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Allied Infantry Counterattacks
In Korea in First Resumption
Os Open Warfare in 2 Years
Americans May Be
In Force Whittling
Down Red Gains
By th* Associated Press
SEOUL. July 17.—Fiercely
counterattacking allied infantry
men—perhaps including Ameri
cans—whittled down Red gains
of up to seven miles on the
flaming central front today in
what Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor j
called “the first resumption of !
open warfare in two years.”
Latest reports cleared oy cen
sors said South Korean soldiers
hit and overran about 1.500 Chi
nese Reds in the Kumsong River
valley.
Gen. Taylor, United States Bth
Army commander, disclosed that
the Chinese Reds’ massive 10-
division offensive this week—
mightiest in two years— flat
tened the allies’ Kumsong bulge.
This meant a United Nations
withdrawal of up to seven miles
and total Red gains of up to 60
square miles.
The 9th American Corps and
2d Korean Corps were identified
as manning the Kumsong River
line—the first disclosure that
United States infantrymen were
in the area hit by the giant Red
push.
Front Now Stabilized.
Tight military censorship hid
official mention of whether
Americans were taking part in
the big counterattacks.
Gen. Taylor said the front was
stabilized “generally along an
east west-line at the base of the
former salient”—where the Allies
held a seven-mile northward
bulge as a result of gains 20
months ago.
Dispatches cleared by censors,
meanwhile, told of successful
South Korean counterattacks at
both sides of the front, backed
by swarms of American and
allied warplanes and thunderous
artillery.
The ROK division which last
night smashed a Chinese attack j
aimed at the vital highway junc
tion of Kumhwa, western anchor
of the central front, was identi
fied by Gen. Taylor as the 9th,
heroes of savage fighting at
White Horse Mountain last fall.
ROKs Take Two Outposts.
Today the ROKs launched a
daring counterattack and recap
tured two outpost hills. Gen.
Taylor said the South Koreans
inflicted heavy losses on the i
Chinese.
Other South Koreans were of- !
ficially reported to have scored j
even larger gains—more than a i
mile—on the Kumsong front to |
the east, where the Reds had ad- i
vanced up to seven miles Mon- !
day and Tuesday.
Associated Press Correspondent j
Furrest Edwards called the Kum- ,
song counterattack the biggest '
allied advance since late autmun, j
1951.
Gen. Taylor said U. N. units
recovered rapidly from blows of
the Chinese offensive, which he
estimated at a strength of 10
divisions BO,OOO to 100,000
troops
“Commanders have regrouped
their units and have pressed back
to contact with the enemy, in the
first resumption of open warfare
in nearly two years,” he said.
U. S. Troops in Middle.
“The attack has been inter
mittent across the front during
the past two days,” Gen. Taylor
said, with the exception of the
two major ROK actions at Kum
wah and in the Kumsong Valley,
about 15 miles apart. Presumably
there were United States troops
somewhere between.
Gen. Taylor’s statement said
only that the United States 9th
Corps was defending part of the
front hit by the Red onslaught.
There was no indication which
divisions were on the line.
Latest available information
showed the 9th Corps made up of
the United States 40th, 3d and
45th Divisions and the ROK 2d
(See KOREA, Page A-3.)
A AIGs Are Timid,
Maj. Jabara Misses
Chance for No. 16
By th# Associated Brest
SEOUL, July 17. America’s
first Jet ace, Maj. James Jabara,
flew his last two Korean mis
sions today in an all-out but un
successful attempt to shoot down
his 16th Red MIG and tie the
Korean war record.
Maj Jabara lost his chance
to tie the record set bV Capt. Jo
seph McConnell, jr., Apple Val
ley, Calif., when the few MIGs
he spotted on his first mission of
the day disappeared into the
clouds.
On his second mission of the
day—the 100th of his second
tour in Korea and his 163 d of
the war—the Wichita (Kans.)
Sabrejet pilot didn’t even sight
a Communist plane.
He climbed wearily from the
cockpit of his F-86, looking
downcast and angry at the Red
flyers for not coming out to
fight.
Maj. Jabara has been ordered
to report to sth Air Force head
quarters here tomorrow and will
be sent back to Japan and then
to the United States.
5,000 French Paratroopers
Destroy Red Supply Base
Daring Raid 10 Miles From China ,
Wrecks Depot of Viet-Minh Forces
By th. Associated Pros*
WITH FRENCH FORCES AT
LANG SON. Indochina, July 17.
—French Union paratroopers to
day captured Lang Son, within
10 miles of the Communist
Chinese frontier, in the boldest
raid of the 7-year-old war
against the Viet-Minh. They
wrecked the chief supply center
for all war equipment supplied
to the Viet-Minh by Red China.
A military spokesman said that
while the troops were not ex
pected to occupy Lang Son for
long, the attack proved the
French had definitely abandoned
defensive tactics and were
changing over to the offensive.
Five thousand paratroopers
were dropped from American
supplied Dakota and Flying Box
car transport planes in the
lightning raid. They quickly took
over control of Lang Son.
The air attack caught the
enemy at breakfast. The para
troopers swiftly routed scattered
resistance after fighter planes
and bombers silenced a group of
Showdown on Truce
Due at Meeting at
Panmunjom Tonight
Clark Confers With
U. N. Negotiators in
Advance of Session
By the Associated Press
MUNSAN, July 17.—Gen. Mark
Clark conferred for three hours
with United Nations truce nego
tiators today in advance of a
showdown meeting tomorrow
afternoon at which the Com
munist high command is ex
pected to answer an allied de
mand for a quick Korean
armistice.
There was no hint of what
was discussed during the secret
eleventh-hour conference, but
sources said there was no ques
tion but what the U. N. com
mander and his negotiating team
mapped strategy for the crucial
session at Panmunjom tomor
row.
The top-level delegations are
to meet at 2 p.m. (1 a.m. Satur
day, EDT).
Robertson Broadcast Tonight.
(Walter S. Robertson, As
sistant Secretary of State who
persuaded Syngman Rhee to
collaborate with a proposed
Korean armistice, reports to
the Nation in radio and tele
vision broadcasts at 10:30 to
night.
(Mr. Robertson met sepa
rately yesterday with the Sen
ate and House Foreign Policy
Committees, and reportedly
told them of his agreement
with the South Korean Presi
dent that “everything is in
black and white.”
(That was the word from
Chairman Chiperfleld of the
House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee. Mr. Robertson was
also represented as saying he
thinks the Communists really
want a cease-fire and will sign
a truce agreement soon.
(Secretary of State Dulles
also will report on the broad
cast tonight on the recent for
eign ministers’ meeting here.)
Recess Asked by Reds.
Gen, Clark told newsmen be
fore flying back to his Tokyo
headquarters that he talked over
the truce situation with the
U. N. delegation, led by Lt. Gen.
William K. Harrison. He re
fused to discuss details.
The negotiations were in recess
today. The Reds asked for a
one-day recess yesterday after
the U. N. delivered what Wash
ington sources called a firm de
mand that the Reds agree im
mediately to steps leading to a
prompt armistice.
Deferment Plea Found Weak,
Beamer's Son Must Face Draft
By tht Associated Press
Selective service headquarters
today ruled against further
occupational deferment for John
V. Beamer, jr., son of the Re
publican Congressman from In
diana.
A headquarters spokesman said
it had been decided that the
case for deferment was too weak
for submission to the Presiden
tial Appeal Board.
The decision means the 22-
year-old Indianan is subject to
call for service next month.
Mr. Beamer’s Indiana draft
board recently reclassified him
from 2-A—occupational defer
ment—to 1-A, immediately sub
ject to the draft. He was or
dered to report for induction
July 27.
Mr. Beamer’s employer, Proc
t fuming Jlkf
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Viet-Minh anti-aircraft batteries
made up mostly of heavy ma
chineguns.
Apparently the three solid
weeks of air attack by French
fighters and bombers had caused
disperse of most of the enemy’s
heavy forces into smaller units.
The sky troops last no time in
completing the partial job of
destruction done in air assaults.
They blew up huge stores of war
supplies and ammunition. They
dynamited bridges and tempo
rary spans over the Ky Cua River
linking Lang Son with Kwangsi
Province in Red China. Military
installations were leveled. B-26
bombers ripped fresh gaps in all
roads leading into China over
which the Viet-Minh had been
receiving an estimated 3,000 tons
of war equipment a month.
In Saigon a military staff
spokesman said the attack was
not an attempt to occupy enemy
territory permanently. He de
scribed it “a big strike with two
objectives. The first was to
(See INDO-CHINA, Page A-3.)
Tall Not to Return
For Present Session;
Hip Lesions Healed
His Condition Is Good,
Hospital Says, but Date
For Leaving Is in Doubt
By th* Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 17.—Senator
Taft withdrew today from
further participation in the cur
rent session of Congress because
of a hip ailment.
The 63-year-old Ohio Repub
lican relinquished active floor
leadership to Senator Knowland
of California last June 10, al
though he kept the title of ma
jority leader.
Today, New York Hospital,
where Senator Taft is conva
lescing after the latest of a se
ries # of treatments for the hip,
issued a bulletin saying that
Senator Taft “does not intend
to return to his duties at this
session of Congress.”
The bulletin called the Sen
ator’s condition “good,” and said
“no complications of any kind
have developed” as a result of an
exploratory operation on July 8.
It added:
“The bandages and stitches
will be removed some time next
week. No date has been set for
his departure from the hospital.”
Earlier, Senator Taft’s ad
ministrative assistant. Jack
Martin, had said in Washing
ton that the exploratory opera
tion had revealed no organic
disorder and showed that a bone
lesion in the Senator’s hip had
healed. He also said Senator
Taft still has anemia, but is
eating heartily.
The hip has been bothering
Senator Taft for some time, and
on July 8 he underwent the ex
ploratory operation of the ab
dominal wall.
Dutch to Debate Pact
THE HAGUE, The Nether
lands, July 17 (JP). —The lower
house of the Netherlands’ Par
liament will begin debate on
ratification of the European De
fense Community (the European
army) on July 22, it was an
nounced today.
Late News
Bulletin
Veterans' Chief Named
President Eisenhower today
nominated Harvey V. Higley,
of Marinette, Wis., industrial
ist and GOP political leader,
to be administrator of the Vet
erans Afiministration.
tor & Gamble Co., Cincinnati,
appealed the reclassification,
saying Mr. Beamer was a key
employe of a new plant at Sac
ramento, Calif.
The company’s appeal was
denied by the State Selective
Service headquarters, and the
company then turned to Na
tional headquarters.
Then after the office of Selec
tive Service Director Lewis B.
Hershey last Mnoday postponed
the local board’s order for Mr.
Beamfer to report tor induction
July 27, the three-man Wabash
County, Ind., draft board re
signed in protest.
This kicked up a political
furor.
Congressman Beamer said he
had never intervened in his son’s
case.
Reds Combat
New Strikes
In East Berlin
Columns of Tanks
And Armored Cars
Pouring Info City
By th* Associated Press
BERLIN, July 17.—A Russian
tank division rumbled back into
East Berlin today as a dangerous
new wave of anti-Communist
strikes marked the first monthly
anniversary of the June 17 work
ers rebellion in East Germany.
The columns of Soviet tanks,
troops and armored cars rum
bled before dawn through Stalin
Allee, a riot focus a month ago.
The Russians poured into East
Berlin from the southeast, the
east and the north.
Soviet martial law, proclaimed
at the June 17 outbreak, was
lifted in East Berlin only last
Saturday night. The last of the
25,000 Russian armored troops
who put down the rebellion with
drew at that time.
It could not be confirmed im
mediately whether the Soviet
forces had also gone back into
other East German cities where,
martial law ended last week end.
Rubber Plant Paralyzed.
At Merseburg, near Halle, a
Soviet-owned buna synthetic
rubber plant has been paralyzed
since Wednesday by a sitdown
strike of 14,000 workers demand
ing release of comrades jailed
after the June 17 rebellion.
An anti-government slowdown
has been under way at the Zeiss
Optical Works at Jena since
Tuesday. Zeiss employes walked
out last Saturday but were
forced back on the job Tuesday
when the local Russian com
mander threatened to “shoot
every tenth striker.” The new
Russian march into East Berlin
apparently was intended to pre
vent such strikes from spreading
to the east zone capital.
In East Berlin 82 tanks were
counted by German eyewitnesses
on Stalin Allee in the first hour
of the march.
Thirty-eight truckloads of ar
mored infantry followed the
tanks through the troubled
housing project center.
Then came armored cars,
armored troop carriers, ambu
lances, trucks carrying muni
tions, food and fuel.
The Soviet soldiers were
equipped with a full field kit.
“Terror Campaign” Proclaimed.
The East German Communists
warned ominously today that
“Fascist nests” exist in their
strategic industries. They pro
claimed, in effect, a terror
campaign against pro-Western
Socialists in the 1.7 million
member Communist Party and
against influential non-Com
munists in the Soviet zone’s
labor force.
Though the party mouthpiece,
Neues Deutschland sneered at
the June rebellion as a “fiasco,”
it asserted East German labor is
shot through with “former Fas
cist officials, functionaries and
employes of the Nazi state, for
mer businessmen, entrepreneurs,
etc.” It added:
“June 17 showed that such
people had built enemy organ
izations in many places serving
foreign and , West German
espionage organs.”
The newspaper said the party
must “not only fight against
American imperialism, but
against the Schumacher people
(adherents of the late West Ger
man socialist leader Kurt Schu
macher) who for years hid their
illegality and on *X-day’ (June
17) reappeared on the side of
fascists and imperialists.”
The party organ blast followed
an announcement last night by
i Hermann Axen, cadre chief of
! the party, who said the Com
munist “central committee will
investigate rigorously in the next
few days how everyone (in the
government and party) has ful
filled his task for the working
class and draw stern conclu
sions.”
The party purge started
Wednesday with the arrest of
Justice Minister Max Fechner,
old-time Socialist turned Com
munist, as “an enemy of the re
public.” Fechner’s chief crime
appeared to have been his state
ment after the June 17 revolt
that “the right of workers to
strike is guaranteed in the re
public’s constitution.”
His successor, notorious Judge
"Red Hilde” Benjamin, will have
the major responsibility as the
new minister of justice for en
forcing the new terror campaign.
Thousands Imprisoned.
Soviet zone prisons already
are choked with thousands of
Germans convicted in the recent
riots and strikes. The new ter
ror campaign seemed ready to
impound more irreconcilable
Socialists holding Communist
Party cards and non-Com
munists employed in state in
dustries. -
It was a grim about face from
Communist promises of a soft
“new course” to a better life in
East Germany as a precondition
for union with West Germany.
Instead, the conviction grew
among Western observers that
the Reds, thoroughly frightened
about their repudiated leader
ship of the 18 million East Ger
mans, have dropped any real
expectation of German reunifica
tion in the foreseeable future*
Headway on Immigration Bill
Made in Senate Committee
Compromise Would Spread Arrival
Os 240,000 Over 3 Instead of 2 Years
By J. A. O'Leary
The Senate Judiciary Commit
tee made some headway today
toward breaking the deadlock
over the administration’s bill to
admit 240,000 special quota im
migrants, but again failed to
reach a final vote.
Acting under an unusual peti
tion signed by a majority of the
committee yesterday, a special
night session of the committee
will be held at 8 o’clock tonight.
Senator Watkins, Republican,
of Utah, in charge of the bill for
the administration, agreed to
spread the arrival of the new im
migrants over three years instead
of two, as one concession to the
opposition. It is understood the
White House consented to this
compromise.
The big stumbling block con
tinued to be the President’s
request for the admission of
No Letup Seen
As Mercury
Hits 94 Again
The mercury hit 94 again this
afternoon and there appeared to
be no relief from the heat wave
in sight.
Hot, fair weather was expect
ed to continue through tonight
and tomorrow, with a low to
night of about 73 degrees, ap
proximately one point higher
than the minimum early this
morning.
With temperatures running
about five degrees above nor
mal for this season, the heat
overcame a woman worker In
a Silver Spring cleaning and
dyeing establishment yesterday
afternoon.
Mrs. Alice E. Wright, 27, of
111 Sherman avenue, Takoma
Park, Md., was taken to Subur
ban Hospital and treated for
heat prostration.
Dry weather is doing some
damage to pasture lands and
produce in the surrounding
countryside. Moreover, the fore
caster said no rain is in sight
until at least Tuesday or
Wednesday.
The last drenching rain in the
area occurred July 6.
Compromise Voted
On Public Housing
By th* Aiiociated Press
Senate-House conferees on a
multi-agency appropriation bill
voted today to permit the start
of 20,000 new low-rent public
housing units in the current
fiscal year.
This was a compromise be
tween the Senate vote for 35,000
starts and the House decision to
permit none. The compromise
must yet be passed on by both
houses.
Three Senators confirmed the
20,000 compromise was reached
in today’s closed meeting of the
conference committee.
Former President Truman in
his budget for fiscal 1954, which
began July 1, had asked for the
authority to start 75,000 units.
President Eisenhower trimmed
this request to 35,000. the num
ber voted for fiscal 1953 which
ended June 30.
The conference did not finish
their work on the bill, which
carries about $450 million to run
25 Government agencies in the
current fiscal year. They are to
continue tomorrow.
Eisenhower Going to Camp
President and Mrs. Eisenhower
plan to leave today for Camp
David, their cabin retreat in
Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains,
and return late Sunday.
240,000 immigrants, chiefly refu
gees, in addition to regular
quotas.
Senator McCarran, Democrat,
of Nevada, leader of the opposi
tion, is fighting to cut the num
ber in half. Senator Watkins
indicated he would consider
some concession on the number,
but is not prepared to reveal his
lowest figure.
Senator Langer, Republican, of
North Dakota, chairman, said
the committee agreed this morn
ing on a dozen basic principles
to be written into the bill. Most
of them involve security precau
tions which Senator Watkins
said were in the original bill.
Earlier, Senator Watkins had
■ said the committee stands 9 to 6
for the administration measure,
but that action has been delayed
for more than a week by what
he called “dilatory” moves.
Court Upsets Ruling
Against Transamerica
By the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, July 17—
The United States Court of Ap
peals today set aside a Federal
Reserve Board ruling ordering
Transamerica Corp. to sell all
its stock in 47 banks in five
Western States.
The original order, issued
March 27, 1952, ’gave Trans
america 2 years and 90 days in
which to sell the stock.
In Washington, a spokesman
said the board would reserve
comment on an appeal until it
received copies of the reversal
order.
The board held that the
Transamerica holdings violated
section seven of the Clayton
Anti-Trust Act because the
stocks lessened competition
among the banks and tended to
create a monopoly for Trans
america.
The court’s opinion was writ
ten by Judge Albert Maris and
was concurred in by Judges
Herbert Goodrich and Harry
Kalodner.
Army Denies Sending
Atomic Cannons to Korea
By the Associated Press
None of the new atomic can
nons is overseas, the Army said
yesterday in response to ques
tions prompted by rumors that
some of the big weapons have
been sent to Korea.
It is known, however, that the
Army has enough of the 280-mm.
guns to equip some American
forces in Korea if President
Eisenhower should consider lt
advisable.
Such a step presumably would
be considered anew if the Com
munists do not quickly agree to
an armistice and if they con
tinue all-out offensive opera
tions.
Story of Mt. Everest Climb
Featured in Sunday Star
Only two men have ever stood on the forbidding summit
of Mount Everest. A first-hand story of the final day that
brought them victory, illustrated with inspiring photographs,
will appear this Sunday in The Star.
This account of the conquest of “the top of the world”
is written by Sir Edmund Hillary, who with his guide Tenzing
Norkey, performed this mountain-climbing feat of all time.
Also on Sunday The Star presents an evaluation of
President Eisenhower’s first 6 months in office by Star Staff
Writer Allen Drury. This timely analysis includes reports
from leading editors in six politically significant areas of the
United States on public reaction to the administration’s
stewardship to date.
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Youth, 18, Sentenced
To 20 to 60 Years in
Series of Holdups
Prison Terms to Run
Consecutively; 2 Others
Get Stiff Penalties
An 18-year-old bandit today
was given a jail sentence for
a series of armed robberies that
will keep him in prison for from
20 to 60 years.
Today’s sentence, given by
Federal Judge Edward A. Tamm,
is the stiffest ever Imposed In
the United States District Court
for the. District of Columbia In
the memory of court attaches.
The youth will not be eligible
for parole until he has served
one-third of the maximum.
Given the severe punishment
was Huey Johnson, 18, colored,
of the 1800 block Eighth street
N.W., a member of a gang of
four who preyed on shopkeepers.
One of Johnson’s henchmen,
James Cunningham, 19, colored,
of the 500 block of Alexandria
place N.E., received a 16 to 48-
year sentence.
Gets Consecutive Terms.
Johnson actually was given 16
to 48 years by Judge Tamm.
The sentences consisted of four
separate terms of 4 to 12 years
each, to run consecutively in
stead of concurrently as is the
usual practice.
Cunningham was likewise
given four to 12 years in each of
three armed robbery cases.
However, young Johnson and
Cunningham were previously
given 4 to 12 year sentences last
Friday by Judge Henry Schwein
haut for another holdup.
Judge Tamm decreed today
that the sentences imposed by
him shall not begin to run until
after the 4 to 12 years imposed
by Judge Schweinhaut. This
brings the total for Johnson to
20 to 60 years and for Cunning
ham to 16 to 48 years.
A third co-defendant, Foster
Johnson, jr„ 20, colored, of 1203
New Jersey avenue N.W., drew 5
to 15 years.
James Payne, 21, colored, of
5207 B street S.E., the fourth
member, was not sentenced. He
is scheduled to appear In court
for sentencing next week.
Victims of Quartet.
Among the victims of the
quartet were Hiram Clark, a
clerk in a grocery store at 80
T street N.W.; Henry Alpert of
401 V street N.W.; Samuel D.
Silverstone. 5119 V street S.E.,
and Morris Kalstein of 717
Forty-sixth street S.E., both
robbed at the same time, and
Joseph Kaplan, of 6024 Eight
street N.W.
In the series of stickups, the
gang took a total of $1,043.
In another case, Judge Tamm
sentenced Ronald Jeter, 18, col
ored. of no fixed address, to 8
to 24 years after Jeter pleaded
guilty to two cases of armed
robbery. On March 22, he took
SIOO from Robert L. Rush, and.
on April 11, $l2O from Donald
L. Gray.
Today:
Boating and Fishing News
in the District Area
Page A-19
New York Markets, Page A-21
Knowland Sees
Postal Rate Bill
Sidetracked
Holds No Hope Now
For Measure Marked
For Special Attention
The administration’s request
for higher postal rates virtually
was sidetracked for this session
of Congress today by Acting
Senate Floor Leader Knowland.
“From information which I
now have I do not believe the
postal rate bill will be acted upon
at this session,” Senator Know
land said after a meeting of the
Senate Republican Policy Com
mittee, which he heads.
Senator Knowland indicated
his prediction was based on the
time it will take for hearings in
both houses, with Congress driv
ing to adjourn in two weeks.
Shift in Opinion.
Only last Tuesday, the postal
rate measure was singled out for
special attention at a White
House conference of G. O. P.
congressional leaders. Senator
Knowland at that time joined
Speaker Martin in predicting the
bill would pass by July 31.
A combination of prolonged
questioning, reaction throughout
| the country, dissension in the
House Post Office Committee,
and the drive for adjournment
August 1 already had raised
higher hurdles against the postal
rate raises.
Postmaster General Summer
field, testifying before the House
committee daily since last Mon
day, took time off today for the
weekly meeting of the cabinet.
But House committee opponents
have another four or five hours
of questioning that may cause
him to return tomorrow or Mon
day.
Meanwhile, numerous Individ
uals or groups want to be heard
mainly in opposition to the rata
increases at this time. The com
mittee hearing problem has be
come further complicated by re
quests from postal employes’
associations which, will not nec
essarily opposing rate increases,
believe pay raises should be con
i sidered at the same time.
Hope to Lighten Deficit.
Mr. Summerfield has been
sticking to his guns in a battle
to raise $240 million in addi
tional funds by increasing rates
on first, second and third class
mail, and thus reduce a $594
million operating deficit in his
department. With other savings
or administrative moves, he
hopes to lighten that deficit to
no more than $75 million by next
July 1.
The rate increase he proposes
would require a four instead of
three-cent stamp on regular first
I class out-of-town letters. They
! would charge seven instead of
six cents for an air mail stamps.
They also would raise rates to
; some extent on second-class mall
| such as newspapers and maga
-1 zines, on third-class mail such
as circulars, and to a lesser de
gree on book mailings.
Stevenson to Tell of Trip
At Rally in Chicago
By th* Associated Press
CHICAGO, July 17.—Adlai E.
Stevenson will give his first
major speech after his round
the-world trip at a rally of Mid
west Democrats in Chicago on
September 11, his office said last
night.
The defeated Democratic
presidential nominee and form
; er governor of Illinois is expected
back in the United States about
August 9. Aides said he will rest
1 several weeks before considering
jsome of the hundreds of speak
ing invitations.
The Democratic National
Committee will be in charge of
! the Midwest party rally, Sep
tember 10-11. Similar fund
; raising rallies are to be held
! later on the East and West
i coasts.
|
i “
Maharajah Injured
HITCHIN. England, July 17
i {&).—The wealthy Maharajah of
j Cooch Behar, whose horse racing
| colors are prominent on the
: British turf, was critically wound
;ed last night. A woman riding
; with the 37-year-old Indian
i prince suffered leg injuries.
Hospital records gave her name
’ only as “Miss Martin of London.”
OP Swimmin' Hole
Creates a Problem
RURAL PARADISE—The swimmer*
who dive hoppily into the waters of on
old quarry near Dickerson, Md., are
stirring up quite a bit of resentment
in the quiet Montgomery County, Md.,
community. Story and pictures on
page B-1.
THE NEWS ABOUT WINTER
COATS—Eleni, The Stor's fashion
i editor, looking ahead despite the cur
rent weather, turns her attention to
what’s new in the winter coot line.
She leads off with a dash of mink ot
the collar ... for other details, see
I pages B-4 ond B-S.
Guide for Readers
Amuse’nts A-14-ISLost, Found .. A-3
Classified - B-7-16 Obituary A-12
Comics —B-18-19 Radio-TV B IT
Editorial A-10 Sports A-16-19
Edit’l Articles. A‘ll Woman's
Financial A-21* Section ...B-3-C