Stockton Evening and Sunday Record from Stockton, California • 1

THE WEATHER SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY Fair with high cloudiness tonight and tomorrow. High tomorrow 80-84. Low tonight 53-56. Northwest 10-15 mph winds. TEMPERATURES Yesterday: High, 91; low, 54.

Low this morning, 54. Today, 1:30 p.m. 83; relative humidity, 32 wind, NW. 7. RAINFALL 24-hour period ending at 6 a.m.

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The Record brings you the news and pictures of the world through the media of 'lie three great wire services, the Associated Press. United Press. International News Service snd Associated Press Wlrephoto. 0 CTO Stockton It California Only Deepwater Inland Seaport Central California 't Outstanding Newspaper Since 1895 Sixty -First Year XO Single Copy 10c STOCKTON, SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1955 Forty-Eight Pages No. 90 Body of Missing Girl Found; Abbott Charged With Murder Plans SI ,300,000 Addition Construction Work Slated to Start in About a Month A $1.300,000 addition to the President Asks Russ to Trade Base Plans Soviets Silent on Bold Challenge of U.S.

to Neutralize Fear of Weapons GENEVA, July 21 (AP) President Eisenhower proposed today that Russia and the United States exchange complete blueprints of each others military establishments and provide for mutual aerial inspection of such facilities. His proposal was hailed by Premier Faure of France and Prime a INDIA SEEKING SAIGON RIOT INVESTIGATION NEW DELHI. India, July 21 (UP) India officially asked British Prime Minister Anthony Eden Russian Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov today to investigate yesterdays rioting that rocked Saigon, Indochina. The rioting broke out in the capital of Free Viet Nam on the addition has been used to store anniversary of the 1954 Geneva equipment and as a parking area conference which ended the Indo-: for company vehicles, Smith said, china war and split that country The new building will be joined construction in about a month.

Harold Smith, Stockton district manager, said today that the work includes addition of a 4th story on the present building and struction of a 4-story and base- ment annex at the rear of the main offices. Smith said new equipment totaling $600,000 will he installed in the new buildings. Building cost is estimated at $733,000. The new building, measuring 77x68 feet, will be built of prefabricated steel, with glazed marble facing. The 4th story of the present structure will conform with the design of the building.

The property for the building Minister Eden of Britain but Pre-e -mier Bulganin of Russia was si- leht. The President did not say specif-: Ically whether his proposal in- eluded atomic installations, but he did not rule them out. The presi- riential press secretary James C. Hagcrty, said details would be worked out. The Presidents dramatic move was made at the 'fifth session of the summit conference.

IJe said Russia and the United States by this step would convince the world that we are providing between ourselves against the possibility of a surprise at-taek. This, he said would lessen danger and help relax world tension. LARGER AIDIENCE Premier Faure remarked he wished all the peoples of the world could have been in the chamber to hear Eisenhower. If that were possible. Faure added, maybe they would realize that on July 21, 1955 today something changed in the world and the first victory over skepticism was scored at the conference.

and in SUSPECT FINGERPRINTED fingerprinted by Officer Lloyd suspicion of murder after the identified as that of Stephanie cabin used by Abbott. two. Mobs rioted in the streets, sacked and burned two hotels equipment, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors for long-distance mechanism, toll boards and operating housing members of the Interna' tional Armistice Commission and ADAMS REFUSES TO TESTIFY ON DIXON-YATES WASHINGTON. July 21 (AP) Presidential assistant Sherman Adams refused today to testify in a Senate subcommittee study of the Dixon-Yates controversy. In a letter to Chairman Kefau-ver Adams said there is nothing that I could add to the testimony of Chairman J.

Sinclair Armstrong of the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding postponement last month of SEC hearings on financing of the power project. About the same time the letter was made public Sen. Anderson told the Senate that a deliberate cover-up of facts about the Dixon-Yates contract had been dictated by the Bureau of the Budget. Anderson, chairman of the Senate-House Atomic Energy Com-j mittee. said a letter received today from the Atomic Energy Commis-; sion proved that names of two key i officials had been deleted from a i list supplied Congress and the pub-' lie.

The Senator named the men as Adolphe H. Wenzell, unpaid consultant to the Budget Bureau and at the same time an official of the First Boston Corp. which later handled Dixon-Yates financing, and Paul Miller, vice president of First Boston. Sen. Gore (D-Tenn.) cut into his speech with a statement that the names were dropped because they would have "tipped off the part First Boston was playing in the plans to channel private power into the Tennessee Valley Authority grid.

Democrats, particularly from the Tennessee Valley, have protested the now-cancelled plan as a move to cut down TVA, backed by private power interests. Major League'Scores National League Milwaukee .010 103 000 5 8 1 Pittsburgh .003 000 000 3 5 0 Spahn and Crandall; Donoso, Friend and Shepard. St. Louis ..131 000 OOO 5 8 0 New York ..102 110 02x 6 9 1 Arroyo. Lawrence.

Jackson and Sarni: Maglie, Liddle and West- Talbott today demanded a public HnorTmh i i Senate airing of his business af- icago .000 000 001 1 5 1 Burton V. Abbott, 27, (left) is Westmoreland after his arrest on body of a young girl tentatively Bryan, 14, had teen found near a Air Chief Seeks Income Probe WASHINGTON, July 21 (INS) Air Force Secretary Harold E. airing Eden called Eisenhowers pro-j posals far-reaching and added that spokesman charged the demon-he had been deeply moved by the strations were deliberately organ-President's sincerity about world jzed. peace. I Under the truce terms, yester- This development came as the day was the day talks were to India's official foreign office Pacific Telephone and Telegraph riA IMfllM AftlAA Cnn TdMMII IM Co.s main office at San Joaquin i and Lindsay streets will be under con-; i to the present structure, with the 1st floor used for expansion of dial rooms.

The addition will contain an i elevator running from the basement to the top floor. All floors will open directly into the present structure. Smith said. Smith said the name of the con-tractor will be announced shortly after some changes are made in the building plans and contractors are actually signed. Station KOVR-TV Loses Move Plea The Communications Commission today rejected a proposal by Television Diablo, operating TV station KOVR on channel 13 at Stockton, that it be permitted to establish studios in San Francisco and identify itself as San Fran- cisco outlet, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Washington.

The plan would involve shifting channeL'i's from Vtockton to" Ssin Francisco in the assignment table KOVR had proposed to keep its present transmitter site on Mt. Diablo, 35 miles from Stockton and 25 miles from San Francisco, I which is well within the stations service area. In San Francisco today. Tony Lee, vice-president of Television Diablo said: The ruling means that we will not be able to put our main studio in San Francisco as planned. However, we plan to establish an auxiliary studio in San Francisco and continue to maintain our main Bloodhounds Lead Searchers to Grave Near Mountain Cabin of Suspect's Kin BERKELEY, July 21 (UP) Burton W.

Abbott. 27, frail accounting was charged with murder today following discovery in a shallow grave near his family cabin of a body police are convinced is that of Stephanie Bryan, 14, missing for three months. Despite Abbott's persistent denials of guilt, the charge of suspicion of murder filed in lamcda County last night was changed to a straight charge of murder at Berkeley. District Attorney Frank Coak-ley of Alameda and Lt. R.

A. Sherry, at the scene where the body was found, announced positive identification after the full body was uncovered so they could gauge its length and see the color of the victims hair. We are convinced the body is that of Stephanie, Coakley said. AUTOrSY SET The body was removed to Redding at the request of George S. Loqvam, Alameda County pathologist, who will perform an autopsy there this afternoon.

Meanwhile, a new witness came forward in Santa Rosa, to claim that he had seen a man and a young girl at the Abbott family cabin in Trinity County un April 28, the last day the Berkeley schoolgirl was alive. The new witness is Hany Mason, 32. a former truck driver for the Wildwood Lumber Mill, located about three miles beyond the cabin. Mason told Sheriff Harry L. Patterson that he had been prospecting or fishing on April 28 when he passed the cabin and saw a girl wearing a white blouse and a dark skirt standing with a man in th? doorway of the cabin.

She looked like a little girl. Mason said. The man waved to me as I passed. ADMITTED VISIT Abbott, who has undergone more than three days of persistent questioning, including a lie-detector test, told authorities he had isited the cabin on the day of Stephanie's disappearance, but claims he never saw the girl. Mason was rushed by patrol car from Santa Rosa to Berkeley.

Authorities here debated on whether to take Abbott to the shallow grave on a steep hillside about 250 yards from the cabin. Because Abbott, a victim of arrested tuberculosis, is so frail they speculated on whether it was possible for him to carry a body up the hill. Homicide Inspector Charles OMeara said Abbott's brother Mark, 29, would be questioned. Abbott, who has had seven ribs and one lung removed by operations, expressed astonishment last night when he was arrested and told that the body of the missing girl had been found. I don't know anything about it! he said.

I dont know how the body got there! Abbott, 27, was taken into custody at his home in Alameda last night shortly after the badly decomposed body of Stephanie Bryan. 14, was found 200 yards from a summer cabin owned by Abbotts brother-in-law. The cabin is two miles from Wildwood. Trinity County, in far Northern California. Abbott previously had told police that he had driven to this cabin alone on April 28.

That was the day that Stephanie disappeared while walking home from school. BOOKED FOR INVESTIGATION Abbott submitted to questioning from 10:30 p.m. yesterday until 3:15 a.m. today, after which he NAVY PLANNING A-ENGINES FOR SURFACE SHIPS GROTON, July 21 (INS) Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas said today construction will begin soon on a model atomic engine suitable for carriers and other large surface ships.

a s' announcement was made as the world's second atomic submarine, the Seawolfe, was launched at the General Dynamic Corp. Electric Boat Company division yards at Groton. Mrs. W. Sterling Cole, wife of New Yorks Republican congressman who formerly headed the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, christened the craft before it slid down the ways.

The a 1 will join the world's first A-sub, the Nautilus, after being fitted out and equipped with her A-engine now being readied by the General Electric plant at West Milton, N.Y., and tested. A-SIIIPS ADVANCED The Navy Secretary noted in his speech, prepared for delivery at the ceremonies, that development of nuclear propulsion for larger naval ships is well advanced. He added that the -Atomic Energy Commission will soon start construction of a land-based prototype at its national reactor testing station in Idaho. This suggested that the large ship reactor will be ready for use in about 2 years the average time for building atomic devices Once engineering problems have teen solved. It may still, however, take a while before an atomic-powered ship is actually sailing the seas.

Thomas also announced the Navys plans for making greater use of atomic energy. He said: Throughout our fleets, accent is being given to rapid adoption of nuclear power a stable of atomic weapons, air to air. air to ground and surface to surface, is being, fully assimilated." ATOMIC FLEET He pictured a huge fleet of atomic submarines carrying guided missiles and radar to defend the U.S. and said these will be followed by fleets of nuclear-powered seaplanes. Thomas said the Navy will soon have eight nuclear subs either under construction or in operation and in rapid succession thereafter, many others.

The Seawolf will take its place the U.S.S. tests atomic weapon and unknown. ORDEAL BELIEVED OVER Dr. and Mrs. Charles Bryan Jr.

in their Berkeley home after receiving word that the body of a young girl found in a shallow grave has teen tentatively identified as their daughter Stephanie, 14, missing since last April 28. (AP Wlrephoto) aKm souuuu year ir private business affairs while in the Pentagon post The secretary sent his request for a public hearing to Chairman fairs "as soon as possible. Talbott made- the request following reports that he had told Senate investigators he has averaged about $60,000 a year from relations with Paul B. Mulligan and management engineers in xew York have asked Sen Mc- ciellan to grant, a public hear- ing as soon as possible so that the public may have a complete under- standing and the accurate in- the converter. Big Four conference turned to the issue of disarmament and postponed until tomorrow consideration on a foreign ministers report on plans for further study of the questions of German unification and European security.

The foreign ministers were reported in substantial agreement on arrangements to continue the talks on Germany and security some time after the summit talks. One reliable source said the foreign ministers would meet in October. In discussing disarmament, one of the major topics on the conference agenda, the President said he would like to address his remarks particularly to the Soviet delegation. He added he wanted to do that because both the United States and Russia have new and terrible weapons in such quantities as to make horrible destruction possible. IMMEDIATE ACTION Then Eisenhower proposed two practical steps which he urged be faken immediately.

The first was that the United States nr-) Russia give each other complete blueprints of their respective military establishments. As for providing such blueprints, the President told his Big Four colleagues he was speaking of mili- Continued on Page 4, Col. 3) Ike Convinced of Peace Intent WASHINGTON, July 21 (INS) President Eisenhower informed congressional leaders today he is convinced the Russians want the Geneva conference to show progress toward peace or possible concrete results. His personal observations were contained in a summary of developments at the Big Four conference, relayed to legislative leaders through the State Department and by Vice-President Richard M. Nixon.

IKK PLEASED Congressional sources said Eisenhower's views confirmed what has been stated at Geneva by United States spokesmen that Ihe President is pleased with the Soviet "new look of friendliness, as well as with the allied unity displayed at the conference. Leaders on Capitol Ilill believe privately that, if there is no dramatic Soviet concession at the summit meeting, the main benefit from the conference will be the Brooklyn ..000 100 03x 4 5 0 Davis, Jeff coat and Chiti; Bes-sent and Campanella. American League Washington 000000 120 0 3 9 0 Cleveland 000 000 0031 4 12 0 Schmitz, Stone, Abernathy and Courtney; Houtteman, Mossi, Nar-leski and Foiles. NEW YORK, July 21 (UP) Two masked gunmen held up a studio in Stockton. It will have no I moving New York Central mail affect on our Stockton operations.

train last night in a mid-Manhat- The outlet said that version of The Great Train inanceof studios both at Stockton i Robbery but missed the big money iani San Francisco, with full and made off only with identification with the latter city 8 bags of canceled checks. The brazen young bandits parsed talent and income standpoint. 8 more bags containing $2,00 In- rejecting the plan, opposed jjn coin, police said, apparently by some San Francisco stations because thev reasoned the lighter and applicants for TV facilities bags must be full of bills, there, the commission said that! The youths, described as in their the? Bay Area now has 10 TV 1 20's, confronted a railway express channels assigned to it and that messenger. Thomas Mason, 60, of KOVR did not advance sufficient I Buffalo. N.Y., with drawn pistols grounds for removing Stocktons near Fortv-second Street, shortly manhandled some of the truce observers.

have begun between Communist North Viet Nam and free South Viet Nam on the question of free elections to unify the whole country. South Viet Nam Premier Ngo Dinh Diem balked at starting the talks on the ground that the Communists are not observing other provisions of the truce. He further contends he is not bound by the truce terms because South Viet Nam was not a signatory of the ceasefire agreement. TERLE MESTAS STORY SINGAPORE, iJuly 21 (INS) Mrs. Pcrle Mesta, referring to the experience as like a bad dream' said today that 2 friendly Saigon youths probably saved her life in yesterdays Vietnam riots by act-; ing as her self-appointed bodyguards.

The noted American Washington hostess and former United States minister to Luxembourg was sprayed with tear gas and heard shots whistling around her as she fled safely from the Hotel Majestic in Saigon early Wednesday. The anti-Communist rioting injured at least 60 persons. Recounting the experience today, the doughty 64-year-old American and close friend of former President Harry Truman, relived birefly the terror-filled moments which saw her hotel ran- mobs She related by th mobs. She related. I was terrified.

It was a msht- (Continued on Page 4, Col. 2) Todays Record City News Briefs Comics Coast to Coast Crossword Puzzle Finance and Markets. Gardening News Jacoby on Bridge 23 Law in Action 8 Patterns 42 Questions and Anstvers. 23 Radio, TV 32 Society 25, 26 Sports 37, 38, 39 Vital Statistics 42 Yeather Statistics 42 VERMONT GIRL IS Miss Universe contest. The tall, blonde beauty gasped with excitement last night when 9 judges chose her Miss United States from among 4' other finalists who had been selected from 15 semifinalists Tuesday night.

She represents the United States in the 4th annual battle for the title of Most Beautiful Girl in the World. If Miss Johnson survives the semifinals tonight, she will get a chance for the big glory in the final contest Friday night. With the Miss UJS.A. title, Car-Icne won a $200 per week contract at Universal-International studio, a pearl necklaCe, a sterling silver compact and a gold trophy. Tm very happy.

I hope Ill be a credit to the United States in the international competition, she said with a smile. a i 10-Degree Lower Temperature Due Tomorrows high temperature will be several degrees lower than todays, according to a report, hy the U.S. Weather Bureau in Sacramento. The forecast is for a high reading. of from 80 to 84 degrees, com' yesterday, high of 91 in the flpet alongside Nautilus following extensive late this year.

Thomas described the sub as a completely new with a submerged endurance versatility heretofore Man Plans Funeral, MAIL TRAIN IS HELD UP; CASH MISSED after the 11-car tram pulled out of the West Thirty-third Street sta- tjon bound for Albany. They wore white handkerchief masks, Mason said. If you open your mouth, well kill you, Mason quoted them. They asked where the money was and I told them, Its in those bags over there. Mason said he was alone in the next to the last car when the two youths confronted him.

At first. I thought they were fooling with me that they were just a couple of wise kids, he said. I wasnt frightened until I saw the gun. The gunmen handcuffed Masons hands behind him back with his own handcuffs, jammed his cap into his mouth to keen him from crying out and tied his feet with rone. One of the men emptied the hullets from Mason's gun as an added precaution, he said.

Then they jumped off the slowly moving train with the mail sacks. Mason began kicking on the side of the car as soon as the men left. A fellow trainman heard the noise and pulled the emergency cord, stopping the train. New Executives' Plane Announced HAGERSTOWN. July 21 (AP) Fairchild Aircraft Division has announced plans to build a light jet plane suitable as an executive transport for industrial companies.

The company said the 4-jet plane would carry a crew of 2 plus 7 passengers, and would cruise at 560 miles per hour. that partner. LONG BEACII. July 21 (UP) Statuesque Carlene King Johnson. a 22-year-old jewelry design-new personal contact between the or, will compete as Miss United Big Four chiefs.

I States tonight against 32 foreign Coupled with this is the im- beauties in the semifinals of the channel. The commission held that Stockton should not be de- pnved of ltR onl-V VHF station. Brucker Takes Oath as Army Secretary WASHINGTON. July 21 (UP) Wilber M. Brucker became Army secretary today in an elaborate oath-taking ceremony at the Pentagon.

The blue-eyed Vermonter is 5- feet. 8-inches tall weighs 122 pounds. Her measurements are 35-24-35. She confided she is a typical Vermont Republican. She said she thinks there is no ideal age for marriage.

She said MISS U.S.A. she has no boy friends. When a girl is ready and mature enough she'll marry, Miss Johnson said. Its different in different sections of the country." When asked about her prospects in the Miss Universe contest, she replied, I just dont know what to think about it. Miss Arkansas, Margaret Anne Haywood, said she was happy she won 2nd place in the Miss United States contest because she now can enter the Miss World contest in London in September.

Donna Streever, 21, of Grand Island, was 3rd. She is a married school teacher. The 4th place winner. Miss California. Donna Schurr of Garden Grove, said.

I didn't expect to get this far I'm (Continued on Page 4. Col. 4) Wife of Suspect May Get Reward BERKELEY, July 21 (UP) Mrs. Georgia Abbott, 32-year-old wife of the man held in the death of Stephanie Bryan, may he eligible for the $2,500 reward posted by Stephanie's parents. The reward, posted two weeks WILLIAMS BAY, July 21 signs have been made for a tele- The converter.

whieh looks after Stephanie disappeared April 5 28. was for information leading to hpr discovery. It was posted by her father. Dr. Charles Bryan.

Mrs. Abbott found Stephanies handbag in the basement of the Abbott home in Alameda last Friday night while looking for a costume to wear at an amateur theatrical. On Saturday, police dug up hooks, eyeglasses and other articles belonging to Stephanie in Scientists have been working the basement, on the converter for some time Police agreed that it was the hut up to now moisture has ruined i discovery of the purse that led them to the investigation that subsequently resulted in the finding of Stephanie's body in Trinity County last night. However, it appeared doubtful that Mrs. Abbott would riaim tne reward.

Her attorney, Stanley D. Yerkes Observatory, and graduate Whitney, said she was too student Jay Burns III developed stunned to even think of such a formation about this Copies of letters and memoranda in committee files indicate Talbott, sometimes using Air Force stationery, carried on a correspondence on behalf of the New York firm, in which he is a The company, which specializes (Continued on Page 4. CoL 3) SCIENCE MAY TURN BACK CLOCK (UP) Prospects of seeing to the beginning of time were a possibility today with the development a telescope attachment which would make the Palomar telescope 10 times more powerful. The device, called an image converter and refined to a work- stage of development by Dr. A.

Hiltner, is being adapted mounting on the Yerkes tele scope here. Hiltner said the converter would make the Yerkes instrument equivalent to twice the size the 200-inch telescope at Mount Palomar. Calif. He said first tests would be made in 3 or 4 months and the converter might be in regular use Winner wan a piece or pa. a year.

It already has passed is an aluminum foil 400 billionths laboratory tests, he said. Hiltners budget for 15 image garewith Des 2 Hours The reason for the cooling-off, the bureau said, is a weak storm front recently formed in the eastern Gulf of Alaska which has brought an increased supply of moist air to the Sierra. The low temperature today was 54 degrees, and at 1:30 p. m. it was 85 degrees, 1 higher than at that time yesterday.

scope 2Yt times as large as Palo-1 converter will subsequently be refined of an inch thick which serves as a vapor harrier in front of film TO YEAR 1 something like a 20-inch fluores' of able W. used to photograph the stars. portance of the President being in position personally to convince the Russians that the United States has no aggressive designs on the Soviet Union. SOVIET FEAR As this is explained by Washington sources, the big hurdle in United States-Soviet relations is the Russian fear" of Western military strength. American leaders believe this fear is real, and that a start in dispelling it must he made hefore there can he tangible results in easing tensions and reaching formal agreements.

A break in the wall of misunderstanding. sources stated, may make it possihel for both the President and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to deal with the Soviets more realistically in futura meetings. for of in converters is $2,725, whereas de- I thing." 0 I a 0 it.