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U.S.and France Reject Red Plea
To Delay German Rearming;
Propaganda Trickery Feared
Mendes-France,
Dulles Spurn
Molotov's Bid
By Francis P. Douglas
Secretary of State Dulles and
French Premier Mendes-France
rejected yesterday, in effect, a
Soviet bid for delay in ratifica
tion of the Paris agreements on
the re-armanent of Germany.
The two leaders had before
them at their final conference
the news dispatches on Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotov’s offer
JfcO-dgree to a later date than
November 29 for the parley on
European security proposed by
Russia in exchange for a delay
on the Paris pact.
It was learned that the news
from Moscow was discussed and
dismissed, after which a com
munique was issued. It urged
early ratification of the agree
ments on Germany.
Addresses U. N. Tomorrow.
Mr. Dulles and Mr. Mendes-
France* did not, of course, have
the Molotov proposal before
them in concrete form and their
rejection was implied rather than
stated. Officials said after the
conference, however, that a for
mal rejection will be issued if
necessary.
The proposal from Moscow was
responsible for prolonging the
conference and delaying for an
hour Mr. Mendes-France’s de
parture for New York, where he
is to address the United Nations
tomorrow. He is scheduled to
* return to France by plane Tues
day.
The recommendation for “early
ratification” of the Paris agree
ments contained in the joint
communique had already been
drawn up when news of Molo
tov’s overture arrived from Mos
cow, it was learned. Signifi
cantly, the development caused
no change in the wording.
Propoganda Aim Feared.
That section of the communi
que said:
“With regard to Europe, it was
agreed that the early ratifica
tion of the Paris agreements by
all countries concerned will
strengthen the unity of the
Western World. It should open
the way for consideration of
means of improving international
relations in accordance with the
spirit of the goals of the charter
of the United Nations, both gov
ernments bein gready to enter,
not into improvised debates in
tended mainly for propaganda,
but into adequately prepared ne
gotiations carried on in good
faith.”
The latter part of this state
ment closely parallelled the
statement which Mr. Mendes-
France made in his speech Fri
day. He said then:
“The disappointing nature of
the latest notes from the Soviet
Union should not deflect us from
our steady purpose of being al
ways ready to negotiate—but to
negotiate in good faith and with
adequate preparation,' not
through improvised and spectec
ular conferences intended prin
cipally for propaganda."
Agree on Indo-China Action.
Mr. Mendes-France and Mr.
Dulles, in addition to agreeing on
the need for “airly ratification
of the Paris agreements,” also
agreed on "co-ordinated pro
cedures” to meet a growing Com
munist threat in the Indo-China.
Against the background of re
liable reports that the Commu
nist forces in Northern Viet Nam
(See MENDES-FRANCE, P. A-7.)
Civil War Veteran, 106,
Bags Deer Opening Day
By the Associated Press
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE,
Fla., Nov. 20.—William A. (Uncle
Bill) Lundy, one of the three
surviving Confederate veterans,
opened the deer season by bag
ging one of the first deer killed
on the big Eglin reservation.
The 106-year-old warrior shot
the six-point, 140-pounder near
Auxiliary Field 3, and promised,
“I’ll be back next week and get
another one.”
Mr. Lundy, an ardent hunter
most of his life, said the buck
“ran right out in front of me
and hiked up his head in the
right position for me to paste
him right between his eyes."
He said shooting the animal
made him “feel good, just like
I do after taking a good swig
of homemade skeeter juice.”
Holiday Food Ads
In The Star Tomorrow
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anxious to obtain food bargains for
Thanksgiving Day The Star pub.
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vertising for the week in tomorrow's
editions.
By shopping The Star for tomor
row's holiday specials you will get a
head start in preparing the festive
table for Thanksgiving.
Don't miss the wide assortment of
food ads in The Star tomorrow.
Longer Sets Hearing Tuesday
On Justice Role in Bias Charge
Youngdahl and Rover Invited to Appear
In Probe of Lattimore Case Affidavit
Senator Langer, Republican, of
North Dakota, yesterday said he
was inviting Attorney General
Brownell, Federal Judge Luther
W. Youngdahl and United
States Attorney Leo A. Rover to
a public hearing Tuesday to in
vestigate “the conduct of the
Department of Justice in filing”
an affidavit of bias against the
judge.
Judge Youngdahl later told
reporters he had not yet received
the invitation and declined to
say whether he would accept.
Brownell Out of Touch, q
Mr. Rover said he had been
invited by telephone to attend.
He said that in such cases, es
pecially where a pending trial
is involved, it is customary to
“be guided by the department.”
He said he would ask the advice
of Deputy Attorney General
William Rogers tomorrow as to
whether to attend the hearing.
Mr. Brownell, on a trip to
South America, was unavailable
for comment.
Judge Youngdahl had dis
missed part of a perjury indict
ment Owen Lattimore,
Far East specialist accused of
Molotov Makes Bid
To Delay Ratification
Os Arming Germany
Couples Offer to Defer
Security Talks With
Warning to West
By the Associated Press
MOSCOW, Nov. 20.—Soviet
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov
offered today to postpone the
Russian-proposed all-European
conference on collective security
if the Western powers hold up
ratification of the Paris agree- |
ments on rearming West Ger
many.
He coupled the offer with a
warning that the Soviet Union
and the “peace-loving European ;
states” would take counter!
measures for their own security
if the West persists in bringing
West Germany into the Atlantic |
defense alliance—a move which
he said poses the “threat of a
new war.”
Russia had set November 29
as a date for the security confer
ence, which would include the
United States. Communist China
was invited as an observer.
(Recent events have indi
cated the Soviet Union is
planning to set up an East
European security system as a
counter measure to the West’s
North Atlantic Treaty Organi
zation.
(British sources believe the
Soviets will hold the conference
in Moscow even if the Western
' powers decline to attend. One
by one the Soviet satellite
states are agreeing to partici
pate. It is believed that Soviet
Marshals Georgi Zhukov, Vasily
Sokolovsky and Konstantin
Rokossovsky, all World War
II heroes, are now working out '
details of the new alliance.)
Replies at News Conference.
Replying to four questions
from a Pravda correspondent,
Mr. Molotov declared ratifica
tion of the Paris agreements
“will undermine existing possi
bilities for settling outstanding
European problems and first of
all the German problem.”
The questions and replies were
read to newsmen at a conference
presided over by Leonard Ilyi
chev, chief of the press depart
ment of the Foreign Ministry.
Mr. Molotov said rejection of
the Paris agreements by the
Western parliaments, scheduled
to act on them before March 1,
would open the possibihty of
achieving accord on “carrying
out all-German free elections
with a secret ballot and safe
guarding the democratic riehts
of the population of all Ger
many.”
The foreign minister charged
that the United States, Britain
and France were doing every
thing in their power .to prevent
holding of the all-European se
curity conference which the
Soviet Union proposed on No
vember 13. •
Instead, Mr. Molotov claimed
(See MOSCOW, Page A-7.)
Churchill College Planned
LONDON, Nov. 20 col
lege in Israel is to be named for
Prime Minister ChurchilL The
British Committee for Technical
Development in Israel said he
has consented to use qf his name
by some institution in a univer
sity and technical training cen
ter to-be built at a cost of almost
S2O million on Mt. Carmel, over
looking Haifa.
Sunday Skf
J WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION
*** WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 21, 1954—182 PAGES.
’ | swearing falsely that he was not
a sympathizer with communism.
Mr. Rover later obtained a
new indictment against Latti
more and then asked Judge
Youngdahl, former Republican
Governor of Minnesota, to dis
qualify himself.
Judge Youngdahl overruled this
request as “scandalous,” and the
Justice Department later an
nounced there would be no ap
peal.
This brought a sharply worded
memo from Judge Youngdahl,
who said the Government should
not acknowledge the charge of
bias was “without substance.”
Mr. Rover replied that the
Government’s position “has been
stated” in the affidavit of preju
dice and “any additional state
ment on my part would be in
appropriate.”
Senator Langer, chairman of
the Senate Judiciary Committee,
said he was acting at the request
of Senator Hennings, Democrat,
of Missouri.
Senator Langer appointed him
self, Senator Hennings and Sen
ator Wiley, Republican, of Wis
consin as a. subcommittee to
handle the controversy.
Materialism Called
Real Enemy of U. S.
By Catholic Bishops
Nation Must Renew
Its Christian Faith,
Conference Warns
The real enemy of the United
States is atheistic materialism
jand the Nation “must recover
and renew its Christian faith”
if it is to survive, the Roman
j Catholic bishops of the country
i said yesterday in their annual
statement.
This was issued at the close of
their annual meeting at Catholic
Text of Bishops' Statement. Page A-5.
University. It was signed in the
names of all the bishops by the
! administrative board of the Na
i tional Catholic Welfare Confer-
I ence.
“The battle is joined,” said the
bishops. “If our Nation is to
escape the fate of Poland and of
China, of Yugoslavia and of Hun
gary, and of so many others, if
we are to survive as a free Chris
tian Nation, then we must be
clear-eyed and. we must be
strong. It is the blind and the
weak who fall into the pit.
Spiritual Vision Better.
“We need, first of all, to iden
tify our enemy; to recognize it
for what it really is. Some see
the enemy only as a political
state or group of states, or merely
as an economic system. Spiritual
vision gives better intelligence of
the fact. The enemy is atheistic
| materialism. Whether it be en
trenched in the organs of a
foreign state, or in one of our
own domestic institutions, it is
atheistic materialism that seeks
to destroy us. That is the enemy.”
The bishops declared: “The
true strength of a Christian
nation is in the power of God
which outweighs all force of
arms.”
But they asserted: “Unfortun
ately, in recent times the drift
from God and from the spir
itual view of life has seriously
weakened this country.”
They urged a revival of faith.
“We in our day shall conquer
the new paganism, atheistic ma
(See BISHOPS, Page A-7.)
Elevated Parking Platforms Over D. C. Intersections Studied
By Hector McLean
Serious consideration is being
given in the District Government
to ®onstruct parking
perhaps two or three stories high
—over strategic intersections in
the city’s highway system, The
Star learned yesterday.
The platforms would be located
at points where major “radial”
highways—like North Capitol
street and New York avenue
cross the proposed “inner belt”
street network which is designed
to shunt traffic aroqnd the down
town area.
Thus, the platforms would be
additions to the District’s fringe
parking system—in which only
one lot (ground level) has been
put into operation so far. Motor
ists could park and continue their
trips on foot, in buses or in taxi
cabs.
The platforms would be lo
cated over intersections where
the District already has plans to
put In cloverleaf-type "Inter
Nine Lose Lives
In Two Virginia
Plane Crashes
Five Texans Killed
As Craft Hits Slope
Near Skyline Drive
Nine persons were killed in two
Virginia airplane crashes last
night, five of them when a twin
engine craft from Texas slammed
into the eastern slope of the
Blue Ridge mountains just off
Skline Drive near Waynesboro.
The other four persons—one a
boy, 14, and the other a young
child —died when their single
engine plane crashed and burned
in low. flat land about 400 yards
from the post office at New
Ferry, just off Stats Route in
Halifax County near the North
Carolina line.
The dead, as identified by
State police were:
At Waynesboro—A. P. Los
kamp, William H. Griffith, Ar
thur N. Soper, jr., the pilot; Jo
seph Rogers Kolodzie, all of Sin
ton, Texas, and D. W. Graham
of Midland, Texas.
At "!New Ferry—Zeb Grubb
Little, 28, of Lexington, N. C.,
and Arnold H. Sloan, 39, of
Winston-Salem, and Sloan’s
children, Arnold N. jr., 9, and
John, 6.
En Route to Baltimore.
The Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration said the Texas plane
which crashed off Skyline Drive
was en route to Baltimore after
a refueling stop in Atlanta.
The plane, a converted Navy
PV-1, ploughed down a slope
about six miles north of the in
tersection of U. S. 250 and the
Skyline Drive in Albemarle
County on Calf Mountain about
5:45 p.m.
Robert Roemer, a Roanoke
Times sportswriter, saw the crash
en route to Roanoke from Char
lottesville, where he attended
the Virginia-North Carolina
football game.
He said the sky lit up to his
right “just like an atomic bomb.”
Crashes in Dense Fog.
The CAA said in Washington
the plane belonged to the Plym
outh Oil-Co. of Sinton, Tex.
Mr. Roemer said the plane
smacked on the crest of Calf
Mountain in dense fog and tore
a wide path down the mountain,
strewing wreckage on either side.
The CAA tower at Lynchburg,
60 miles directly southwest of the
crash site, said the pilot of the
doomed plane cancelled his in
strument flight plan at 5:26
p.m„ indicating he had satis
factory visual conditions to con
tinue the flight.
Residents of the area near the
New Ferry accident reported
hearing an explosion about 7
p.m., the time which police say
the plane struck the ground.
The -CAA said the craft had
not been in contact with any
of its stations in the area and
the pilot apparently had not
filed a flight plan.
Better Weather Promised
After Three Dismal Days
Better weather—not good, but
better—is in prospect today after
three days of clammy fog and
spraying rain.
The fog juggled commercial
airline schedules here until mid
morning yesterday but opera
tions had Returned aimost to
normal by afternoon. In New
York City, however, the gray
blanket caused cance’lation or
diversion of more than 200 com
mercial flights.
The Weather Bureau’s forecast
calls for considerable cloudiness
today with a high of about 54,
and for fair tonight with a low,
of 40 degrees.
changes,” which are designed to
eliminate stoplights and permit
a continuous flow of traffic.
Small Land Acquisition.
Therefore, no new land ac
quisition costs would be involved,
since the District will have to
buy land for the interchanges
anyway.
One exponent pointed out
that this type of fringe parking
lot would require no special, bus
service such as that to the city’s
only existing lot at South Cap
itol street and Firth Sterling
avenue.
“It would intercept traffic
within easy reach of downtown
and would be the kind of a
haul which the transit company
could take in its stride,” he said,
pointing out that bus or street
car lines already run past all
such locations.
The plan is to be studied in
connection with the proposed
“inner belt” system by highway
There Just Isn't Any Precedent!'
Woman Psychiatrist
Is Found Beaten to
# *
Death on Car Floor
Prominent Philadelphia
Doctor, 52, Trussed Up
With Leather Cords
By th* Associated Frost
CHESTER, Pa., Nov. 20.—Dr.
Elinor Marjorie Langton, 52, a
prominent Philadelphia psychia
trist, was found beaten to death
today on the floor of her auto
mobile.
The car was parked on p quiet,
residential street in this city of
60,000, a few miles south of
Philadelphia.
Her skull had apparently been
fractured by the killer’s blows.
There were deep bruises on the
face and head. Her ankles and
wrists Were bound with leather
cords. The upper part of her
clothing was disarranged.
Dr. Langton, who was unmar
ried, was on the staff of the Vet
erans Administration clinic in
Philadelphia. She lived at the
Drake Hotel there.
Parked Since Friday.
Residents here discovered the
slaying when they looked into a
car which had been parked along
the street since Friday night.
The body was lying cn its back
on top of an umbrella between
the front and back seats, with
the head resting partly against
th? seat and partly against a
rear door.
She was fully clad in a gray
dress and dark plaid cloth coat
but with the left shoe off the
foot. The shoe was found on
the floorboard in front of the
front seat.
Robbery Motive Doubted.
Robbery presumably was not
the motive, for several pieces
of her personal jewelry were
scattered about in the car.
Dr. Vincent M. Diodatl, head
of the professional services di
vision of the Veterans Adminis
tration branch where Dr. Lang
ton worked, said the slaying vic
tim was chief of the mental hy
giene clinic there for about three
years.
He described her as an “ex
cellent psychiatrist—one of the
best in the city.’*
Dr. Diodati said he last saw
Dr. Langton on Friday after
noon at the office. She was go
ing over a file of cases—bringing
them up to date with notations.
A native of Shenandoah, in
the eastern Pennsylvania coal
regions, Dr. Langton came from
a family widely known in medi
cine. Her parents were the late
Dr. D. J. Langton and Isabell
Scanlon Langton. A brother, Dr.
D. J. Langton, jr., died some
years ago, and a cousin, Dr. Leo
Scanlon, is a surgeon at St.
Agnes’ Hospital in Philadelphia.
consultants with wnom the Dis
trict i$ now negotiating.
Details of the contracts with
DeLeuw and Cathcr, Chicago en
gineering firm, are still being
worked/out, but will be signed
probably in a couple of weeks,
according to Douglas S. Brink
ley, Highway Department design
engineer. The study, he said,
should be completed about six
months later.
Some sites where the parking
platforms might oe located are
at North Capitol street and Flor
ida 'avenue, New York avenue
and Florida avenue N.E., and
over stretches of the Southwest
Freeway, which will run as a
“depressed highway” along whit
is now F street S. W.
As proposed, the platforms
would be connected with up
and-down ramps to all ap
proaching streets—which are to
be considerably widened anyway
under the District’s current
highway program.
Pardon Our Blank
Look, Page 1 Just
Got a Bit Pie-Eyed
' By th* Associated Press
GLENVILLE, W. Va. t Nov.
20. The weekly Glenville Dem
ocrat went to press last week
with a front page bearing only
its masthead and an embarrassed
explanation to readers.
“It only happens once in a
lifetime, but it does happen,”
the paper explained in a two
column box smack in the middle
of the page. “We had all the
paper made up and ready to go
to press at 3 p.m. Wednesday.
“En route from the make-up
stone to the press we pied the
whole front page. That means
that all the type, cuts, cutlines,
heads, leads, slugs and so forth
fell into a jumbled mass.
“Well, that’s all. Just a Jum
bled mass of slugs. We couldn’t
put them together in less than
a day, with the whole force
working, and then stories
wouldn’t come out right.
“So here we are with almost
a blank page one. Sorry. But
that’s the story this week. The
BIG STORY in the Glenville
Democrat printing shop.
“We’ll be back next week with
the regular edition.”
The other seven pages of the
paper were intact.
Terps Lace GW,
48-6; Ohio State
Takes Big 10 Title
Maryland kept its Orange
Bowl hopes alive with a con
vincing 48-6 victory over George
Washington at College Park yes
terday and unbeaten Ohio State
clinched the Big Ten champion
ship by beating Michigan, 21-7,
to become Southern California’s
foe in the Rose Bowl January 1.
Arkansas dropped a 7-6 de
cision to Louisiana State, but
was assured the host spot in
the Cotton Bowl when Baylor
defeated Southern Methodist, 33-
21, to knock the Mustangs from
contention in the Southwest
Conference race.
Oklahoma rolled over Ne
braska, 55-7, but Nebraska will
represent the Big Seven in the
Orange Bowl. Colorado spilled
Kansas State, 38-14, to assure
Nebraska second place in the
conference. Oklahoma played in
the Orange Bowl last January 1
and is ineligible this year.
Duke remained in the running j
with Maryland for the Atlantic ;
Coast Conference bid to the j
Orange Bowl by walloping South i
Carolina, 26-7. *
North Carolina beat Virginia,
26-14.
(Details in Sports Section.)
All sites for such structures
would' be carefully chosen to
avoid any impairment of Wash
ington’s famed scenic views,
i Site of “Inner Belt” Undecided.
Exact location of the proposed
“Inner belt” has not yet been
finally worked out. This is ex
pected to be one result of the
DeLeuw and Cather study.
Roughly, the north leg of the
“inner belt” will be in the neigh
borhood of Q, R and S streets.
Florida avenue is to be the
northwest leg. The eastern leg
Say have two parts, one east of
ie Capitol building at about
Eleventh street and one west of
the Capitol along Fourth street.
The Southwest Freeway Is to
serve as the south leg of the
“belt” or “loop” around Wash
ington’s central business dis
trict, while the west leg is to
involve Rock Creek Parkway
and Twenty-fourth or Twenty
fifth street*.
Remaking the City
The Southwest Redevelopment project
Is a long-range job and although Eze
kiah Cunningham is losing grocery cus
tomers now everybody will benefit when
it’s all over. For a progress roundup see
Page A-18.
An Associated Pres* Newepopoi FIFTEEN CENTS
President Tries Out
White House Links
To Secret Centers
Visits Bomb Shelter
To Talk to Aides at
Remote Control Posts
President Eisenhower tried out
j the communication lines in a.
; White House bomb shelter yes- j
terday as top Government offi
cials scattered to secret emer
! gency posts miles from here in
| an atomic attack drill.
For six hours, many opera
tions of Government were di
rected in theory from the remote
control stations in Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia, North
Carolina and possibly elsewhere
that would be manned in event
of an actual attack.
President Eisenhower, who di
rected the invasion of Europe
from bomb-battered England in
World War n, spent 10 or 15
minutes receiving operational re
portes in an underground shelter
| at the White House.
Suggests More Tests.
Aides said he carried on a two
way conversation with an out
lying control center designatpd
“high point” and wound up by
recommending more such txe.-
cises to familiarize Government
officials with remote control
operations.
Nearly 2,000 key Government
employes took part in the drill,
one of a series that started in
June to test the “continuity of
government” under conditions
that might force abandonment
of Washington instaNations.
They fanned out to 30 emer
gency stations within 80 miles
to the west and north of Wash
ington and 300 miles to the
South. These relocation centers,
which would be manned for the
duration of an emergency, were ,
not disclosed, except that they
are in resort towns, colleges, and
communities having unoccupied
Federal buildings.
Officials Tight-Lipped.
Most of the top-ranking Gov
ernment officials who took part
in the exercise returned to
Washington last night. But they
were close-lipped about details
of the operation.
The various agencies will make
their own evaluation of the dis
persal drill and by mid-Decem
ber are expected to have official
reports in the hands of Office of i
Defense Mobilization officials.-
Defense Department authorities :
will make their own study of the
situation in an effort to iron out
flaws in the system.
Director Arthur S. Flemming ;
of the Office of Defense Mobili
zation last night declined to
make any observations on suc
cess or failure of the program.
He said detailed study will have
to be made.
So secretive were top officials
that queries to the Defense De
partment about the operation
were referred to the ODM for
any publicity about it. And ODM
was not talking.
Underground ‘Pentagon.’
It was understood, however,
that Assistant Secretary of De
fense Fred A. Seaton with other
Defense Department “brass” j
went to Rock Haven Mountain, J
65 miles north of Washington
near the Pennsylvanla-Maryland
border at the former Camp
Ritchie. Here an “underground
Pentagon” has been assembled
to direct military operations in
case Washington is blasted by
atomic attack.
This is not far from Camp
David, where Gen. Eisenhower
has his holiday retreat. It is also
near his new farm at Gettysburg,
Pa., where the Chief Executive
is refurbishing the home to
which he hopes to retire.
As a preparedness measure,
(See M-DAY, Page A-7.)
Ex-Police Chief
Kills Wife, Her
Mother, Himself
Bodies of Alexandria
Family Discovered in
Their Florida Home
Lt. Col. John Samuel Arnold,
56, former police chief of Alex
andria, shot his wife and moth
er-in-law to death and then com
mitted suicide in their St. Peters
burg, Fla., home, discovery of
their bodies revealed yesterday.
Edward P. Silk, acting coroner,
said the much-decorated combat
veteran of World War II appar
ently went berserk. Col. Arnold
had been in ill health in recent
years, his friends said.
The bodies, sprawled about the
home overlooking Tampa Bay,
were discovered after neighbors
heard the family dog, “Cracker,”
barking all Friday night and
called police.
Face Down on Floor.
The wife, Mary Ellen, 54, was
found face down on the bath
room floor. The body of Mrs.
Arnold’s mother, Mrs. Annie E.
Nulls, 84, was found in her bed
room. Col. Arnold’s body was in
a corridor between the living
room and a bedroom.
Col. Arnold was named chief
of police in Alexandria in 1931
and served for nine years, quit
ting to re-enter the Army In
1940. After his wartime service
he again headed the police force
but remained only six months,
resigning in 1947. His second res
ignation followed a dispute with
the city council.
The Arnolds, whose Alexan
dria address was 706 Braxton
street, moved to St. Petersburg
shortly afterward. Friends said
the family was planning to re
turn to Alexandria so Col. Arnold
could undergo treatment at
Walter Reed Hospital.
Tragedy Reconstructed.
The shootings were said by St.
Petersburg Police Lt. Sidney S.
Hilliard to have occurred some
i time between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
■ Friday. He reconstructed th®
'tragedy as follows: Col. Arnold,
; using an Italian-make pistol,
' shot his mother-in-law first,
then chased his wife into th®
bathroom shooting her In th®
head. He then fired a single bul
let into his head and slumped to
the flopr, the weapon lodging in
the crook of his arm.
Col. Arnold’s wartime service
included service on the staff of
Gen. George S. Pattoh, com
mander of the United States
Third Army. He also served with
j the 7th Armored Division in
Europe.
! At the close of the war he was
! commissioner of Como Province
j in Italy and received the Bronze
Star medal for his Italian serv
ice.
Col Arnold first entered the
Army as a bugler in World War
1. He helped organize Alexan
dria's National Guard unit in
1927.
Wrote Here Recently.
Williani M. Glasgow, Alexan
dria justice of the peace, said
Col. Arnold wrote him only two
weeks ago indicating he Was in
good spirits. Mr. Glasgow said*
the former police chief also
asked him to look for a home for
his family.
Col. Arnold had been in fail
ing health at least two years, and
spent many months in hospitals,
Mr. Glasgow said. He suffered
from a nervous ailment, arthritis
and hardening of the arteries,
Mr. Glasgow said.
Col. Arnold was born in In
diana and moved to Virginia as
(See ARNOLD, Page A-7)
3 Planes Escorting
King Faisal Crash
By th. Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 20.
King Faisal II of Iraq arrived
safely today for a state visit in
! Lebanon but three Iraqi escort
planes crashed about 60 miles
south of Damascus. Airport offi
cials in the Syrian capital said *
two of the pilots were killed and
another Is missing.
Three other planes, including
the one carrying 19-year-old
King Faisal, continued to Beirut.
The King was met at the airport
by President Camille Chamoun,
Premier Sami Solh and other
top Lebanese officials.
Hostess to the World:
Mrs. Perle Mesta
THE REAL STORY-Stor Colum
nut Betty Beale begins today a new
series of articles on the famous
hostesses who dominate Washington's
official society. First in the series is
fabulous Perle Mesta who tolls all
about herself. Page D-l.
SIN IN CAMPS?—Parents are wor
ried over stories of systematised sin
for Gls throughout the nation. But
in the District, • Star surrey shows,
conditions ore as bright os anywhere
in the United States. Page C-9.
TOYS FOR CHRISTMAS—Parents
noticing a mysterious improvement in
youngsters' behavior may find the
answer and some idea of the rewards
Washington stores have available in
Reporter John Stepp's survey of
Christmas toys on Page A-10.
Complete Index, Page A-2
Rodio-TV Programs, Pages E-5-7