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DECATUR Witness Says Congressman Former State Department C.ind for False Eisenhower Arrives In Bermuda to Start Big 3 Conferences Statements on Red Affiliations Stowaway's Trip Home Fails Val Lorwin Was Named By McCarthy Washington, Dec 4 (AP) Val Lorwin, a former State -IT If i Donald C. Karr taken off the plane for return to his station in England. Karr told officials he was trying to reach the bedside of his ailing mother in New York. In Decatur today, the airman's Egyptians Shell U.S. Ship on Mercy Voyage ness as they obtained marriage license at New York's marriage license bureau yesterday.

Berle's Bride-to-Be Balks at Paying Share Of Marriage License New York, Dec. 4 (AP) Television comedian Milton Berle, 45, and publicist Ruth Cosgrove, 32, took out a marriage license Thursday and plan to be married next Wednesday. It will be the third matrimonial venture for both. Starting to pay the $3 license fee, Berle produced $2 and turned to his fiancee. "Ruth, give me a dollar," he said.

"This is forever, so pay your share." Miss Cosgrove just smiled. Berle ponied up the third dollar. As the couple left, City Clerk Murray Stand called out: "See you again." Berle turned arid seriously replied: "Oh, no, this is the last time. I won't be here anv more." San Francisco, Dec. 4 (AP) A House Un-American Activities Committee witness testified Thurs day he saw Rep.

Robert L. Condon (D-CaM) at a closed Lommunist meeting in 1948. Condon, who was barred for se curity reasons from witnessing a Nevada atomic test last May, denied that he ever was a Communist. Charles David Blodgett, an ad mitted ex-Communist, told the committee here he saw Condon at a "closed emergency meeting of Com munist party members" at Oakland, in March or April 1948. The witness testified he did not know whether Condon was a party member, but he had never seen a non- Communist at such a meeting; Condon at the time was a candi date for the Legislature.

He won, and last year was elected to Con gress. Condon said he had thought the Oakland meeting was a trade union atiair which he and other Democrats attended in- behalf of party candi dates. From New Orleans, where he is participating in hearings of a House committee, Condon told a San Francisco Chronicle reporter on the tele phone: "I am not and never have been or ever will be a member ot the Communist party." Condon, invited to appear before the Un-American Activities Committee in rebuttal at any time, asserted "this is a Republican committee touring the country to smear Democrats." Condon said on the House floor last July his exclusion from the Atomic Energy Commission not fairly evaluate the information concerning me. He charged the ban stemmed from a "rehash of stale political charges" by his Republican opponents, and hearsay. Blodgett, an intense, soft-speaking Chicago salesman of 32, testi fied he saw Condon at a meeting of the Communists' political affairs committees for Alameda and Contra Costa counties.

He said the meeting was called to decide whether the Reds would back a primary candidate against Rep. P. George Miller (D-Calif) to force Miller to take a campaign stand closer to the left. bix hundred waterfront workers massed outside the hearing room response to a stop work call by Harry Bridges' International Long-shoremens and Warehousemen's Union, which is protesting identification by committee witnesses of several Bridges aides as Communists. The committee cleared out spectatorsincluding many of the longshoremen when applause burst from the rear a defiant witness.

He was Robert Treuhaft, labelled by Blodgett as a Communist and onetime law partner of Condon, and a ILWU counsel. Treuhaft refused to testify, and harangued the committee. GENEVA MAN KILLED ON WAY TO FLORIDA Aberdeen, Dec. 4 (AP) An Illinois man was killed and two other persons were injured in an auto collision near here Thursday night. Killed was Burt Gallup, 70, of Geneva, 111.

Injured were Mrs. Gallup, 69, and Wilbur Schenk, 70, of Syca more, ill. the three were-en route to Florida. After 500 Hope Root ize the pressure. Then, he went down like a shot to 400 feet.

"That was all according to sched French Okay On Army Plan First Obje ctive Tucker's Town, Bermuda, Dec. 4 (AP) President Eisenhower arrived in Bermuda today for the start of history-making Big Three confer ence with Prime Minister Churchill and French Premier Laniel. The presidential plane Columbine landed at American-leased Kindley Field at 10:12 (CST). a. ra.

VVaiting to greet Eisenhower as he stepped from the plane were Churchill and Laniel, together with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault. A crowd of about 2,000 was on hand to welcome Eisenhower. Also present was a colorful honor guard. In the presidential partv were Secretary of State Dulles and Lewis Strauss, chairman of the u. Atomic Energy Commission.

Strauss was added to the party at the last minute this morning. The flight from Washington tool 3 hours 10 minutes. The President's left hand was wrapped in bandages but the cause was not immediately known. U. S.

destroyers dotted the sea along the route of the Presidential plane. Dulles, Eden and Bidault were scheduled to meet at 3 p. m. to get the formal talks underway, with their chiefs gathering around the table immediately afterward. Churchill earlier had been believed eager to press his pet scheme for a quick meeting with Russian Premier Georgi Malenkov.

By today, however, it seemed obvious that the American desire to give priority to pressuring the French for ratification of the European army treaty now dominates. Laniel, who arrived Thursday let it be known through aides that he is just as eager as Eisenhower to tackle this problem in the hope of gaining from Britain and the United States assurances of protection from the rearmed German units which the projected international army would include. and Eden had a hush- hush two-hour meeting Thursday night during which, it was reliably reported, they discussed a new joint approach to Italy and Yugoslavia on the question of disputed Trieste. The French also let it be known they intend to tell Eisenhower and Churchill that Britain and the United States must approve the French economic union with the Saar Basin. The French say they will not ratify the EDC Pact with out prior agreement on the aaar.

This coal-steel area, now autonomous but closely tied economically to, France, is also claimed by V-r many. JEWELER AVERTS THEFT AND POSSIBLE KIDNAPING Canton, Dec 4 (AP) A iewelrv store owner escaped an attempted robbery and possible kidnaping Thursday night. John Reichert, 50, owner of Reichert. Jewelry told police a man accosted him on his front porch when he returned from visiting his wife at Graham Hospital. He said he fled to the home of a nearby friend when the would-be jobber told him "to stick 'em up." Police said sections of clothesline found on Reichert's porch led them to believe the man intended to kidnap Reichert to force him to open his nearby jewelry store.

MISSING CHILD FOUND DEAD FROM EXPOSURE Marianna, Dec. 4 (AP) I The body of 23-months-old Barbara Sue Jones, who apparently wandered away from home the. day before Thanksgiving, was found this rooming by her father. Jimmy Jones and two other men found the child's body, in a heavily-wooded section about three miles from her rural A relative. Jack Stanley, said he thought Barbara Sue died from Decatur Airman Hides With Airliner's Cares A Decatur airman, Donald C.

Karr, 20, attempted to return to the United States aboard a commercial airliner today but his venture failed in mid-Atlantic. Karr, who lived at 2175 N. Lead er Ave. before entering service last reb. 26, hid himself in the cargo compartment ot a ran American Stratocruiser bound from London to New York.

He was discovered shortly after the plane took off from London Air port. When the plane landed at shan non, Ireland, Irish immigration offi cials refused to permit the young air man to stop over, ran American officials then gave him a vacant seat which costs $395 that Karr did not have to complete the journey to the U.S. His attempt seemed assured -of success until about midway over the Atlantic when an engine of the plane failed and the Stratocruiser turned back to Ireland. This time Irish officials permitted his being Buffalo Man Fair Manager Springfield, Dec. 4 (AP) Strother G.

Jones, a well-to-do Buffalo farmer, is the new manager of the Illinois State Fair, trouble spot for the Stratton administration. The appointment was announced Thursday on the heels of an audi tors report placing the 1953 fair "operating deficit" at $1,055,425, up $450,000 over the deficit. Jones. 61, replaces James E. Tays of Fisher, who resigned four days ago and gave fnction over fair management as the reason.

Gov. Stratton said Tays' departure was prompted by "administrative difficulties and bickering between the people at the fair grounds." He said management ofj the fair suffered as a result. Jones, well known in agriculture circles, is a member of the board of directors of the International Livestock He has served as a livestock judge at various fairs. Jones said he would follow "sound business -procedures" in running the fair. Asked about the 1953 fair deficit, Stratton said it was "not a deficit at all" becausse the fair stayed within is appropriation.

But the governor then said that as long as the fair is put on primarily as an agricultural event "you've got to figure to subsidize it." Figures for recent years showed the fair has operated at a deficit every time, running over the million dollar mark in 1949 and 1950. GRUNEWALD RELEASED Washington, Dec. 4 (AP) Henry W. (The Dutchman) Grunewald was released from the District of Columbia Jail today after serving a term for contempt of Con-gress. Ft.

Descent ule, but after leveling off at 400 feet, Jie dropped to 450. We had a cable over with painted tags at various depths. Root expected to bring back the tag from the 410-foot level, which would have 1 given him a world's record dive. "Our deepest tag was at 450 feet and I thought perhaps he was going for that one. But something happened.

He went down' again, this time to 500 feet. "He was tracked by sonar equipment on a University of Miami research boat to these various depths. The water there was about 620 feet deep. That was the end. He wasn't seen again." Root, 5 feet 5 and weighing 170 pounds, said he had been as deep as 370 feet in.

unofficial dives. The official record held by a living man is 306 feet' set in the Mediterranean Sea. A Frenchman descended to 396 feet but was hauled up dead. Root was bom in Alton, 111., and was graduated from Harvard Law School in 1928. mother, Mrs.

Esta Karr, 2175 N. Leader refused comment. Later she was reported by relatives as unavailable because "she has gone to work." U. S. Air Force Headquarters outside London reported that Kan arrived in England only last week.

He was on his first overnight pass from the U. S. Air Base at West Drayton, England. The Air Force said he began his pass Thursday one day after arrival at the base and was to report back at the base at 8:30 a. m.

today. Since he was in the airport ad ministration building at Shannon, Ireland, at that time he was automatically AWOL. However, Air Force spokesmen said he would re ceive "only token punishment" if he returned to the base immediately. A Pan American spokesman said, "It seems to be a special case and, as he is a GI and it's nearly Christmas well, we don't know what will happen. "The $395 fare? I don't suppose we shall see that now.

It just one ot those things. heed an order to halt for inspection. Ihe American embassy here had reported the incident earlier. The Gulf of Aqaba is east of Egypt'sSinai Peninsula. The Albion is scheduled to un load at the Jordan port of Aqaba at the head of the gulf Saturday.

It appeared likely that the Egyptian gunners had believed the ship was destined for Elath, an Israeli port also at the head of the gulf to which considerable traffic is routed to circumvent Arab Egypt's ban on Israel-b shipping passing through the Suez Canal. The Albion reported she. had pulled out of the firing area but was making another attempt today to reach Aqaba. the embassy said it had urgent representations" to the Egyptian government and that President Mohammed Naguib regime had given "assurances that action would be taken to facilitiate the ship's pass age through Aqaba Gult. The Egyptians also promised an immediate investigation into the re ported New York, Drytrans, owners of the ship," said they had been informed by the State Department that -there were no casualties and no damage to the ship as a re sult ot the incident.

Colder, Rain Decatur and vi- jm ciniry: vjouay and colder to night. Saturday partly cloudy KMX f0llWedo UT rain Saturday tCW night. Low to- VCfj night 28. High Saturday 35. Low Saturday night 34.

FIVE-DAY FORECAST Temperatures will average 2 to 5 degrees above normal. Normal maximum 38 north and 48 south. Normal minimum 23 north to 30 south. Colder Saturday. Minor changes thereafter.

Precipitation in rain or snow Saturday and Sunday and again about Tuesday averaging about an inch. DECATUR WEATHER Compiled by The Review High Thurs. 58 7 a.m. Fri. 39 7 p.m.

Thurs. 56 Noon Fri. 39 Low Fri. 39 Precip. .11 Relative humidity Fri.

noon, 69. Wind at WSOY last night and today: 7 p.m. 7 a.m. noon 35 w-sw noon 29.70 Velocity 15 23 Gusts 13 28 Direction se 7 p.m. 12 m.

7 a.m. Bar. 29.60 29.50 29.50 Sun rose 6:59, sets 4:33 p. m. Degree days 16; since Sept.

same period year ago, 1258; 25 year average for same period 1144.0. Noon lake level at dam 4.05 ft. below; 4.19 ft. Department official, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges that he falsely denied Communist party membership during a loyalty hearing in December 1950. The indictment, returned under the false statements statute, accused Lorwin of falsely stating under oath at the loyalty hearing that: 1.

He never was a Communist party member. 2. He never carried a Communist party card. 3. He never held a Communist party meeting in his home.

Lorwin was one-time chief of the European section, division of international labor, social and health affairs in the State Department. Lorwin, 46, and no longer with the government, is a native of New York City. The Justice Department said it was unable to supply his present address. Lorwin was indicted under a statute which punishes the making of a false statement to a government representative. The offense is punishable by $10,000 fine or five years imprisonment.

The former State Department official is a graduate of Cornell University and Ohio State University, and once served as tutor in history at Brooklyn College. He entered government service in 1935 as an economist with the old National Recovery Administration, and became a labor standards analyst in 1939. Later, he was with the War Production Board. He entered the Army in 1943 and served as a lieutenant overseas. He was connected with the Office of Strategic Services in 1944-45 and transferred to the State Department Oct.

1, 1945. The indictment charges that Lorwin made false statements to a State Department loyalty board. All gov ernment departments set up such boards for a general check on the loyalty of employes under an order from President Truman. A State Department spokesman declined to say when asked by re porters what finding the department board had made as to Lorwin. Under Truman's order, there was a high degree of secrecy about such heanngs.

The spokesman said Lorwin re signed from the department June 17, 1952, but that he could not say whether the resignation was volun- ary or requested. He said Lorwin was suspended Feb. 5, 1951 but was returned to his State Department duties in April 1952, only to resign two months later. Lorwin's employment by the State Department began Oct. 1, 1945 when the wartime Office of Strategic Services was absorbed by the department.

He was listed as a research analyst. Less than a year later, on Aug. 11, 1946, he was made chief of the division of international labor, social and health af fairs. But two years later he was listed on the department roster only as a "labor economist" in the office of the department's labor The office of Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) said Lorwin was "case No.

54" among 81 individual cases the senator cited to the Senate in a speech Feb. 20, 1950, on his charges of Communist infiltration of the State Department. In the speech, McCarthy named few actual names, and the congressional record of that date shows his "case No. mentioned only "this individual." McCarthy told the Senate then "this individual has' been connected with a number of Communist front organizations and was active in attempting to secure the issuance of a non-immigration visa to a French Communist leader. This individual is presently employed in the State Department." Enjineering Problem Switzerland, Dec.

4 (AP) Engineer Charles Scarenwewer was taken to a hospital this morning after accidentally swallowing his toothbrush. BERLE TO MARRY Television comedian Milton Berle and his fiancee, publicist, Ruth Cosgrove, show their happi- Senate Group To Seek More Data on Spies Washington, Dec. 4 (AP) Senate investigators left the way open today for inviting some Tru man admin' stration Cabinet mem bers to explain what they did about FBI reports on spy suspects in gov ernment. But first the Senate internal se curity subcommittee went ahead with efforts to accumulate more evi dence about the dates these FBI reports were compiled and distributed among top officials of the Truman administration. Robert Morris, subcommittee counsel, told newsmen the Justice Department has been asked to sup ply such information about five former federal employes Alger Hiss, Irving Kaplan, Harry Magdoff, Ed ward J.

Fitzgerald and Maurice Mai penn. They are among nine former em ployes whose cases are receiving spe- cial scrutiny. Chairman jenner (R-Ind) said there is evidence the nine kept their jobs and some in stances were promoted despite de rogatory security information. The four others are Harry Dexter White and three, subordinates when he was assistant secretary of the Treasurv: Harold Glasser, Victor Perlo and V. t-ranlc Coe.

Tenner, meanwhile, was making plans for-or had already arranged a secret interview witn igor vjou-zenko, the onetime code clerk at the Russian embassy in Ottawa who exposed a Soviet spy ring in Canada in 1945. Jenner group has agreed to Canada's stipulation that Canada de cide what part, it any, ot the interview can be made public. The State Department announced Thursday nioht that Jenner and Morris would renresent the U. S. government at the interview, adding that to protect Gouzenko there would be no public word of when, where and how-the meeting is held.

PAPER STRIKE SPREADS StertolYPers Forte Suspension of Lone Island Star-Journal New York, Dec. 4 (AP) The Long Island Star-Journal halted-- publication today when its stereotypers refused, to handle news and comics of struck newspapers in Manhattan which were to be printed in the form of-paid advertisements. No material from the advertisers of the struck papers were involved- Stephen Rogers, editor of the Queens afternoon paper, said in statement the stereotypers, who make casts for the advertisements, refused to. handle the ads contending it was struck work. The Star-Journal thus became the eighth paper in the metropolitan area to give up publication because of a strike of photo-engravers against six Manhattan papers.

Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 4 (AP) An American freighter carrying 9,600 tons of gift wheat for Arab refugees from Palestine was tired on in the Gulf of Aqaba Thursday. Her owners in New. York said there' was no damage or casualties. An Egyptian official here said an Egyptian shore battery fired what he caiica a warning miui ai tue ucigui- er, the Albion, because she failed to Rails, Unions Set Bargaining Chicago, Dec.

4 (AP) The nation's railroads and their five operating unions have arranged to meet on a national scale to bar gain on wage increases. The unions represent between 250,000 and 300,000 employes who operate trains. A spokesman for the railroads said today the carriers and four unions will open national negotiations Wednesday. These unions are the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Order ot Railway Conductors, arid the AFL Switchmen's Union of North The firemen and trainmen will bargain jointly. The others will -negotiate Negotiations with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers are expected to start Jan.

6, the railroad spokesman said. 14-Inch Snow Minneapolis, Dec. 4 (AP) A storm that dumped more than a foot of snow in some. sections of mid-America the Dakotas and Minnesota today as it swept northward into Canada. Nebraska, Kansas' and eastern Colorado also were hit but the snow had all but ended in these states.

"Schools-were' closed, motorists were stranded and communications knocked out in some areas. International. Falls 'in! Minnesota reported 14 inches of snow. A foot fell the eastern half of South Dakota. In north-central Nebraska Lexington also had a 12-inch total.

No large-scale traffic tieups were reported in the Dakotas and Minnesota but some telephone lines were severed and driving was hazardous. In eastern South Dakota many schools were closed. Northwesterly winds caused near-blizzard conditions in parts of Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas yesterday. Communications were out in the central Nebraska snow area and in northeastern Nebraska, which got freezing rain. Barrett Hotel Room Looted Miami Beach, Dec.

4 (AP) A sneak thief took jewelry valued at $5,800 from the hotel room of the Illinois state insurance commission er, police reported today. Detective Jack Taylor said five bracelets and a diamond pin were stolen from the room ot Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Barrett of Chicago.

They were at the Sans Soucci Hotel. Barrett, who was here attending the National Assn. of Insurance Commissioners' convention, reported the jewelry was taken from locked case which had been pried open. The thief overlooked a' valuable mink stole in a clothes closet, Mrs. Barrett said.

Among the items taken was a diamond bracelet valued at $3,000. Diver tost Miami, Dec. 4 (AP) The choppy waters the Gulf stream today held the body 'of Hope Root and brought a tragic end to the 52-year-old Miami attorney's attempt to- break the world's free-swimming diving record. Root went overboard: from the charter boat Arabakte two miles off Miami Beach at 11:27 a. m.Thurs day, plunging to a depth of.

500 feet Patrolling -boats' and a Coast Guard, helicopter searched hours but found no trace of the body. Root had planned to descend to 410 feet for a new free-swimming diving In such dives, a face mask, foot fins and a compressed air tank are used but the diver swims free. Jordan Klein, skipper- of the'Ara-balete, said Root expected to complete the dive in 20 minutes. "He descended to 40 feet, then hesitated to equalize the pressure," Klein said. "Then he descended to 80 feet and stopped again to equal-.