f-agf sir Western Ask for PARIS. May 9 (l P) —President Eisenhower has agreed to .meet, with the heads of state of the Soviet Union, Britain and France in the near future on ways to ease world tensions, it was reliably reported tonight. Diplomatic informants sai request from Britain and France for such a meeting. They said Jiis reply would be communicated to the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at its meet ing tomorrow. Earlier British officials said a Big Four , meeting at the summit of East-West problems in Europe was virtually assured. They ex pressed absolute confidence that Eisenhower would meet with Brit ish Prime Minister Eden, French Premier Edgar Faure and Soviet Premier Nikola* Bulganin at some neutral spot during the summer. A member of the U.S. delega tion to the Paris foreign minis ters’ conference said President Eisenhower was prepared to at tend “a very brief’’ conference of Big Four leaders—just to pave the way for a meeting of their foreign ministers which would get down to brass tacks. But this has not yet been confirmed officially. British Views The British said the top-level conference—which they under stood U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has recommended to Eisenhower—would be held without any fixed program. The foreign ministers then would deal in detail with s'uch is sues as German reunification, a European-wide security system and disarmament. The Big Three decision climaxed a day of diplomatic bustle in Paris in which: 1. The 15-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council con curred that the United States, Britain and France should seek a meeting with the Soviets. Formally Admitted 2. The NATO Council formally admitted newly sovereign West Germany to NATO. 3. The Big Three foreign minis ters announced they would fly to Vienna to meet Saturday with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyache slav M. Molotov to complete the Austrian independence treaty. They probably will sign it on Sunday, ending 10 years of four power occupation, though late dispatches from the Austrian capi tal said a hitch had developed in the last-minute negotiations there. Seven Brownsville Miners Overcome by Gas Fumes BROWNSVILLE, Pa., May 9 (/P) ■ —Seven miners were overcome by fumes tonight at the Isabella coal mine of Weirton Steel Corp. near this Fayette County community. New Chairman Heads Ward CHICAGO, May 9 (/P)—The reins of Montgomery Ward & Co., tightly held for 24 years by Sewell L. Avery, today passed into the hands of John A. Barr. Victorious over Louis E. Wolfon in a proxy battle, Avery, 81, resigned as chairman at a special meeting of Ward’s directors. The directors promptly named Barr, 47, to take Avery’s place. Barr has been with the nation’s second largest mail order house since 1932 and he believes its prospects are brilliant. Fuiure Unmatched •‘Ward’s future is almost un matched,” Barr recently said. ‘‘One reason is our very sound financial uosition, which gives us an important tool to realize the potentialities in the field of retail distribution." In the managerial realignment Edmund A. Krider, 42, the presi dent, resigned. He pledged Barr “my full support,” but added he veil Id not continue as a director and “my’only plans are to take 1 a hide vacation." To Remain as Direcior v ’ /ill rnnm ; n as a dirertor, n in ivsi;;nint' as t t’> an onrl an A ■> 111'. il'.! i ■!' ucino, spccuicmar and sometimes; Powers Parley id Eisenhower has agreed to a Face-liftings Sought by 5 A-Victims NEW YORK, May 9 (TP) —Twen- five Japanese girls, for whom the atomic horror of wartime Hiro shima never ended, arrived today in quest of new faces, and new lives. They were horribly disfigured 10 years ago in history’s first atomic attack. Said one of them, English speaking Michiko Sako: “I’m not to expectant. If I ex pect too much, I’ll be disappoint ed.” / However, medical science plans to try plastic surgery on the girls, hopeful of restoring their natural looks and giving them a chance at marriage and normal lives. They ended a 6700-mile trip abroad an Air Force plane at Mitchel Air Force Base. Their ages are from 17 to 31. Their trip here was the brain child of an American editor and a Japanese Methodist minister. The girls, withdrawn from nor mal life because of their disfigure ment, eventually became proteges of the Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto in Hiroshima. Two years ago, Norman Cous ins, editor of the Saturday Re view, ran across them and the idea of rehabilitating them was born. They will spend a year here, re ceiving free surgery and medical care at Mt. Sinai Hospital, staying in private homes. No Date Selected For Deportation Trial PITTSBURGH, May 9 (A>)—No date has yet been set for a depor tation hearing for Vincenzo Pen nino, an Italian immigrant con victed of manslaughter. The Immigration and Natural ization Service said the hearing most likely will not come up for one or two months. The government wants to deport 65-year-old Pennino on grounds he committed a crime involving moral turpitude within five years after entering the United States. stormy business career in Chicago dating back to 1901. It was in that year that he joined United States Gypsum Co. When the Gypsum Co. turned in a remarkable earnings record un der Avery’s leadership, J. P. Mor gan & Co. brought Avery over to run Ward’s in 1931. Avery turned Ward’s poor financial rec ord into a good one, but he refused to expand during the post World War II period. Labor Leader Testifies At Communist Inquiry WASHINGTON, May 9 (f)— The president of the Michigan CIO, August Gus Scholle, testi fied today he has heard broad caster Edward lamb express an ; Communist sentiments on a "thousand occasions.” rrrc DArtT cuiLKSIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Duff Challenged SENATOR JAMES H. DUFF was challenged last night by Governor George M. Leader to a debate on television and radio on tba subject "How shall we finance the future of Pennsyl vania." Duff said in answer to the challenge that he would "consider if" if Leader admitted that everything he said in last Tuesday night's speech was false. Floor Collapses In New York Building Project NEW YORK, May 9 (JP)—' The main exhibit floor of New York’s new Coliseum project on Colum bus Circle collapsed with an ex plosive roar today under a weight of fresh concrete. At least one workman was trap ped and unaccounted for beneath tons of debris. Forty others were known injured. A thousand men were on the job at the time of the accident. “It was like a terrific explosion —like a big boiler exploding,” said 25-year-old Richard Chila who escaped. Supports buckled beneath the partly completed center section of the third floor and dropped it 22 feet to the first floor. Forty work men rode it down, arms waving, feet pumping, bodies braced for life against the avalanche. Beneath them, dozens of other workers scrambled like ants for safety in screaming panic as a webbing of steel, concrete and wood enmeshed them. 9 U.S. Vets Wine and Dine With Russians MOSCOW, May 9 (£>) —Nine American veterans of the 1945 Elbe River link-up with the Rus sians whirled around Moscow to day—wining, dining and sightsee ing. They exchanged good will toasts with Russian soldiers. One toast was: “We hope our children never again have to fight as we did.” After a three-hour luncheon at the Red Army Club, Byron L. Shiver of Lakeland, Fla., said he joined in expressing the peace sentiment with a Red army vet eran who has four children. He noted that the American visitors’ families include 17 children. William Weisel, Concinnati en gineer, said, “We think we made some real progress here today for international friendship.” Shiver and Elijah R. Sams Jr. of Pin acle, N.C., agreed. Pacific Atom Test Planned by U.S. WASHINGTON, May 9 (A 1 ) — The United States plans to set off an underwater atomic explosion within a few days. The Defense Department an nounced late today that the test will be in the Pacific several hun dred miles from the West Coast. The test, organized by the Pen tagon and the Atomic Energy Commission, is for the announced purpose of obtaining information essential to the development of defenses against submarine at tack. The exact time of the underwa ter explosion was not announced. Austrian Treaty Nears Conclusion VIENNA, Austria, May 9 (/P) —The last major obstacle to the conclusion of a treaty of independence for Austria was reported out of the way today—and the nation may get its long-awaited freedom this weekend. Informed sources said Western delegates to a five-nation am bassadors’ conference ironing oiit the text of the draft treaty pre sented an acceptable compromise on the hotly debated future of the Australian oilfields. Technical Problem* It now appears only a few tech nical problems need discussion be fore the foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, France and Britain come to Vienna as ex pected, the end of this week. Reports from Paris said Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov has indicated he is will ing to leave a meeting of Soviet bloc leaders in Warsaw and meet the Western foreign ministers in Vietnam Saturday or Sunday. Dulles to Attend Dad Plans Delinquency Program NEW YORK, May 9 (JP)— Out ol the depths of his despair, a father came up today with a plan to fight the type of juvenile de linquency that cost his son’s life. Furthermore, the father, Wil liam Blankenship, pledged him self to stay in town to fight the mounting tide of teen-aged rowdy ism. When his son, 15-year-old Wil liam Jr., was slain April 30 an innocent pawn in a Bronx youth gang war, the father had cried in despair: “We’re going to leave this city. We’re whipped. We’ve been caught and crushed.” Today, however, the husky re search chemist, told a news con ference: “I am going to stay. I am going to stay and fight this thing.” However, he added, his wife and two younger children are going to live in Tamaqua, Fa., where the family came from and where the slain boy was buried last week. “Mayb' l someday -they can re turn,” Blankenship added. Young Blankenship, a model student who shunned teen-aged gangs, was shot on his way to a movie when he innocently fell afoul a bicycle gang of Bronx hoodlums. Frank Tarzan Santana, 17, is held without bail on 3 first de gree murder charge in the slay ing. Blankenship had been interest-- ed in the fight against delin quency before his son’s slaying. He told newsmen today: “It is a fact that the first signs of delinquency are consistent tru ancy and falling grades in a child’s school work. He outlined a plan for heading off delinquency before it starts, labeling it his “pre-D” plan. Blankenship said he will place it before city authorities. 300 RR Men Recalled BALTIMORE, May 9 (jP)— I The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to day announced the immediate re call of 300 more freight car re pairmen in West Virginia, Penn sylvania, Ohio and Indiana. Railroad Strike Ends Tomorrow WASHINGTON, May 9 (/P) —The 57-day-old Louisville & Nash ville Railroad strike, one of the longest walkouts in rail history, will end Wednesday morning with unresolved issues to be decided by a neutral referee. Negotiators, dogtired from al bargaining over the weekend, ag: morning. Documents signed just before noon call for rail traffic to resume Wednesday on the L&N and four allied carriers which also have been crippled by the strike. 'However, L&N’s headquarters in Louisville, Ky., said the line’s pas senger service will not resume until next Monday. To Undergo Inspection . W. Gavin Whitsett, assistant to the vice president ip charge' of traffic, explained that all cars with the exception of those in Louisville must undergo full in spection and service before re turning to operation. Cars now are standing at Louisville, Laton ia, Ky., Nashville, Tenn., Mont gomery and Mobile, Ala., New Or leans, Atlanta and Memphis, Tenn. In another violence ridden strike, involving Southern tele- TUCSDAY. MAY 10. 1955 U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, British Foreign Sec retary Harold MacMillan and France’s Foreign Minister An toine Pinay are reported prepar ing to fly here about Thursday, although Dulles is awaiting ap proval from Washington. Feverish preparations for sig nature of the treaty by the Big Four are being made by a jubilant Austrian government. If Austria gets freedom this weekend, it will be the first time in 17 years she will have been free of military occupation. First the Nazis occupied Austria in 1938. Then the troops of the Big Four occupied her after the war and they have been here since. CIO Official Sees Hike in Wages For Steelworkers PITTSBURGH, May 9 (JP) America’s basic steel industry is healthy enough to permit a sub stantial wage increase again this year, a high CIO United Steel workers official said today. I. W. Abel, international secre tary-treasurer of the steelworkers’ union, told District 15 local lead ers, however, that their members must be prepared to fight for any pay hike. “This week the wage policy committee will meet to formulate wage demands for the steel in dustry,” Abel said. “We are in a good position. Industry is profit able . . .” , “But your leaders are in no position to guarantee success un less we have the support of the people in the mills and factories." Commissioner Named PITTSBURGH, May 9 (JP>— Federal District Court today, named Atty. Alexander L. Mc r Naugher, 48, of suburban Perrys ville, a U.S. commissioner. lmost continuous day and night ;reed on the settlement plan this phone service, mediators reported no change. The CIO Communica tions Workers of America have walked out in a contract dispute with the Southern Bell Telephone Co. in nine states. Marked by Shootings The L&N walkout has been marked by shootings of strikers and nonstrikers, and by train and bridge explosions. One striker was killed. Each side had accused the other of blame for violence. The L&N and striking unions were given until 10 a.m. tomorrow to choose the referee or arbitra tor. If they have not then agreed, the selection will be made by the National Mediation Board, the government agency which han dled the prolonged negotiations. Both sides commended the board and its chairman, Francis A. O’Neill Jr„ for their efforts to end the long strike.
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