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48TH YEAR ~ NO. 26 — 108 PAGES
.^rZ^,^ WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY APRIL 25, 1954
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French Relief Column
Nearing Besieged Fort
Only 3-Day Supply \^<"'v'"^
Of Ammunition Lett; Reds Add Pressure
HANOI, ludo-China (IP)—A French Union column puahed through the Jungles Saturday night to within 32 miles of Dien Bien Phu where the embattled garrison wa« running ,ow on ammunition. | The advaincing French force was beiieivied too small to break the, siege on the encircled French fortress, but It BW>e«'red atxle to pos-' sibly relieve the preasupe on Dien Bin Phu by slashing at the Com¬ munist rear.
An   urgent  appeal  (or  supplies  radioed  to  Frenda  headquarters ihere  said   the  defenders of  Dienj
iBien Phu had ammunition for only I ton**'"' of the French Union de- three more davs of combat. ; fenses girding the battered fort- Th6 column of French and i^Jr^ssJn nortiiwestern Tndo-Ohina.; •tian troops reached the bend in,J*»« ^,?^ rnena^ was strong on the Nam Ou River .^2 mik-s to the^^'' ""[^h and northwestern sect- southwest of Dien Bien Phu, °f» ^-''^^ "'?¦'=* ^F^''^ , '^f''?": I                                                     #          ] strong-points   have   been   loS't   in
iConfi8cal«   Huge  Stores jthe pa.sl week. Observers here bo-
The force,  led  by Col. Jean de'if^'Pfi  tii'it one  moro  deterniin- Creveco*ur. pushed up northward I drive might carry the Red hordes through   the   jungles   and   nioun-|'nt"  the  midst of  the  weary  de-, tains of laos from tlie roval cao-l^^'^dcrs. 1'hI of Luang Prabang.    In  theiri    Military circles said de Castries
iiiive, they reported confiscating large weapons and ammunition stocks cached by the Red 308th Division in its abortive Invasion of Laos this winter.
The French high command an¬ nounced Communist pressure re¬ lentlessly    building    up    on    the
was down to three fighting days of cx>mt>!tt supplies and radioed urgently for more. French pilots, firing Ami>rii:an-»upi)'';pd C-ll'. Flying Boxceirs, roared off from Red River delta airports, to at¬ tempt to parachute in the urgent¬ ly-needed  supplies.
.1.      i        M,    ,       .;R«d» Block Airdrop
north «iid northwestern flanks o .j^ Communists already hold Uie ever-dwindlm>,'defense ring at.t^^ northern half of the main Dion Bien Phu,    Sources believed airstrip used as Uie dropzone and
Subpoena All Texts of Phone Calls
Won't Be Used If Felt Likely To Kill Legality Of the Hearings
Red Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap would hurl  his  40.000-man  army into a
their   guns   control   virtually    the cn'Ure   runway.    The   fate  of  the
(Be sure your clock has been set AHEAD one hour)
supreme effort to overwhelm theju ooo.^a«i French union garrison pa mnt defenders before the open-|jjj^i,m,(jLy   depends   on   the   suc- ing   of   the   Geneva   Conference ^g^^ „, failure of ailr drops., s(-heduled for Monday, :    communist 81-mm. mortara and
Panyushkin Identified
^f.fr!'''Z!!^'''l,^ri*'^"-.**.' fr:l'5   and'".](»-mni   h'owiUCTS^ /".P-i^J   i4SS0SSf flOtf Off   PiottCT
$600,000 Fire Destroys Old Cutlery Works Plant Now Used by Walter C. Williams, Standard Equipment
formation Emile Hughes said theipjj^ (,y Bed China, pounded the' situation was "extremely grave." I defenders now compressed into ani Bed Spearhr«dR Near Urea les« ihan a mile in diameter.!
Co.mmum.st spearheads were rf^-:l}'\"TT^-^ ^^ mm'f/nU^-h^k' ported within WO >-ards of Brig |bl*ck-c ad r^t* Commun.st i*ock. Gen. Christian de Castries, under-]troops teamed up Pnday to sm-ash; ground    comimand    poat.    "t>raiii (C/ontinued on Page 8, Section 1) ,
Former Ambassador Here From Russia Now Police Official
State, city and lUiurante offrcials yesurdJiy continued to comb the wrockage in the'char¬ red and twisted Walter C. VVilliam.^ building on Horton strett that was swept by a paint anid lacquer-fed fire Friday nwniing. causang damage ewimated at  more than $600,000,
Ul>per photo shows the rear of the large, rambling two-»tory brick structure—once a eutlery works—tlMt covered a triangle area bounded by Horton and Warren streets and Pennsylvania   Railroad   tracks.
Greater part of the building was occupied by Walter C. Williams Co, manufacturers and fabricators, and the eastern end was utilized as a main office and warehouse of the Stan¬ dard EJquiiMnent Co., a heavy machinery sales firm.
Lower picture shows one of the 16 high v<rf-ume atreaflns used to control the fire still In action. In the group to the left of the hose crew are Fire Chic* Ambrose Saricks, State Fire Marshal Michael Ryam, Public Safety Director Wiiiiam D. Jones and Al J. Wilson, Investigator for National Board of Fire Un- derwrRera, heading tlie investigation. No cause haa been determined as yet, Fir« Chief Saricks •aid.
Horton and Warren street homes facing the building were aoorched by the intense heat created when the flame exploded con- tsine-rs of paint, varnish and lacquer used by the Williams finm, whioh was working on g^f>v- ernment contracU, Including metal lookers for the Marine MCorpa.
First   companies   on   th«  scene  found  the
rear of the buikling in flames, which soon spread through the entire structure. Pending arriv|d of six engine companies, three hook and Btdder truck.s and five hose wagons on a ge*leral alarm, manned by 100 duty and ofl- sbift firemen, the first oompaji'ies had to turn streams on houses to kee?) them from being ^inited.
Klngaton, BdwairdaviUe and Hanover town¬ ship also sent units to the scene and at th« heiglit of the fire 16 stream* poured over two millilion gallons of water Into the inferno.
Two city firemen, Arthur Fou»t of Kngin« 7 and Thomas Jones of Engine 1, the first companies on the scene, suffered injuries from falling bricks. They were returned to duty yesterday after treatment. Ten other firemen were given treatment for heat ex¬ posure
Willjani C. WttUams, head of the connpany bearing his name, set the replacement valu* of the building at 1300,000 and said the com¬ pany loss in stock and machinery was In rx- oe«i of $100,000.
Standard Equiipznent Oo. kias waa ectlmated •t upwards of $200,000.
Both firana reiported most loasea oov«r«d hf tnsurance.
In additloa to the loas of six company v«- hdoles, several of which can be seen in upper photo, the Standard EJquipment officials re¬ ported that a new piece of macliinery vahied at $13,000 and scheduled for delivery to Hones¬ dale the morning of the fire was destroyed by fire and falHng roof and wells.
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Pastovorov   in   Japan.
Kremlin Upset
The  Petrov   oase   so   upset  the Kremlin   that   Russia   on   Friday l.r»cTjTVT.r^m^-»T   ,,.... ,     brokc    Off    diplomatic    relations
WASHINGTON (IP» - Alexander ^-nu Australia,
S    Panyushkin,    former   Russian     Experta    here    predicted    that ambassador to the United  States, "'O^^ . ^"ssi*"   *^'^''*'-   Poli^ie
WASHINGTON (W.—Senate 'n- vestigators i.vmed subpoenas Sat¬ urday for texts of monitored dis¬ puted telephone rails In the Me- Carthy-Army fight.
But temporary chairman E^rl E. Mundt said the transcripts of ths talks between the principals in the controversy do not constitute the hub of the whole investigation of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy sTead witii the military.
"We can establish the facts without the transcripts if lawyers believe they would destroy the le¬ gality of the hearing*," Mundt told newsmen.
"We don't want to do anything that later would allow some law¬ yer to destroy the case." To Renume Monday
The big televised public hearings were in recess until Monday, when Army Secretary Robert T. Steven* will  return  for more  questioning.
Mundt (R,-S.D.l said the Senate Permanent Investigating Subcom¬ mittee law>-ers as well a.i Its own specinl staff to decide whether It would be legal to put the tran- rair Petrov In Australia and Yuriiscripts into the record.
So far. he said, the only clearly legal  way   to   introduce  the  calls
into the record is to get the con¬ sent of the parties on both ends of the wire.
The calls In quMtlon are In¬ volved In the Army's charges that McCarthv, regular subcommittee counsel Roy M. Cohn  and exet^u-
|haa been identified by U.S. intelli- jgence as a high-ranking Soviet se-
Will    follow   the tive director Francis P. Carr put Khokhilov,    andi, -      -
lOWCCINE
Sponsors Certain It Will Stop Humans From Getting Disease
NEW YORK <lPi —AU wa* In readiness Hunday for the nation¬ wide polio vaccine exp<«rim«nt with more than 1,000,000 ohildrem
ALREADY 00010
signed   overseas
l«ad   of   Petrov.   ivnoRraov,   anoipressure on the Army in trying to
 ...... .„ „ ^. „    Rastovorov. They based tins fore-i,-, _        .   <,     i      ,i
cret police official whose  current'cast on  the belief that thcer hasp*-"""""^'^ °" ^"^^^ *• S^ctJon 1)
wide    spread    uneasineas '
MVD agents sine the new
been
Soviets' Demands For Chinese Reds Endanger Talks
duties  inohide  plotting assassina tions   and   other
ecuted secret police chief Lavrentl Convincing    evidence    of    Pan- P. Beria yushkln's   pola as  a masber-mlnd
'special   a/^tion;^'^^f.„  ^^^^ ^^^^^^  ^„^ ^^. tasks   for Red foreign agents.
of the dread MVD haa been culled
Reds I.,eavlng Australia
f,vv.>,  . K„ii,„ -i™^— K 41*   .    u      CANBERRA,    Aujttralia    (IP» —
from a bulky dosier built up  by _      .,       ,   , ' .,   .,, ,    .v,.,.!.
... *^    -"iRussian   diplomats   burned    their
their  exhaustive  interrogation   of^pap^rs    yesterday,    preparing    to'
IMVD Oapt. Nikolai E. Khokhlov.i leave  the  country  as  a   result  of
JKhokhlov sought asylum  In  Crc--|the Soviet severance of diplomatic
GENEVA <IP.— Communist audi many last week after refusing to'"^'**^'""' ""'^^^ Australia.
Western   foreign   ministers   eame-carry  oi«t  a  Moscow-ordered   as-j    *  '"°""^  °f ^f^^"?"«."'». ^^ '*!'
.. ..!,,. .„. .        Isquare binrned briskly in the back
here   Saturday   for   next   week's!»*ssination of a Russian  refugee ^^^ ^ ^^e  Russian embassy.   A
wMch  begins  In the South  Mon-jAaiatlc   peac*   conference,   which;leader,   Georgi   S.   Okolovicii,   In day. jalready    waa   threatened   by   an'Frankfurt, Germany.
The   coming   •ummer   wlU   tell|Ea«t-Wieat battle over Red China's! Talked of Assassination whether the vaccln* oan prevent
human-beings from catching polio. EJvery preliminary indlowblon was that the vaccin* can. But on* Im¬ portant matter waa certain be¬ yond douibt—th* vaccine cannot possii'bly    Infec.t    any    child    with
] polio or harm him otherwise.
JSO.800 in New York City
! The kick off are«s u'ere In Vir¬ ginia.  Florida. Alabama, Louisiana,!Molotov Give* Demand
part In th* talks.
In •pit* of th* waomlnc that th* U. a deJegatlon will walk out M th* Chinese Reds ar* al- low«d to take th* cihaiT during the talks, Russia renewed her de¬ mand   last   night   that   China   be
at the session*.
Soviets Told Communists To Win World Struggle
MOSCOW  (IP)-Deputy  Premier among the top Soviet official* hi labar Kaganovioh toid the Soviet the     audience     »a     Kaganovlch Parliam«.nt    Saturday    that    thespoke. Communists  will  be victorious  in .j,^y^^ ^, -Encirclement" the  struggle with  the free  world ri.,i^„    rn,)n.   jind
because -all th* advantage, arv' ^^e Soviet U"^,<^' ^Siina and •n our side" '*^'^*^'"  countries  still must  reckon
Kaganavoch   .poits   before   the "'ith  "capitalist encirclement,'' h«
Biorning •e.ssion of the Soviet of *«'¦>„ ."I^'-'LT"'''* '^'^Trn.w Z' the Union   one of the two lous.s th«-  United  States,  are  unaWetO;
of the Supreme Soviet Parlia-»'«"? P«f ^""J" " t^*''**^* ?* "^! ment, which opened its ourrent •constantly growing economies of: •ession on Tue»dav. the  Democratic Communist coun-i
Premier  G«»i«l   Malenkov   was tries, he aided.
FHA Scandal
May Probe Appraising Of Homes
Communist  Chinese  Premier
P AND R CLOSES DOWN ^.^^^^^TiL^:.
Believe It or Not
Penna. Has Governor Candidate With Whom Crops Come First
WASHINGTON di'J-Sen. Fnfd- icrick G. Payne, R-^Malnc, said (Saturday Sinate housing scandal investigators shouid find out whetlicr there has been "manipu-,
laUon"   of   government   loan   ap-i    Pottsville,   Pa.   UP—The   '"•'»- praisalt on one-family homes 'delphia   and   Reading   Coal   and
Hearings by the Senate Bank.ng![- ^"^.f J^rJel o^Aprim
Afkansas, and Texas. On TucsKiay New York City will vaccinate more than 30.000 of iU children, and from then on through the rest of April and May ohildren will be vaccinated practically dally In 43 of the 48 states.
Dr. Jonas E. Salk, of the Uni¬ versitv of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Injected 3.000 children of the Pittsburgh area with the commerciftily prepared vaccine without the slightest trace of "side effects," suoh as hives, fever, or stomach upsets.
WeH over 1,000,000 "shots" of vaccine were in readiness and had passed 27 separate testa that'toric lakeside city, where the ill- proven tiiem incapable of causing fated League of Nations was born polio. and  died, agreed  there  was  little
      -        - jhope   of  the   conference   reaching
peace   In
NBC Gives up McCarth y TV Show
WASHINGTON (IP>—The Na¬ tional    Broadcasting    Company discloaed   Saturday   it   has   de¬ cided    to    stop    televising    th* An.iy-McCarthy hearings.
NBC said It will present film¬ ed excerpts of the hearings t^ch night next week from 11:15 ^m. to midnight EiDT. but will no longer broadcast "live"  TV  coverage.
The American Broadcasting company here said it planned to continue live telecasts.
Columbia Broadcasting Sys¬ tem will coratinue its policy of presenting  filmed  excerpt*.
One television news editor, who did not wish his nam* used, said "ail those long wrangles aimong the lawyers" have made tne hearings some¬ what of a flop for TV.
A  spot  cheok  by  the United
guard .stood by with a garden j hosg to Ueep the stiff wind froini spreading the flames—and to dis-l
Khokhlov «id h. was recelved,-^^^   tTT^'Lt^ge^^^-
several ttmea by Panyushkin" in' rounding the yard.
Moscow to discuss the planned as- i    Th«   break   in   diplomatic   rela-
sasaination    of   Okolovlch.     The tions   was  announced  in   Moscow
murder was to have been carriedion   Friday after Vladimir Petrov,
„.,,.._.,  ,        , ! former  Soviet  secret  police  chief
r«,eH        ^.    f »h    ,«.f ««««.,.. ^        ^^^  ^'^*'^'   '*'^>n Australia, "chose fr^dom" and
listed as one of the great powers filled   with   poisonous   potassium'hu,   wife   Evokiya    wa,    rescued
cyanide pellets or with a specially, irom  Red   guards  who  were  try-i  press   in   several   major   cities silenced, electrically-fired pistol.    ;!ng to hustle her out of the coun-;  Saturday showed that the hear- Khokhlov vras one of three So- try. |  ings • were  not   attracting  any-
and Foreign Minister Chou En-|viet agents who have recentlyj Petrov gave Australian author-: thing like the television aiidi- Lai wa* the first delegate arriving broken with Communiam to seek'ltles information about a Sovleti ence that watched the senat* for the talks. He was followed twola.sylum with the West The other ispv network when he asked for; crime committee's hearings two hours   later   by   Russia's   Foreign i defectors were MVD agent Vladi- political asylum. ' years ago.
Minister V. M. Molotov, who «"""' issued his demand for China,
U.   S.   Secretary  of State   John Foster   Dulles   arrived   later   and Britain's   Foreign   Secretary   An¬ thony Eden will be here Sunday afternoon. French Foreign Minis-1 ter   Georges   Bidault   will   arrive [ Monday,  shortly before  the talks' are scheduled to atart.
Western  observers   in   this  hiS'
MINE NEAR WIT. CARMEL
for   gov-
PAXINOS,   Pa.   il?> Ohamberiin  Is  not a flustered   over   running •mor.
Chamberlin U a MS-year-old Northumberland county farmer wiio la a candidate for tlie Repuo- Ilcan nomination in the May 18 primary — "but th* crons come first," Await* Last We<4(
"I'm not coing to do, any cam¬ paigning until the la-st week— •Sien VW give 'em the works," Chamberlin said.
Chamberlin, the father of two married daughter.<i and one son lost in World War II, says he was prompted to file as a gubernator- •»! candidate "because hunting and fishing conditions in the state *re so poor,
"I thought maybe I could do »<w;elhiag «rbout"n^" be said* "Then, too, taxes are too high."
Rigiit now Chamberlin is plow
Committee, of  which   Payne  is a
member, have brought out charges
that the Federal Housing Admin
istration iia.nded apartment house Gordon   F.|    Chamberlin doubts that. If nom-|bulldors   "windfall   profits"   total man   to  be inated and elected, serving as thejiing more than SOO million dollars    , . , ...     ,„:„„j „,      „,„fi, v^i  .   ,..„„m  r,^t  h. «n  ..n,..!
governor   of   the   Commonwealth'by insuring loans far in excess of ^¦*"'•^'^°""^ '"',^T'"!l^' "fn? fhei^   *^»    pIt ^^ u,     R^,f ?h^
ln«n.frii^,v„ „,,„(= was  jTven  as  the  reason   for the the ^ar Ea.st talks.    But the Ro
li'Ioslng. Iviots recently changed their tune.
; company vice president George J. "lark announci>d here today The    colliery,   opened    In
icm'ilnvrrl  :inO mrn.
Red China Main Problem
The greatest problem facing the conference, even before it opened, waa the question of Red China. Dulles has rtated flatly that under no circumstances will he agree to the Reds' demands that Commu- 1873,'nist China be treated as an equal.
At the Berlin meeting In Febru-
Evhaustion    of    coal     reserves ary    the    Russians    agreed    Red
would ciiange liim. j construction costs.
It won't change me one bit. I;Keoeived   "ComplaiiitH"
Payne   udd  a  reporter  there  is a '-poasiibillty" that the &ame sort
won't allow it to go to my head Won't Tiike Much Time
"I don't think tlie governor spends much time In the capitol, and I don't think I'd have to spend any more time at the Job than  he doe.s," Ghamberlin said.
The farmer-candidate said that when his-campaign gets underway it will be free of personalitiea
"I'm not going to sling any mud, because I don't know my oppon¬ ents tco well," he said.
IIi.2 opponents Include Lt. Gov. Lloyd H. Wood, himsplf a fnrmer and GOP organization candidate, end Tliomas S^ Stephcn.son, Al¬ toona.
Chamberlin   concede*   he   Is   a
hig wiien the weather's  riffht be- dark   horse   in   tlje   race,   but  he cause 'a bird In th* hand is worth predicts  th*  vot*  wiU  b«    very
•w^ la.tttft.b-.Hh-"..^_^,^- 'close."
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Of  thing  has  been  happening  on! INSIDE   THE   INDEPENDENT
fol^^^S^h lr: ^Uau't?t"he"^Vr'^« ^l^^ f^^ ^-^T  ^/T""  V^ """^ heart of the fedeival housing pro-i       ^^ ^^^V ^oney for Easter Gifts.  Section 4, Page 8.
A'ifr.' i''?*»f"'^.*"''.?^ ^f'«¦¦»"» IfobTY FOBT Hm t\>n MASS X-RAY-Campaign Geared to Coves-
Administration    together    insured;       ^       Resident.   Section 4, Page 9.
loans that financed  about 40 peri
cent  of   all   ncw  home*   built   In E.VOELS   WITH   ONLY   O.VK   HAND—Lhipont  typist-stenograipheT
this country last year. ranks high despite loss of right arm. Section 1, Page 14.
Payne   said    he    has    received i _¦«        *•   ^       •      ia.a ¦«# • «#     ii        f   4%        a       a.
"complainu"   from   some   lendingj Section Page 1 S««tion Page^|f|||||Sts   Irt     MfS.   VwVOniing   ¥0116/     WOnteSt
—v/Vo* HsMnna
Inistitutlons   that   the   FHA's   ap-j Amusement   Two
praisajs of one-family homes have; Around the Town  Two
been  overly-generous. city Hall  Seven
To Probe Appraisals Classified     Five
He said  he will  urge  the  com-'county   - Seven
mittee to  "Inquire  jnto the  basis 1 Crossword Puzzle  - Six
of FHA appraisals" with particu-JDy^^y Pearson  Two
lar attention to "the possibility of Editorial      Two
manipulation   between   FHA   offi-Urp-ink  Tripp  Two
(Continued on Fa«;* S, Ueution 1) Obituary -...On*
8-fliHome Builders  Five
3 6
11
7. Politics       Two
6|Radio  Two
2-7lRobrrt C. Ruark  _ Two       7
V;Sports    Two    1-5:
8'State Capitol One     23i
BjState News On*     22i
61 Thomas Stokes Two       7i
7,Television   _.._ Two  loj
8'Women's Section Tbr** 1-I2i
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Here are the fouT finalists for this year's "Mrs. Wyoming Valley" contest spon.sored by the WUkes-Barre Jay-Cettes in conjunction with the Wiikes-Barre Junior Chamber of Commerce and their Pa.'ade of Progress to be heid at the Kingston Armory Monday through Saturday. They are left to right: Mrs, C WiUiam Mook^ Mrs. Charle* A. Bbar^ey Jr,
Mrs.  Woodworth  B.  Allen   and  Mrs.  Robert
Maturi.
These women will be entertained at a tea on Wednesday afternoon at Hotel Sterling and will appear at the P^,iyi» jnf Progre** Wednesday night when the winner will b« announced.
For details on th* flnaUsta' backcrouiw^ •e* Womien'* SeetloOk
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