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The Weather i RICHMOND: Partly dourly continued hot today Tuesday mntinued hot VIRGINIA: Some rloudine with high in 90s today Tuesday sunny hot Loral Data on Page 3 On the Inside 1 Exiles in Honduras await their chance to throw out the Communists in their homeland Guatemala Page 30 103d Year XMSr Richmond 11 Virginia Monday Junel4 1954 Dial 7-1851 as a-ciaa at tha ome va 5 Cents Coty Accepts Resignation Of Government Mendcs-France Is Asked to Form NcwParisCabinet 976 Sets Record Puts City Among 5 Hottest in Storms Hurt Some Areas Another Hot Day Forecast -A Ctanpoaita Phot by HMwI Droves at Shields Lake as Richmonders Take to Pools to Escape Temperatures in the Upper McCarthy May Rest Up After Current Hearings WASHINGTON June Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) may hand the investigative ball to Senator Potter (R-Mich) after the McCarthy-Army hearings end and take a brief cooling-off period in his hunt for Communists in government Fmm Wire Dipntrhr President Rene Coty last night accepted the resignation of Pre-j Trier Joseph Lanid and asked Pierre Mendes-Franrr who his! long urged a quick end to thei war in Indochina to try and' form a new government Mendes-F ranee said he would make known today whether he would attempt the task A 47-ycar-old economics expert who failed by 13 votes of being invested with the title of Premier last June Mendes-F ranee is known for his strong view that France should make the best possible bargain In direct negotiations with Moscow-! trained Ho Chi Mini: in Indo-! china and concentrate on building up her strength in Europe He has advocated government economy and cuts in military spending He belongs to the Radical Socialist (moderate) party Supporter of EDC A year ago when seeking investiture he said he would support the European Defense Community (EDC) which would rearm Germany In an address last week to the National Assembly on the Indochina situation he sharply criticized Foreign Minister Georges Ridault for not making great enough efforts for peace in the seven-year-old war Mendes-Fra rice claimed that Ridault had talked to the head of the Vietminh delegation only once during the secn weeks of the Geneva conference He sarcastically said that that talk occurred a bar at the initiative of Molotov (Russian Foreign Minister)" West Ponders Course In view of the unsettled political situation in France United States Under-Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden end Jean Crauvel French am-1 hassador to Switzerland and act- i ing head of the French delegation met in Geneva lite yesterday afternoon to survey the West's position One of the topics reported under consideration was whether there is any point in continuing the stalemated negotiations on Indochina American sources said the nine members of the Indochina confer- By Allan Jones The temperature soared to 976 degrees here yesterday setting a record high for the date and making Richmond one of the five hottest cities in the nation After Richmonders had fretted fanned and fumed through the heat a driving thunderstorm hit the city at 6:17 It helped knock the temperature down 13 degrees (from 91 to 78) between 5:30 and 6:30 and by midnight the mercury had fallen to 69 low for the day Rainfall in 42 minutes measured -24 inch at Byrd Field The city's 976 reading (officially it was a 98 in Weather Bureau records) was topped only by a 99-degree mark in Laredo Texas Also recording were Roanoke Little Rock Ark and Fort Smith Ark The weatherman predicted last night that temperatures will climb back into the low today in the Richmond area Lakeside Water Supply Low Yesterday nearly 1500 youngsters fled to municipal swimming pools to escape the heat The Lakeside area of Henrico County meanwhile faced a serious water shortage The Richmond high temperature recorded between 2 and 3 broke a previous mark of 958 degrees for June 13 set in 1944 Yesterday was the hottest day of the year here Hail and rain storms were reported in New Kent County at Sands ton and Varina In Henrico County and in other areas of the State Shenandoah Valley Drem-lied The worst of the storms drenched the Shenandoah Valley between Woodstock and Harrisonburg for more than an hour Hail about the size of a pea fell only five minutes but damaged crops in the area The rain began at 4 and fell so heavily that some motorists stopped their autos at the side of the roads Telephone service between Woodstock and New Market was interrupted and the Shenandoah River swollen from the downpour overflowed its banks in Mount Jackson at Route 11 Scattered thundershowers began in the Richmond area shortly after 6 Stop lights on Street were out a short time as a result of the storm The lights failed in City Hall Annex and telephone service to Continued on Page 2 Column 4 Why That Man Halt? LITTLE ROCK ARK June 13 (A) A supermarket employee noticed a man hurrying down the street last night leaving a trail of $1 and 85 bills behind him The employee ran halfway down the block shouting to the man that he was dropping the money But he couldn't catch him When the employee returned to the store he learned that a robber had just made off with an undetermined amount of cash With Republicans driving to wind it up this week the televised dispute between McCarthy and Army officials will resume tomorrow with either McCarthy or one jot his aides on the stand Once the hearings are ended the Wisconsin Senator would be technically free to resume his controversial investigations which he frequently has complained are being held up by the current inquiry McCarthy told a newsman however that he wants a week in the sun somewhere to rest before he makes any new move He said Potter is ready to go ahead quickly on what will be the next public inquiry by the Senate investigations subcommittee Potter said preliminary interviewing of witnesses has been completed for a formal Investigation of what has happened to Americans who still are held behind the Iron Curtain This would include American prisoners of war and civilians not freed by the Communists in Korea and Red China as well as Americans held in Russia and in satellite countries after World War IL While neither McCarthy nor Potter mentioned the point it was obvious that this kind of inquiry would be calculated to appeal to all Americans and not likely to arouse any partisan controversy in this country Meanwhile Attorney-General Brownell declared tonight "our system of cannot survive if any person is "allowed to set himself above the laws of the or one branch of government is able to "usurp powers oi another Obviously aiming a new blast at Senator McCarthy without mentioning his name Brownell said in a commencement address for American University graduating class: "We must be ever vigilant to preserve our liberties from those who owe allegiance to other idealogies and also from those misguided persons whose zeal may lead them into errors no less And Senator Mundt (R-S D) said today the McCarthy-Army hearings have been seen and read about by too many people for anyone to profit by putting "a partisan on the facts Continued on Page 10 Column 1 Ellen Whitehead Is Crowned Miss Virginia Representative Vaughan Gary Does Honors at Mosque Chatham Beauty 17 Wins Legion Contest at Mosque Bathers Turn Out in Crash Here Fatal To Girl 13 9 Parents and Sister Of Child Are Injured A 13-year-old Richmond girl was fatally injured and her mother father and sister were injured yesterday afternoon in a two-car collision at the intersection of Seventh and Cary Streets The child Bettie Houston of 15 South Belmont Ave died at Medical College of Virginia Hospital at 6:15 four hours after the accident Her parents Gordie Russell Houston 44 and Mrs Susie Houston 31 and her sister Linda Houston 9 were taken to the same hospital Authorities said the father was suffering from shock the mother lacerations of the forehead and the sister an undetermined head injury and lacerations The condition of the child was listed as serious last night The mother and father were released from the hospital after treatment Traffic Officer Hugh Findlay said they were driving east on Cary Street when their vehicle was in collision with a car moving north on Seventh Street The force of the impact knocked the Houston automobile up on the sidewalk The policeman said the other vehicle was operated fay James Walker 33 Negro of the 600 block North Tenth Street who was not injured Walker was arrested on a charge of involuntary manslaughter after the death of the child He was booked at First Precinct Station pending a Police Court hearing Second Fatality It was the second fatality to occur at the intersection which is protected by a traffic signal light in less than a month The death was the seventh reported in Richmond this year Meanwhile the Virginia traffic toll for 1934 reached 315 yesterday with the report of three other traffic deaths Joe Wright 53 of Washington was killed instantly yesterday afternoon when the automobile in which he was riding Continued on Page 4 Column 8 Fag-Runners BELGRADE June 13 Yugoslavia has confiscated three Italian fishing boats for allegedly transporting 3000000 contraband British and American cigarettes in Yugoslav waters 50 tons of high explosives and napalm on guerrilla strongholds only a few miles east of Hanoi early today During the night two small posts one northeast and the other southeast of Hanoi beat off Vietminh attacks in short bitter battles At the same time the Communist-led guerrillas and their sympathizers moved in to delta peasants harvest the rich rice cropi A French officer here predicted bitter fights will occur when the rebels try to get the rice out to their main forces The United Press reported that French warplanes blasted the trunk highway carrying supplies from Red China down to the rebel troops concentrations in the delta area The heaviest blows were struck in the areas of Phu Tho 45 miles up the Red River from Hanoi and TUyen Quang another 28 miles to the northwest Douglas Seldon Wyatt Drowns at Urbanna Bon Air Boy And Fairfax Girl Drown Rescue Efforts Fail In Both Accidents Two youngsters one a 9-year-old Bon Air boy were drowned in separate accidents in Virginia yesterday 'The victims were Douglas Seldon Wyatt 9 son of Mr and Mrs John Henry Wyatt of Jeffers Drive Bon Air and Jo Ann Simpson 11 daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Simpson of Fairfax County A third-grade? at Bon Air School young Wyatt drowned in Urbanna Creek at Urbanna Middlesex County at about 1 He had gone to the beach with his parents a sister Patricia 7 his aunt and uncle two cousin and Jimmy Grant 9 a neighborhood friend Boy Could Not Swim The boy swim and was wading in shallow water about 30 feet off shore He was floating on his face and suddenly went under the water according to his father Ills parents and several men at the beach including Lifeguard David Richwine ran into the water in an effort at rescue The boy was found in a 10-foot hole about five minutes later by Buddy Redman about 17 of Mechanics-ville Rescuers gave artificial respiration for more than an hour but young Wyatt could not be revived He was pronounced dead of drowning by Dr A Van Name Middlesex medical examiner Dr Van Name said the life-Continucd on Page 2 Column 3 Nixon Ends Visit LOS ANGELES June UP) Vice-President Nixon concluded a two-day visit with a family reunion today in his nearby home town of Whittier and incendiary bombs Planes from Langley Field participating in the operation will go a step further they will drop bombs but these will cause no damage despite the noise The alert will be sounded between 7 and 8 When the first sirens are heard residents are to go into their homes and Continued on Page 4 Column 8 On the Inside Read: McCarthy speaking in South Dakota again denounces alleged "blood trade between Allies and the Page 15 Held Able To McCartliyism LEWISTON MAINE June 13 UP) Sherman Adams chief asistant to President Eisenhower assured a college graduating class today that the American system is sound despite the "limelight-seekers elbowing their across the scene "The weaknesses and the abuse as well as the strength that creep into it reflect the points of view and characteristics of those that he said "rather than defects inherent in the system Adams came here to speak at commencement exercises at Bates' College in a State where has become an issue in the Republican senatorial primary contest next Monday News Travels Fast Senator Margaret Chase Smith a critic of Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) and frequent supporter of President Eisenhower is seeking renomination against Robert Jones a politic cal newcomer who speaks highly of McCarthy Adams former Governor of New Hampshire made no reference in his prepared speech to the McCarthy-Army hearings in Washington but he said: "Today is an age of quick communication by word by picture and by type observer knows what happens today he forms his opinion today These modem communications provide the means of understanding great causes as well as greater discernment of superficiality and chicanery "They provide greater opportunities to detect the fallacious and portray the light of Stressing the American right to criticize Adams said: "Remember that criticism is Continued on Page 9 Column 1 Siaff rbota IV CArl In and of Hargrave Military Academy Twice she has been Harvest Queen at Chatham High the first time when she was 13 She is live feet four inches high 'And the other measurements are 34-24-35 inches She is Interested in clothes design She designed the white evening gown in which she appeared on stage before donning a brown strapless bathing suit She is not interested in marriage Not interested in marriage? "No Career She thought about that career business a moment then admitted: "I know how far I'm going to go on that" Continued on Page 10 Column 2 FJerre 3Iendes-France May Head New Cabinet 'Attack Near Hanoi Civil Defense Drill Petersburg Set By At Wagner You throw an admiring male glance without hitting a pretty girl with it on the Mosque stage yesterday afternoon But it was Chatham's Ellen Whitehead a veteran beauty queen at 17 who came away with the crown which carries with it a 10-day trip to California and a crack at the Miss Universe title Yesterday's beauty contest sponsored locally by the American Legion is one of 48 throughout the nation each of which will send a winner to the Long Beach Calif pageant July 15-25 It was strictly a beauty contest no singing no dancing no cooking The talent was all 1suaL Runner-up among the 20 contestants was blonde blue-eyed Beverly Hilton daughter of Mr and Mrs Hilton of Wood-stock Other entries in the State-wide affair represented Richmond Cumberland Danville Farmville Front Royal Madison Richlands Stuart Staunton Suffolk Urban-na and Petersburg Representative Vaughan Gary did the final honors telling Miss Whitehead "I take great pleasure in crowning you Miss and commenting (chambers of commerce take note) that the title is a "particular honor in Virginia where there are such beautiful women' Meanwhile for her part the brown-eyed Chatham High School senior wept and smiled with equal enthusiasm Later a more composed young lady remembered that "I felt I was going to faint I was shaking all For the record and with some prompting from her mother Sirs Leslie Whitehead she ticked off her past experience as a beauty queen She has been homecoming queen of Chatham High School French Supply Line Hit By Special Correspondent PETERSBURG June Synthetic bombs with accompanying fires and disruption of communications will hit Petersburg Monday night when this city participates in Operation Alert the nation-wide civil defense exercise (See picture Page 4) Elsewhere it is being assumed that 49 major cities in the United States and Canada including Norfolk will be along with two cities in Alaska and one each in Puerto Rico Hawaii and the Virgin Islands Petersburg Fire Chief Farmer and his aides have been at work for weeks preparing for the mock A-bomb attack Fire police emergency crew radio communications and other units are expected to work with precision in carrying out their assigned tasks The city is to be bombed hypothetically by high explosive HANOI June Rebel C'lerrilias ripped up 200 yards cf the Hanoi-Haiphong rail bne orIy 11 miles east of Hanni last night They used the twisted steel of the rails to barricade the paralleling road and scrawled mud warnings on the road that they intend to "kill all The 60 miles of rail and road between Hanoi and the port of Haiphong form a critical life line for this city and the besieged surrounding delta Over this life line is carried all manner of American aid being landed by ship at Haiphong Infiltrating guerrillas harass it almost daily They execute ambushes and small attacks and the opposing French Union forces spear out in mop-up campaigns as the battle for the Red River delta shapes up slowly Rehrl Strongholds Bombed French-piloted American fighters and B-26 bombers dumped YEREIX SINGERS Singing a German folk song about the old days are these members of the Gesang Verein Virginia They are (left to right) Albert Bischoff Adolf Bischoff Fritz Holzgrefe A Pennartz and Georg Bergemann (See Story Page 5).