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Take a quiz matching the baby with the star in Sunday's T-D Leisure section II! 103d Year Volume 104 Number £05 Dally and Sunday by maO SSO a year Richmond 11 Virginia Saturday July 24 1954 Dial 7-1851 Entered aa Second -Claw Matter at the tat Of floe Va 5 Cents House Tentatively Approves Atomic Program Byrd ants FHA Cases Prosecuted' Powell First WASHINGTON July Senator Byrd (D-Va) said today that housing investigations have uncovered an concoction of malfeasance greed collusion and and he demanded that Attorney-General Brownell start prosecutions promptly The situation Byrd said in a speech one of the mast scandalous in the history Filibuster In Senate Drones On Bill Still Faces Roll Call Tests Cease-Fire Is Approved By French Bidault Clashes With Premier Wiicphoto Diver (right) Holds Extra Tank of Air As Ed Fisher Gets Ready to Change Over Yesterday at 3:10 He Popped Up After Breaking Records for Feat Like a Prune But Jubilant Diver Camps on Sea Floor 24 Hours a prune and his head ached but he and his surface associates were jubilant His long stay 30 feet below the surface of the sea off Key Largo w'as made as a free dive in which he had no direct connection with the airy world above him The 26-year-old Fisher a native of New York was exhaust- MIAMI FLA July Skin Diver Ed Fisher earned a world endurance record today by crnipic on the ocean floor for a full 21 hours He popped to the surface at 3:10 (EST) just 24 hours and 2 minutes after diving to the floor of a coral reef canyon His skin was blue and wrinkled like Wiirpltntn Alabama's Senators Ilill and Sparkman Take Time Out Each Spoke 3 Hours Yesterday Against Atomic Proposals Reds Say West German Chief Defected East BERLIN July 23 UP) The Communists said tonight that Dr Otto John chief of West' counterpart of the American FBI had voluntarily gone over to East Germany of our government's operations Of more than $60000000000 in Federal subsidies for housing in the last 15 years in the form of loans loan insurance grants and appropriations the Senator said nobody ever will know how much has gone to by day the exposures he said "but efforts to prosecute the guilty are not obvious In view of multi-million dollar windfalls it is inconceivable that no instances of fraud and graft occurred" Byrd said it is clear to him that with proper effort many prosecutions could be started leading off with Clyde Powell who was fired last April as assistant commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) A committee source said last night that Franklin A Trice a Richmond builder is scheduled to appear before the committee August 3 to testify regarding so-called profits he received on Lewis Gardens an apartment development on Route 60 near Byrd Airport Trice originally was scheduled to testify yesterday but his appearance was postponed Byrd said that he wTOte Brownell April 27 urging prosecution of Powell that Brownell replied to date he has reported no prosecutions" Powell twice has invoked the fifth amendment against possible self incrimination and refused to testify at Senate Banking Committee investigations of the housing situation For weeks the committee has been bringing out testimony that FHA guaranteed numerous loans for apartments at figures far above construction costs with the builders pocketing the difference to the extent of millions in what Byrd called windfall profits Investigators say tenants' pay higher rentals as a result It is evident Byrd said that such windfalls likely to have Involved The committee unfolded more testimony today that guaranteed mortgages exceeded construction' costs by some $500000 for four New Jersey apartments and by $367000 for three others here in Washington Unless precautions are taken now Byrd said "the next major scandals may be expected" in slum clearance where Continued on Page 9 Column 1 Maybe Police Will Use DDT A local jewelry store owner reported to police yesterday that an unknown man telephoned and warned: 'This is the 'Fly I break in jewelry stores through the transom Your store is next on the Police indicated the may get swatted if he attempts to carry out his threat Turnpike Loan Interest Charge Set at 2 Per Cent The Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike Authority yesterday completed arrangements for a $200000 risk capital loan -from four Richmond banks The loan will bear an interest rate of 2 per cent Chairman William Wood said the authority will borrow only $100000 now but it has call on the second $100000 whenever it is needed Wood said $100000 is all the authority needs now By waiting until later to borrow the second $100000 the group will be able to save some interest The risk capital will go to finance the setting up of an office for the authority here in Richmond and the making of traffic and location studies by consulting engineers Rate Chairman Wood said the 2 per cent rate of interest was reasonable for that kind of credit' The banks agreed to make the loan without any security When the authority issues bonds and becomes a solvent business venture the loan will be repayable Trooper Giles Dies in Norton Of Wounds NORTON July 21 State Trooper Robert Giles Jr died In a Norton hospital tonight of wounds received In a shooting fracas at Cbeburn last night Wise County Sheriff Harold Fleming immediately charged Hershel Akers 25 of Goebum with murder in the death of the 25-yrar-old trooper Giles was wounded twice in the upper left arm and a bullet lodged about two Inches from his heart on the right side with slugs from his own -3S-caliber pistol Authorities said Hershel Akers picked up the gun and fired at WASHINGTON July 24 (Saturday) LP) With administration forces solidly in command the House early today tentatively approved President Eisenhower's atomic energy program while it remained stalled in the debate-locked Senate Approval came after the House completed its first consideration of a complicated 10-1-page atomic revision bill in a single 161 -hour work The Senate meanwhile maintained a record marathan debate which administration leaders were helpless in shortening without approaching final action The House verd'et is subject to two and perhaps three confirming roll call votes But the smooth-working administration majority indicated little chance of a last-minute upset The measure permits private industry to enter the atomic field- authorizes the President to reveal some nuclear secrets to Allies and make numerous other changes in the 1946 law Actions Summarized The House: (1) Beat down a proposal to nullify President Eisenhower's disputed directive placing new private power facilities in the Tennessee Valley A similar move lost in the Senate after nearly eight days' debate Tbe standing vote was 172-115 (2) Defeated a Senate-approved proposal to authorize the government to build and operate atomic power plants if Congress provides funds (3) Approved 137-113 a basic amendment granting normal patent rights for new nonmilitary atomic developments not conceived or executed under government auspices This eliminated original proposals recommended by President Eisenhower requiring that patentable improvements during the next five years be shared for a fee with all qualified applicants (4) Refused to give the President more leeway to negotiate for an international atomic pool to help backward nations and Continued on Page 9 Column 3 Landlord Here Finds Big Still Bui No Tenant A huge moonshine still abandoned by its operators was discovered yesterday in an eight-room frame house inside the Richmond city limits Police estimated thousands of dollars worth of whisky had been produced In the tenant farm house on Ruffin Road in South Richmond near the James River The dwelling was just about ruined by the moonshiners who -sawed a hole in the floor for the boiler and left the interior strewn with about 1000 empty sugar sacks and 125 empty barrels Dairy Farmer George Boone of 3709 Courthouse Rd said he rented the house last September to a man about 35 years old The tenant who gave his name as "Arthur according to Police Sergeant Mark Houston said he was a truck driver and would be hauling produce between Richmond and Florida About two months ago Wilson" told Boone he was going to Florida for 10 days Yesterday with the tenant behind in his rent Boone went to the house and found the still He notified police Today's Index Amusements tComir Diet Series Editorials 19 19 8 Cioren 5 International 9 Markets 6-7 National 5930 Obituaries Radio and TV State Sports 11-13 County and City Women 3-S 10 They dramatically introduced a voice they said was John's The voice read on the East Berlin radio a statement saying he defected to the Reds for the purpose of working for German re-unification John called man of a thousand secrets" because he rtiay know the inner workings of the West's whole intelligence network in East Germany as well as its counter-spy setup in West Germany vanished Tuesday from West Berlin Intelligence Setup Periled As a result of his absence Britain and the United States may have to overhaul their entire intelligence operation Only today the United States High Commission had charged he was "trapped or into East Berlin by Communist agents The East Berlin broadcast tonight was the first word from the Communist side about him since his disappearance Germans in West Berlin said they were reasonably sure the voice they heard on the radio was John's but could not be certain Cling to Theory West German officials in Bonn who also had clung to the idea that John had been lured into East Berlin and kidnaped for his information were astonished by the broadcast and refused to comment Just before the broadcast the East German Interior Ministry said that John had talked July 20 with in the Soviet-controlled sector He vanished that night i John's friends had reported he appeared depressed lately In recent months Socialists In the West German Parliament had accused John of running his bureau like a Cancels Football Games for By Shellej' Rolfe Washington and Lee University yesterday canceled its 1954 football schedule and set a future course of completely amateur athletics The drastic decision by Washington and Lee to cancel a nine-game schedule for this Fall and to turn its back on subsidized athletics was made- at a meeting in Washington yesterday attended by Dr Francis Gaines president of the school and members of the board of trustees A resolution adopted by the board of trustees spelled out the no football no subsidization policy The move came little more than two weeks after Washington and Lee its football ranks riddled by academic casualties and a cribbing scandal which involved an unannounced number of athletes had announced it was planning to carry out 1954 football schedule commitments but was looking forward to a program of gradual Action taken by the board of trustees was announced from Lexington Dr Gaines dictated by telephone the resolution adopted by the board and then left Washington for Wilmington Del He was out of telephone range last night The board of trustees issued a six-point statement It left open the possibility of resuming football on an amateur basis said all existing scholarship Continued on Page 12 Column 7 PARIS July 23 UP) The French National Assembly tonight overwhelmingly approved the cease-fire in Indochina after the two top French negotiators clashed sharply over the Geneva agreement that brought an end to nearly eight years of war The vote was 462 to 13 The Assembly resolution said it greeted with the cessation of hostilities in Indochina due in a large measure to the decisive action of the Premier Mendes France had set July 20 as the deadline for a cease-fire with the promise he would resign if he did not succeed Georges Bidault the Foreign Minister who was displaced a little over a month ago in the midst On the Inside Read: French halt all offensive action in Indochina announce cease-fire will go into effect in North Vietnam on Tuesday Page 9 of the Geneva negotiations by the fall of the Joseph Laniel government bitterly attacked the government and compared it to the 1938 Munich pact which dismembered Czechoslovakia and left it ready to fall into Hitler's hands Abstains From Vote Bidault's Popular Republican Movement (MRP) refused to give its sanction to a part of the res olution approving report on the negotiations But this part was approved by a vote of 501 to 93 The MRP then abstained on the final vote for the resolution as a whole Bidault said the Indochina states Laos Camboda and Vietnam had been abandoned to communism and prevented from joining the only defense organization that could help them the proposed Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) He added that the agreements amounted to French abandonment of its friends in Indochina Continued on Page 9 Column 2 6 Die in Crash PIKEVILLE TENN July 23 4JP i A twin-engine plane from Pontiac Mich crashed atop Brayton Mountain 15 miles east of here during stormy weather late today killing at least six persons now on is not to mourn the past but to seize the future opportunity to prevent the loss in Northern Vietnam from leading to the extension of communism throughout Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific" he said in a statement Dulles met with reporters a few hours after Under-Secretary Walter Smith returned from the Geneva Far East conference saying the partition of Indochina was the which we could have possibly obtained under the circumstances" Smith top United States delegate at Geneva expressed disagreement with critics who have denounced the Indochina settlement as "Munich is a damn poor term" he snapped "At Munich things were given away when there was no fighting This is In rejecting latest bid for international conferences Continued on Page 9 Column 5 ed by the underwater test but apparently suffered no ill effects For a time earlier in the day he thought he wouldn't make the 24-hour goal During the night hours the water sapped his body warmth he grew unbearably cold and felt sick think I can stay down more than another hour" he told companions in boats above him in a message written with a grease pencil on slate But the sun soon wanned him up and he stuck it out He set up his ocean floor camp site in leisurely manner Various pieces of equipment he hung on coral pinnacles-sometimes shooing spiny lobsters out of the way first Overly friendly fish bothered him occasionally and he pushed them aside Once a shark described by those in two boats above him as as big as a submarine" swam slowly overhead eyed the strange goings on in his domain curiously then went his way He stepped on a sea urchin after dark last night and reported himself "stung severely but all right A sea urchin is shaped like a pin cushion with its pins brittle spines which break off in the flesh and sting furiously Fisher drank soup ate candy and for breakfast shot a fish with his water spear sliced it and ate It raw His endurance dive was to test a a newly designed underwater breathing apparatus similar to the French aqualung His face mask covers his eyes and nose but leaves the mouth free He eats by removing a mouthpiece Controls Voted WASHINGTON July (UP) The nation's wheat growers today ap- Proved by a razor-sharp margin stiff crop controls for next year Incomplete returns from North Dakota turned a touch-and-go battle into approval of the stifTcst crop control program in history (Details on Page 4) Air Liner Hainan is a big Communist island about 180 miles due east of the north Indochinese port of Haiphong It has been reported the Reds maintain big air and submarine bases on the island The survivors flown here included three of the six American passengers who were hospitalized with injuries An Associated Press dispatch from I long Kong listed eight known survivors including the three Americans Their names were given as Mrs Leonard Parish and her daughter Valerie 6 both of Bandoeng Java and Thatcher of Stoning-ton Conn Mrs Parish's husband and two young sons were reported missing The family was en route to visit relatives in Iowa Park Texas Cathay Pacific Airlines is a scheduled air line with home offices in Hong Kong The air liner was en route from Bangkok Thailand via Singapore when it plunged into the sea It took off from Bangkok at 12:15 31 Friday In London the Daily Telegraph printed a Hong Kong dispatch quoting a survivor as saying that two fighters based on Hainan shot down the air liner fKl II Augustine president of 1 State-Planters Bank and Trust Company represented the Richmond banks in negotiations The other three are to settle Man in Hospital Akers himself Dulles Rejects Red Bid For New Major Parley In 6 Attention 9 Incident was called Accused Hershel wounded in the left side of his back is resting in the same hospital here In which the young State trooper died Sheriff Fleming said a guard had been posted at the hospital room of the accused Earlier today a Wise County Circuit Court grand jury indicted Hershel Akers his IS-ycar-old brother Alvis and Paul Kennedy 21 of Creek on charges stemming from the fracas Hershel Akers was indicted on a charge of felonious assault a few hours after the shooting Alvis Akers and Kennedy were Indicted on charges of assaulting an officer Earlier Indictment Bypassed Sheriff Fleming tonight said because of the warrant for arrest of Hershel Akers on a charge of the earlier indictment will not oc used Fleming said he is still seeking Garland Adkins 25 on charges Continued on Page 4 Column 8 Raise Approved For Civil Service Washington" juiy (UP) The Senate Civil Sendee Committee approved legislation today to provide a 5 per cent pay Increase for 500000 postal workers and about 1000000 classified Civil Sendee workers The hill puts a 1 10 maximum rn the increase for an individual employee Rut provides a minimum annual increase of $170 for each classified or collar" Cl 11 Sendee Employe Each postal worker would be guaranteed a minimum raise of $200 a Near Officer ound Innocent The Bank of Virginia Central National Bank and First and Merchants National Bank Murphey authority member from Chesterfield Ooun- Continued on Page 2 Column 2 At Least 9 Missing Down HONG KONG July 24 (Saturday) The pilot of a British plane that crashed near the Communist-held island of Hainan Friday said today his C-54 was shot down by two Red MIG jet fighters he believed were piloted by Russians The government announced later that there was evidence" the Cathay Pacific air liner which carried IS persons including six Americans had been shot down There were eight known survivors of the plane including three of the Americans The radio operator Steve Wong apparently was killed in the attack before the plane crashed The other presumably were rescued by boats from Hainan or drowned were attacked by two Migs" Captain Philip Blown told the United Press in a Hong Kong hospitaL believe they were piloted by Russians Our plane was badly shot up" L'nited States Navy planes picked up the eight survivors that were brought here Informed sources reported that eighth United States Navy Sky-raiders flew cover for the rescue planes in case any other Red fighters appeared on the scene A WASHINGTON July LP) Secretary of State Dulles challenging Russia's good faith today rejected bid for new talks on atomic weapons Germany Korea and Europe in the wake of the Geneva Conference Russia will have to change its basic attitude he said before it would be profitable to discuss these major East-West deadlocks around the conference table At a news conference Dulles said steps will be taken" to forge an anti-Cbmmunist alliance in Southeast Asia to block any further Red aggression in the area Dulles said free nations could draw' a defense Tine around not only countries bordering on Indochina but the non-Communist parts of Indochina itself even though they might not be members of the alliance important thing from Class Richard Witbeck 24 of Wellington Ohio to keep the company of 225 trainees at attention in sweltering heat for nearly an hour Several of the men of Company 272d Infantry Regiment were reported to have fainted during the period The long formation reportedly was ordered as punishment for an unexplained breach of discipline Witbcck accused of maltreating the men involved in the incident is scheduled to stand a separate trial Morgan as the last of six witnesses called by the defense today denied that he gave any orders pertaining to the long stand at formation or that he ordered men who had fainted doused with water and returned to the formation FT DIX J- July An eight-man Army court-martial board tonight found Lieutenant Robert Morgan 28 of Wilkes-Barre Pa innocent of charges of of for allegedly allowing a company of trainees to stand at attention in 92-degree heat for almost an hour The eight officers deliberated an hour in making their decision after two days of hearings in which Morgan testified in his own defense The young lieutenant who was wounded in actions in Germany in World War II had denied that he had any part in the incident which occurred at Ft Dix June 21 He was accused of failing In lis duty by allowing his administrative assistant Sergeant First.