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The Day's Almanac Saturday, Aug. 1,1953 (EST) Sunset 7:04 pm. Sunrise 4:36 am High Tide 3:55 pm. 4:25 am Moon in last quarter The Portsmouth Herald VOL. LXV, NO.

260 Weather Forecast Twlcht--Clear, eool warm Herald (24 boon)-. Hifh W. low 56. BOOB today 6 Continuing the New Hampshire Gazette Established October 7, 1756 PORTSMOUTH, N. SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1953 The Times--Merged with THE HERALD June 1925 12 Pages--2 Sections copy Forest Fire Takes Man's Life in San ford "CASE" FOR THE JUDGE--Judge Harry W.

Peyser, second left, who retired today from the Municipal Court bench, was presented an inscribed cigarette case by Portsmouth attorneys. Making the presentation is ex-Gov. Charles M. Dale, as Jud ge Oscar Neukom, far right, who will succeed Peyser and newly appointed Associate Judge Samuel Levy, far left, look on. (PorUmouth Herald pholo) -Attorneys Honor Judge Peyser at Last Court Session When Municipal Court Judge Harry W.

Peyser tapped the gavel this morning and announced. "Court stands adjourned," he did so for the last time. After 17 years on the bench, Judge Peyser retired today on his 70th birthday anniversary. About 20 fellow attorneys were present today in court to present the justice with an inscribed cigarette case. The presentation was made by ex-Gov.

Charles M. Dale. ft Starting Monday, Associate Judge Oscar Neukom will succeed Judge Peyser on the Municipal Court bench. Neukom was recently appointed the judgeship by Gov. Hugh Gregg at the same time Atty.

Samuel Levy was named associate judge. Peyser was appointed judge in November, 1949, by ex-Gov. Sherman Adams. Prior to that, he had served 13 years as associate judge, being appointed in 1936 by the then Gov. Styles Bridges.

Reds Wish Success To Commissioners Policing Armistice MUNSAN (Ri The four-nation neutral commission which will police the Korean armistice met at Panmunjom today for the first time and heard the Communists' chief military armistice delegate wish It success. Meanwhile, the first group of Allied prisoners was reported on its way dowri the road to freedom and the U. N. Command prepared a full dress reception rehearsal for Monday to speed their homeward journey. The prisoner exchange scheduled to begin Wednesday Panmunjom.

The neutral commission officer' from Sweden, Switzerland. PolanJ and Czechoslovakia were intro- 'duced and exchanged credentials in a formal meeting at the dusty truce site. The commission's chief i Is to watch for violations of the armistice. Maj. Gen.

Blackshcar Si. Bqyan, the Allies' senior delegate to the U.N.-Red Military Armistice Commission introduced the Swiss and Swedish representatives. Lt. Gen. Lee Sang Cho, Bryan's counterpart on the commission, introduced the Poles and Czechs.

Lee told the officers: "I hope for the success of the members of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission." More than 400 firefighters are continuing their battle today to stop a a a woods fire in the Sanford-Wclls area which has already burned over an area six miles long and a mile and a half wide. At present, the blaze, which has taken the life of Corydon Goodwin, 66, of Springvale, is now centered around the Bald Hill section of Wells. Goodwin, a veteran firemen for 31 years, was trapped by flames as he attempted to save a stalled utility truck. Fire crews from five New Hampshire communities are aiding 22 Maine departments in stopping the blaze which is located southeast of Sanford. Sanford fire officials said the blaze was believed to have started in a machine shop on the property of George Twombley on the North Berwick Road.

They said the fire soon spread with such rapidity into adjacent woodland they were unable to control it. Although no buildings were destroyed by the fire several families--the exact number undetermined--had been evacuated from their homes which were near the path of the flames. Lack of water hampered the firefighters at the outset of the blaze. Officials reported they had to travel more than three miles to a water supply an transport it in fire department tank trucks. At present the fire crews, including a truck from the Portsmouth department, are working in and around the Bauneg Beg Pond section on Route 4 between Sanford and North Berwick.

Portsmouth fire officials said a number of hot spots were reported have mushroomed after mid- ight thrughout the entire San- '-ord area. They said the blaze, although considered under control fit present could at any moment r'ampant if there was any increase in wind velocity. They added that huge clouds of dense smoke is pouring into the sky and that the blaze, in certain sections, is difficult to fight because of the heavy underbrush. For a time last night the outbreak of new blazes sent flames roaring to within a half mile of the Hawthorne School in Sanford and it was feared that it might sweep into the residential section of Maine's largest town. A total of 11 other small fires were reported to be burning throughout various sections of the Granite state.

In the northwest section of York a fire yesterday afternoon, believed to have started from the backfire of a tractor, burned over 25 acres of slash timber near Scituate Pond. Fire fighters from York Village, Kittery and York Beach were able to bring the blaze under control about 9:30 last night. Some 2,000 feet of hose was laid from Scituate Pond to fight the three alarm fire. Another fire, located in the wooded area on the Salisbury-Sea(Please turn to page two) Warning The final quip! Famed for his witticisms from the bench. Judge Harry W.

Peyser offered a parting sally before retiring as justice of Municipal Court today. In continuing the sentence of a Massachusetts man who pleaded guilty to digging clams without a license, the judge said: "Go and sin no more." Hungry Germans Jam Free Berlin For Gifts of Food BERLIN Wl--Defying Communist arrests and confiscations, new masses of hungry East Germans I swarmed into West Berlin today to snatch up free Western food eels. Distribution of the financed gifts was due to pass the 1,000,000 mark during the day. In the crowds, as the gigantic give-away rolled though its sixth day, were the vanguard of a weekend of thousands of Russian zone factory workers, using their day off to "come and get it." They included employes of the huge Leuna synthetic gasoline refinery and other large state-owned industries. Many of these workers had de- fied'Communist police and Russian I a in the great strikes and demonstrations of June 17.

Now they again showed their defiance of Communist orders by accepting the Western bounty. By mid-morning the crowds around the big Schoenberg City Hall relief station were three city blocks long, with the standees four and six abreast. This station, which has been operating day and night, had to divert some of its clientele to a hastily-opened subsidiary "pantry" in a nearby school. Senate Action Seen Uncertain On Debt Ceiling WASHINGTON UFI President Eisenhower's llth-hour plea for a 15-billion-dollar boost in the national debt ceiling goes to a highly uncertain fate before a dubious Senate Finance Committee today. The House gave the President a roaring victory on the politically explosive issue by a 239-158 vote last night.

Then House Republican Leader Halleck of Indiana announced the House should be ready to quit and go home by tonight. But there appeared to be far more opposition Jin the Senate, particularly among the Democrats. And the Senate Democrats are in a majority now, 47-46 over the Republicans, because of the deaths of Senators Charles Tobey (R-NH) and Robert A. Taft (R- Ohio). The Finance Committee session was called to meet behind closed doors, with Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey as the star administration witness.

He had a tough selling job his hands. More than half of 15 committee members were on record as being actively against the proposed hike in the 275- billion-dollar ceiling, or at least highly doubtful about it at this time. Humphrey has said that, if the ceiling on what his country can legally owe is not boosted to 290 billion dollars, the government might not be able to meet its payroll or pay its bills. And that, he contends "would just cause a near panic." Sen. Millikin (R-Colo), the committee chairman, said Humphrey one of the most respected Cabinet members on Capitol Hill -would be given "all the time he needs to state his case." Millikin, who also is chairman of the Conference of All Republican Senators, was making no predictions and not even announcing his personal position.

But the administration obviously was counting on him to help pick up some doubtful votes. Hanging on the committee's decision was the question of when this Congress can close up shop. The leaders had been figuring for weeks on this as the last day. But the request to boost the debt limit and the death of Sen. Taft up- set the reckoning.

Sen. Knowland of California, acting Republican leader since I Taft fell fatally ill, announced 1 yesterday that he and three other Senate leaders had shelved plans to fly to Korea tomorrow with i Secretary of State Dulles. Knowland, Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas and Sen- ators H. Alexander Smith (R-NJ) and Russell (D-Ga) said they felt they had to stay in Washington until the debt limit issue was settled. The deadline for adjournment by tonight still could be met if the Finance Committee rejected the: debt plan.

Most of the other legislative business is cleaned up. A compromise $6,652,422.390 foreign aid money bill, approved finally by the House 237-156 yesterday, is up for Senate toncurrence today. So are House-approved compromise measures to admit 214,000 aliens as special-quota immigrants during the next three years, and to authorize shipment of 100 mil- ilon dollars worth of surlpus farm products to needy peoples abroad. U.S. Rejects Red Protest Of Shot Down Transport; Soviet Delay Seen a Ruse TAFT AND HIS FAMILY--Sen.

Robert A. Taft, who died yesterday at New York Hospital, in shown with his wife and four sons at his headquarters in Philadelphia during the 1948 Republican convention. The hospital bulletin said "his death was the result of widespread highly malignant, rapidly growing tumors." With the late Senator in this picture is his wife, Martha and their four sons, left to right, William, Lloyd, Horace and Robert. Congress Plans State Funeral For Senator Taft on Monday WASHINGTON (Jfi Congres- Adams, administrative assistant to sional leaders arranged today for a I President Eisenhower, state funeral for Sen. Robert A.

ff Taft, probably on Monday, with details to be announced later. Jack Martin, administrative assistant to the late Senate leader, told reporters this had been agreed upon after a conference in the office of J. Mark Trice, secretary of the Senate. Attending were Senate and leaders and Sherman Martin said Mrs. Taft and the family had consented to the state funeral and that burial would be at Cincinnati, Taft's home town.

Taft's death yesterday, from cancer, continued to evoke expressions of grief and praise. In the midst of their eulogies, many of the Ohio Republican's Senate colleagues had proposed Two Governors Hold Key To Senate Organization Two governors, due to deaths of United States senators from then- states, today hold the key to future organization of the Senate in their hands. They are Gov. Hugh Gregg of New Hampshire, who, without a doubt, will name a Republican to fill the Senate seat vacated by the death of Sen. Charles Tobey, and Ohio's Governor Frank J.

Lausche, a Democrat with the duty of naming a successor to the late Sen. Robert A. Taft. Gov. Gregg left for the nor's Conference last night, and with him' went nearly every possibility of a successor to the late Senator Tobey for at least 10 days.

The governor's assistant, Bert Teague, pointed out that once out- SIMPLEX NEW PLANT--Tiie steel structure of the new Simplex Wire and Cable Co. plant is near completion. Workers of the Davison Construction Co. of Manchester expect to start roofing next Oc cupancy of the Newington structure is expected by early fall. Full scale production is scheduled to be under way by the first of the year.

(Portimonth H.rald photo) i Simplex Expected to Occupy New Plant in Autumn Construction -work at the million- dollar Simplex Wire and Cable Co. plant in Newington is progressing on schedule. George Lundgren, construction superintendent of the Davison Construction Co. of Manchester, said yesterday that occupancy of the building was expected by early fall. He added that full-scale production is scheduled to start prior to the first of the year.

Workers are presently completing the steel structure of the manufacturing building and next week they expect to get started on the roofing, Lundgren said. The new submarine cable plant will actually comprise two The manufacturing building will be a one-story the exception of office space and the other will be a tank shed. The shed -will house 25 tanks measuring 40 feet In diameter to be used for testing storage of cable preparatory to shipment. ft Lundgren said that docking ta- cilities are also being constructed along the Piscataqua on property formerly owned by Louis deRochmont and family. The grading and surfacing process for parking facilities is now underway, apd upon completion there will be space for 250 automobiles, Lundgren said.

Some 200 persons are expected to be employed at the plant, which will manufacture an entirely new type of trans-oceanic cable for telephone and telegraph side state limits, Gregg is powerless to make the appointment The Associated Press reported today. In addition, the acting governor. House Speaker Raymond K. Perkins, is without legal authority to make the interim appointment, the attorney general's office said. a Before leaving, Gregg pointed out to newsmen he could fly back to New Hampshire from Seattle, to name the new senator.

However, he indicated he would not take this course of action. One possibility remained, as newsmen saw it: Gregg could announce who he will appoint at the governors' session with the official confirmation delayed until (Please turn to page two) Secretary Dulles To Leave for Korea WASHINGTON, (ffi Secretary of State Dulles will take off for Korea tomorrow without four Senate leaders on whose help he had counted in concluding a defense treaty with South Korean President Syngman Rhee. Acting Republican leader Knowland, of California, a Democratic leader, Lyndon Johnson of Texas and Sens. Russell (D-Ga) and H. I subma'rines of'the" future! A a Smith (R-NJ) announced late yesterday they felt Albacore Launching Scheduled Today At Naval Shipyard The sleek, trim USS'Albacore was to be launched from the building ways of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at high slack tide this afternoon.

The Albacore, second underseas craft to bear the name of the game fish of the tuna family, is to be sponsored by the wife of a petty officer who served aboard the original Albacore when it was lost off the coast of Japan in 1944. Mrs. 3. E. Jowers, widow of the late Arthur L.

Stanton, a chief, motor machinists mate, will spon-; sor the new craft. The craft being launched at the I shipyard today is a result of new planning by the Navy Department in the field of underseas warfare. The Albacore is the recognition of the Navy's need for a target submarine of advanced design for anti-submarine warfare training. The Albacore (s 200 feet long, has a 25-foot beam, a displacement of 1,200 tons and the normal complement is to be 40 officers and men. The new submarine has been provided with the most modern conventional propulsion plant and control devices.

It is also intended that her role will be to provide essential data for development of the that his body be brought from New York to lie in state in the rotunda of the Capitol. The Senate recessed yesterday in respect to Taft, but the House solemnly continued in session and last night formally adopted a resolution expressing profound sorrow before adjourning out of respect. Speaker-Joseph Martin authorized to appoint a committee! of 30 members to attend the funeral service when arranged, said he will name the group today. The Tafts' Victorian red brick residence in Washington's Georgetown district kept a light burning over the doorway last night. Messengers with telegrams and flowers kept appearing in its glow.

Cars drove up the quiet three- shaded street, paused and drove on. Mrs. Taft--survivor of the "Bob and Martha" team which had shared many a year of political campaigning remained in her upstairs room. Confined to a wheelchair, she had flown to New York earlier this week for a bedside visit with her fatally stricken husband. Mrs.

Darrah Wunder of Cincinnati, an old family friend who began living with the Tafts after Mrs. Taft suffered a partially paralyzing stroke in mid-1950, answered the door and the telephone. Among the early callers were the President and Mrs. Eisenhower. The Eisenhowers visited with Mrs.

Taft for about 10 minutes. The President left a letter. (Please turn to page two) they should remain in Washington to work on President Eisenhower's request for an increase in the national debt limit. They said this request has delayed the adjournment of Congress previously set for today. Dulles expressed regret that the four would not be able to accompany him.

But he announced that he had to leave tomorrow morning in order to hold his scheduled talks with Rhee and return here before the opening of the United Nations General Assembly session at New York Aug. 17. He said he hopes to get back to Washington by Aug. 10. The Albacore has been designated by the Navy as the AGSS 569 while the first Albacore was the SS 218 and a fleet-type attack submarine built by the Electric Boat Co.

The first Albacore reported at Pearl Harbor in the summer of 1942, shortly after the Battle of Midway. She began a series of successful war patrols which saw her bag a heavy cruiser, the Tenyru; an aircraft carrier, the Taiho, and two destroyers. The SS 218 also bagged Japanese merchantmen who were busy supplying troops' of the far-flung empire. turn to pace two) Communist Rulers Having Troubles On Polish Frontiers BERLIN, Germany (Jt--Atop all their other troubles, East Germany's Communist rulers are having a tough time trying to suppress widespread outbursts against the Russian dictated Oder Neisse border with Poland which cost Germany 40,000 square miles of rich Eastern territory. This bold grumbling which invites arrest in a police state has become so loud the Communist bosses and propagandists have begun a systematic campaign denouncing "warmongering provca- teurs who agitate against our peace border." The agitation may have been inspired by East German hopes that they can help topple their hated government on this issue.

They also nurse hopes that the proposed 4-power foreign ministers parley with the Russians may bring a border revision. The Oder-Neisse line was accepted provisionally the United States and Britain at the 1945 Potsdam conference. Poland was given administration of the German territories east of the line in compensation for other lands it had surrendered to Russia. Russia also annexed a slice of German-East Prussia. The Potsdam agreement stated the German-Polish frontier should finally be determined at a conference.

WASHINGTON officials drafted today a rejection of Russia's protest that American pilots shot down a Soviet plane-and- pondered the curious timing of the Russian communications. The Russians said U.S. fliers shot down one of their passenger planes in Red China July 27. Earlier, the U.S. Far East Air-Forces had announced jet fighter Ralph Parr of Apple Valley.

had shot down an 11-12 Russian-built transport North Korea, south of the Chinese border, at noon Monday, 10 hours before the freshly signed Korean armistice went into effect. The Russians waited four days before making their report and protest. In the meantime, on Wednesday, their MIG15 fighters had attacked an ddestroyed a U.S. B50 bomber off Siberia. They charged this aircraft violated Soviet territory.

The U.S. denied this, protested "in the strongest terms" and demanded a report on some survivors said to. have been picked up by the Russians. U.S. officials wondered, considering the ceaseless contest between East and West for propaganda advantages, why the Russians had delayed and then protested.

Were they attempting a bold cover-up for their own action? Meanwhile, two senators complained bitterly that the United States had been outfoxed. Sen. Flanders (R-Vt), a member of the Armed Services Committee, said that letting the U.S.S.R. tell the world first about the B50 incident in the Sea of Japan was "just another case of stupidity at the Pentagon or the State Department, or both." Sen. Sparkman (D-Ala) a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said, "I think it's a mistake to let the Russians and Communists get the jump on us so many times.

It puts us continually in the position of answering Communist propaganda when we could be out first with the real acts." Flanders said pro-Communist or even neutral people could "get the impression that the Soviet is telling the truth and that we're trying to get out of an incident." Both senators expressed their opinions in interviews. The U.S. case on the B50 was bolstered by the testimony of the sole confirmed survivor, Capt. John Ernest Roche, who was picked up by a U.S. destroyer after 22 hours in the set.

Roche said in Tokyo early today the American plane was attacked "without provocation" by one or two Russian jets at a time when there was "no possible chance" it was closer than 40 miles to Siberia. As for the shooting down of the Russian type IL2 transport the Korean War was still in progress, a State Department spokesman said unequivocally "we will reject the protest." He said the responsibility will be placed on the Soviet government for causing the to fly through a Korean corn- sat zone. The U. S. Air Force said the plane was shot down 10 or 12 miles south of the Yalu River, boundary between Korean and Chinese Manchuria.

The Russians said the attacking U. S. fighters invaded Chinese territory near the town of Huadian. There was unconfirmed speculation at the time that the Soviet plane might have been carrying Communist authorities on a mission connected with the armistice signed last Monday. In the midst of the furore over the latest two shooting incidents, Air Force sources said Russian planes have appeared about 12 times in the past year over the far northern reaches of the American continent and Greenland and conduct scouting expeditions over Japan on the average of once every two weeks.

Last March 13, a U.S. BSO was attacked by Soviet MIG ovfir Arctic waters some 25 miles each of the Siberian peninsula of Kamchatka. Neither plane was damaged. At that time Flanders sharply criticized the Air Force for issuing "a false report" in stating the bomber was on a routine weither reconnaissance flight off the Russian Coast. Flanders called this preposterous and at that time said "the sians appear to have been discreet in warning it off." REAR M.

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