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THE WEATHER Tonight--Fair, Cold. SEWIS 1954-NO. 68 THE TIMES RECORD FINAL EDITION Inttrtd Second Claw MfttUr at tht fofi OSlct Troy, N.Y., Undtr Act of March 1, 1870 TROY, N. MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1954 Publlnhed Daily PRICE SIX CENTS Senate Group Overrules McCarthy Kai-Shek Reelected President Of Nationalist China Generalissimo Beais Hsu By 1507-48 Vole Taipeh, Formosa (UP)--Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek won rejection to another six-year-term as president today by an almost unanimous vote of the national assembly. Chiang received 1,507 votes on the lecond ballot.

When the re- were announced, millions of firecrackers were set off in For-' ttoia and messages of congratulations pouring in. Chiang's only opponent, Hsu Fu- Lln of the Democratic Socialist Party, received only 48 votes': The opposition gave Hsu 72 votes in the first balloting Saturday, to prevent Chiang from winning at the start. The unexpected opposition also caused celebrations scheduled for Saturday night to be postponed. A weekend of conferences brought brought many of the delegates from Chiang's party, the Kuo- mintang, back into line and the Generalissimo won easily. "Fateful Year." Dr.

Hu Shih, Princeton University Chinese scholar who came to Taipeh to attend the nationalist assembly, said Chiang's reelection would lead the way to nationalist reconquest of the China mainland. In itatements to his army recently Chiang said that 1954 would be a fateful year, intimating that his trained army could not wait beyond December to attack the Chinese Communists. Chiani first was elected to head the Kuomintang government on the mainland in 1927. Although retirement for political reasons occasionally has interrupted his rule, he has bern the uncontested leader of the Nationalists since that time. Chiang crushed the Chinese war- Zords in the 1920s in his famed northern expedition and unified China for first time in its history.

Electlom Illegal (Gen. Li Tsung-jen, who was Ared as president of Nationalist China two weeks ago, charged today in a letter to President Eisenhower that Chiang Kai-shek'i reelection was a "flagrant violation" of the Chinese Constitution. (Li, who his been in exile in New York for the last two years, told Mr. Eisenhower: Chinest have little to choose between a Communist reign of terror on mainland and a dictatorial police state on Formosa." (The letter added that U.S. military aid to Nationalist China, in absence of reforms in the Formosa government, "becomes an unfruitful gesture of friendship to Chinese Picket Lines On Docks Thin New York (UP)--A waterfront back-to-work move predicted by city officials failed to materialize today as AFL longshoremen reported for work in about the same numbers and at about the same piers manned on Friday.

Picket lines of the wildcat striking International Longshoremen's Association (Ind.) where skimpy compared to the mass lines of earlier days of the 18-day stoppage, apparently giving substance to Mayor Robert F. Wagner's assurance that "the strong-arm boys have been chased off and will be kept off." Five Manhattan piers were being worked by AFL Longshoremen, and longshore gangs also went to work without incident at Brooklyn's breakwater pier, scene of much of last week's violence. Only five ILA pickets were before the pier this morning. The Army reported 890 men signed for work on military cargoes by 9 a.m., about the same number hired on Friday. A spokesman for the AFL-ILA said 40 men had reported for work at the a a a pier occupied by the Argentine a Lines but had been told they would be hired because the shipping firm "didn't want to get involved." -WFLY- THIS EVENING'S PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT: 8:05 P.

M. SYMPHONY HALL Twelve Contra Donees No. 7, 8 end 9. Tchaikovsky--Symphony No. 4 in minor.

-WFLY- CU 92.3 VJU For information or eol! WFLY, Troy, Troy, N. Y. ROME, ITALY--Piero Piccioni, right, son of Italy's foreign minister, has been denounced as a murderer in the sensational trial resulting from the death of pretty Wilma Montesi last April. Actress Alida Valli, left, who was in Hollywood 'a few years ago, will be one of the alibi witnesses called by Piccioni. (United Press -Facsimile Photo) Muio's Trial Suspended By Rome Tribunal Rome (AP) A Rome tribunal today suspended the trial of Journalist Silvano Muto pending a new investigation of the death of party girl Wilma Montesi.

Developments which followed her death on an Ostia nearly a year ago have mushroomed into a scandal which has threatened the life of the new government of Premier Mario Scelba. The abrupt suspension of the trial was ordered at the request of the public prosecutor. He asked it, he said, because "of the specific accusation of murder by Anna Maria Moneta Caglio." Miss Caglio, in a letter read to the court Saturday, called Piero Piccioni, son of Italy's foreign minister, the assassin for a dope ring headed by Marquis XJgo Montagna, at whose home Wilma Montesi reportedly spent her last hours. Muto is being tried of printing "false and alarmistic" reports of her deith--that did not die accidentally as police said, but was afflicted by an overdose oJ narcotics at a wild high society party and left to die on the beach Muto's lawyers agreed with prosecution request for suspension President Domenico Surdo said: "The court agrees on the absolute need of suspending the trial of sending documents pertinent to the death of Wilma Montesi back to the prosecutor's office." He did not set a date for resumption of Muto's trial Court adjourned amid a terrific uproar in the small courtroom, where witnesses'during the two week's trial have accused leading figures of Italian high society and government of misconduct and dubious associations. National Police Chief Tommaso PavOne resigned after being men- tinned in connection with the case.

Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni reportedly offered his resignation when the name of his son, Piero. came up in the case. The hard pressed Scelba government refused to accept it Prosecutor Bruno Bruno asked suspension after the leading protagonist in the case--22-year-old Anna Maria--confirmed she wrote a letter last October accusing Mon- tagni and Piero Piccioni. Anna Maria's ietter, written to her former landlady in Rome, was read at last Saturday's session. shapely, 22-year-old daughter of working class parents in Rome, was found dead on the black sands of Ostia Beach last April.

Police have ruled twice that she dide of accidental drowning. Handsome magazine editor Muto touched off the present explosive scandal by writing that Wilma had taken an overdose of drugs at a high society party and was dumped on the beach to drown. Missing Air Force Plane Sighted On Greenland Glacier St. John's, Nfld. Air Force officials said last night a C47 missing since last Wednesday has been spotted on a Greenland glacier.

Five crewmen and" two civilian scientists aboard were reported safe. The plane, equipped with Arctic survival equipment, had made an emergency landing after running out of fuel. Search plans located it 200 miles north of its base at Thule, Greenland, Saturday. The Northeast Air Force command said the plane was searching for "Fletcher's Island," a giant ice floe under investigation as a possible air base. German Reds Planning To Expand Army Bonn, Germany (AP) East Germany's Communist regime has drafted a plan to expand its army into a crack field force of 12 divisions totaling 200,000 men this year, West German security officers said today.

To push through this expansion, the Communists have completed a law to draft all men above the age of 18, these officers said, adding that registration has started. The East German army, known (KVP), nov. numbers seven divisions totaling 110,000 men organized into air, naval and security formations attached to the ground forces. The Soviet-trained soldiers are completely militarized and have undergone infantry training since 1949. They are separate from the 100,000 man Volkspolizei (People's Police).

Under plans for the European army, West Germany would raise 500,000 men for the six-nation one-uniform force. "The Communists ire dropping the of their new army," one West Germany official said. "They no longer call their military forces 'people's police' but straightforward 'national forces'. Their ranks have been changed from police to military terms. A private is a private now and not a West German officials save this additional'information: The East German ground force is organized into two army groups of some 40,000 men each.

A third army group is now being organized. They are fully motorized. Each army group has Soviet- made tanks at its disposal, including the big Joseph Stalin 2. Army Group North, under the command of Gen. a Rentsch, has its headquarters at Pasewalk in the northern part of the Soviet zone.

Army Group South is commanded by Gen. Kurt Vogel, who has been trained at the Red Army War Academy in Moscow and who fought on the Communist side during the Spanish civil war. Ite headquarters are at Dresden. According to unconfirmed rumors, former German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus acts as adviser for this army group. The central Army group, building up since late November, has its headquarters at Potsdam.

Each of the East German divisions consists of up to six regiments including two tanks regiments, one artillery regiment, one regiment of self-propelled guns, and one to two mechanized infantry regiments. They also have antitank, antiaircraft and other units. All weapons and equipment are supplied by the Russian army. One Slain, Three Wounded In Row Over Television Napoleon, Ohio (AP)-- After an argument over whether the children should watch television, a 36- year-old man shot and killed his 15-year-old daughter and wounded his wife, his 10-year-old son and himself in their home at nearby Deshler last night, Sheriff Fred H. Bartels reported.

Bartels said George Wolfe, a truck driver, killed his daughter, Lucille; critically wounded his wife, Lillian, 31; shot his son, George in the thigh, and shot himself below the heart. Wolfe was reported in critical FIRE SWEEPS TAEGU Taegu, Korea (AP)--Fire tonight destroyed almost, one city (condition with a chest wound at aegu and burned Val-ey --capital in Find- Jay. George also is in the Findlay hospital, but not seriously wounded, sheriff Btrtels said. can-occupied buildings valued at $100,000. No casualties were reported.

French Brace For Drive By Vietminh Reds Hanoi, Indochina (AP)--French Union troops braced themselves anew today for a still expected new mass assault against their Dien Bien Phu fortress by the Communist-led Vietminh. Tank and infantry reinforcements bolstered the besieged defenders in northwest Indochina. From the skies poured a new stream of fresh troops, war equipment, ammunition and provisions, parachuted from French transports and American flying boxcars piloted by American civilians of the Hong Kong-based Civil A i Transport Service (CATS). French, Vietnamese, Senegalese, Moroccan and Algerian troops and the hard-fighting German soldiers who dominate the French Foreign Legion were "dug deep i trenches and bunkers behind the mazes of barbed wire. The area more and more took on the appearance of a World War I battlefield, with the Vietmnh also in hastily constructed trenches some of them only 200 to 400 yards from the French Union line.

The French at Dien Bien Phu still anticipated a sudden Vietminh rush in an attempt to overwhelm the fortress. They would count on driving into the French entrenchments after Loosening up the protective network of barbed wire with nitroglycerine or dynamite and hope to avoid losing another 3,000 killed and 9,000 wounded as they did last week, dashing from the surrounding hills and across the plain into sheets of fire from the heavily gunned fortress. The estimated 36,000 Vietminh far outnumber the defenders-probably three to one. But PS the new power for the defenders cascaded from transport planes, their hopes and confidence of turning back every rebel assault mushroomed. While opposing artillery again fought violent duels, the French air armada under a drizzling rain roared over the rebels -in the hills in fresh waves of their most intensive attacks of the war.

They streaked fire through the jungle-covered hills where most of the Vietminh were entrenched two miles from the heart of the for tress, showering incendiary bombs and napalm barrages. Other squadrons roamed north ward to blast the Vietminh highway links with Communist China, from which the rebels are getting their war supplies. The rebels feverishly built up fresh stocks of ammunition for their new attempt to smash" the fortress and score a big victory before the big powers meet in Geneva April 26 to try to settle the eight-year-old indecisive Indochina war. Senator Wicks To Run Again Kingston (UP)--Former Senate majority leader Arthur H. Wicks said today he would seek reelection for the Senate seat he has held since 1927.

Wicks resigned as majority leader iast fall after a fight with Gov. Dewey over his Sing Sing Prison visits to convicted extortionist Joseph (Joey) Fay. The Kingston Republican said he visited Fay to help solve labor troubles in his senatorial district Dewey rejected the explanation and demanded that Wicks quit as majority leader. At the time, Wicks, in effect, was acting lieutenant governor, since Frank C. Moore had resigned.

Before the dispute with the governor, it was understood that Wicks planned to retire at the end of his current Senate term. Motorists To Get One Plate In 1355 New York motorists will be issued only one license plate again in 1955, the State Tax Department said today. The Assembly on Saturday lulled a measure that would have provided specifically for continuance of this year's practice of issuing only one plate, to be attached to the rear of the car. But on the same day, both houses of the Legislature approved Governor Dewey's supplemental budget, which provides funds for only one plate per car in 1955. The Tax Department said it would be guided by that measure, despite the defeat of the other bm.

London Times Hails U.S. As Kindly Giant London (AP)--No nation in history, said the Times today in an appraiisal of developments in America, has ever used greater power with greater "vision, restraint, responsibility and courage" than the United States. The United States, the Times observed, is a misunderstood colossus. "Even the kindliest and most well-intentioned of giants causes a certain amount of nervousness among its friends," the influential newspaper said, "This is hard on the giant. And me United States-having heard through the years That it might declare war too soon "or not soon enough: That it was too far removed from Communist armies to be able to take the Communist threat seriously or that it is now taking it so seriously in its own land that freedom and tolerance are at stake: That its overwhelming prosperity would get it dangerously out of step the rest of the world or that an American recession would spell disaster to free nations--may well get impatient." The Times reminded i that whereas in Britain any important discussion comes to a head in a parliament where authority and responsibility are closely centered, the American system allows many more voices to be heard.

"In Great Britain the ultimate platform of debate is parliament," the Times said. "In the i States it cannot be. The President and his 'ministers' are not in either house: The executive cannot be overthrown by a vote of the legislature: There is no 'question time' within Congress. As a result, discussion is forced out into the nation as a whole. Congressional committees, press conferences, television interviews, newspaper columnists--all acting within different sets of rules or without any rules at all--let out to their heart's content" Critical minorities in nations which are Ameirca's allies may cause distress and raise doubts in the United States, but great and largely silent majorities of western nations value American leadership, the newspaper continued.

'There are other things so obvious to us that we take them for granted," the Times added. "But because silence can be misunderstood it is worth saying once again that no nation (besides the Unjted States) has ever come into possession of such powers for good or ill, for freedom or tyranny, for friendship or enmity among the peoples of the world, and that no nation in history has used those powers, by the large, with greater vision, restraint, responsibility and courage." Senate Vote On Chavez Due Tomorrow Washington (UP)--Republican leaders were privately gloomy about their chances of unseating Sen. Dennis Chavez as the Senate launched debate today on a GOP resolution declaring his election "no contest." The Democrats, on the other hand, were optimistic about being able to beat down the Republican move and formally to remove the longstanding threat to Chavez' position in the Senate. Sen. Thomas C.

Hennings lone Democrat on the elections subcommittee which investigated the disputed 1952 Senate race in New Mexico, said he is confident "an overwhelming majority of senators" will vote to reject the GOP resolution. Sen. Frank A. Barrett chairman of the three-man subcommittee, contended that the Senate "cannot overlook the report filed by our committee." That report, written by the Republican majority, said the group's investigation showed widespread violation of election laws in the battle between Chavez and his perennial Republican opponent, former ambassador Patrick J. Hurley.

I did not accuse either Chavez or Hurley of wrong doing but recommended that the election be declared void. The resolution based on the report would unseat Chavez and ask Republican Gov. Edwin Mechem to fill the vacancy. Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland said he hopes to get a vote on the resolution tomorrow afternoon.

He would not spec ulate on the outcome. The Democrats hold a one-vote edge in the Senate. Hennings, who issued a strongly- worded, 40-page minority report Saturday, said he thinks Chavez will win the test with the votes of "Republicans as well as Demo crats." Barrett said is chairman of the subcommittee he tried to carry ou his duties "in a semi-judicial fash ion and consequently made no ef fort to determine how my col leagues on either side of the aisle will vote." He told reporters, however, tha he feels the Senate cannot over look the "upwards of 3,000 state ments and affidavits" collected the sub-committee and court deci sions which require "provisions for booths and secrecy" iii all elections. The Democrats have countered with a resolution by Hennings and others to declare Chavez perma nently seated and duly elected. He has been holding his seat on a tern porary "without prejudice" basis pending outcome of the 14-month investigation.

"New Time" Causes Wide Confusion In South Korea Seoul (AP)--South Korea finally her independence from the Japan time zone and you should see the confusion. The national assembly, fiercely patriotic, carved out a Korean time zone a half hour behind the Japan zone. It went into effect Saturday. Now, appointments are confirmed with the question: "Japan or Korean time?" The 4 o'clock plane for Japan leaves at 4:30 and the 3 o'clock plane arrives at 3:30. International commuters and tele- phoners are having the time of their lives making connections.

Fifty years ago Japan ordered Korea to set her clocks on Japan time. It was done to simplify commerce. And while the political course between the two nations often was rough, they operated smoothly in a single time zone. When the sun rose in Japan, it Now South Korea is back on its own time. The U.S.

State Department was the first to fall in line. International etiquette, one diplomat explained. How can you keep appointments with Koreans when your clocks aren't in tune. The Army was tougher. Army transportation officials, less disposed to diplomacy, asked, "how can we run a railroad when everyone has his own time?" But it gave in.

The Air Force was last. For a while planes took off from Japan on time and arrived in South Korea a half hour ahead of schedule. Then they left South Korea on time and returned to Japan a half hour late. Finally the Air Force threw in its minute hand. Especially happy are the wrist watch salesmen.

They're happy because Korea Japan commuters are Noted Snake Hunter Killed Waco, Tex. A A 4 rattler hunter killed a who once veteran snake called fear of snakes "nonsense." J. Ed Johnson an authority on reptiles who long had watched the habits of the deadly rattler, died in a hospital here last night 6 hours and 15 minutes after the rattlesnake sank its fangs into his hand. It happened as Johnson and two friends hunted snakes in the Brazos River bottomlands 30 miles south of here. Snake hunting was Johnson's hobby.

He was Waco's city comp troller but had gained note as an expert on reptiles. Johnson had tracked snakes more than 30 of his 48 years. He had shipped thousands of reptiles to museums. He was a member of the American Society of Icthyologists and Herpetologists, the Texas Herpetological League and other similar associations. Herpetology is the study of reptiles.

Yesterday, Johnson and his two companions spotted four rattlers- all more than four feet long--in a deep ravine. One rattler was behind a rock. John Sparks pinned it down. As Johnson started to slip a loop over its head, the snake sprang free and bit Johnson on the back of his hand. He jerked his hand away with such force the fangs stuck in the flesh.

As Sparks killed the snake with a rock. Johnson pulled the fangs out. They cut the wound and put a suction cup on it to draw the venom out. The ravine was so deep and dirt along its sides so loose the two friends couldn't get Johnson out One went for help. It was 2 hours and 15 minutes before Johnson reached the hospital.

WASHINGTON Democratic Sen. Dennis Chavez, above, of New Mexico, is the subject of a Senate debate which began this morning. The Rules Committee has recommended Chavez be unseated because of his disputed 1952 election. (United Press Facsimile Photo) Douglas Backs Drive To Cut Tax On Autos Washington (UP)--Sen. Paul Douglas (D-I11.) sponsored a drive today to slash excise taxes on new cars three per cent and to end all excise taxes on household appliances.

Douglas, a leader, in the Democratic campaign to cut income taxes, said he would offer his propo sal as an amendment to the billion dollar excise cut bill scheduled for Senate action later this week. He said his measure would cu new auto prices about $50 and mean a saving of about $25 fo buyers of refrigerators, stoves anc clothes dryers. Both autos and household goods now are taxed a 10 per cent. Meanwhile, the committee fo economic development, a biparti san group of top business leaders urged President Eisenhower and Congress to draft a standby plan for cutting taxes as an emergency anti-depression meas ure. Sen.

Homer Ferguson (Mich.) chairman of the GOP Senate pol icy committee, said he certainly "would want to get all the facts' on the proposal and give it "seri ous consideration." Under the committee plan, Mr Eisenhower a congressiona leaders would agree now on a "substantial" across-the-board re duction in income taxes that coulc be put into effect quickly to bol ster consumer buying power business gets bad enough. Sen. Lister Hill (D-Ala) said in a statement today that the chances are good that the Senate will ap prove the Democratic plan to boos ncome tax exemptions from $600 to $800 this year and to $1,000 in 1955. He called the proposal, spon sored by Sen. Walter F.

George (D-Ga), the only fair way to spread tax relief among all fami ies. He said the GOP general tax revision measure "completel ig nored" small taxpayers. Ferguson said he thinks Senate will reject the plan. the Sen John J. Williams (R-Del) agreed and said George may already be 'conceding defeat" by linking the of his proposal to economic conditions.

brightened the Korean hilltops and talking of buying wrist watches for rice paddies, regardless of the facts! the other arm--so they'll know of nature. i what time it is in each country. NAMED SOVIET ENVOY Moscow (UP)--The presidium of the Supreme Soviet today named Danil Solod as ambassador to Egypt. Yank Hitch-Hikes 9,000 Miles To Wed German Girl Berlin (AP)--An American ser geant today married the pretty German girl he met five years ago during the Soviet blockade of Berlin and for whom he hitch-hiked 9,000 miles to rejoin two weeks ago. Air Force S.

Sgt. Fred D. Elkins, 24, of Bedford, and 24-year- old Helga Krueger, a stenographer, were united in a civil ceremony at a West Berlin registrar's office. Elkins arrived here March 9 after a week of hitch-hiking rides in military planes from. Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, his present station.

He is on a 4S-day furlough. He met Miss Krueger in January. 1949 at a service club dance at Tempelhof Air Base. Elkins plans to return to the Philippines in early April to finish his tour of duty. He said his bride would go to Bedford in the meantime.

HAXGS SELF IN CELL Cleveland (AP) Eighteen- year-old Don Graham never got to the family car at night. His use dad didnt think he could drive well enough. Last night Don was arrested while driving a stolen ctr. He hanged himself in his jail (cell, police reported. On "Spy" Case Washington (INS)--Fellow members of the Senate Appropriations ommittee overruled Sen.

Joseph R. McCarthy today when he asked ittorney General Herbert Browneil or a progress report on an espionage case involving "a newspaperman." Wisconsin Republican said that two Justice Department attorneys recommended "several that the case be sent to a grand ury but were turned down by their chief. When he asked Brownell to tell him why, Sen. Allen J. Ellender (D) interposed: thought we met here to eon- sider an appropriation." McCarthy contended the committee met "to get any information senators want to get" but Pat McCarran (D) asserted: "We're not here to try espionage cases." Upheld By Dirksen.

Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R) Tit, acting as chairman of the State, Justice and Commerce Appropria- Subcommittee, said thought Ellender's and McCarran'i 'point is well taken." However, McCarthy declared: "I think I'm entitled to know why a certain case recommended for prosecution as a clear-cut violation of the espionage laws was not lent to a grand jury." Ellender replied that McCarthy could "find out by sending a letter to the attorney general without making a big show out of it." McCarthy said he was "not making a big show out of it" but Insisted he wanted an answer, ing that he understood "the ease had not been brought to Mr. Brownell's attention." Promises Information. attorney general said it was "the first time" he had heard of it and promised to "look into it immediately." At that point, McCarthy asked criminal division chief Warren OIney to supply information, and Brownell interrupted to say: "Please address the question to me.

I'll examine the files, and anything I can do that does not Interfere with the case itself, the orderly presentation, I'll be flad to do." McCarthy said had been waiting six. to eight months for a report on the and tsked when he could get the infcrmt- tion. Brownell replied: "Maybt tomorrow." The hearing began as closed session but was opened to the public at McCarthy's request Praises BrownelL Soon after newsmen entered the room, McCarthy lauded Brownell and said: "The Justice Department is getting to be one of the brighter spots of the new administration." The senator then questioned Brewnell on the condition of Justice Department files on subversives when he assumed office and Brownell said that after a search of "desk drawers, shelves and closets," some 20,000 missing documents were turned up. OIney gave similar testimony to the House appropriations committee i month. Brownell also testified, as he had before the House committee, that the indexing system was poor and so inefficient that it "slowed us up" in handling of criminal cases.

Refuses To Step Aside. After the appropriations committee hearing, Senator McCarthy said he is determined to question Army at the hearing on his own dispute with leaders of that service and that he will insist that they in turn be given the right to quiz him. The Wisconsin Republican made his stand clear in rejecting proposals by GOP Senators Ferguson, of Michigan and Wiliam Knowland. of California, and Democratic a Stuart Symington, of Missouri, that he ttep aside entirely when his subcommittee begins its inquiry under the chairmanship of Sen. Karl E.

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