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Weather Outlook Toqteht Clearing, colder Tfmperitarei today: 27; 23 Detailed Report on Last Pago ftMKROf MftES JANUARY 2-31 VOL. 64 CITY OF KINGSTON, X. MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1954. PRICE FIVE CENTS Two Arrive for Conference Will Give Report plane Work. To Nation About His First Year Public May Get Preview Of Program Half of Fleet Composed of 36 Breakdown Upon Reds UN Commander Reports All Anti-Reds Will Be Released Jan.

23; Stand Praised BY ELTON C. FAY Cfi Military Reporter) Washington, Jan. 4 air force, racing against the growth of Russian airpower, has at least half its fleet of strategic medium bombers composed of swift, high altitude jet craft. And by the end of this year the 4 last of the World War 2 design conventional engined B29 and B50 bombers may be gone from the medium wings, replaced by the Stang Takes Oath as New Mayor Munsan, Korea, Jan. 4 atom bomb toting Boeing B47 UN commander' Gcn- John E- jets.

Hull, today blamed the Commu- Senate Internal Security subcommittee, and Pat McCarran craft industry totaled about 12, arrive in Montreal Canada, for a top secret conference with Igor 000. Gouznko, former Soviet code clerk, now living in Canada under Royal Canadian Mounted Police protection. These developments apparently nists for the breakdown of pris- figured in the recent decision to oner explanations and said with- rely less on manpower and qualification that all anti-Red on airpower to maintain the U. S. prisoners will be fieed at midnight military position in the Far East.

'Jan. 22. In 1953, deliveries of all types To drive home the UNC demand U.S. Senators William E. Jenner loft, chairman of the of military planes from the air- the captives be released of 12:01 a.

m. Jan. U. S. Ma- Wings Are Increased rines and engineers began string- Accellerated deliveries coupled ing miles or barbed wire fences to crew training during recent channel the prisoners from neu- months, it was learned today, have tral zone compounds to rail heads, enabled the strategic air command South foreign minister to raise to between eight and ten Pyun Yung Tai hailed stand the number of medium bomber as wings equipped with B47s.

A wing Hull reiterated the UN com- of that type normally contains 45 position in a strongly- planes. letter to Lt. Gen. K. S.

The rapid increase in the Soviet Thimayya, Indian chairman of the Union operating air fleet of jet Neutral Nations Repatriation and rocket-powered interceptors Commission, has made more urgent the con- Report Is Blasted version of the U. S. strategic fleet from the slow (400 miles an hour) Thp. EN blast('d as piston-engined bombers to the one-sided and slanted a report by high speed (over 600 miles per Pohsh and Czech members hour) jet planes. commission For long range heavy bombard- of maintain- ment the air force at present has anti-Red pus- about four wings (30 planes each) tttvt TT of Convair E36 bombers.

These Hul1 de- huge planes can carry 40 tons of catoKoncadenies bombs of any kind, including hv- that we have attempt- drogen weapons, at moderate 2 I 7 "C1Se ranges and operate over a radius Dri lghtest degiee of more than 5,000 miles with lesser loads. Their speed has been the communist high stepped up to above 435 miles by of adding four jet engines to the six piston engines which give the HomanHc i changing bomber its ultra-long distance. for the explanation fa- Secrecy Shrouds Trip West to Confront Russia With Plan German Peace Program Will Be Offered, if Reds Are Serious Washington, Jan. 4 Jenner McCarran Seek Data From Gouzenko on Spying Montreal, Jan. 4 official secrecy and thick Canadian snow covered the tracks of U.

S. County Judge John M. Cashin administers the oath to Fiederick H. Stang of 111 Madison avenue became 24th mayor on New morning at City Hall. Looking on are members of Mayor family, Mrs.

Frederick H. Stang, their son, Paul Stang and daughter, Marian Stang. (Wagenfohr photo) western powers are planning to Senators William Jenner (R-Ind.) confront Russia with a three- and Pa( McCarran (D-Nev.) to- point German peace program atj day jn thejr quest for Igor the Berlin conference, if it appears Gouzcnko knuWa about Soviet that the Soviets up with some serious intention to negotiate. spying in the United States. cilities.

To Deliver B52 2 Refusal to accept reasonable Delivery of the first production numbers of willing prisoners for The two top members of the items of the Boeing B52 heavy, exolanations each day. Senate Internal Security subcom- all-jet bomber is expected to start 3. The rejection of avail- tejW" mittee arrived here yesterday in next fall. That plane, while lack- able explanation time unless the worked out by the United States, i ing the range of the piston-en- NNRC and ndian custodial British and French governments a blaze ol publicity lor their se- gjne(j flies faster than even troops approve all their demands in a series of meetings recently cret meeting with the former So- the medium B47. To compensate the use of force to POWs listen to explana- concluded at Paris would be, in viet code clerk whose 1945 flight the high fuel consumption of make the view of western officials to Russian embassy in Of- engines, the B52 is being tions.

UNC Fully Prepared Hull told Thimayya the UNC is wipe out the Communist East Ger-' equipped for mid-air refueling man government. taw a revealed Communist atom fr0m tanker planes, thus extend- It therefore appears in advance SP-VS America and Britain, to be wholly unacceptable to the After a nevvs conference and a Soviets. Authorities here voice closely-guarded, six-hour parley doubt that even a start can be made at Berlin toward developing a real compromise between the Russian and western attitudes toward Germany's future. in the Windsor Hotel with Supt. J.

R. Lemieux of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the senators and Lemieux slipped into an official car late yesterday afternoon and drove rapidly off into the ing its range substantially. fully prepared to 'handle the 20 it was these 000 North Korean and Chinese factors in mind that President prisoners who refuse to return to Eisenhower spoke week of their Red-ruled homelands. growing national air UN officers said rail car and which he said possesses truck convoys will be waiting greater mobility and striking south of the demilitarized zone power than ever before. In that for freed anti-Communist prison- same statement announcing the ers and that ships at Inchon will To Go Beyond Problem wm There is ample evidence, Montreal an planned withdrawal of two army t0 cacry any of the 9 be- divisions from Korea he warned 14,000 Chinese who may to however, that the discussions between western leaders and Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov in the war-battered old German capital will range far beyond the immediate problem of German peacemaking to embrace: Rendezvous Is Secret that, if the Asiatic Communists go to Formosa.

There was some speculation should break the truce in Korea, Thimayya, after reading that Gouzenko had been brought to the hotel for the interview, but the later departure seemed to indicate thev were in all probability it would not be statement, commented to news- possible to confine hostilities to men: Korea. His views were repeated always been the Indian later by Secretary of State position that the two sides must 1. Some talk between Secretary headed for a secret rendezvous, of State Dulles and Molotov on Jenner and McCarran were ac- Pregident proposal companied by their for a pool of atomic materials for counsel, J. G. Sourwine, peaceful uses and re- an official reporter.

U. S. newed call for a ban on atomic Ambassador Douglas Stuart also weapons. attended the hotel conference and left with the group. Dulles.

Vaselewski Baby Is First of 1954 agree to any detention of prisoners after Jan. 22. If the two sides do not agree, will, of course, Have to devise some means of releasing A short time late, however, Thimayya noted after an NNRC meeting that, have to decide this problem is to be 2. Discussion among all the The first 1954 baby was a boy ministers Molotov Dulles Rrit- McCarran had told reporters ish Foreign Secretary Kden and four-man U. S.

(cam planned at Kingston Hospital to Mr. solved. If there is a wide differ- the French foreign minister then to stay in Canada until mis- and Mrs. Frank Vaselewski, of will have to discuss in office -of relations with Red Is Jenner said 124 Hasbrouck avenue at 3:20 China. That seems almost certain to bo back in ash- to lead into some talk of a Korean settlement and the war in Indo- ch'na.

3. Exploration by tlie west of the attitudes and intentions of new Malenkov government in whatever way they can get evidence on the matter from the poker-faced Molotov. To Talk With Molotov Dulles disclosed last week he as planning to d'scuss the atomic situation with Molotov. The Russians served notice in one of their notes on the Berlin meeting that they would press for a subsequent Bii Five session to include Red China ington for the opening of Congress Wednesday. Jenner, the subcommittee chairman.

said he and McCarran concerned with the internal security of our have information and (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) we will have to wfiat to The Communists are bitterly a. Jan. 1. opposed to freeing the prisoners The second, a girl, born to Mr.

when the Jan. 22 deadline rolls and Mrs. Thomas F. Golgoski, of around, demanding that a vet-to- 110 Grecnkill avenue, arrived at be convened Korean peace con- Benedictine Hospital at 4:32 a. ference decide their fate and was named Kathleen.

The other hospital indicated that the Vaselcwskis had not yet chosen a name for their son. Woman Is Indicted Goshen, Jan. 4 Mrs. Jenny Joseph, 28, of Bullville, was indicted today on a first degree murder charge in connection with the drowning of her eight-year-old daughter. On Nov.

15, her husband, Manfred, was out of their home, Mrs. Joseph telephoned police that had Albany, Jap. 4 Gov. Dewey salvaging delinquents, once judged 1 ill ask the Legislature to ap- by parents and author- wedding anniversary child In the meantime officials here Provc a program de- dead in a water-filled expect some preliminary ex- signed to stem a rising tide of "aa 0 seph Governor to Ask Legislature To Approve Mental Bills changes on the atomic problem mental illness between Washington and Moscow. Thr program would oxtpnd to for building and The Berlin conference, origin- statementa'i ins'tltuUons Hospital undergoing mental tests.

--------Duzer Applies lishing permanent local mental The twin attack is aimed at rr to begin today, was delayed at health services, much like the holding down a steady increase of request until Jan -5. public health service program. 3,000 patients a year in stafe L. S. British and rionch dip- Counties participating would re- hospitals.

Ten thousand are ad- Middletown, Jan. 4 State (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7 oeive financial aid on a 50-50 basis mitted each year, while 7.000 die Assemblyman Wilson Van Duzer from the state. or are discharged. said today he has applied for ap- Ilistructions Are Given Dewey will appeal for the plan groups of counties pointment as trustee of the bank- in his message to the Legislature if they are sparsely rupt Ontario Western Railroad.

Moscow, Jan. 4 he Rus- Wednesday. It reflects his belief would administer the local pro- The line is under court jurisdic- sians informed the Big Three that early detection and treat- grams, under supervision of the tion because of the bankruptcy western powers today they have ment of emotional disturbances state commissioner of mental and Federal Judge Edward A. instructed Soviet authorities in offer the only of cop- hygiene. Conger will name a trustee to suc- Germany to get together with ing with mental illness.

Doctors and specialists would ceed Ferdinand J. Sieghardt, who Other Dewey proposals include: be hired on a contract basis to resigned last week. Judge Conger staff psychiatric clinics and to has indicated he may announce give consultant service to the appointment schools, courts and health and a cause order as to wThv the well are agencies. company should not be sold will rurthci tieatment would be be argued before him in New (Continued on Page 2, Col. 8) York.

western representatives to prepare for the Big Four foreign 1 Establishment of a code of ministers in Berlin Jan. to protfct wit- 25. The notes acknowledged the nesses, investigators and the pub- western notes of Jan. 1, accepting right to information in hcar- the Soviet-proposed Jan. 23 date ings at state probes, for the 2.

Broadening of a program for Ulster Launches Polio Drive; $50,000 Is Needed Local Chairmen 011 fident of Reaching Goal; Variety Program, Bands Slated Saturday marked the official opening of the 1954 March of Dimes drive but the campaign really goes into full swing today in Ulster county a goal of $50,000 has been set. Both William A. Kelly, chairman of the Ulster County Chapter of Infantile Paralysis, and Addison Jones, campaign director, expressed confidence that the record goal will be reached. both realize the $30,000 goal is the biggest one on Kelly.and Jones pointed out, still feci our loyal Ulster county officers and workers will go the limit to make this 1954 campaign a tremendous Boost of $18,000 Ulster goal of $50,000 this year is an increase of $18,000 over the $32,000 obtained during last year's drive. At a recent kickoff meeting of Ulster County Chapter workers Alvord W.

Clements, eastern York representative of the Infantile Paralyis Foundation, warned that if polio continues this year 40,000 new cases may develop and he intimated that there was nothing definite at the time that polio would not continue. He reminded local workers that much has been done in the way of scientific explorations to cut down fatalities from the dreaded disease but he added that it was a long road to the day when polio was completely wiped out. $75,000,000 U.S. Goal Breaking down the estimated goal of $75,000,000 needed throughout the country during the month-long drive in January, Clements told local listeners last month that $7,000,000 alone will be needed for the double validity. Also $19,000,000 for gamma globulin; $28,000,000 for patient care for those who already have been stricken and 000 for continued research.

local arrangements to reach the $50,000 goal were being worked out by Kelly, Jones and their co-workers. Among the special features planned this year will be the variety show had its debut last year under the supervision of Frank Oulton and Alderman- at-Large Joe Kelly, and the annual Parade of Bands, set for some time later in the month at municipal auditorium. Featured New York city kicked off its 1954 polio drive today on the steps of City Hall. A feature of the ceremony was the for the drive, Delbert Dains, four-year-old polio victim from Idaho. Others on the program were Basil president of the National Foundation for Infantile I Paralysis which conducts the March of Dimes; Mayor Robert F.

Wagner. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Helen Hayes, actress, and many radio, television, stage and night club entertainers. Inoculations Planned In a nationwide broadcast in(Continued on Page 2, Col.

8) France Might Get Government Crisis Paris, Jan. 4 France woke up today to the prospect of a possible government crisis this week. Premier Joseph Laniel announced he would ask Parliament on Wednesday to confirm his government or kick it in advance of the Big Four foreign Berlin meeting. cabinet is due to resign on Jan. 17 because of the inauguration the day before of President-elect Rene Coty.

but the premier decided to force a showdown at once on how France be represented when the Big Four meet Jan. 25. IBM Picks Up Its Second Deed Nearly 17 Acres io Joerz Family Is Added to Parcel A second deed to land in the town of Ulster was filed with the county clerk on Saturday as the International Business Machines Corporation continued to pick up options on the tract just north of Kingston where the corporation plans to erect a new plant. The deed filed Saturday transfers title to nearly 17 acres of property from John Joerz and Victoria Joerz, his wife, to International Business Machines Corporation. The land is situated on the southerly side of the Neighborhood road in the town of Ulster.

No price w'as mentioned in the deed other than.the nominal sum of $1. Revenue stamps attached totalled $18.70, indicating a consideration of around S16.000. The was second to be obtained by IBM. The first, filed Dec. 30.

transferred title to approximately 100 acres from Myron Boice, and his son to the corporation. Clemency Hearing Scheduled for 3 in i Messenger Murder Dewey WiU Review Bid January 12; Are to Die Week of January 18 Albany, Jan. 4 Dewey will hold a hearing Jan. 12 on applications for clemency for three men condemned to die for the holdup murder of a Readers Digest magazine messenger. The three, Nathan Wissner, 42, of Brooklyn and Harry A.

Stein, I 55, and Caiman Cooper, 46, both 1 of Manhattan, are scheduled to be executed the week of Jan. 18 in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison. They were convicted Dec. 21, 1951, of murdering Andrew Petrini, 35, of Mount Kisco, during a truck robbery on the grounds of the Readers Digest plant at Chappaqua, Westchester county, on April 3, 1950. The Court of Appeals on Dec.

3 upheld the convictions of the three men and set the date for execution. The three are in the death house at Sing Sing. Scheduled for Albany clemency hearing is scheduled for 2:30 p. m. in the executive chambers here.

Petrini was carrying $4,000 in cash and $35,000 in non-negotiable checks to a bank at Pleasantville for the magazine. Later the checks were found abandoned. A fourth man involved in the holdup, Benny Dorfman, 34, of York city, also was accused of first-degree murder, but turned evidence and testified against the other three. Dorfman pleaded guilty to a charge of first-degree manslaughter. He is serving a 10-to-20 year term in State Prison.

Cooper, Wissner and Stein were sentenced to death by Justice Elbert T. Gallagher of State Supreme Court. 1 ILA Will File New Charges Against Dewey and Pitzele York, Jan. 4 In-, ternational Assn. has announced it will file formal charges with the National Labor Relations Board that Gov.

Thomas E. Dewey is guilty of unfair labor practices in the struggle for union control. George A. Brenner, counsel for the ILA, says the charges will be filed this week against Dewey and Merlyn S. Pitzele, chairman of the State Mediation Board and labor adviser to Dewey.

The union will accuse and Pitzele of improper efforts to block contract negotiations between the ILA and the shipping and stevedoring employers here. The ILA, ousted from the AFL for failure to cleanse itself of crime and racketeering elements, is fighting for dock union control with the new ILA-AFL. Announcement of the plans to proceed against Dewey and Pitzele before the NLRB was I made last night. ILA President William V. ley said yesterday that wildcat strikes possibly will tie up the Port of New York Gov.

Dewey continues to interfere with the operation of a union that just won an he goes to the NLRB and Bradley, appearing on the CBS radio program Find accused Dewey of acting as an organizer for the new ILA-AFL. office at Albany reported him out of the city and not immediately available for comment on the charge. There was no immediate comment from Pitzele. The plan to accuse Dewey and Pitzele before the NLRB was part of strategy drafted over the week- jend by ILA leaders seeking to reestablish the now independent union as bargaining agent for the dock workers in the port of New York, i Bradley was reported looking for a crime to oust racketeers from the ILA. In a pre-Christmas NLRB eloc- (Continued on Page 2, Col 8) President Holds Parleys With Cabinet, GOP Leaders; to Talk With Democrats Washington, Jan.

4 UP) President Eisenhower gave Republican legislative leaders a detailed today of his program for the new session of Congress, and House Speaker Martin hailed it as and all think it Is a program that will be well received by all elements of the Martin said as spokesman for the leaders. Washington, Jan. 4 Eisenhower gives the nation tonight a report on his first year in office and, perhaps, some broad outline of the program he will lay before Congress it meets later this week. But before that, the chief executive begins a busy week by meeting at the White House with members of his cabinet and Republican leaders of Congress. He may give them a look at the latest draft of the state of the union message embracing in general I outline his recommendations to the 1954 Congress.

Chairman Reed of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee appeared at the White House along with the other top GOP lawmakers for the early morning session. The New Yorker, an advocate of more tax cutting than the White House was willing to accept, was sharply at odds with the administration over that issue in the last session. He went on a vacation tour and did not attend planning conferences which Eisehowcr held with other Republican leaders last month. To Meet Humphrey Later in the day Reed had an appointment with Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey to try to work out an agreed stand on taxes. Tojnorrow morning selected Democratic congressional leaders, and again some of their GOP counterparts, will be given a preview of those sections of the message dealing with foreign affairs, national defense and possibly other matters.

Congress will reconvene at noon Wednesday. There will be lots of hand-shaking, possibly some oratory, but no business. Twenty-four hours later, shortly after noon on Thursday, Eisenhower will deliver his State of the Union message to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber. It will be carried by all the radio and television networks. 15-minute speech from the White House (9:30 p.

m. will have similar radio-TV coverage, except that CBS radio will rebroadcast it an hour and a half after actual delivery 1 p. m.H No Command on Talk White House sources were mum as to the nature of talk, but indications were that it be devoted largely to a review of the national administration since Eisenhower took office months ago. That reserve for his formal message to Congress the details of what Eisenhower has said will he a dynamic and progressive program of legislation. I The President returned to Washington last evening from Augusta, Ga.f where he and Mrs.

Eisenhower had been since Christmas Day. While there, the President played a little golf but spent most of his time forking on the recommendations he will make to this election year Congress. Included Besides the State of the Union Message, these include the fed; eral budget, to be submitted about mid-month, and a message on the national economy, now' on the subject of partisan debate, w'hich may go to Capitol Hill late in January. Also, it was announced at Augusta Saturday, there will be five separate messages spelling out in detail proposals for 1 tax law revision. 2 changes in the Labor Relations Act, (3) a farm program, (4) expansion of social security and public health benefits and (5) a revised housing program.

Congress, meanwhile, was go, ing through the preliminaries to I the opening of its second session on Wednesday. Besides the White House legislative conferences, these include a meeting of the Republican policy committee tomorrow and further talks between Senate loaders of (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7).