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Weather Forecast Partly cloudy and warmer today chance of showers in afternoon. The tu in borianti VOL. 189 International Service Associated Service AP CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1956 Entered aerond clase mall matter at Cumberland, under the act of March 3, 1879 Maryland. City Is Jammed For Car Races (See Rack Page) 14 CENTS Senate Approves Farm Bill Ike Task Force Half-Tracks To Study Soviet Are Taken Off Arms Cut Plans Jsrad' "Implications" To Be Analyzed By 8-Man Panel WASHINGTON, May 18 Russia's announced plans lor a big reduction in military forces will be reviewed by President Eisenhower's special eight-man panel of nuclear, military and industrial starting May 29, Harold E. Stassen announced today.

Stassen told a news conference that the special group formed by Eisenhower last summer will assemble in Washington a week irom Tuesday to begin an analysis of the of the Soviet announcement, along with the recent London disarmament talks which reached no conclusion. Panel To Recommend Moves The eight task force leaders presumably will recommend what moves if any this country should take in response to announcement of last Monday that Soviet military forces will be reduced by 1 200.000 men. Members of the group and the subjects assigned to them as disarmament consultants are: Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, nuclear; Gen.

James H. air; Gen. Walter Bedell Smith,) army; Adm. Oswald S. Colclough, navy; Benjamin Fairless, steel; Walker L.

Cisler. power and in- dustry; Dr. Harold Moulton, military budgets; and Dr. James B. Fisk, communications.

Stassen Not Of They went over the proposals which Stassen, Eisenhower's special assistant on disarmament, took with him to the London conference. where he conferred with Soviet and other leaders. At his news conference Stassen evidenced must less ACTRESS Ann Garner -above) is shown after her marriage yesterday to Actor Albert Salmi. Both appeared in the play The ceremony took place at the First Presbyterian Church in New York. The bride.

24, was divorced from actor Richard Hayes in 1953. Salmi is 28. (AP Photofax) Rumor Of Egypt Arms Deal With Peiping Checked Action By State Dept. Blocks Shipment Of 21 Military Vehicles WASHINGTON, May 18 State Department said today 21 half-track military vehicles were taken off an Israel-bound ship last Monday because they lacked a valid export license. Press officer Lincoln White said an inspector discovered the ve hides were completely assembled whereas the licenses covered only spare parts.

White said the 21 half-tracks were aboard the Israeli ship Zion in New- York Harbor. He said it could not be said that either the State Department or the Customs Office blocked this shipment. No He said the half-tracks were taken off the ship because the two agencies no under U. S. law requiring export licenses for all shipments of a military character.

He refused to say, however, whether it could be called or do not White said. tell you what the facts He also said: there is anything dishonest in this. unaware of Not Known Where Purchased White told reporters the export Two Killed In Galena, Explosion Above is the scene of the Kent Oil gasoline hulk storage plant which went up in flames and killed two firemen at (ialena, yesterday. Galena, on the Eastern Shore, is a community of about 400 Three explosions shook the (own. I eft is one of the 10,000 gal Ion tanks that were blown about the community.

Home in right rear was gutted by the flames. (Story on page 2 (AP Pholnfax) Air Force Show House Unit Removes Curtailed; World Red Bloc Trode Bon Reaction Feared prom Aid Legislation Woman Indicted For Last Of Six Poison Murders Features Held Objectionable By Ike Deleted Legislation Giving President Soil Bank Returned To House May 18 Thf Senate passed a new farm bill tonight to replace the one President Eisenhower vetoed April IB II it stripped of many features objectionable to the administration and gives the President the billion dollar soil hank program he requested Passage was on a voice vole. The hill now goes to the House for consideration of numerous changes written in by the Sonata during a session lasting mot a than nine hours. The House version was passed May 3 Sens. Aiken (RAt) and Anderson expressed hope that the House would accept the changes and rush the legislation to the White House for Eisenhower signature.

WASHINGTON. May 18 Force plans for the mightiest dis- strength ever flown over Washing- license for half-track spare parts ton were sharply curtailed today. MONTGOMERY. Ala May 18 49 year old waitress who admitted killing her mother, three small daughters and two husbands down a proposal that might have I including Great Britain, have been with ant poison was indicted today WASHINGTON, May 18 nist bloc which the United States House Foreign Affairs Committee itself does not allow to be export- plav of atomic jet bomber reversed itself today and voted ed to the Reds. Many countries, blocked U.

S. aid to many foreign more lenient than the United WASHINGTON, May 18 coln White, State department press officer, said today the department is investigating rumors that Egypt is making a deal to ob- skepticism tain a new supply of Communist was issued to the Israel Purchasing Commission, an agency of the Israeli government. He said he did not know where the half-tracks were purchased but he commented that companies in New York sell Army He said Israel has applied for export licenses for half-tracks fully assembled. But he said this application has not been acted upon. than other officials have expressed concerning the Russian announcement ot military manpower cuts.

He said it could be desirable for President peace policy. He disagreed when reporters sug- gested he might be out of step, with the White House and State confirmation 0( the Czech arms Department, both of which had deals with Egypt and with voiced essentially negative reac- The Egyptian government of bloc arms from Red China. The State Department has no confirmation of the rumors so far. White told a news conference, but he added, will recall there were rumors before the official Red Youth Told Lenin Censured Stalin In 1923 tions. Russian Baptist Leaders Arrive In United States Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser recognized the Chinese Red regime Wednesday.

The aerial show, scheduled for tomorrow's celebration of Armed Forces Day. was cut from 216 B47 atomic bombers to 45. Pentagon officials attributed the cutback to fears by some high civilian officials that the proposed demonstration of air-atomic power might create an unfavorable world reaction, especially in view of current emphasis on disarmament efforts. White House Pressure Protests against the mass flight nations. But the committee came to slashing about a hillion dollars out of President Eisenhower's aid hill.

Then it decided to put off a tmal decision until next Tuesday. Chairman Richards announced the committee actions alter the fourth straight day of closed sessions on foreign aid request for the fiscal year starting next July 1 Temporarily, at least, today's decisions favored the administration. It had been expected to fight had been made by private air-j vigorously a proposal sponsored craft owners and pilots, who cited by Edna F. Kelly the hazards of a low level flight and adopted by the at jet speeds, but Pentagon offi- late yesterday. States in allowing shipments to the Iron Curtain.

Richards said the committee reversed yesterday's decision and voted to knock the Kelly amendment out of the hill. He did not disclose the vote count. He indicated the committee's general idea was not to put such a sweeping restriction on the foreign aid program until a special commission to he appointed by Eisenhower has had a chance to make a basic restudy of the whole program. As lor money request, Richards reported there were a number of close including one tie, on vari- committee ous proposals to knock out funds. None of the votes carried, he said, House Approval Seen If the House refuses fo accept the changes, another Senate Conference Committee will hava to be appointed to iron nut the dif- ferenees.

But Senate leaders exhibited confidence the House would go along with them The Senate bill, like the Hou measure, provides for a soil hank plan under which farmers could receive up to 1 200 100,000 a year in government benefits for withdrawing land from the production ot crops already in surplus. But neither branch of Congress voted to give Eisenhower the authority he requested to make up to 500 million dollars in advance payments on the soil hank this on the last of six murder charges. Plump, auburn haired Mrs. Rhonda Belle Martin already was under indictment on three first- degree murder counts when the Montgomery County grand jury added three more this afternoon. She also is charged with trying to murder her fifth and present husband, who is the son of one ot the other husbands Mrs.

Martin has admitted poisoning. The Without this authority, hi viving victim. Ronald C. Martin. contended, farmers would not re- 28, is paralyzed from effects of No Comment From White MOSCOW.

May 18 generation of Soviet youth nurtured on Stalin worship, with the idea that Stalin was Lenin's most beloved disciple, got a new version White declined any comment on that Lenin condemned Stalin in that action. Other State Depart- 1923 ment officials have said privately This came about in the most that they feared it might mean saVage assault on Stalin yet pub- reeogmtion of Red hina by other here. It was in Komsomol nations in the nine-member Arab Pravda Soviet youth paper A League ot which Egypt is a column called Children's Guide NEW YORK May a to assertedly written Five Russian Baptist leaders ar- Egypt "lade a dea; in response to letters from child- rived in Now York tnHav in vicit ycar ag0 to buy arms irom Czech -1 ren, related that Lenin had warned the and Unit- The original trade was the Communist party against Staed States but mostly to ens said privately that the pres- The Kelly proposal was to har hut one vole was on sure had come from such places U. S. aid to any country sihpping' the question ot knocking as the White House and Harold! strategic goods to the Commu- i nearly a billion dollars.

E. disarmament office. Elaborate plans had been made by the Strategic Air Command to assemble B47's from widely sepa- rated bases for dem- HOSOltOl ICStS onstration of for 1-11 which is the Armed Forces Day slogan. Low-Level Flyover 80 million dollars worth of arms lin. en the ties between Russian and exchan 8 Egyptian cotton.

Later reports said the total He wrote that Stalin was American 1 1 ine luiai and that this trait was m- The group of four ministers and arnount ot arms thus obtained by tolerable in the office of Commu- one girl, who is a Baptist church Nasser Probably far exceeds 100 nist general secretary. He said worker, is the first religious depu- worth, tation to visit this country since The deliveries included 200 jet the revolution of 1917. fighters and 50 bombers. 200 tanks Jacob Zhidkov, president of the and half a dozen submarines. All-Union Council of the Evangeli- cal Christian Baptists and spokes- dangerous tiemcnt man for the group said as for The Czech deal has been report- coexistence between the Commu- ed by diplomats here as due to ex- nist Party and religious groups, July 1 but a new trade speaks for itself we are with Red China would keep the existing and arms flow going.

When asked if any member of That would introduce a new and the group, which represents some dangerous element into the Mid- 520.000 Russian Baptists, were die East situation at a time when Communists, they broke into American officials and United Na- laughter and explaining tions leaders have said there is a that religious believers could not rea! chance of stabilizing the ar- The decision to cut down was conveyed by Secretary of Defense Wilson to Secretary of the Air! FORT LAND, Ore May IB Force Donald A. Quarles, Wilson: 8 Democrats decided be- said it was determined after a Adlai Stevenson and Sen. practice flight Wednesday that E'stes Kelauver as then write-in Voting Reported As Fairly Heavy After Heart Attack In Ore. Primary HOLLYWOOD, May 1 INS) arsenic. Trial Work Of June 4 The 170-pound waitress faces trial the week of June 4 with death in the electric chair as the maximum penalty.

Mrs. Martin was indicted today ou(, for the slayings ot Claude Martin, her fourth husband and father of Ronald Martin; George Garrett, her second husband, and Carolyn Garrett, 6 -year-old daughter by Garrett. Martin died in 1951, Garret! in 1939 and Carolyn in 1940. The defendant, who wears rimmed glasses, was indicted in Mobile last month for the deaths of her mother, Mrs. Mary Frances Gibbon who died in 1944, and two Jerry Lewis, of the famousjeam! 0thcr daughters, 3 year-old Kmo- gene Garrett and 11 -year-old Ellyn Wednesday wing of the would provide adequate representation for cans named their hoped-for 4a r.

1 ix ft At-rt 111 that phase of the aerial demonstration The Air Force still expects to go through with a low level flyover by one B52 heavy jet bomber and a number of supersonic fighters and slower jet fighter- bombers. to beat' in of Martin and Lewis, is in Mount Sinai Hospital suffering from a I heart attack. For years Jerry has been bothered with a heart murmur which kept him out of the Army. Last night, he became so violently Sen Wayne More iU that his physician, Dr. Marvin a briskly paced primary S.

Levy, ordered him into Mount choice for president and Republi- election today. Elizabeth Garrett. Kmogpne died in 1937, the other child six years later. Bodies Were Fiximmed The jury at Molbile also indicted the woman tor assault with intent to murder Ronald Martin, whose illness in a Biloxi, veterans Sinai for an electrocardiogram and, hospital touched off the murder Stalin's comrades should find a way to replace him in this office with someone more patient, loyal, polite and attentive to and less captious. Peggy Ann Garner Married To Actor Truman, describing himself as NEW YORK, May 18 good said today he be-j heavily on pledging support to the Peggy Ann Garner and the United States and the' Truman Favors U.S., Vatican Envoy Swap vestigation alter it was diagnosed as arsenic poisoning.

Subsequently, the bodies of all six slain victims were exhumbed for autopsies and investigators said all showed evidence of poison. H-Bomb Task Force Bomber Crashes ceive any substantial soil hank benefits until 1957, since I growing season is so iar advanced. No High, Rigid The hill does not contain the high, rigid price supports for basic crops, which was the major reason for Eisenhower's veto last month. A dual parity system for figuring price supports and other features objectionable to the administration also have been dropped. Before the final vote, the Senate settled its quarrel over price supports for feed grains.

Aiken and Sen. Holland (D-Fla) won adoption of a compromise amendment which they said would put livestock feed grains on a fair basis in relation to corn grown in the hig commercial corn belt. The vote on this issue was 73-14. Red Boss Confesses To mistice set between the Arab stales and Israel and beginning work on a moire permanent settlement. A spot check indicated an teat, to determine just how normal early turnout in populous 18 am Mulnomah County Portland), Hot weather encouraged morning Says Strength voting.

The Olson-Robinson cham-! aa A pionship light in Los Angeles, tele- Policy To 6 maintained VIENNA, Austria, May 18 vised here at 6 p.m. probably did. WASHINGTON Mav 18 Communist boss, Maty- too. Polls closed at 8 p.m. inoec confessed tonight EDT).

retary Defense Wilson served (1-001110 I ASK rOITe night hp wa, gullty of practicing Republicans were drawn in the warning tonight th.o the I niied rrlsllPS Siahn-iike dictatorship and wa. polls by a vigorous fight between States expects to maintain armed UUIIIUCI partly responsible for unjust Stalin ROME, May 18 two major candidates for the GOP forces of their present size tor MCKINLEY Off Bi- era senatoriai nomination who played years to come and t0 glVe them! May 19 The better weapons despite current H-bomb test has been postponed 'XLIrian Work Rakosi made his confession in a Salmi, an actor, were married to- Vatican should exchange ambas-! day. The ceremony was performed sad()rs "help peace in the! in the First Presbyterian church on Lower Fifth Avenue. About 40 former president, beginning' Eisenhower administration. Both Douglas McKay, a former friends attended.

Miss Gardner is a four.day vjSit 0 Rome, will see 24. her husband, 28. She was pjus on gunday morning, vorced from actor Richatd Hayes pe tojd reporters shortly after in Juarez, Mexico, in 1953. be members of the party. Soviet Troops Withdraw BERLIN, May 18 uP-ADN, the East German news agency, reported today the withdrawal of first Soviet troops from East Germany under the newdy announced Russian demobilization plan.

The Soviet Union announced Monday a cut in its armed forces PENSACOLA. May 18 i His attorney, Tom Beasley of the Holy See but that the Sen of 1 200,000 men during the next A northwest Florida farmer who Deiuniak Springs, told the court ate disapproved the nomination, year, including more than 30.000 the farmer had not understood the Russian soldiers now stationed in sPent tour oays in jail or compuisory provisions of the fed- East Germany. talks of an easing of world ten- another day and task force offi- sions. cials today revealed a light bomb- governor of Oregon and outgoing is no clear indication er taking off to join the test had secretary of the interior, and Phil that the world situation has im-! crashed Friday, with one crew- Hitchcock, a fast-rising newcomer proved to the point where we can man rescued and one still missing, to the political big time, contended importantly modily our policy of. The H-bomb shot now has been Farmer Jailed Four Days Yields Files Crop Report he was the best man to defeat Morse in the fall.

reporters he and Mrs. Truman arrived by train from Paris that he favored full diplomatic relations between Sectary the U. S. and the Vatican while he 1 was in the White House and that still favor He noted that he had nominated Gen. Mark NEW YORK, May 18 UPi-Rep.

Clark to be the S. ambassador Adam Clayton congressional secretary was convicted by a federal court jury today ol income tax evasion. strength for the long Wilson declared in a speech prepared for an Armed Forces Day banquet. reset for U. S.

time. It had been scheduled for Sunday. Guilty Of Tax Evasion On Inside Pages Bridge 11 Comics 11 Crossword 11 Deaths 2 Dr. Van Dellen 7 Editorial Page 7 Hollywood 6 Markets 13 Racing 9 Secrets of Charm 6 Sports 8, 9. 10 State News 2 Television 11 Tri-State 5 Want Ads 12, 13 Women News 3 contempt of qourt yielded to eraj jaw requiring reports on acre- Eisenhower Names law today.

He filed a copy of his age planted. TAM iimr. Cf Devane said that when a major- I UJdVcil ID IvX ity ot the farmers vote for the federal acreage allotment program WASHINGTON, May 18 for parity payment and other President Eisenhower today nom- purposes. the law requires that the inated A M. Craven, a Wash- individual farmer report his crop ington engineer, to be a member acreage to the U.

S. Department ot the Federal Communications French-Soviet Talks End Amid Scene Of Jubilation MOSCOW. May 18 up French As Mullet and Khrushchev and Soviet leaders ended their stepped out into the street, a federal crop acreage report. Federal Judge Dozier A. Devane dismissed the contempt citation against Walter T.

Carroll. 44. He was released under $2.500 bond on a charge of resisting a federal officer. Devane had ordered Carroll jailed May 10 for contempt of court. The judge released the farmer Monday on his promise to file the acreage report.

Carroll, who operates a farm in nearby Walton County, said he filed his 1954 crop acreage report because of religious convictions. He said he received no benefits such as parity payments or crop loans. Mrs. Hattie Freeman talks 11 -day trial was highlighted by Blit testimony that she kicked back her secretarial salary to the Democratic Negro congressman from New York. Powell, however, took theiwitness stand to deny he ever without agreement today.

of Agriculture. These reports enable the County Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Committees to fix individual acreage quotas for the next season. Carroll said he had not been able to sell his 1954 cotton crop from the eight acres he had planted because he was unable to obtain a permit due to his refusal to file the acreage report. mobbed them anyway in a strange and moving scene of jubilation and camaraderie. The crowd of about 500 sians gathered in the dusk out- received any salary kick sack iiom Prgnch Embassy.

Inside ing of the ruling Hungarian Workers (Communist) party, of which he is first secretary. After admitting his mistakes and declaring ht and the party leadership are sorry for Rakosi promised reforms. He promised the Communist- controlled Hungarian Parliament would enjoy some free debates. Ht promised higher wages lor workers and efforts to increase the supplies of food and consumer goods. But he warned that criticism, especially from the would not be permitted to disrupt party unity.

Immigration Service, Probe Ordered WASHINGTON, May 18 Model impulsively by the arm Senate Appropriations Committee crowd pinned back by militia on the opposite side broke into a roar a crowd of cheering Russians 1 oi appUluse. Then Khrushchev brought on a new demonstration. He grabbed her. Mrs. Dodson faces a maximum for a seven year m-isnn and $90 000 in rancc ana 1,010 years in prison and sw uuu in christian Pineau Commission term.

Craven, a Democrat, served as a FCC member from 1937 to 1944 He woyld succeed Edward M. Webster, whose term expires June Chuckle and walked across to the crowd. He began extending his hand across the militiamen's shoulders were Premier Guy Mollet of to the people. fines when she is sentenced June 4. France and Foreign Minister and the Soviet 30.

Craven. 63, is a partner in the engineering firm of Craven, Lohnes and Culver in Washington. He is a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers. One of our present troubles seems to be that too many adults and not enough children believe in Santa Claus. (Copyright General Corp leaders.

Premier Nikolai Bulganin and the party secretary, Nikita Khrushchev. The leaders were touching up a communique on the three days of talks. A high Western diplomat The Russians broke through the cordon and for a few minutes Mollet and Khrushchev disappeared in the milling throng. Premier Nikolai Bulganin, Pineau and Soviet Foreign Minister X. M.

Molotov, who were follovv- I ing. were swept up. pushed, el- said the talks finally had con- bowed and lost in the crowd, vinced the Russians that France Finally the conferees reached would not sever its military alii- their cars and gave a last swecp- ance with the West. I ing wave as the party drove off. today ordered a full investigation of the operations of the U.

S. Information Agency and the Immigration Service. The action came as the committee approved a $556.271,517 money bill operate the State and justice departments and the judiciary in the next year. This is $14.905.145 more than the House allowed but $42,833.293 less than President Eisenhower asked. The investigation of the two agencies is to be made by a subcommittee headed by Sen.

Johnson (D-Tex.).