures to most of the area between the Rockies and the Appalachian Mountains, except for the northern tier of states. Cooler air seeping in from Canada dropped the temperature from 92 degrees Monday at midafternoon to 71 at the same time Tuesday. At International Falls, the temperature dropped from 82 to 65 in a like period. Light showers were reported in the southeast. A storm center moving off the Pacific Ocean into the Washington State coast brought considerable cloudiness and light rain to that area.

Talbott contended Tuesday it seek an opinion from Atty. Gen. proposed contract between his tion of America. Talbott made a return appearance before the Senate investigations subcommittee which is studying the propriety of his maintaining a partnership in a firm whose clients included defense contractors. Previous testimony has that the firm Paul B.

Mulligan Co. of New York wanted RCA to go into a contract for its services as a management engineering company. RCA wanted as was em intelligence sources said Tuesday new deliveries of modern conventional weapons have strengthened the firepower and increased the mobility of Soviet army divisions in East Ger- These Western informants said 1955 deliveries included 1,000 T54 tanks to replace the outmoded World War II T34s, 1,500 new guns, 600 armed personnel carriers, 150 amphibious vehicles and over 100 new towing vehicles lor heavy artillery. 25,000 NEW TROOPS The shipments were accompanied by 25,000 new troops from Russia, presumably specialists in the new weapons, intelligence sources said. They assumed the newcomers would replace time- expired conscripts returning home.

The armament shipments were described here as the largest sent by the Russians to Germany sine 1945. Western military observers regard them as probably long-planned modernization similar to that being carried out by NATO forces in West Germany. The U.S. 7th Army has received guided missiles and additional atomic cannon in the last year. The British Rhine army is trying out a new tank and has begun experiments with a new organization of division suitable for atomic warfare.

CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS The informants said that reports of recent deliveries to the Russian forces listed only conventional weapons. Western strategy takes into account that Soviet forces in East Germany probably have atomic weapons, too. The T54 is a postwar Russian product. It is a turtle back tank, roughly similar to the Stalin II. It is reported to have an almost recoilless 100 m.m.

gun. Intelligence reports list all Soviet divisions in the East zone now as fully motorized with 25 per cent of the vehicles new. The proportion of armored vehicles of all types has also increased. ARMORED CARRIERS A further development is the supply of armored personnel car riers to all types of units. These were previously provided only for elite battalions.

The modernization apparently began last fall with the delivery of 10,00 new trucks. Some 7,000 old ones were returned to the Soviet Union. It reached its peak in May and June when the bulk of the new tanks and guns reached Ger many. Scientist to Tour Europe in Smog Study NEW YORK IP A California scientist has sailed for Europe in quest of a solution to the Los An geles smog. Dr.

Alexander Goetz said he would look into industrial air pollution studies in Germany. Bel gium and Switzerland. Goetz, consultant to the U. S. Public Health Service and to the Los Angeles Air Pollution Founda tion, is a professor at the Califor nia Institute of Technology.

Actress Expecting "HOLLYWOOD (UP) Actress Betty Hutton said she and her husband, Alan Livingston, are expecting a baby in January. Miss Hutton and Livingston, a recording company executive, were married March 8 in Las Vegas. Defacing of Her Posters Marks Day of Mourning for Eva Peron WASHINGTON (IP) The Senate completed congressional action on a revolutionary compulsory military reserve program Tuesday night and sent it to the White House. It fell short of President Ei senhower's request for a powerful 2,900,000 man combat-ready re serve by mid-1959, but he is expected to sign it as the first step toward that goal. The bill, an Eisenhower must," was passed by the House, 315 to 78, Monday.

Most of the opposition came from congressmen who feel its compulsory features are a wedge toward universal military training. FIVE YEARS OF DUTY When it becomes effective the law will force every man going into military 'service in the future to spend at least five years on active duty and in the reserve. It will be the first time in the nation's history that reserve duty is made compulsory. The Senate adopted the bill by a voice vote after a few senators spoke out against the compulsory feature. Sen.

Richard L. Neuberger CD-Ore) who voted for the original Senate bill, said he believes now that establishment of a compulsory reserve system is not "advis able." Furthermore, he said, such a step is not justified at a time when the standing army is being reduced in size. Sen. William Langer (R-ND), the lone senator to vote- against the original Senate bill, objected to requiring compulsory reserve training at a time "when this nation is talking about peace." SHORT IN TWO RESPECTS The measure fell short of Eisenhower's recommendations in two important respects: 1. It eliminates present servicemen from compulsory reserve training.

They may cut short their active duty, however, by volunteering for reserve service. 2. It provides for six-months active training for up to 250,000 pre-draft age youths each year, to be followed by years in the ready reserve. But it does not give the President authority to draft youths into the program if a sufficient number of volunteers is not forthcoming. Rowdy Rioi of 200 Prisoners in Counfy Jail Under Control SAN ANTONIO, Tex.

(j) A ripping, rowdy not or about 2UU prisoners in the downtown Bexar County jail here was brought under control about 11:30 p.m. Tues day night. "Everything is beginning to quiet down," night Sgt. Carl Frisch of the sheriffs department told the Associated Press. We ve got everybody back: in their cells and there are about 24 officers up there watching The rioting prisoners had taken control of the fourth and fifth floors of the jail for almost three hours.

They hooted and catcalled at officers trying to stop the disturbance once taking a fire hose away from jailers. Frisch said the top two floors were a mass of wreckage soaked by the streams from fire hoses in hands of both prisoners and officers. the floor of either house; the upper Colorado River project; a House-passed bill to liberalize and expand the Social Security System, and legislation to exempt natural gas producers from federal regulation. House Republican leader Martin of Massachusetts said his chamber is still shooting for adjournment by the end of the week, although personally he is inclined to believe it will be the middle of next week. Sen.

Clements of Kentucky, the acting Democratic leader, said on Monday the Senate leadership has not changed its July 30 target date "nor have we any information at this stage that convinces us it cannot be achieved." nion ing Decause it was against our policy to give an opinion to an outside firm like RCA." Meanwhile, Democrats hammer ed away at the situation. Sen Morse (D-Ore) told the Senate that Paul M. Butler said in a statement that "if Mr. Eisenhower is going to keep his campaign promises, he will have to act promptly in the case of Secretary of the Air Force Harold Talbott." Talbott's appearance Tuesday was brief. He came to the com mittee room with a prepared state ment which he asked that he be permitted to hold up until all the (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) Accused Man Opens Mouth, Wins Acquittal LOS ANGELES (UP) Carl Krueger, 58, a longshoreman, opened his mouth on the witness stand and won swift acquittal from a jury of a petty theft charge.

Krueger was accused of stealing and eating a five-cent pea- nut candy bar last week in San Pedro. His attorney, Sam Major, asked him to open his mouth and then had the jury, one by one, inspect it. Krueger has five beeth. No two meet. The jurors needed only 12 minutes of deliberation to acquit the longshoreman.

Coroner Rules Lad's Shooting Accidental SAN DIEGO UP) The fatal shoot ing of a high school boy by his chum was classed as accidental by the coroner's office Tuesday, rloyd Poole, 16, son of a city fireman, said he thought the 22 caliber gun was unloaded but that it went off while he was showing it to Larry Vernon Kramer, also 16. The bullet hit young Kramer in the stomach. He died at a hospital. Upper Colorado Bill Withdrawn Backers Drop Fight For Water Project WASHINGTON Because proponents had determined it would have been defeated, the upper Colorado project bill Tuesday was withdrawn from House consideration this year. The decision, Rep.

Aspinall (D- Colo) said, followed a meeting between House Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex) and minority leader Martin (R-Mass), who had polled GOP members. Rep. Dawson (R-Utah), a strong backer of the legislation, said he was informed the 760 million dollar bill would not have received a ma jority vote among either Repub licans or Democrats despite the fact it is backed by the admin istration and the leadership of both parties. APPROVED. IN SENATE A similar bill, calling for an au thorization of over a billion dollars, has been approved by the Senate.

That approval will stand through the next session of this Congress so no further Senate action on the measure will be needed in 1956. President Eisenhower a rl i Tuesday had expressed renewed in terest in the project but those man aging the bill decided not to chance what Dawson called a risk of "certain defeat in the closing days of the session." The House, of course, will have the same membership next year as it does now. Upper Colorado supporters evidently feel they can change the picture with more time to work in. The upper Colorado program envisions a vast reclamation development of the river basin embracing Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming and New Mexico. U.S.

Doll Makers Protest Ike's Gifts NEW YORK tfv-Those dolls that President Eisenhower bought in Geneva for his grandchildren have brought an "official protest" from the National Assn. of Doll Manufacturers. The entire American doll industry is "shocked" by such "spot lighting of foreign dolls," said as sociation president David Rosen- stein in a wire to the White House. aides and advised them to start looking for work elsewhere that their Office of Compliance and Security was being abolished. "McDavitt himself said there were different reasons for his discharge.

He told a reporter Barnes had professed inability to "get my budget through Congress as long as you're on the payroll." Testimony before a Senate subcommittee looking into the Eisenhower administration's security program had produced a variety of allegations against McDavitt, among them that he operated like a dictator and that in a previous rownell perfectly proper for him to Brownell on the legality of a private firm and Radio Corpora surance from Atty. Gen. Brownell that this would be legal, in view of Talbott's position as secretary of the Air Force. Talbott said that when he sent John A. Johnson, the Air Force's general counsel, to talk to Brownell about the case last Jan.

6, Johnson was not acting as his personal attorney "He was representing the secretary of the Air Force on a matter of propriety." Brownell told newsmen he turned down Johnson's request for a rul said unknown persons tore off a plaque at the foot of a memorial in the town of Miramar. In San Antonio de Areco, two tar bombs were, tossed on the Eva Peron monument in the town square. On the troubled political front here, the Peronista deputies bowed to the President's orders by ac cepting the resignations of their leaders and designating replace ments. The party's new candidates are certain to be elected when the House meets, probably Wednesday since it holds all but a dozen of the 1,666 seats. ine house reorganization was asked by Peron as a part of his program of "national pacifica tion." Stunt Man Dies CULVER CITY (ff-Ben Pitti, 62, longtime movie stunt man and horse trainer, died Tuesday of heart attack.

He was a great friend of the late Will Rogers and used to double for-him. His Bald win Hills ranch, where he trained film horses, was formerly owned by Will Rogers Jr. THE SUN'S Features Index Residents of Twentynine Palms were seeking to set up temporary banking facilities Tuesday after the town's only bank went into receivership and a cashier was charged with embezzlement. See City Page. On Other Pages AMUSEMENTS.

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WEATHER. Page 21. WOMEN. Pages 12-13. BUENOS AIRES Striking on the national day of mourning for Eva Peron, vandals Tuesday defaced posters and monuments erected to her memory in towns of Buenos Aires Province.

The dynamic blond wife of President Juan D. Peron died of cancer just three years ago. The incidents occurred as Peron-ista legislators ended a week-long squabble and accepted President Peron's directive to change offi cers of the national House of Deputies. The move was a defeat for the party's labor wing. Police said the vandalism occurred in three towns near the capital' and a newspaper reported an attack in another town.

In addition, police said, a bomb exploded at the lotal branch of the General Confederation of Labor in the town of Olavarria. The build ing was damaged but there were no reports of any injuries. On this third anniversary of Eva Peron's death all public activity except transport and essential services halted for 24 hours. Ra dio stations broadcast only sub dued music and memorial pro grams. Police accounts of the vandalism overseas post he formed a "liai son" with a German girl.

McDavitt also had been quizzed closely on how well he knew Allen E. Zoll, founder of a group known as American Patriots, which is labeled Fascist on the attorney general's list of subversive organizations. Edwin Z. Holland, director of SBA personnel, was named acting security director. McDavitt, whose pay had just gone up to $11,600 a year, said he would fight his discharge.

In a politically appointive job, however, he has no right of appeal through Civil Service channels. Congress Adjournment by Saturday Given Slim Chance SECURITY CHIEF M'DAVITT FIRED, SMALL BUSINESS AGENCY CONFIRMS TT Dean Witter Investment Service I IS I II AIM Members N. Y. Stock Exchange llMJULAl and Other Leading Exchange Average Home Stocks. Bonds.

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McDavitt, who stirred up a controversy as boss of the agency's security program. SBA Administrator Wendell B. Barnes told McDavitt he was through as of quitting time Monday, an SBA spokesman said. The spokesman said the 48-year-old security director, who has held one government job or another since 1942. was laid off for making "unauthorized statements" to his staff.

It was reported last week that McDavitt called together his 13.