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Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy and hot today, high 96.
Cloudy and warm tonight and tomorrow.
(Full report on Page A-2.)
Temperatures Today.
Noon.__93 6p.m 95 8 p.m 88
2 p.m 95 7 p.m.—95 10 p.m 86
4pm 97 8 p.m 91 11 p.m 84
101st Year. No. 200.
REDS AGREE TO PREPARE FOR ARMISTICE
Harrison Tells
Foe ROKs Will
Cease Fighting
Pledges U. N.
To Maintain Truce;
Other Points Listed
By th* Associated Press
PANMUNJOM, Sunday, July
19.—The Communists agreed to
day to start preparations for the
signing of a truce in Korea
In a public statement released
by the allied truce delegation,
the Reds said they were ready to
discuss preparations for the sign
ing, but no date was announced
immediately for the actual truce.
The statement, which was a
summary of the recent secret
proceedings, showed the Com
munists asked detailed ques
tions about the attitude of South
Korea toward an armistice and
received detailed United Nations
assurance.
After releasing the statement, !
the negotiators of both sides |
continued executive sessions, l
presumably to discuss “the prep- |
arations for the signing of the j
truce.”
The secret talks, which had j
begun at 2 p.m. (1 a.m. Sunday, j
Washington time) were resumed j
after a second 20-minute recess, 1
called at 4:22 p.m. (3:22 a.m.
Washington time.)
NBC Gives Truce Details.
(The National Broadcasting
Company headquarters i n
New York said early today its
correspondent in Korea re
ported that the Communists
have agreed to an armistice.
It gave these additional de
tails on the report by the corre
spondent, John Rich:
(The Communists have ac
cepted the United Nations word
that Syngman Rhee, South
Korean President, will not ob
struct the armistice.
(A cease-fire will go into
effect 24 hours after the armis
tice is set.
(Troops will pull back from
the front, leaving a demilitar
ized zone, within 72 hours after
the armistice.
(If the armistice is violated
by either side, military action
can be taken as deemed neces
sary.
(The United Nations will not
support Korea if South Korea
breaks the armistice.)
The Communists asked the al
lied delegation if the South Ko
reans would cease firing within
12 hours after the signing of an
armistice. They asked also if
the South Koreans would with
draw from the demilitarized buf
fer zone.
Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison,
chief U. N. delegate, answered:
“The ROKs will cease fire and
withdraw.”
The Communists asked how
the U. N. command would abide
by the “related terms of the ar
mistice agreement.”
Won’t Support If ROK’s Fight
Gen. Harrison replied the mili
tary armistice commission would
oversee South Korean co-opera
tion. but he added, in effect, that
if the ROKs took independent
military action the Communists
could use suitable force to coun
ter them and the U. N. forces
gvould not support the ROK army.
The Communists asked wheth
er the U. N. would “maintain the
state of armistice” if the South
Koreans undertook aggressive ac
tion.
Gen. Harrison answered: “The
answer is yes.”
Gen. Harrison assured the
Communists in reply to a query
that the U. N. would provide the
South Koreans with no “military
support, equipment or supplies in
violation of the armistice agree
ment."
Not For Limited Time.
The Communists asked if the
South Korean agreement not to
obstruct the armistice was only
for a limited period of time.
Gen. Harrison answered that
the U. N. command would abide
by the armistice agreement for
the “entire period when the ar
mistice will be effective.”
Gen. Harrison did not specifi
cally state that there was no time
limit on the length of time dur
ing which the South Koreans
would observe an armistice.
He further assured the Reds
that the Communists sent to ex
plain conditions to the anti-Com
munist prisoners of war would be
protected as would personnel of
the neutral nations supervisory
commission which would oversee
the entire truce.
10 Points Listed.
The statement listed 10 points
brought up by the Reds.
First, the Reds asked whether
or not an armistice would in
clude the South Korean govern
ment and its forces.
Gen. Harrison assured them:
“You are assured that the
United Nations Command, which
includes the Republic of Korea,
is prepared to carry out the
terms of the armistice agreement.
“I again assure you we have
received from the ROK govern
ment necessary assurances that
v it will not obstruct in any man
ner the implementation of the
terms of the draft armistice
agreement.”
Phone ST. 3-5000 ** ss WASHINGTON, D. C., JULY 19, 1953—158 PAGES.
More Hot, Dry Weather Due ;
Drought Hits Critical Stage
Mercury to Stay in High 90s; Lack of Rain
Withers Maryland and Virginia Crops
More hot, dry weather in the
upper 90’s was in prospect here
today as the drought reached
the critical stage in the farm
and pasture lands of Maryland
and Virginia.
Yesterday’s baking heat tied
the previous record of the sea
son at 98 degrees, and the maxi
mum today was expected to ap
proximate 96 degrees.
The Weather Bureau, however,
held out the possibility of a light
shower tomorrow afternoon. This
local forecast did not extend to
farm regions which have suf
fered from lack of rain for 45
days.
A thin haze extending up to
some 10,000 feet gave tne moon
a reddish appearance last night.
Weather Bureau observers attri
buted the haze to smoke and
dust particles which have col
lected in the relatively stable air
Meanwhile, heavy consump
tion of water because of the
protracted hot, dry spell forced
a partial ban in Arlington
County on non-essential drains
on the system.
In suburban Maryland water
consumption reached a new rec
ord of 49 million gallons Friday
$705 Million Slashed
Off President's Fund
For Foreign Nations
By Robert K. Walsh
A foreign military and eco
nomic aid bill reported out yes
terday by the House Appropria
tions Committe cut $705 million
from the new money request of
President Eisenhower end can
celled another $402 million of un
obligated funds left over from
the previous fiscal year.
This bill, representing a total
slash of more than sl.l billion,
for the mutual security program
during the fiscal year which
started July 1. will be called up
Wednesday in the House, Re
publican leaders said.
It may provoke one of the
stormiest debates of the present
session. Administration forces
indicated they will press for res
toration of some of the commit
tee slashes in the foreign assis
tance totals President Eisen
hower recently pared down from
his earlier revision of the Tru
man budget. Democrats contend
the White House as well as the
House committee made ill-ad
vised, if not dangerous, reduc
tions especially in military aid
funds.
A third opposition group
showed considerable strength
yesterday at the closed session
when the full committee adopted
recommendations of a subcom
mittee. This group, consisting
mainly of Republicans, reported
ly lost by narrow margins in at
tempts to cut the bill still more.
The bill as reported out would
appropriate $4,433,678,000 in new
money, $705,244,277 less than the
Eisenhower revision requested
and $3,180,732,145 under what
former President Truman urged.
Besides the new appropria
tions, the bill would allow use
of approximately $1.6 million of
unobligated funds carried over
from the previous fiscal year.
The committee, nowever, disal
lowed another $402,256,805 in
similar carry-over funds. Thus,
the cuts in the new money re
quests and the carry-over sum
amount to $1,107,501,082.
Taber Defends Bill.
Republican Representative Ta
ber of New York, chairman of
the full committee and of the
subcommittee, defended the bill
as being “more than adequate
with good management.” He
noted that the bill would give
I (See FOREIGN AID, Page A-5).
Vandenberg Censored Record
To Avoid Clash With President
By John A. Giles
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg
wanted so badly to avoid a direct
clash with President Eisenhower
over Air Force budget cuts that
he caused deletion of part of his
testimony before a televised
hearing from the official record—
aftef It was printed.
Chairman Ferguson of the
Senate Military Appropriations
Subcommittee, before which the
general made a scathing attack
on Gen. Eisenhower’s budget
cuts, said he could not recall
such a revision of public testi
mony ever having been made
before.
The request by the former Air
Chief of Staff was so unusual
that the full Appropriations
Committee was called upon to
approve it.
Senator Margaret Chase
Smith, Republican, of Maine,
had asked the general, “Will you
or can you give your assurance
that the revised Air Force pro
gram is inadequate for our
W)c Sunday
and was expected to continue
high over the week end. The
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission said, however, the
situation does not warrant any
restriction on the customers
Beyond the possibility of a
shower, no relief was in sight.
Unless an unexpected break de
velops, today will be the fifth in
succession for temperature runs
into the 90’s.
Mercury Hits 98:
The mercury climbed to 98 de
grees at 4:30 yesterday after
noon, equalling the season’s high
mark set July 2.
The heat was less oppressive
yesterday because the humidity
was at least 10 percent lower.
Dry weather in Washington
has persisted since July 6, and
follows an equally dry, if some
what cooler, spell in the last two
weeks of June.
Arlington residents were
warned by the County Water
Division against using water be
tween 3 p.m. and 10 p.m. for
washing cars, filling swimming
pools, or watering lawns.
Because of the drought, many
farmers are reported to have
(See WEATHER, Page A-5).
3 Democrats Reject
McCarthy's Bid to
Rejoin Subcommittee
By Cecil Holland
With a blast at one-man com
mittee rule, three Democratic
Senators yesterday spurned Sen
i ator McCarthy’s invitation to re
| turn to his investigations sub
j committee.
Senators McClellan of Arkan
sas, Symington of Missouri and
i Jackson of Washington sent
! brief and separate letters de
clining the Wisconsin Republi
can’s offer. They resigned from
the subcommittee on July 10
after the G. O. P. majority had
voted to give Senator McCarthy
full hiring and firing authority
over the subcommittee’s staff.
The Republican action fol
lowed the resignation of J. B.
Matthews as staff director in a
controversy over a magazine ar
ticle by Mr. Matthews on Com
munist infiltration of the Pro
testant clergy. The three Demo
cratic Senators had sparked a
| move for the ouster of the Mc-
Carthy-appointed staff director
because of the article.
In the meantime there was
speculation as to whether Sen
ator McCarthy’s newly appointed
research director, Karl Baarslag,
might not prove as much or even
more of a controversial figure
than Mr. Matthews.
Mr. Baarslag, a former Amer
ican Legion paid official, already
has come under attack from Dr.
Robert L. Johnson, retiring head
of the State Department’s In
ternational Information Admin
istration. Dr. Johnson denounced
him as “completely incompetent”
or "downright malicious” for
saying the State Department’s
overseas libraries “just don’t go
in for anti-Soviet literature.”
In their replies to Senator
McCarthy’s invitation posed in
a 2,000-word letter last Wednes
day, Senators Jackson and Sy
mington hinted that their walk
out was based on more than the
issue of one-man control of the
controversial subcommittee.
“Committees dealing with
anything so sensitive as peoples’
lives, reputations, and livelihood,
by their very nature.” Senator
Jackson wrote, “must approach
their duties in an objective, sane
and responsible manner.
“Since I can find nothing in
your letter that indicates any
change in subcommittee policies
or any desire to afford subcom
mittee members the authority,
(Continued on Page A-6, Col. 1).
National security in view of the
fact that President Eisenhower
publicly stated his assurance
that such is the case?”
The general complained: “that
puts me in a very difficult posi
tion—l would wish that my
previous testimony could take
care of that.”
But the Senator persisted.
Finally Gen. Vandenberg asked
if Senator Smith "could reword
that question so that I could
answer it?”
Senator Smith then deleted
any reference to the President
and Gen. Vandenberg said he
did not believe the program ade
quate.
After the record had been
printed Gen. Vandenberg asked
deletion of Mrs. Smith’s original
question and his request for a re
wording. The Government Print
ing Office had to tear out the
page from the printed volumes
and paste in another which con
forms with the Vandenberg re
quest.
Russians Purge
Prime Minister
Os Azerbaijan
Third High Official
Ousted Since Firing
Os Police Chief Beria
By th* Associated Press
MOSCOW, July 18.—The Mos
cow radio today announced that
Mir-Djafar A. Bagirov, Prime
Minister of Azerbaijan, has been
dismissed from his post. It ac
cused him of “gross bureaucrat
ism.”
The broadcast said Bagirov—
an alternate member of the
Presidium of the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union—also had
been fired from his local party’s
Central Committee.
The Azerbaijan Central Com
mittee at a plenary session de
nounced Lavrenty P. Beria,
Soviet Interior Minister who was
removed from his post recently,
and accused Bagirov of “gross
bureaucratism and trampling
upon the rights of the central
committee.”
The Azerbaijan Central Com
mittee action against Bagirov
was taken In the* presence of
Peter Pospelov, secretary of the
Central Committee of the Com
munist Party of the Soviet
Union. Pospelov was a former
editor of the Communist Party
Newspaper Pravda.
Pattern Is Followed.
The procedure for dismissal
of Bagirov followed the pattern
laid down week before last when
Beria men were ousted from
their jobs as interior ministers
in the purged police chief’s home
province of Georgia and in the
rich, populous Ukraine.
Bagirov was by far the senior
Communist to fall into disgrace
since the sweep against Beria’s
lieutenants began. He is the
first prime minister to go down.
Others May Be Purged.
Other Beria-appointed men in
the Soviet Republic face quick
dismissal and probably much
worse, Western analysts predict.
The spotlight is on these recently
appointed interior ministers:
White Russia: M. I. Baksahov
Armenia: G. I. Martirosov.
Latvia: N. K. Kovalchuk.
Estonia: V. I. Moskalenko.
Lithuania: P K. Kondakov.
Moldavia: Joseph L. Mordo
vets.
Kazakh Republic: Vladimir V.
Gubin.
Uzbek Republic: Alexei P.
Byzov.
These appointments were an
nounced last April. Probably
similar appointments were made
in other republics at about the
same time.
Appointed in April.
Bagirov was appointed prime
minister April 26 after the
death of Joseph Stalin and when
Beria apparently was riding high.
In March of this year he became
an alternate member of the
presidium of the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union—the high
est Soviet Party body. He was
elected a full member of the Cen
tral Committee of the Commu
nist Party of the Soviet Union
in October, 1952.
In September before he had
been re-elected first secretary of
the Central Committee of the
Azerbaijan Communist party—
the highest party position in the
republic. He was awarded the
Order of Lenin in 1943.
The charges leveled against
Bagirov were similar to those
which doomed other Beria men
—favoritism and attempt at one
man rule—and stressed the pro
fessed current Malenkov policy
that there shall be no violation
of “collective leadership.”
Bagirov is the third high Rus
sian official known to have been
purged since the firing of Beria
on July 10.
Other Leaders Ousted.
Earlier last week, Pavel Y.
Meshik, Interior Minister of the
Ukraine, and Vladimir G.
nozov, Interior Minister of Geor
gia, Beria’s home republic, were
ousted.
The Red purge also has ex
tended to East Germany where
bloody rioting has been tabbed
as one of the factors bringing
about Beria's downfall.
Earlier last week East Ger
many’s Red government purged
its Justice Minister, Max Fech
ner, and held him on a death
punishable charge.
In his place they installed
“Red” Hilde Benjamin, vice
president of the East German
Supreme Court and a long-time
Communist.
New Volcano Indicated
LA JOLLA, Calif., July 18—
(£*).—The possibility of the ex
istence of a second active volcano
off the coast of Lower Cali
fornia, Mex., was seen here to
day with the report that bubbles
have been sighted rising from
the ocean at San Cristobal Bay,
350 miles south of here.
11 Years in Moscow
Tight Red Empire is Leaking
At Seams, Gilmore Believes
Reporter Believes
Dark Horse Could
Come Into Power
By Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
STOCKHOLM, July 18.—I saw
Soviet Russia put into action
the greatest fighting force in
history—l 2y 2 million men, by
official United States reckoning
—to help win the most terrible
of all wars.
And I saw this same Soviet
Union, while a weary world
sighed for peace, openly embark
upon a policy of imperialism
more ambitious than any czar’s.
This all happened under Josef
Stalin, the self-styled man of
steel who drove Russia—you can
never say led—to a position of
power never before achieved by
that country.
But today the pinnacle of
power seems to have been
reached. With the grim dictator
gone, the monolithic Communist
Party of Russia and the huge,
lumbering state machine of the
Union of Socialist Soviet Repub
lics are showing signs of real
7 Army Privates Get
Up to 20 Years for
Refusing to Drill
General Court Martial
At Fort Dix Convicts
Group of Mutiny
By th« Associated Press
FORT DIX, N. J„ July 18.—
Seven privates belonging to a
special training unit for rule
breakers have been sentenced to
long prison terms for mqtiny
during drill here, the post pub
lic information office announced
today.
Capt. Harry H. Laphar.., post
public information officer, said a
general court martial July 9 sen
tenced six New York men to 20
years each and a Philadelphia
man to 15 years for refusing to
obey an officer’s order to fall in
for close order drill on June 11.
Capt. Lapham’s office would
not say why the post had with
held news of the mutiny charges
and sentencing until today.
All Previously Convicted.
Capt. Lapham said all seven
taking part in the mutiny, the
first on the post since the out
break of the Korean war, l ad
previous convictions for being
absent without leave.
He said the men were mem
bers of the 9th Reconnaissance
Company, a special unit set up
to train men placed in confine
ment for breaking military regu
lations. On June 11 he said,
they refused to fall in for close
order drill after a commissioned
officer had. repeated a command
that was ignored when originally
given by a sergeant.
Capt. Lapham said the court
martial found that the action
was a “concerted one by the
group and this made them liable
to trial under Article 94 of the
Uniform Code of Military Jus
tice, dealing with mutiny or
sedition.”
The officer who testified at
the court martial, and whose
name was not disclosed, said he
(See COURT MARTIAL, A-2.)
A? Correspondent
Writes Appraisal
It took 11 yean to writ* this story.
Thosa were the years Eddy Gilmore
spent in Moscow as « correspondent
of the Associated Press.,, Now he is
en route home to the United States.
The lack ot normal news sources in
the Soviet Union is more effective
than censorship as a barrier to find
ing out what goes on there, so Mr.
Gilmore does not pretend to have all
the answers. But he does have cer
tain definite impressions, and this
story sums them up.
stress and strain. The tightly
jacketed empire is beginning to
leak at the seams.
This has taken place while I
have been living in the Soviet
Union and trying under a cold
calculated state censorship to
report Russia to the outside
world
Whither Russia?
Nikolai Gogol, a great Russian
writer of the last century, asked
the question as he compared his
vast, sad and unfortunate home
land to a troika (a vehicle drawn
by three horses) plunging head
(See GILMORE. Page A-6).
Russia Withdraws
Territorial Claims
Against Turkey
Also Drops Demands
For Share In Defense
Os Dardanelles
BV th* Associated Press
MOSCOW, Sunday, July 19.
Russia today published the text
of a note in whici she officially
withdrew . her- claims against
Turkey for territory and a share
in the defense of the Darda
nelles.
In reply, Turkey declared her
“satisfaction.”
The Turkish note was an an
swer to a Soviet communication
of May 30. The Turkish reply
was handed to Soviet Foreign
Minister V. M. Molotov yester
day.
The Soviet note said: “In the
name of maintenance of good
neighborly relations the
strengthening of peace and
security, the governments of Ar
menia and Georgia (Republics
of the Soviet Union) consider it
possible to renounce their terri
torial claims against Turkey.
“Insofar as it concerns the
question of the Straits (Darda
nelles) the Soviet government
has reconsidered its previous
(See TURKEY, Page A-6.)
Mass Polio Inoculation
Approved for Bristol
By the Attociated Prett
BRISTOL, Va., July 18.—The
United States Public Health
Service tonight approved an ap
plication for a supply of gamma
globulin vaccine to mass inocu
late some 10,000 children in the
Bristol area against polio.
The approval came one day
after local health officials re
quested the inoculation to com
bat a growing incidence of
infantile paralysis which has ac
counted for 43 victims in two
weeks.
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Congress Confident
Os Quitting August 1
Despite Work Load
12 'Must' Money Bills
Call for Speedy Action
In 12 Working Days
By J. A. O'Leary
Congressional leaders were
confident yesterday that they
will meet their adjournment tar
get date of August 1.
With only 12 working days
left, however, they will have to
move at full speed from now on
to clean up “must” bills, and
there is still a remote possibility
the session will extend into the
first week of August.
In the Senate, where freedom
of debate makes a time table
hard to maintain, night sessions
probably will be necessary nearly
every day from now on.
The appropriation bills, with
out which no adjournment is
possible, make up the bulk of
the remaining work load. Once
these money bills reach the
White House, there are few
measures that would keep the
lawmakers here in humid August.
The thing that stands out in
any analysis of pending legisla
tion is the relative unimportance
of measures other than appro
priation bills which seem pretty
well assured of passage.
Many important issues have
long since been put off for the
1954 session. And of the bills the
administration still hopes to
pass, four appear to be in con
siderable danger.
These are:
1. Reciprocal Trade Extension.
This bill has passed both houses,
but the conferees appear to be
deadlocked over the House de
mand that another member be
added to the six-man Tariff
Commission. Even if the Senate
conferees should yield on this at
the last minute, the Democrats
probably would fight the con
ference report, because they be
lieve a seventh tariff commis
sioner would destroy the non
partisan nature of the commis
sion.
2. Immigration. The bill to
admit 240,090 (now cut to 220,-
000) refugees and distressed per
sons during the next two years
(now extended to three years)
has had a slow and stormy path
in committee, and faces a bitter
floor fight in the Senate. The
Senate committee finally ap
(See CONGRESS, Page A-4).
Doctor on Ground
Checks Flyers Aloft
By New Device
The Navy has come up with a
device which allows a physician
on the ground to conduct a
physical examination of a pilot
flying an airplane.
It’s a ”telemetering” system
developed at Bethesda Naval
Medical Research Institute.
“In recent tests, a Navy doctor
sitting in a Los Angeles hotel
room was able to tell how two
pilots at 6,000 feet over the city
were functioning,” the depart
ment said yesterday. “The pilots
were electronically examined by
means of tiny silver electrodes
taped to various parts of their ,
bodies that transmitted their
reactions—via an amplifier and
an ultra-high frequency radio to
a bank of instruments below.”
The device can show heart
performance, respiration, skin
and body temperatures, pulse
rate and brain activity.
FIFTEEN CENTS
Youth Admits
Killing Woman
In Scotts Hotel
Fingerprints Expose
Shoeshine Boy, 19,
In Taggart Slaying
A 19-year-old Pentagon shoe
shine boy. traced through a
painstaking search of hundreds
of thousands of fingerprints, yes
terday was held without bond
as the confessed killer of Miss
Alyce O. Taggart.
Deputy Police Chief E. E. Scott
announced the confession of
Clarence E. Watson, jr., colored,
who was seized Friday night in
an eighth-floor apartment at
2100 Nineteenth street N.W. Po
lice said he has a long juvenile
record.
The chief of detectives said
Watson also confessed the rob
bery and rape at knife-point of
a 23-year-old airline hostess last
May, and two other robberies,
during one of which a 68-year
old woman was knocked down
and had to be hospitalized.
Watson’s confession came ex
actly 12 days after the savagely
beaten body of Miss Taggart.
45-year-old secretary at th®
National Science Foundation, was
was found on the floor of her
bedroom at Scotts Hotel for
Women, 2131 O street N.W. Th®
I murder weapon was Miss Tag
gart’s own duckpin.
Faces Quiz by FBI.
Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion agents were expected to
question Watson in connection
with the murder of John S.
Johnson, 32-year-old Pentagon
mail clerk, whose body was
found stuffed in' the trunk of
his automobile on a Pentagon
parking lot June 30. Johnson
had been beaten repeatedly
about the head with a blunt
instrument.
The search for fingerprints
was credited by police with
leading to the break in a murder
that had terrorized the 250 oc
cupants of the women’s hotel
and had scores of police working
around the clock.
Trapped by Fingerprints.
Ironically, partial fingerprints
found in two of the other cases
admitted by Watson were what
trapped him. Police officials gave
this account of the climactic
hours of the Taggart investi
gation :
Police had believed all along
that the man they sought was
the same one who had been
prowling that area for some
time, attacking women.
A fingerprint preserved after
i the rape-robbery of the 23-year
old woman, in the 1700 block of
P street N.W. appeared to match
fingerprints of Watson, taken
when he was arrested last Jan
uary on charges of tampering
with an automobile and carrying
a deadly weapon. In that case,
a woman, opening the door of
her parked car at Thirteenth
and E streets N.E., saw him
crouched on the floor with a
switchblade knife. The tampering
charge was nolle prossed and
; Watson paid a $25 fine on the
weapon charge.
Police went in force to Wat
> son’s apartment at 3:30 p.m.
! Friday. Two of them guarded
basement exits. Two others
parked in an unmarked car
across the street. Four men went
to the eighth floor apartment
I where Watson rented a room
I from Mrs. D. C. Lambert.
| They waited there for four
j hours Then Watson, returning
i from his job in the shoe repair
j shop at the Pentagon, walked in.
i (See TAGGART, Page A-5).
New Dupont Plant Starts
On Experimental Basis
v By th* Attociated Pr«n
MARTINSBURG, W. Va., July
18.—The nitrate of ammonia
manufacturing plant of the E. I.
du Pont De Nemours Co. started
producing on an experimental
basis yesterday, O. T. Meyers,
service superintendent, an
nounced.
The nitrate of ammonia is
I used in dynamite which is to be
made at the new Potomac River
works of Du Pont. The entire
! plant still is operating on an
experimental basis with 125
production employes.
Everest Conqueror
Tells of Victory
DAY OF TRIUMPH—Fridoy, May
29, 1953, was the day man conquered
Everest, world's highest mountain. Sir
Edmund Hillary, one of the two who
reached the mountain's tip, tells tha
exciting story of that historic day in
an illustrated article on page A-9.
SEASHORE SIDELIGHTS—The mar
lin are biting down at Ocean City,
Md., while over at Rehoboth an art
'show is planned. News of the sea
shore is on page C-7.
Complete Index, Page A-2
Radio-TV, Programs, Pages E-4-5