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Frl. Sat. I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Weather Forecast Southern California Variable high clouds but mostly sunny Thursday and Friday; local sarly morning fog patches along coast; slightly warmer southern interior Thursday afternoon. San Bernardino range Wednesday: 7152. Central and Northern California Increasing cloudiness Thursday with rain in extreme north.

"V- mvWjV. cMWpaper for tSati 3evnardoJ7ount. VOL LX, NO. 81 FORTY-FOUR PAGES Bo copy $1 75 a month VFt Associated Presa UE United Press THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3, 1953 WW mm mi 9 a ww rnw I' tittm SATES mm GOP VICTORY PLAN Dynamic 'Enact rogram Demo Charge of 'Barring' FBI In Probe Denied Inquiry Into Jury Tampering Begun by Agents, Say Officials President Gives Endorsement to McCarthy Rebuff Eisenhower Strongly Supports Dulles on Foreign Policy Issue Spouse 'Talks' After Arrest of Former Convict Detectives' Trap Leads to Nabbing of Barr in St. Louis LOS ANGELES UP) An inter-city detective trap between Los Angeles and St.

Louis Wednesday caught Anthony Barr, a grim aced ex convict wanted for the motiveless killing of an insurance adjuster, and late last night he was implicated in the slaying by his wife. Barr, a 52-year-old machinist. WASHINGTON UP) President Eisenhower Wednesday told Republicans in Congress Sen. McCarthy of Wisconsin among them that their party will stay in power only if they adopt "a (1 ifi xXfMgr 9- -7 progressive, dynamic program ple of our country." Without ever mentioning McCarthy, the President in effect took the position that the Wisconsin Senator has picked the wrong issue for the political struggles that lie ahead. McCarthy insists Reds-in-government will be a bjg issue in 1954, Eisenhower expressed renewed conviction that it won't be.

Long before that, he said, the administration will have made such TORNADOES, RAIN, SNOW KILL THREE, INJURE 12 IN TEXAS (By United Press) Tornadoes and floods brought death and destruction to Texas Wednesday while a snowstorm boiled out of the Rocky Mountains into the Plains States. Three persons were killed and at least 12 were injured as the Lone Star State reeled under the impact of tornadoes, floods mm in in i i tHiriM' i i tm ti 11 '-Ike enhancing the welfare of the peo progress in rooting subversives out that they no longer will be a "serious menace." Then the President laid down his own prescription for victory Republicans should fight for the "progressive, dynamic program" he will lay before Congress in January. Eisenhower added, in a news (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) snow. One twister hit Nelsonville, Tex about noon, then jumped 25 miles northeast to swoop down on Wash- lngton-on-tne-tsrazos, nrst capital of the Republic of Texas At the former capital a woman and her- six-months-old grandson were killed when the twister demolished their home. Five other residents of the house were injured.

Earlier a tornado struck at Tan-glewood, a village of about 50 persons near Austin, injuring one. Six persons were injured in a twister that hit Seguin. 90 miles southwest of Tanglewood, Tuesday night. CREEKS OVERFLOW In addition a drowning death was reported at Taylor, where creeks swelled out of their banks from heavy rains and drove four or five families from their homes. Six inches of rain fell at Taylor in less than nine hours.

Texas also got snow in sections but the moisture was welcomed by drought-stricken farmers and cattlemen. Meanwhile a snowstorm moved out of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, heading for Kansas and Nebraska. Kansas expected up to four inches of snow in the southwest and north central portions. A cold rain fell over much of the Midwest and was expected to change to sleet and snow in the upper Mississippi Valley as the western storm advanced. The weather was generally fair in the east and far west, except for rain in the Pacific Northwest.

Knight Tells of SLAYING WITNESS IDENTIFIES SUSPECT'S PICTURE Dolly Ann McCormich, who wit WASHINGTON UP) President Eisenhower Wednesday strong ly endorsed Secretary of State Dulles' rebuff to Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis), on the issue of U.S". foreign policy and warned against any swing toward "co ercion" in dealing with Ameri ca's Allies. Declaring that unity among iree nations is "our only hope for sur vival" in the global struggle with Soviet Russia. Eisenhower told a crowded news conference: "I am in full accord with the statements made Tuesday by Secretary Dulles in his press con ference.

M'CARTHY SILENT, "I would like to add this com ment to what-he said: The easiest thing to do with great power is to buse it to use it in excess. McCarthy had no immediate comment on the President's statement. The senator had previously indicated he might have a news con ference later Wednesday but after reading" a copy of Eisenhower's remarks, McCarthy told newsmen he wanted to study it further. "Perhaps I will wait and give out a statement Thursday morning," he said, adding that he would probably read it via television. GOP LEADER APPROVES Leonard W.

Hall of; the Republican National Commit tee made the following comment: "The President's position is unassailable. There are two distinct aspects to this struggle against communism. One is to combat subversion at home; the other to keep the free nations united and strong. In pursuing one we must never lose sight of the other. "The President calls this the struggle of the ages.

All thinking Americans will agree with him." Once again the President avoided a direct, personal crackdown on the controversial Wisconsin senator. Like Dulles, he did not mention McCarthy by name. EISENHOWER EMPHATIC But Eisenhower was emphatic in opposing McCarthy's views on the proper way to conduct foreign policy views which Dulles assailed Tuesday as an "arrogant, blustering and domineering" approach. "This most powerful of the free nations must not permit itself to grow weary of the processes of negotiation and adjustment that are fundamental to freedom," the President said. "If it should turn impatiently to coercion of other free nations, our brand of coercion, as far as our friends are concerned, would) be a mark-of the imperialist rather than the leader." nessed the gun slaying of insurance man Andrew Kmiec in Norwalk 10 days ago, examines two wirephoto pictures in Los Angeles of Anthony.

Barr, taken when he was arrested in St. Louis Wednesday. She said there was no doubt but that Barr was the mysterious gunman who shot to be a prospective buyer of EIGHT WITNESSES REFUSE TO REPLY IN HEATED RED PROBE SAN FRANCISCO Eight witnesses identified as onetime Communists refused to answer questions on subversion during a tumultuous House Un-American Activities Committee hearing Wednesday Acting Chairman Robert L. Jack son (R-Calif) twice threatened to clear the overflow crowd of 300'cisco, angrily challenged the com-from the hearing room when state-j mittee to get them back their jobs ments from particularly "defiant as draftsmen with the Bechtel witnesses drew applause. an engineering firm posi- One witness, John W.

Mass. 42, tions they said they lost as a re-jvas immediately suspended from sult of being subpoena'ed. his post as English professor at These were witnesses who de-San Francisco City College for to testify on Red member- WASHINGTON OP The Jus tice Department 'said Wednes day the FBI actually initiated a jury tampering case against two big-time Denver gamblers instead of being barred from the investigation as charged by Democrats. Simultaneously, Atty. Gen.

Her hprt Brownell. said he has given U.S. Atty. Frederick Kaess of Detroit a free hand to conduct grand jury inquiries into labor union graft or racketeering in the Detroit area. The Democrats had raised Questions about this also.

STARTED PROBE In the Denver case, Federal Judge Willis W. Ritter of Salt Lake City, Utah, a Democrat, accused Brownell of withholding FBI aid in a jury tampering case acainst Clyde and Eugene Smaldone. The charge was repeat ed on nationwide television broadcast Sunday.night by Clayton Fritchey, deputy Democratic in a tional Chairman. Asst. Atty.

Gen. Warren Oleny in, in charge of the criminal divi- saiH "there is no substance chWes the FBI's hands were tied in tne Denver case. Actually, jne said tne pgj originated, mves tigated and aided in" the successful prosecution of the Smaldone Drotn ers on jury tampering charges. CONCEDES POINT The hrothers were sentenced to 60 years in prison each last month bv Ritter on charges of bribery. conspiracy and jury tampering Olnev conceded that two re- auests bv Charles S.

Vigil, former U.S. attorney for Colorado and a Democrat, for FBI aid in investi gating the financial status of jur ors was turned down. But he said that was a question for the court. Onley said jurors should not be suspected merely be cause they were "well to do." Olney also denied that Vigil, a Democrat, was fired over the jury tampering issue. He said Vigil's successor.

Donals E. Kelley, a Re publican, was chosen as the new U.S. attorney for Colorado several months ago in line with adminis tration policy of putting its own men in such jobs. SPECIFIC CASES In the Detroit case, Brownell is sued a policy statement stress ing that U.S. attorneys have authority to decide when grand jury inquiries are warranted "except (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) New General Hospital ENCINO (UP) A new 200 bed general hospital will be built in En-cino and a wing added to the North Hollywood hospital, it nounced.

was an- Tremendous 'He said the county would need 650,000.000 more gallons of water every month, 75,000,000 extra kilowatt-hours of power each year, 428 new classrooms in 28 new elementary schools, and 1.000 additional parking spots, equivalent of a whole city block. Police Fire 20 Shots, Capture Theft Suspects COMPTON (UP) Three men are in jail charged with auto theft after police fired 20 shots at them Wuring a 100-block chase. 4 Arrested were Ramone R. Rodriguez, 19, Gabriel Padilla, 32, and Callo O. Valverde, 24.

Their stolen automobile was punctured by 12 bullets fired by pursuing officers. THE SUN'S Features Index Acquisition by the state of rights of way for the I street freeway in San Bernardino is expected to start within a month. See City Page. On Other Pages AMUSEMENTS. Page 4.

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refusal to tell of Red attempts to infiltrate the teaching profession. Mass had noted on his teaching contract that he was a Communist was arrested at the St. Louis post-office under the name of Anthony J. Zilbauer when he called at the general delivery window for mail addressed to "Thomas Clark." NAMED IN WARRANT He was named Wednesday in a warrant charging him "With mur dering Andrew J. Kmiec, 32, an insurance adjuster formerly of Hammond, who was slain on a lonely road near suburban Whit-tier Nov.

21 while demonstrating his automobile to a supposed prospective buyer. Dist. Atty. S. Ernest Roll said late Wednesday night that Barr's wife, Mrs.

Geraldine Marie Barr, 24, had given sworn testimony that she knew her husband killed Kmiec. Roll said Mrs. Barr stated that on the night of the slaying her husband returned to their home with blood smears on his face. that she asked him if he bad been in a fight, and that he replied: No, I wasn't in a fight. I shot a man." TOLD HER IN DETAIL Roll said Mrs." Barr told him she then noticed that her husband was not driving his automobile, but a Mercury convertible, from which he took Indiana license plates and substituted California plates.

Roll said she related that later her husband toid her in detail of the slaying, that he took Kmiec's car to the downtown Los Angeles area and abandoned it, that days later they went to Las Vegas, where her husband forced her to pawn a fur coat for 5200, and that he told her he was going to St. Louis. Previously, Mrs. Barr had denied that her husband had any connection with Kmiec's slaying. WARRANT LISTS ALIASES The "warrant, issued by Whittier Municipal Judge H.

S. Farrell on a district attorney's complaint, gave the names Anthony Zilbauer, also known as Anthony J. Barr and Anthony J. Bauer. Two Associated Press Wire-photos of Barr sent from St.

Louis were shown by a photographer to Miss Dolly Ann McCormick, companion of Kmiec on the fatal ride, and she told the photographer: "There isn't any doubt that he is the man." In St. Louis, Barr, or Zilbauer, denied any knowledge of the killing. He said he arrived in the Missouri city Tuesday night after hitching a ride on a truck from Tulsa, Okla. He was identified Monday by Los Angeles Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz (Continued on Page 2, Column 2 CANVAS COVJERS Protect Desert Cooler Keep Dust Cold Air Out MAYBEE TENT AWNING CO. 127 Olive Sierra Way.

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Chief Michael Gaffey said he is detailing 130 A friendly witness. Dickson Hill, officerS to Th.irsv Kmiec suddenly while pretending Iran to Renew Diplomatic Tie With Britain TEHRAN, Iran (UP) A par: liamentary spokesman announced Wednesday night that Iran has decided to resume diplomatic relations with Britain, severed more than a year ago by Ex-Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. The spokesman, Mehdi Mira-Shrafi, said the decision was reached by Premier Fazlollah Zahedi's cabinet and was. endorsed by the Iranian parliament (Majlis) in a meeting Wednesday. He said a joint Anglo-Iranian announcement of the resumption of relations could be expected la ter this week.

The parliament spokesman ex plained the government had decided to re-establish diplomatic ties with Britain before atempt- ing to reach a solution of the oil dispute between the two nations. California Democrat auds Eisenhower LOS ANGELES The Cali fornia Democratic national com mitteeman, Paul Ziffren, Wednesday sent the following telegram to President Eisenhower: "California Democrats applaud your emphatic endorsement of the i-partisan foreign policy devel oped by the late President Roose- elt and Sen. Arthur Vandenberg. "Obviously the politically moti vated policies advocated by the extremists within your party opposed by you could only result in dividing the free nations fighting the Communist menace. As loyal Americans it is our sincere hope that you can prevail upon these rogue Republicans to join the Democrats in continuing the bi-partisan program against Communism." McCarthy had complained in An authoritative source said the nationwide radio-TV broadcast onPresident to win France-S caused by heavy downpours and Churchill Makes Bermuda Flight Prime Minister on Hand for Conference TUCKER'S TOWN, Bermuda J) Prime Minister Churchill bucked through an Atlantic storm aboard the stratocruiser Canopus and landed in Bermuda's sunshine Wednesday to attendTthe Western Big Three conference he hopes will bring the world closer to lasting peace.

Foreign Secretary Anthony. Eden and Lord Cherwell, former chief of Britain's atomic energy development work, were in Churchill's party of 28. Premier Joseph Laniel of France took off from Paris in an Air France Constellation a few hours later with his foreign minister, Georges Bidault, and a 19-man delegation for the talks opening Friday at the Mid-Ocean Club. The French will arrive Thursday. President Secre tary of State Dulles and nine other American officials expect to get in Friday.

Five days of discussion of world problems are slated at the club, ringed by barbed wire and heavily guarded by British and American service "men. Russia's (suggestion lor a.cig rour ioreign ministers' conference in Berlin looms as a ma lor tonic. ratification of the six-nation European Army plair, to include West German troops, with, an assurance the United States would maintain its present "'combat effectiveness" in Europe. 1 Manslaughter Ruled In Mass Traffic Death PASADENA (. Convicted of manslaughter in the deaths of a woman and four children in an auto crash in Covina last July 10, Robert Laveme Showalter, 27, El Monte, will appear Dec.

30 for sentence and probation hearing. He is at liberty on 55,000 bond. Testimony in the trial indicated that Mrs. Margaret L. Whitcomb, 66, and the four children died after Showalter ran through a red light.

ed to accept any offer of the Canadian government allowing us to hear Mr. Gouzenko." Canada at first refused to permit the subcommittee to question Gouzenko but finally relented after Dulles made a second representation at the request of the Jen-ner group. But it emphasized that the questioning must be secret and that Canada must have the final say on the release of any of Gouz- enko's testimony, The subcommittee which origi nally balked at Canada's stiff terms, finally accepted at a secret session Wednesday after Canada made clear that it would not wel Expansion Problems in State the victim's car. (AP Wirephoto) Frederick, Sausalito, and James Fenton Wood, San Fran- they had tried to outshout Jackson and counsel Robert Kunsig, protesting invasion of privacy. Thev hjch Bridges' loneshore Ilnir.

h- hroafon imasse. Bridges' longshore local called a mass "stop, work" meeting for 9:30 a.m. to protest identification Defore the commjttee Monday of several Bridges aides. WINDSHIELD WIPER REPAIR SERVICE Place Auto Electric Court Sts. Ph.

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Ban Lin Phone 83-717 Phone 3-3508 C'KKDIT OB BUDGET TERMS AUTOMOBILE LOANS by FIRST THRIFT OF CALIFORNIA SAN BERNARDINO 1359 St. RIVERSIDE: 3944 Market St. ONTARIO: 111 West A SL FONT AN 8624 Sierra BARSTOW: 216 No. First-St. Phone 5101 Phone 3006 Phone 6-5S51 Phone 275 Phone 6151 (Continued on 'Page 2, Column 2) Judge Upholds Firing Of Balky Teachers LOS ANGELES (UP) Superior Court Judge Joseph W.

Vickers up held a School Board decision that three teachers were properly dismissed because they refused to testify about alleged Communist activities before a House Un-American Activities committee last spring. Judge Vickers upheld the board edict on grounds the trio showed "improper conduct." Teachers involved in the order were Harry Sheprof Hollywood high school, and elementary teachers Serril Berg Gerber and Abraham Minkus. 40-year-old Oakland radio store owner, told graphically how ne ana his wife for four years lived "double lives" as Communists for the FBI. He named more than 50 onetime Reds in the Oakland- Berkeley area he said he had met personally, and identified 36 or- ganizations as communist rany clubs during his membership, 1945-; 1949. I Two witnesses, George van Allies Again Fail fo Win Back South Korean POWs PANMUNJOM (Thursday) The Allies Thursday for the second straight day failed to win back a i single South Korean prisoner from I the Communists.

Like Wednesday, all 30 South Koreans given "come home" explanations turned their backs on their homeland. Some had entered the interview tents singing Red songs and shouting Communist Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Workers to back de-j mands 15 per cent industrywide wage increases which em- Jployer federations said would cost them $350,000,000. Gavin Martin, general secretary of the Confederation, claimed all of the 2,000,000 members were out. Surveys showed, however, that thei work stoppage was not fully effec-' five everywhere. It appeared to be' from 70 to 80 per cent effective.

SENATE PROBERS AGREE TO CANADA'S TERMS ON QUIZZING EX-SOVIET CLERK SACRAMENTO (UP) Gov. Goodwin J. Knight Wednesday night told a Federation of Women's Clubs meeting that California is faced with "tremendous expansion problems." Retelling the story' of California's rapid growth. Knight used a hypo thetical "County of 250,000 to 350,000 persons as an example. He said "County could be Contra Costa, Orange, Sacramento, Santa Clara or San Bernardino.

By 1960, Knight said, "County would have 90,000 new resi dents, 30,000 new homes and 15,000 new school children. come further attempts to soften its conditions. Jenner asked Dulles to work out arrangements for the questioning "by word of mouth" in order to guard the safety of Gouzenko and his family who has been a ward of the Canadian government since he broke the sensational Canadian spy case in 1945. The subcommittee has said it wants to find out what Gouzenko might know about Communist espionage in the United States in addition to statements already available to it from an FBI report in which the former code clerk is quoted about eight times. 1.5 MILLION WORKERS ON STRIKE IN BRITAIN WASHINGTON (UP) Senate spy hunters decided Wednesday to try to quiz former Soviet code clerk Igor.

Gouzenko about Red espionage in this country despite the stringent censorship conditions laid down by Canada. The decision was reached by the Senate Internal Security Committee shortly after William Ludwig Ullman, linked by FBI reports to the Harry Dexter White "spy" case. refused to say wneuier ne whether ever was a Communist or an es-j pionage agent. i Xliairman William E. Jenner (R-Ind) wrote Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that the subcommittee "would be derelict if it heglect- LONDON (UP)More than workers in key defense and export industries walked out for 24 hours Wednesday in Britain's big gest labor protest since the 1926 general strike.

Production of everything from ships and jet fighters to household appliances was affected. The workers, egged on by Communists, hamstrung plants and shipyards in England. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The walkout was called by the 1.