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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."
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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.”
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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.