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Weather Forecast
Fair and colder tonight, lowest around 26
in the city, 22 in suburbs. Tomorrow, fair
and cold. (Full report on Page A-2.)
Temperatures Today.
Midnight 35 6 a.m. _..35 11a.m. ___4o
2 a.m. 35 8 a.m. 36 Noon 40
4 a.m. —35 10 a.m. 38 lp.m. 40
An Associoted Press Newspoper
101st Year. No. 332.
Strike Cripples
Six New York
Newspapers
Guild and Other
Unions Stay Out
With Engravers
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 28,—A strike
today disrupted publication of
six major New York news
papers—all except the Herald
Tribune.
Five hundred members of the
AFL International Photoen
gravers Union, the men who
make metal plates to reproduce
pictures in the papers, walked
out demanding higher pay and
other benefits.
Their action was given force
when some 20,000 members of
other unions—newsmen, printers,
telephone operators—refused to
cross picket lines and did not
report for work.
The Herald Tribune is not
affected because it has a con
tract with a commercial firm for
its photoengraving plates.
Hit by the strike were the
Times, Daily News, Daily Mirror,
all morning newspapers, and the
Journal-American, World-Tele
gram and Sun, and the Post,
afternoon newspapers. The aft
ernoon newspapers were the first
affected.
One Edition Printed.
The Journal-American suc
ceeded in printing one early edi
tion before the. strike became
effective at about 8:30 a.m.
The Post said it would not
print any editions today. The
World-Telegram and Sun was
not publishing.
All the struck morning papers,
however, printed predated Sun
day editions during the night
and expected they would appear
on newsstands tomorrow morn
ing.
The struck newspapers an
nounced that, starting Monday
morning, they will take advertis
ing space in the Herald Tribune
to print news. They will divide
the stories among themselves to
avoid duplication.
All the struck newspapers were
being picketed.
Pickets Shout “Scab."
About 400 men gathered across
the street from the main en
trance of the Times. They
shouted “scab” and booed those
employes who did enter the
building.
Dennis Burke, president of the
striking union, said that “to the
best of my knowledge” no em
ployes who are members of other
unions, except possibly deliverers,
were entering the struck plants.
The photoengravers, who get
$l2O a week for day work and
sl3l for night work, have asked
for a sls a week pay increase.
They said the publishers had of
fered a $3.75 “package,” includ
ing a pay increase, an additional
holiday and an added welfare
program contribution.
Negotiations on a new con
tract, to replace one that ex
pired October 31, broke off yes
terday after the photoengravers’
union voted, 207 to 147, against
arbitration.
Union Ready To Talk.
William Mapel, president of
the Newspaper Publishers Asso
ciation of New York, said “It
doesn't make sense to me” that
the union accepted arbitration
in San Francisco and rejected it
in New York.
Mr. Mapel said, “We have
done everything a human being
could do” and that no further
meetings were scheduled be
tween the union and the pub
lishers.
Mr. Burke described himself
as “free” and said he was “ready
to meet with any one who wants
to straighten matters out.”
Mr. Mapel's office, in the
Times Annex at Times Square,
was without elevator service be
cause building service employes
there are members of the CIO
(See ENGRAVERS. Page A-2.)
Malenkov Confers
With British Envoy
By Associated Press
LONDON. Nov. 28.—Soviet
Premier Georgi Malenkov con
ferred today with British Am
bassador Sir William Hayter, the
Moscow radio reported.
A terse announcement cred
ited to the official Tass news
agency gave no indication what
the talk was about but reported
that Soviet Foreign Minister V.
M. Molotov was present.
Sir William took over the Mos
cow post only last month. He
presented his credentials Octo
ber 10 to one of Mr. Molotov's
deputies.
In London, a British Foreign
Office spokesman said when Sir
Wililam arrived in Moscow he
followed the normal diplomatic
practice, asked for a meeting
with Mr. Malenkov and “the So
viet government apparently de
cided to grant the interview
today ”
Sir William had no instruc
tions from London, he said, to
raise any specific issue—such as
current diplomatic moves over
Ease-West talks—but “whether
the Russians decided to raise
we just can t say.”
Phone ST. 3-5000 ★★
West's Leaders Seen Divided
On Answer to Russian Note
Reply May Be Put Off Until After
Big Three Conference in Bermuda
By Crosby S. Noyes
Western leaders today faced
the problem of how to answer a
Russian proposal for a Big Four
conference in Berlin to discuss a
German-Austrian settlement.
The immediate questions were:
How soon should an answer be
sent and what should it say?
On these points there appeared
to be some division of opinion
between the major allies. In
Britain a Foreign Office spokes
man called for an answer to the
Russian bid “without undue
delay.” The State Department,
on the other hand, indicated that
a reply may be put off at least
until the close of the Bermuda
conference of Big Three leaders
next week.
Beyond this, British reaction
to the proposal was generally
optimistic, drawing attention to
the withdrawal of earlier Rus-
I sian demands that Red China
should be included at the con
ference.
American officials described the
note as "disappointing” noting
Eisenhower Confers
i Via Phone With Aides
On Bermuda Parley
'Several Officials' Here
Receive Georgia Calls
To Discuss Moves
By she Associated Press
AUGUSTA. Ga.. Nov. 28.
President Eisenhower conferred
by telephone again today with
administration officials in Wash
ington regarding next week's Big
Three Bermuda conference.
Murray Snyder, assistant pres
idential press secretary, said
Gen. Eisenhower put in calls
from his vacation headquarters
j here to “several officials” in the
Capital, but he declined to name
i them.
The President discussed the
Bermuda meeting with Secretary
of State Dulles by long distance
i telephone yesterday. The ses
sions at which Gen. Eisenhower,
Prime Minister Churchill of
Great Britain and French Pre
mier Laniel will confer open in
Bermuda next Friday.
Aftei talking with administra
tion officials in Washington to
day, the President spent some
time replying to correspondence
at his Augusta National Golf
Club office.
An afternoon round of golf
with his soldier son, Maj John
Eisenhower, and John’s wife Bar
bara, was likely.
The President and Maj. Eisen
hower got in 18 holes yesterday.
Their scores weren’t disclosed
but the Chief Executive reported
ly was the winner.
The word from the club—from
which newsmen are barred—was
that both played a rather ragged
game generally with a few good
holes.
The President, for example,
was said to have had a birdie 3
on the par 4 ninth hole, and
John a par 5 on the eighth hole.
The President and Mrs. Eisen
hower, here since Tuesday, are
scheduled to return to Washing
ton tomorrow night.
Ecuador Threatens to Gag
Foreign News Agencies
By tht Associated Press
QUITO, Ecuador, Nov. 28.
President Jose Maria Velasco
Ibarra last night threatened to
ban operations of foreign news
agencies in Ecuador if they
transmit news stories “which in
sult the government.”
The President said they would
be closed “as long as the insults
continue.”
He did not mention any news
I agency or service by name.
Velasco Ibarra’s decision fol-
I lowed announcement Wednesday
by the Inter-American Press As
sociation that it w’ould invoke
the Panama doctrine against the
Velasco Ibarra administration in
connection with closure of the
newspaper El Comercio. The
doctrine calls on all newspapers
and radio broadcasters to con
demn any attack on one of their
number.
The President said his govern
ment would vigorously oppose
any move by the IAPA to con
demn his administration.
The newspaper was closed after
' it refused to publish a govern
ment statement severely criti
: cizing Ecuador's independent
newspapers.
Batista Foes Planning
Revolt, Miami Hears
By th# Associated Prtss
MIAMI. Fla., Nov. 28.—Presi
! j dent Fulgencio Batista has alerted
; the Cuban Army and Navy for
I an invasion and an internal
I uprising, the Miami Herald said
!today.
Batista has been tipped off
that his enemies are all set for
a revolution, the Herald said,
1 and this "may possibly delay the
| actual uprising.”
' | Batista ousted President Carlos
' Prio Socarras and took over the
• Cuban government in a bloodless
in March, 1952.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1953—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES.
j that it reflected no basic change
in Russian policy and that Russia
intends to call for a second
meeting which would include the
Chinese Reds.
Elsewhere in the free world
| the response was mixed. In the
Hague, where representatives of
six nations are working on de
tails of the proposed European
Defense Community, the Russian
note was described as a "trans
parent” effort to disrupt the de
fense program. Belgium Foreign
Minister Van Zeeland stood out
from his colleagues in describing
the proposal as “a good sign.”
There was little immediate re
action from France, where the
Government of Premier Laniel
yesterday won a close vote of
confidence on its fight for crea
tion of the EDC.
Mr. Laniel. in his final plea
for support, had said of the new
Russian note: “Such news, far
\ from surprising or troubling us,
may constitute the prelude to an
improvement in the internation
<See RUSSIAN, Page A-2.)
Detailed Allied Plan
For Korean Parley
Submitted to Reds
Foe Sees No Merit
In Proposal, Will
Offer One of Own
By the Associated Press
PANMUNJOM, Nov. 28.—The
Allies today handed the Com
munists detailed plans for a Ko
rean peace conference, but the
Reds said they could see no
merit in the proposal and would
unveil one of their own Monday.
Special United States Envoy
Arthur H. Dean presented a
12-point formula which would
allow non-belligerent nations
with a direct interest in Korea
to attend the conference as non
voting observers.
Russia would attend as a full
member on the Communist side
of the table—not as a neutral
as the Reds demand.
Mr. Dean said the 16 United
Nations which fought in Korea
and South Korea’s President
Syngman Rhee have indorsed
the plan.
Has Pledge From Rhee.
The envoy also said Mr. Rhee
promised him not to resume hos
tilities while a peace conference
is under way and to co-operate
fully at the conference.
The fiery South Korean presi
dent has said repeatedly he
would order his American
trained divisions northward un
less progress is made toward
unifying his country by late
January.
Negotiations to set up the
peace conference revert to full
scale plenary sessions Monday at
the request of the Reds. The
diplomats have met as two sub
committees since' November 16.
Mr. Dean suggested yesterday
that the Korean peace confer
ence be held at Geneva. Switzer
land, “not less than 28 nor more
than 42 days” after termina
tion of the current preliminary
j talks.
Made in Interest of Speed.
He told she Communists:
“This integrated proposal is
made in the interest of the early
convening of the political con
ference. It is predicated upon
j the theory that we will be able
to agree upon it within a rela
| tively short time.
“This proposal has been made
after the most intensive con
sideration by the 17 governments
I have the honor to represent at
these preliminary talks, and in
| the interest of world peace I be
speak for it your favorable and
prompt consideration.
“Your acceptance will repre
i sent real progress.”
The Reds called two recesses
totaling 45 minutes to consider
Mr. Dean’s proposal.
“A weary world is anxiously
waiting for a tangible sign of
peace in Korea and the world,”
j Mr. Dean told the Reds. “The
j convening of the political con
ference will be that sign. Let us
not fail.”
Puts Limit on Neutrals.
j Mr. Dean limited neutrals
I eligible for invitations to the
j peace conference to those which
have had direct dealings with
i the Korean situation.
This would include India.
Sweden, Switzerland, Poland and
Czechoslovakia—all members of
armistice commissions—and Pak
istan and Chile, which belong to
(See KOREA, Page A-2.)
Stocks in the Spotlight
NEW YORK (*Pt. Following are the
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and net change of the 20 most active
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Gen Electric 408 Sit 3 , 82', 89 3 , B’,
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j Willys Over 312 1«'.» 10 Hi ’»
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i Columbia Gas 349 13 12’, 12’,—
Dow Chemical 343 37*i 35’, 31 V, 4-1 »«
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Brdesl Par 33S 15’. 14’/« 15’, A l ,
Hague Session
Orders Draff
Os EDC Basis
Foreign Ministers
Turn Task Over
To Their Deputies
By the Associated Press
THE HAGUE, the Nether
lands, Nov. 28.—West Europe's
foreign ministers today in
structed a six-nation group of
governmental experts to draft
the basis for political, economic
and military union of France.
West Germany, Italy and the
Benelux countries within the
next four months.
Winding up their three-day
conference here, the ministers
agreed that their deputies should
meet in Paris as quickly as pos
sible to write the constitution
| of a future continental “politi
cal community” to control the
I proposed European Defense Com
munity.
These deputies, the ministers
' said, should finish their work by
March 15 and report to another
ministerial session in Brussels
March 30. They are to base their
work on agreements reached re
cently at Rome which won offi
cial backing in the sessions here. [
Bidault Sees Adenauer.
French Foreign Minister
Georges Bidault, who made a be
; lated appearance at the confer
ence today, met later with West
German Chancellor Konrad Ade
| nauer in a new effort to solve
| the long-standing French-Ger
man dispute over the future of
the Saar, rich coal and steel
producing area.
Mr. Bidault was accompanied
by Andre Francois - Poncet,
French high commissioner for
Germany, and Alexandre Parodi,
secretary general of the French
Foreign Ministry. Mr. Adenauer
was accompanied by Prof. Wal
ter Hallstein, West German un
dersecretary for foreign affairs.
Mr. Bidault came from Paris
where his gtfternment had won a
narrow parliamentary victory
yesterday.
Would Aid Integration.
A Saar settlement would con
siderably advance other plans
for West European integration.
But France and West Ger
many have long been at odds on
the question. The West Germans
; regard the Saar as part of Ger
many, while the French insist
, the valley must be detached
from Germany and linked eco
nomically with France.
The French Parliament re
cently ratified a new set of ac
cords reinforcing the Franco-
Saar economic and monetary
union.
Bidault Offer Awaited.
Mr. Adenauer has already held
preliminary talks with Mr. Fran
j cois-Ponceton the EDC issue, and
West German sources said they
have no new definite proposals
to put forward. Instead, one of
ficial declared they are waiting
to see what Mr. Bidault has to
offer.
Solution of the Saar question
is one of the conditions the
French Parliament is demanding
for eventual ratification of the
EDC treaty.
This reservation was under
lined in the parliamentary vote
in Paris yesterday and in the
debate which preceded it. Premier
Joseph Laniel’s government had
pledged it would not press for
ratification until the Saar issue
! is settled.
The French assembly gave Mr.
Laniel a slim 274-244 vote of
confidence after a foreign policy
debate. The resolution hedged,!
however, in supporting the idea
of a European army which would
(See EDC, Page A-2.
Two Missing Hunters Found
In West Virginia Snowstorm
Former Grid Player •
Lost for Six Hours
With Companion
By th* Associoted Pr.ss
DAVIS, W. Va., Nov. 28.
Search parties plodding through
rugged Canaan Valley in a
swirling snowstorm early today
found two missing hunters, one
of them a former University of
Maryland football star.
The pair had been missing
about six hours in the wasteland
of rock and tangle brush that
has claimed at least two lives
in the past. The area Is in East
ern West Virginia's Tucker
County.
Missing were Paul Dusty
Nestor, 24, who played left end
for Maryland last year and now
is a dental student at the Uni
versity’s Baltimore branch, and
Burton George, about 35, w’ho
operates a taxi business in Par
sons. Both are married.
A 6-inch snowfall was covering
the valley area when the search
got under way last night.
Pete Sponaugle. chief of the
Davis Volunteer Fire Company,
said his party and one from Par
sons found the pair on nearby
Club Run. He said the hunters
heard the parties approacljpg
if | THAT'S BISHT.
Pusan Fire Leaves
3 Dead, 20 Injured
And 45,000 Homeless
U. S. Army Estimates
Damage at S2O Million
In 12-Hour Blaze
By the Associoted Press
PUSAN, Nov. 28.—One-sixth
of this teeming port city of 1
million population smouldered
tonight after an all-night fire
that scorched a 112-milel 1 2 -mile swath,
left at least 3 Koreans dead
and leveled 6,000 homes and
' buildings.
Twenty Koreans were hurt
and two Korean firemen were
overcome by smoke.
Police said two children and
a 26-year-old man were dead.
The United States Army esti
mated damage to this refugee
chocked city at S2O million. The
blaze raged for nearly 12 hours.
It was one of the most devas
ating fires in Korean history.
Temporary Shelter Offered.
Relief agencies rushed aid to
45,000 left homeless. Many were
given temporary shelter in
United States Army warehouses,
theaters and schools.
Others poked about in the
seared ruins looking for*personal
belongings.
A crisp, chilling wind failed
to disperse a cloud of black
smoke over the city. Little
tongues of flame continued to
lick at the wrecks of buildings.
The blaze broke out in a
jammed tenement section. Po
lice said it started in a char
coal oven left unattended by a
housewife.
Winds up to 30 miles an hour
rolled the flames V/2 miles along
a path a half-mile wide before
the fire burned itself out on fire
breaks pushed up by bulldozers
and dynamite.
Rail Station Burned Out.
The huge Pusan railroad sta
tion was reduced to a charred
skeleton. Other structures
burne% out included two of the
three major buildings of the
i headquarters of the United
States Army's Korean base sec
tion. three of Pusan’s four major
daily newspapers, the branch
offices of the Korean Pacific
Press the Korean post office,
American Army chapel and the
1 (See FIRE, Page A-3.)
PAUL DUSTY NESTOR.
' i
1 and fired their last piece of am
munition to attract attention.
Mr. Nestor and Mr. George
■ went into the valley on a turkey
1 and bear hunt early yesterday.
With them were two young boys,
David Currence, a nephew of
George, and Phil Simmons, son
of a driver employed by George
The boys said they became
cold and were taken back to the
car and then Mr. Nestor and Mr.
j George continued to hunt. When
i they failed to return the boys
made their way to a farmhouse
I and sounded the alarm.
t'
Season's Coldest
Night Due With
26-Degree Low
The coldest weather of
the season was predicted
late today for Washington
and its vicinity.
A Weather Bureau fore
cast indicated the tempera
ture will dip to about 26
degrees in the city and pos
sibly 22 in the suburbs. It
also said there was a chance
of a few snow flurries this
afternoon.
The previous low for the
season was 30 degrees, re
c’orded at the time of the
surprise snow November 6
and 7.
Bacteriologist Dies
In Hotel Plunge
Dr. Frank R. Olson, 42, an
Army Chemical Corps bacteri
ologist from Old Braddock, Md.,
fell or jumped te his death early
/ today from a New York hotel
■ room.
According to police. Dr. Olson,
who worked at the biological
laboratories at Camp Dietrich,
at Frederick, Md., arrived in New
York Tuesday to see a doctor. He
had been ill for several months
and had become despondent. A
colleague, Robert Van Lash
brook, accompanied him. They
planned to return home today.
Early this morning, however,
Mr. Lashbrook awoke to see Dr.
Olson crash through a window
in their lOth-floor room at the
Hotel Statler, the Associated
Press reported. Dr. Olson's body
struck a fourth-floor ledge and
fell to the sidewalk.
A camp Dietrich spokesman
said that Dr. Olson had been
suffering from a severe case of
ulcers, but had remained at work
until Tuesday. He said that the
bacteriologist, who has been at
Camp Dietrich since May, 1943,
had been held in “high esteem,
both personally and profession
ally.”
Surviving Dr. Olson are Mrs.
Olson and three children.
Hershey Opposes Raising
Draff ’IQ’ Standards
By the Associoted Press
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey
says he is opposed to any raise
in the mental requirements for
draftees, noting that for 10 or
12 years he has contended the
passing level is too high.
“I’m sure training time is a
consideration of the armed
forces in their reported study
of a plan to raise the mental
standards,” the director of se
lective service told a reporter
yesterday.
“For the armed forces to say
they will never use men who
cannot pass a mental examina-
I tion is undemocratic. To say
! they will not use them until
we are in a war is illogical.
“You do not have as much
time to train such men—and
we are all agreed it takes more
time to train such men—in time
of war as in peace.”
Gen. Hershey was comment
ing on reports that the Penta
gon is considering a proposal
for increasing the mental stand
aids.
Wounded Czech Is Taken
To North Korean Hospital
By tho Associated Press
PANMUNJOM, Nov. 28.—A
wounded Communist Czech offi
cer was flown here today from
the American hospital ship Con
solation in Inchon Harbor and
then was taken by ambulance to
a North Korean hospital.
The Czech officer was a mem
j ber of the Neutral Nations Truce
Inspection Team at Inchon.
Czech officers said the officer
had shot himself accidentally
| Thursday. V
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Traffic Accidents
Kill Three Persons
In Nearby Maryland
Soldier Stationed at
Walter Reed Among
Victims of Mishaps
Three persons, one of them
a soldier, died early today and
last night as result of auto acci
dents in nearby Maryland.
The dead were:
Army Corpl. Chester R. Boyer,
j 35, stationed at Walter Reed
i Hospital.
Mrs. Violet Young, 60, of
Brooklyn, N. Y.
| Edward S. Diekowski, , 27, of
j Route 1, Laurel, Md.
Montgomery County police said
Corpl. Boyer’s car left Georgia
| avenue in North Glenmont, went
into a ditch and struck a small
tree. When police arrived the
i soldier was lying against the side
of the ditch arid was pinned
down by the left door. The acci
dent occurred about 1 a.m.
Chest Crushed.
Police said the car’s headlight
which hit the tree was not
broken. An autopsy showed
Corpl. Boyer suffered a crushed
chest in the crash.
Mrs. Young died about 3:15
a.m. at Casualty Hospital of head
injuries.
Maryland State police said
she was a passenger in a car
driven by her husband, George
A. Young. 60, that was struck
by another carr as it moved
across the southbound lane of
Route 301 at Waldorf.
The driver of the other car, I
police said, was Frances D. Foti
pf Monroe, Fla. Both drivers
suffered minor injuries.
Police said the Youngs were
attempting to pull into a motel
driveway about 6:15 p.m. yester
day.
Pedestrian Killed.
Mr. Diekowski was killed by a
car while walking across Wash
ington boulevard in Laurel about
10 p.m. yesterday.
Laurel police said charges of
manslaughter and reckless driv- ;
ing were placed against Thomas
E. Watts, 21, also of Laurel. He
was released under SI,OOO bond
pending a hearing in Laurel
Police Court Tuesday.
Overcrowding Charged
At Waldorf-Astoria
By th* Associated Press
NEW YORK. Nov. 28.—The
i Waldorf-Astoria Hotel has been
charged by the fire department
with overcrowding its Starlight
Roof during a meeting of the
Hotel Owners Association.
A complaint in Municipal
Court alleged that on Novem
ber 16 banquet manager, Claude
Phillippe, allowed 758 persons in
the room—3so more than the
law permits.
Mr. Phillippe entered a plea
of not guilty.
A hearing was set for next
Friday.
Wife Has Minutes >
To Spend S4OO,
Then Is Shot At
By the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 28.
First, Mrs. Katherine Peterson
told the judge, her husband j
threw an envelope containing
S4OO at her.
Then he told her she could
have two minutes to spend the j
money, she testified yesterday,
and next he fired two shots from
a rifle. One bullet scattered
plaster fragments over her, she
related.
Superior Judge Elmer Doyle
decreed she could keep the S4OO
and S2OO besides. He also grant
ed her an order restraining her
husband, Richard D. Peterson,
telephone technician, from mo
lesting her. m
13 Extra Trains
TakeArmy-Navy
Fans to Game
High U. S. Officials
Lead Big Crowd
To Philadelphia
Thousands of Washingtonians
and countless others from
Maryland and Virginia flocked
to Philadelphia today to attend
the Army-Navy football game.
Undaunted by leaden skies and
nippy weather, the gay, colorful
Other News of Army-Navy Game anti
Pictures. Pages A-12 and A-13
crowd moved from the Capital
by train, plane and automobile
in time to arrive at Municipal
Stadium well ahead of the open
ing kickoff at 1:30 p.m.
By far the largest group of
fans traveled by train direct to
the big stadium A total of 13
special trains were operated by
the Baltimore & Ohio and the
Pennsylvania Railroads. A ma
jority using this service planned
to return here immediately after
the game.
High Officials In Crowd.
High Government officials and
most of the military brass in the
Capital were in the crowd that
passed through Union Station
between 7:30 and 9:25 a.m.
The ranking Government offi
cial was Secretary of Defense
Wilson. President Eisenhower
passed up the game for a golfing
vacation at Augusta, Ga.
Secretary and Mrs. Wilson
were aboard a special that de
parted at 8:35 a.m. Also in this
party were Deputy Secretary of
Defense Roger Kyes and Harold
Stassen, director of the Foreign
Operations Administration.
Secretary of the Air Force Tal
bott and Admiral Arthur W.
Radford, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, were members
of a party that left on a train
five minutes later.
Secretary of the Army Stevens
and Matthew Ridgway,
Army chief of staff, were among
others in the Derense Depart
; ment contingent.
Fur Coats in Evidence.
Uniforms of all the services
were much in evidence, as were
luxurious fur coats—on many
beautiful women. Almost every
group carried heavy blankets,
thermos bottles and sandwich
baskets.
i Only a few of the partisan
fans carried pennants to show
allegiance to one or the other
team. But many of the women
sported yellow chrysanthemums,
the favorite football flower.
Three B. & O. specials left
from Union Station and a fourth
departed from Silver Spring.
The Pennsylvania dispatched
nine specials from Union Sta
tion and reported that a num
ber of other passengers bound for
the game boarded regularly
scheduled trains for Philadel
phia.
Annapolis also saw a mass
evacuation this morning. The
brigade of 3,500 midshipmen, a
large group of Navy officers,
coaches, bluejackets and one
goat mascot left for Philadelphia
in 86 buses, three trucks and
four trains totaling 58 coaches
and one baggage car.
Four Leading Communists
In Greece Arrested
By the Associated Press
ATHENS, Nov. 28.—Four top
Greek Communists have been ar
rested in Athens, Interior Minis
ter Pausanias Lycourczos told a
press conference today.
They include Militiades Zach
aratos, member of the central
committee of the Greek Com
munist Party, and Demetrius
Dallas, an acting central com
mittee member.
Dallas held the rank of briga
dier in the Red guerrilla forces
that devastated Northern Greece
following World War 11. Ly
courezos said he later was trained
in spying and sabotage in
Communist-ruled Poland and
Czechoslovakia and re-entered
Greece secretly.
Maryland Area
Growing Fast
GROWING NEIGHBOR—One of
the fastest developing Washington
suburban areas is to the north of
Bethesdo Naval Hospital in Mont
gomery County. In another of a
scries of oeriol photographs, the orca
is clearly pictured and labeled on
page B-t of today's real estatt
section.
HE ROPED THEM IN—A year ogo,
the Sunday School of the Christion
and Missionary Allionce Church tn
West Hyattsville had 12 pupils. Now,
thanks to the efforts of an ingenious
young man, the class is bulging with
129 pupils. How this young mon used
a rope and other techniques to boost
attendance figures is told on page
A 8.
Guide for Readers
Amusements A-7 Lost, Found A 3
Churches . A- 8 -11 Obituary A-S
Classified A-14-21 Rodio-TV B-11
Comics ...8-10-11 Reol Estote B-l-12
Editorial A-4 Society _ A-14
Edit'l Articles A-5 Sports ..Ji-12 13