Weather Forecast
Sunny today, high in upper 80s. To
morrow fair and continued warm. (Full
report on Page A-2.)
Hourly Temperatures.
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2 p.m 78 8 p.m 80 Midnight 68
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Anti-Communists Invading
Guatemala See Early Victory
Against Only Feeble Resistance
'Liberation Army'
Pushes 25 Miles
Inside Country
By the Associated Press
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras,
June 19.—Anti-Communist chiefs
announced tonight they are en
countering only feeble resistance
on their invasion of Guatemala
and said they expected to win
over the whole country in a few
days.
Leaders of the “liberation j
army” of Col. Carlos Castillo j
U. S. Denies Claim Guatemala Reds Are ;
Aggression Victims. Poge A-6
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Armas said their forces had pen- j
etrated up to 25 miles inside
Guatemala in their march on the
capital city and “the people of
Guatemala are arising to our
cause.” (Fighting was reported
only 60 miles from the capital.
An invasion headquarters had
been set up at the Honduran
town of Copan, four miles from
Guatemala’s border.
Four of the top leaders, includ
ing the liberation army’s chief of
information, Manuel Orellana
Portillo, participated in the brief
ing of reporters there.
"Only sporadic scraps” with
Guatemalan army forces were
being fought. Orellana Portillo
said. He added that at many
places Guatemalan border guards
had been withdrawn, leaving the
frontier virtually undefended. *
Ports Reported Captured.
Earlier, the anti-Communist
forces had reported the capture
of Guatemala's two chief ports, I
the shipping center of Puerto
Barrios on the east coast, and
San Jose, an air and naval base
on the west coast. This claim
was disputed by the Guatemalan
government.
The rebels said two other is
land towns. Zacapa, a dairy cen
ter near the Honduran border,
and Retalhuleu in the opposite
corner, near the Mexican border,
might well be in rebel hands
though they made no precise
claim.
Guatemalan Foreign Minister
Guillermo Toriello charged the
Nicaragua government with sup
porting the invasion, and or
dered his ambassador here to
protest against Col. Castillo’s
forces being allowed to concen
trate in Honduras.
Honduran Foreign Minister J.
Edgardo Valenzuela announced
he had issued "strict orders” to
military and civilian authorities
to take positive steps to see that
“Honduras’ traditional neutral
ity in her international affairs”
was observed.
Col. Castillo, leader of the
revolution, was reported to have
established a secret headquar
ters inside Guatemala.
Several Killed in Bombing.
First casualty reports came
from the Guatemalan radio,
which said several persons were
killed and injured during a
bombing raid on the capital
this morning. The number of
casualties was not given.
This was the third bombing
raid on the capital. Two at
tacks were made there Friday.
Guatemalan diplomats in
Washington said there also had
been casualties from bombings
and strafings in Zacapa, San
Jose, Puerto Barrios and Retal
huleu.
Except for the raid, Associated
Press Dispatches from Guate
mala City said, the capital was
quiet. The people were said to
be taking the situation calmly.
The rebels’ secret radio re
ported that the invading army
had captured seven sectors, but
identified them only by code
names.
It said all operations were
being conducted successfully,
(See GUATEMALA, Page A-7.)
Sixth Russian Execution
MOSCOW, June 19. (IP).
Moscow newspapers announced
today the execution by shooting
of a man who slashed and
strangled a girl after attempting
to rape her. It was the sixth
death sentence imposed since the
restoration of capital punish
,-ment in murder cases which was
announced May 7.
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Truman Goes Under Knife
In Midnight Emergency
'lt's Appendicitis/ Says Ex-President's Wife
As She Arrives at Kansas City Hospital
By the Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Sunday, June
; 20.—Former President Truman
I was taken to surgery in Research
( Hospital at 12:30 a.m. today for
I an emergency operation.
Hospital attendants quoted
! Mrs. Bess Truman, the former |
| President’s wife, as saying, “It’s
appendicitis.” She arrived at the
hospital at 12:30 a.m. and went
! directly to the sixth floor
j surgery.
The 70-year-old ex-President
walked into the hospital at 10
o’clock last night after a one
day illness and at midnight his
physician, Dr. Wallace Graham,
said, “Mr. Truman has an acute
illness.”
The doctor would say no more
regarding his patient’s condition.
“We’ll see in about two hours,”
he said.
It was only 30 minutes later
when the former President was
wheeled onto the elevator to go
to surgery.
Before he was taken to sur
gery a nurse was seen taking a
paper and pencil into his room.
“The President wants to write
a letter,” she said.
Mr. Truman was taken ill Fri
day night at Kansas City s "ana-
Guatemalan Chief
Admits Penetration
Os 'Some Kilometers'
President Arbenz Sees
Ultimate Victory for
Own Forces, However
By the Associated Press
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras,
June 19.—Guatemalan President
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman admitted
in a radio address tonight that
invading forces have made pene
trations of “some kilometers” in
to Guatemala but predicted vic
tory for his own army.
Part of the speech was inaud
ible due to jamming by the clan
destine Guatemalan radio.
Col. Arbenz. speaking in a sol
emn voice, said the departments
of Barrios and Chicamula “have
been penetrated by the invaders.’'
He accused Col. Rodolfo Men
doza. former chief of the Guate
malan air force who fled the
country several weeks ago. of
“machinegunning women and
children” in Guatemala City.
(A Guatemala dispatch said
Mendoza's home was one of two
burned to the ground in the at
tack.)
The broadcast heard in Tegu
cigalpa called Mendoza & “trai
tor.”
The only deaths Arbenz men
tioned were one child who he
said died from wounds when hit
in the mouth by a machinegun
bullet.
Six persons had been reported
wounded in the strafing.
Col. Arbenz charged Honduras,
Nicaragua, the Dominican Re
public, Costa Rica, El Salvador
and Cuba with having forces in
the invading ranks.
He criticized mainly Honduras
for allowing an open movement
of invading forces out of Tegu
cigalpa.
The president said invading
forces under the command of
Col. Carlos Castillo Armas had
achieved penetrations of “some
kilometers” in the departments
of Chicimula and Zacapa. Ir,ese
departments touch the Honduran
border about midway between
the Caribbean and Pacific.
Fighting has been reported in
the town of Zacapa which is
about 60 miles from Guatemala
City.
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light Theater” where he had gone
to make a surprise appearance in
the play “Call Me Madam,”
based on the activities of Mrs
Perle Mesta, Washington party
; giver and ambassador to Luxem
j bourg under Mr. Truman.
At that time and again last
evening, members of the family
said the former president had
suffered an attack of acute indi
gestion and was much better.
Mrs. Truman had said early
last evening that the former;
President had stayed inside all I
day and was feeling better. He
usually makes a visit to his
Kansas City office on Saturday
mornings.
Mr. Truman has enjoyed ex
tremely good health since his re
turn to his Independence home
a year and a half ago after his !
seven-year tenure in the White I
House.
The peppery ex-President was
70 years old last May 8.
Yoshida Postpones Tour
TOKYO, June 20. (Sunday),
UP). Prime Minister Shigeru
Yoshida will postpone his world
tour until autumn, the chief
policymaker of his liberal party
said today
Two-Thirds of D.C.
Occupied by Families
Os Middle Incomes
$6,000 a Year Average;
Survey Shows City Is
Economically Healthy
By George Beveridge
Nearly two-thirds of the Dis
trict’s 96 census tracts are oc
cupied by “middle-income” reii
; dents, with the highest and low
est income groups spread almost
equally among the other tracts,
a Washington Board of Trade
economic study showed yester
day.
The extensive survey—which
led to conclusions that Wash
ington is healthier economically
than many other cities—esti
mated the present gross income
per household at about $6,000 a
year. This, officials said, com
pares with a $5,100 average for
1949.
Based on 1950 census findings
and other factors, the study
rated each of the tracts accord
ing to seven general income
categories. It found:
1. The three highest income
categories are concentrated en
tirely in the northwest section.
2. The lowest are north of the
Capitol and east of Eleventh
street, southeast of the Capitol
and—lowest of all-in southwest
Washington.
Middle income areas extend
from Georgia avenue and Rock
Creek Park through all the area
southeast of the Anacostia River.
4. There are nearly twice as
: many households, 6,735, in the
j highest income group, as the
; 3,490 households in the very low
, est category.
The Board of Trade report
was optimistic about the status
of the central area, and cited
; the Georgetown restoration as a
j major example of “economic re
. juvenation.” It added:
, “In most cities the areas bor
, dering the center, being the old
| est parts of the city, consist
{ mainly of dilapidated slum
dwellings housing low-income
( families.”
. The survey was made by the
[! board's economic development
department, which has as a
major goal the attraction of new
industry and business to the
area.
Dr. Jerome Pickard, the de
partment’s research director,
said the survey was made “sim
(See INCOME, Page A-35.)
! Summer Starts —Officially—
j Tomorrow, Year's Longest Day
s This should be as good a day j
3 as any to talk about the first
~ : day of summer, which is tomor
*
x row.
s Today itself will be balmy and
r summery, with sunny skies and
a high of 85 some time this aft- ;
s ernoon, good weather for a pic
nic or a ride in the convertible.
! Summer gets here officially at
-6:55 p.m. tomorrow, the time of
!i the summer solstice literally.
;-j | "when the sun stands still.” j
i 1 It’s the day when the sun is
0 up the longest—the longest day
0 of the year. The summer solstice
n is the time each year when the
o sun is directly above the Tropic
0 of Cancer, an imaginary line cir- j
j cling the earth 23 Vi degrees |
2 north of the Equator.
I From now on the sun will be i
1
Talks Arranged
On Cambodia
And Laos Truce
Military Negotiators
Told to Report Back
Within Three Weeks
By tha Associated Brass
GENEVA, June 19.—East and
West agreed tonight that Com
munist and anti-Communist
military leaders of the Indo- j
China war should begin talks at
once toward a cease-fire in Laos 1
and Cambodia.
These would parallel or be
merged with discussions on for
New French Cabinet Has Fewer and
Younger Members. Page A-5
two weeks now between repre
sentatives of the French Union
i and Red Viet Minh high com
mands toward a cease-fire for
Viet Nam. Viet Nam has seen
the most fighting of all three
of the French Union Associated
States of Indo-China.
The agreement came In an
! extraordinary Saturday night
| session of the eight-week-old,
I nine-party Indo-China confer
ence, held on the eve of the de
partures of top United States,
British and Soviet delegates. ,
The conference, said a com
munique from the closed-door
session, decided to meet again
Tuesday. It asked the military I
negotiators on all three Indo-
China states to report in 21 days.
Smith Ready to Leave.
Walter Bedell Smith, United
States Undersecretary of State,
and Anthony Eden, British for
eign secretary, earlier announced
that they were leaving for home
tomorrow with their return un
certain.
V. M. Molotov, Soviet foreign
minister, left for Moscow tonight.
He and others took off in five
planes. Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko was left in
charge in Geneva.
A delegation spokesman said :
Chou En-lai, Chinese Communist |
premier-foreign minister also
would depart soon.
Mr. Eden, who had a final
meeting with Mr. Molotov to
night, was reported to regard
tonight’s agreement as a real
step forward. Gen. Smith was
understood to have expressed
on particular points
in It.
Richard G. Casey, Australian
foreign minister, flew to London
today and reported a “marked
lessening of tension” and a “turn
for the better” here.
Mendes-Franee Cancels Trip.
French sources said Premier
Pierre Mendes-Franee had can.
celled plans to come to Geneva
Tuesday on learning that the
' big-power leaders he wanted to
see were going home.
Mr. Mendes-Franee, before he 1
was confirmed in office, told the
French National Assembly i
Thursday night he would resign
if he could not make peace in
Indo-China by July 20. The
conference timetable would have
the military negotiators report
10 days before that deadline.
China Held Asking
Deal on U. S. Flyers
By Associated Press
BOSTON. June 19.—The Post
says that United States diplo
mats at the Geneva conference
were given less than 72 hours
ago “positive knowledge” that
American pilots captured in the
Korea war are being held as po
litical hostages on the Chinese
mainland.
The Post quotes a State De
partment attache in Washington
as saying the lives of the airmen
, are being “bartered in attempts
to blackmail the United States
. into recognizing Red China.”
“The Red Chinese have told
. the United States Government
; that they are under ‘no obliga
i tion’ to return these American
r fliers,” the Post says in its copy
> righted story.
According to the Post, the
. State Department attache said
the number of American cap
tives held by the Chinese Com
munists could be termed “sub
stantial."
I headed south, on its way to
bring summer to the Southern
Hemisphere six months hence.
The warm weather also has
brought out the Japanese beetle.
They opened their 1954 season
in the Metropolitan Area early
last week and are expected to
increase in number until about
mid-July, according to George
S. Langford, insect control spe
cialist at the University of Mary
land.
The beetles will be around until
about Ihe beginning of Septem
ber. Mr. Langford said he an
ticipates no more beetles this
year than last year.
Probably hardest hit by this
year’s crop, Mr. Langford pre
dicted, will be new communities
where the soil has been disturbed
i recently.
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U. N. Council Session
Moved up to Today
On Guatemala Issue
Only Previous Sunday
Session Was in 'SO When
Korean War Started
By the Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
June 19.—The United Nations
Security Council will meet here
at 3 pm. (EDT), Sunday in ex
traordinary session on the Gua
temalan conflict instead of Mon
day. afternoon as previously
scheduled. The change was an
nounced late tonight after Gua- j
temala’s delegate pressed re- j
peatedly for the urgent session.
The Council has met in such
a special Sunday session only
once before. That was on June t
25, 1950. to cope with the Korean.
war which began on that day.
The Council president for
June, United States Ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge, jr., at first
declined to call a week-end
meeting —for either Saturday
or Sunday. Most delegates were
reported week ending outside of
the immediate area and could
not be located readily Saturday
afternoon.
However, as the Guatemalan
pressed for the urgent meeting
on nis government’s charges
that Honduras and Nicaragua
have committed “open aggres- j
sion” the request was reconsid
ered and the Sunday meeting
was set up.
The Guatemalan government
pleaded that the Council stop the
Central American conflict with
U. N. armed force if necessary.
In a 1,000-word cable, Guate
mala charged the armed attack
on the Arbenz regime was in
stigated by “certain foreign mo
nopolies whose interests have |
been affected” by Guatemala’s
policy of “economic and social
progress.” It said a United
States arms embargo had left
Guatemala without an air force
sufficient to repel it.
Foreign Minister Guillermo
Toriello sent the cable to Mr.
Lodge asking him “urgently to
convent” a council meeting.
Mr. Toriello said the Council
should “take the measures neces
sary to prevent the disruption
of peace end international se
curity in this part of Central
America and also to put a stop
to the aggression in progress
against Guatemala.”
He proposed that it do this
under three U. N. charter ar
ticles (34, 35 and 39) that au
thorize it to call for disruption
of economic and trade relations
and, as a last resort, for use of
member nations’ "land, sea and
air forces” to halt aggression.
Storm Grounds Flyer
On Alaska to D. C. Hop
By the Associated Pratt
ANNETTE ISLAND. Alaska,
June 19.—Del Fuhriman, 44-
i year-old flying farmer of Tre
! menton, Utah, took off from
!here at 4:30 a.m. today in his
: single-engine light plane on an
attempted 2,730-mile flight to
Washington. D. C.
Twelve hours later, the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police at
Edmonton, Alberta, said that
Mr. Fuhriman had reported in
as over Minot, N. D., on his
course and approximately on
schedule.
The CAA at Minneapolis said
later, however, that thunder
showers over the Northern Plains
States forced Mr. Furhiman to
j land at Fargo. N. D.
Mr. Fuhriman’s Cessna car
ried enough gas for 26 hours and
1 5 minutes of flying. He estimated
it would take him 25 hours at
110 miles an hour to make the
trip. If he completes the flight,
it will be a new non-stop record
for light planes.
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Hawaiian Delegate Farrington ji
Found Dead in Capitol Office
Coronary Ailment
Fatal to Crusader
For Isles' Statehood
Joseph Rider Farrington, dele- ■
gate to Congress from Hawaii
and a strong advocate of state
hood for that territory, was
found dead in his office last
night. He was 56 years old.
Mr. Farrington’s personal phy
sician, Dr. Matthew W. Perry,
said he died of a coronary
occlusion.
“He’s been living on borrowed [
time for quite a while and he
knew it.” Dr. Perry said.
The doctor said Mr. Farring
ton had been dead for several
hours and apparently died in- i
stantly. Mr. Farrington had
suffered for a long time from
heart trouble, the doctor said, j
and had had two or three bad
attacks in the past.
Mr. Farrington, who was born
in Washington, had served as
delegate of Hawaii since 1942.
He was a Republican. Before
coming to Congress, he had
served two four-year terms in
the Hawaiian Senate.
Secretary Finds Body.
His body was found by his sec
retary, Mrs. Margaret C. Turner,
2822 Devonshire place N.W., and
Jan Jabulka, of the Hawaiian
Statehood Commission.
He was last seen alive at 2:45
p.m. yesterday afternoon when
Senator Welker's Tip Brings
Senators First Bonus Rookie
By Burton Hawkins ,
Star Staff Correspondent
BALTIMORE, June 19.—A 17- j
year-old Idaho semipro sensa
tion. Harmon Killebrew, was
! signed by the Senators today for
an estimated $50,000, becoming
the first bonus player in the his
tory of the club.
Killebrew, a 6-foot, 195-pound j
infielder who bats and throws 1 ,
righthanded, was recommended |
by Senator Herman Welker of
Idaho and was scouted by Ossie
Bluege, farm director. He will
join the team in Chicago Tues- !
day and must remain with the
club for two years under the j
bonus rule which prohibits farm- i
ing out players who receive more
than $4,000 for signing.
The Senators outbid 12 other |
major league clubs for Killebrew
after the youngster gave Bluege j
an eye-popping demonstration
of his ability in three semipro;
games at his home' town, Payette,
Idaho. Killebrew batted 12 times j
in three games and accumulated ;
12 hits—four home runs, three
triples and five singles.
Idaho’s Top Athlete.
“Killebrew swings a bat better j
than any youngster I’ve ever:
seen,” Bluege said. “Perhaps the i
only player in the American j
League who is faster is Mickey
Mantle of the Yankees.”
Calvin Griffith, vice president
of the Senators, said the club
paid Killebrew “almost as much
j as we offered Paul Giel.” Giel,
Minnesota Pitcher and All-
America backfield star, was of
i sered $63,000 by the Senators but
i signed with the New York Giants
for a reported $60,000.
Killebrew, voted the Nation’s |
! outstanding schoolboy quarter- :
back, also was named as Idaho’s
top athlete in baseball, football
and basketball. He had a scho
lastic batting average of .500 for
four years.
The young lnflelder who had
1 numerous collegiate scholarship
offers, batted .446 in the semipro
Idaho-Oregon Border League last
season. This year his batting
average was a fantastic .847.
Bluege Steps It Off.
If some of the feats appear
astounding, they appeared un
Capital Jets
The District National Air Guard is at
Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts
brushing up on its primary mission—the
defense of Washington. For special story
by Star Staff Reporter Harry Lever, see
Page A-9.
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; DELEGATE FARRINGTON.
Mrs. Turner left him in his of
fice.
He talked by telephone with a
friend about 3:20 p.m., and re
ported he was not feeling well.
When he failed to appear at a
party, at Mrs. George Bean’s at
3406 Que street N.W., and it was
learned he was not at home, a
check was made at his office,
where he was found dead at 8:30
p.m. Police and the coroner were I!
summoned.
His was the second death of a
member of Congress yesterday. \
Senator Hunt, Democrat, of
(Continued on Page A-12, Col. 1.)
believable to Bluege even while
I he was watching Killebrew in
j action. One of the home runs
Ossie witnessed cleared a fence
at a point marked 435 feet.
Bluege was skeptical of the dis
tance, stepped it off and con- j
firmed what his eyes refused to
admit.
Killebrew played third base
while Bluege watched him and
Ossie admitted, “Frankly, I
j didn’t see as much of his fleld-
I ing as I would have liked to,
» but if he’s deficient in that re
spect we can teach him.”
Senator Welker told Clark
| Griffith that he was particularly j
j anxious for Washington to ob- j
tain Killebrew because of the;
admiration Idahoans have for
Griff and the late Walter John- [
i son, who came from Weiser,
Idaho.
Killebrew is the son of the
• late H. C. Killebrew. who died j
last year, and who was men- !
tioned on Walter Camp’s All-
American football squad in 1916
while playing for West Virginia.
Zanzibar Editor Sentenced
As Cruiser Stands By
By the Associated Press
ZANZIBAR. June 19.—A Brit
i ish resident magistrate today
! banned the Arab newspaper A1
1 Falaq for one year and gave
Editor Ahmed Mohammed Lemki
a choice of six months in jail
or fines totaling nearly $2,800 :
for publishing pro-Communist
articles.
Police were standing by and
the British cruiser Ceylon waited
vn the harbor on official orders
as Magistrate W. M. MacKenzie
delivered his verdict in the sedi
tion trial of nine leaders of this
spice island’s Arab population.
The trial ended 10 days ago.
Disorders had been feared, but
the crowd of about 800 milling
outside the courthouse dispersed
quietly after the announcement
of the verdict.
Mr. MacKenzie ordered confis
cation of the printing plant of
A1 Falaq. organ of the local Arab
association. He told the eight
defendants besides Lemki to put
up cash guarantees that they ;
will keep the peace—with penal- I
ties up to $2,100 for any offenses
committed. i
Senator Hunt
Kills Self With.
Rifle in Office
Two Operations Fail;
Concern Over Health
Cited as Reason
Senator Lester C. Hunt, 61,
Democrat, of Wyoming, took his
own life yesterday by putting a
.22 caliber rifle bullet through
his head while seated in his
Senate office.
He died three and a half hours
later at Casualty Hospital after
two operations had failed to
save his life. District Coroner A.
Magruder MacDonald issued a
certificate of suicide.
Senator Hunt’s action came 11
days after he had announced
that he would not run for re
election next November because
of ill health.
Kidney Ailment Cited.
His administrative assistant,
Mike Manatos, explained that
“apparently he suffered from a
kidney affliction which had given
him great cause for concern.”
Also, Mr. Manatos said, tha
Senator had “been undergoing
extensive medical examinations
at the Bethesda Naval Hospital
throughout June and for some
time before.”
President Eisenhower and fel
low Senators immediately voiced
their grief at the death of the
popular Wyoming lawmaker.
Senate Recess Tomorrow.
Senate Majority Leader Know
land, Republican, of California,
announced the Senate will recess
Monday out of respect to Sena
tor Hunt.
In that chamber, the death
strips the Democratic Party of a
one-man majority. Senator Hunt
is expected to be replaced by a
Republican, which would give an
actual majority of votes to the
party which technically controls
the Senate.
A spokesman for the family
said last night that funeral plans
would not be made until the ar
rival by air of the Senator’s son
and daughter The body wflt
taken to the District morgue
pending transfer to Gawler’s
funeral home, 1756 Pennsylvania
avenue NW. It will lie in state
at the Chapel there from noon ’
today until 10 p.m.
The son, Lester Callaway
Hunt, jr., a student at the Uni
versity of Chicago, was expected
to arrive late last night.
The daughter. Mrs. Russell H.
W. Chadwick of Spokane, Wash.,
was due today.
Wife Is Stricken.
Senator Hunt’s wife of 36
years, the former Emily N. Hig
by, who was in an adjoining
room at the hospital when he
died at 12:32 p.m., retired to
their home at 5105 Linnean
avenue N.W., stricken with
shock.
That was the home he left
yesterday morning for the last
time. The elevator operator who
took him to the third floor of the
Senate Office Building at 8:30
a.m. said he noticed the butt of
a rifle protruding from Senator
Hunt’s coat.
Although the Senator had
several prized pistols in his office
and a high-powered rifle, his
assistant said he had never seen
the gun used in the shooting.
Leaves Four Notes.
Senator Hunt left four notes,
police said, and it was these
which led to discovery of his
body.
They were addressed to Mrs.
Hunt; to Percy Spencer, presi
dent of the Sinclair Oil Corp.,
in New York; to Mr. Manatos.
jointly with Ira Whitlock, the
Senator’s secretary: and to Miss
Betty Phelan, the Senator’s con
fidential secretary, police said.
I Mr. Manatos, however, said
: there were only three—those to
Mrs. Hunt and the staff. He
found them on his desk, he re
lated, when he arrived at the
office at 8:55 a.m., about 10 min
utes later than Mr. Whitlock.
The door into the Senator's
! private office, usually open, was
[closed, Mr. Manatos said. To
gether. he added, he and Mr.
Whitlock entered and found Sen
ator Hunt wounded in his chair
with the gun lying beside him.
He said he called Dr.. George W.
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1 11,000 Lose Jobs in Akron
I AKRON, Ohio. June 19 (JP).—
Employment in 183 firms report
ing to an Ohio State Employ
ment Service survey here has
; slipped back about 11,000 workers
since January, and Mayor Leo
A. Berg tonight foresaw “real
! trouble unless there is a real
' drop in relief needs.”
Children Suffer
If Parents Part
THE CHILD'S FATE—When par
ents are divorced, children often art
regarded as property to be fought
ever and bargained for. Tha effect of
this on a child is discussed in the
seventh in a series on divorce by
Howard Whitman on Fage A-8.
BYRD AND MAHONEY—The twe
candidates for the Democratic nomi
nation for Governor of Maryland hava
been in controversies—and headlines—
for years. Star Reporter Gene Good
win recounts their past triumphs and
tribulations an Paga A-35.
Complete Index, Page A-2
Radio-TV Programs, Pages E-6-7