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103 d Year. No. 95. Phone SJ. 3-5000 ★* WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, A&IL 5, 1955-FIFTY-SIX PAGES. SCENTS
Churchill Gives Up His Office
As Queen Accepts Resignation;
Eden Selection Held Up Briefly
London Crowds
Cheer for 'Good
Old Winnie'
LONDON. April 5 (A*). Sir
Winston Churchill, flashing his
famous V-for-victory sign, drove
to Buckingham Palace today and
resigned the prime ministry.
Shouts of "Goci old Winnie”
sped the 80-year-old statesman
Churchill Long A Symbol of Courage.
Page A-4
Eden Is Advocate Peace Through
Strength. Page A-5
Eden's Stand for Principle Won
Churchill's Esteem. Page A-6
from Downing street to an audi
ence with Queen Elizabeth 11,
and back to the home of British
prime ministers. Britain’s lead
er in peace and war, he had
served nearly nine years as
Prime Minister.
Sir Anthony Eden, 57-year-old
Foreign Secretary in Sir Win
ston’s government, is to be the
new Prime Minister. An an
nouncement to that effect was
expected later tonight or tomor
row.
Sir Winston spent 41 minutes
in audience with his young
Queen. Wearing top hat, polka
dot tie and a shining gold watch
chain, he went to the palace
by limousine, accompanied only
by his son-in-law and private
secretary, Christopher Soames.
Eden Stays Behind
Sir Anthony stayed behind. A
lone figure was seen peering
from the window of his suite
in the Foreign Office as Sir Win
ston left Downing street on his
momentous ride.
Soon after Sir Winston re
turned to Downing street at 5:15
p.m. (12:15 pjn. EST) Buck
ingham Palace issued this for
mal announcement:
“The Right Honorable Sir
Winston Churchill had an audi
ence of the Queen this evening
and tendered his resignation as
Prime Minister and First Lord
of the Treasury, which her maj
esty was graciously pleased to
accept.”
More than 2,000 persons
pressed into old Downing street
as the Prime Minister left for
the palace. He was playing out
his last role in the prime min
istry he loved. A gray day had
brightened into pale sunshine.
He posed for a full minute in
the doorway, so that photogra
phers could record the scene.
Some Britons Surprised
The shduts and excitement
seemed to catch some Britons by
surprise. London newspapers
were strike-bound and first news
of Sir Winston’s impending re
tirement had come over the
British Broadcasting Corp. only
today.
The general expectation to
night was that the Queen would
delay her designation of Sir An
thony until tomorrow. Press
Association, authoritative Brit
ish news agency, said Sir Win
ston will remain in the House of
Commons for a time as an ordi
nary member. He has served
there 55 years. There had been
speculation that he might be
named to the House of Lords.
Friends said there was no pos
sibility Sir Winston would take
a cabinet post in the Eden gov
ernment.
Sir Winston reached the pal-
See CHURCHILL, Page A-6
'Fairly Large' Earthquake
Recorded on West Coast
BERKELEY, Calif., April 5
OT.—A "fairly large” earth
quake, probably in Northern
Mexico or the Gulf of Califor
nia, was recorded at University
of California today at 7:13.15
a.m„ Pacific standard time.
Prof. Perry Byerly estimated
the disturbance at 950 miles
south of Berkeley.
The quake also was recorded
it San Diego by Seismologist
fred Robinson. He said the
-hock started at 7:10.51 a.m. and
continued for 30 minutes. It
vas not felt in San Diego.
There have been previous
leavy quakes centered in the
irea, 800 to 1,000 miles south
of San Diego.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL ;
Resigns as Prime Minister
Late Surge by G.O.P.
Reverses Trend in
Michigan Election
Earlier Heavy Edge
By Democrats Offset
By Rural Returns
BULLETIN
DETROIT, April 5 (IP). A
sudden late surge of Republi
can votes reversed Michigan’s
election trend today, holding
off what appeared at one time
to be a Democratic edge and
leaving the final outcome in
doubt. An outstate, rural vote
offset an earlier heavy Demo
cratic margin from Detroit and
Wayne County. Two G.O.P.
candidates for, State offices
pulled into leads and others
were cutting into Democratic
leads.
DETROIT, April 5 (JP).—Mich
igan Democrats, marching arm
in-arm with organized labor, ap
peared today to have crushed Re
publican comeback hopes in
yesterday’s spring election.
On the basis of incomplete and
unofficial returns, Gov. G. Men-
G. 0. P. Trits to Win Back Chicago
Control in Election Today. Page A-10
nen Williams’ Democratic Party
had shoved nearly all Repub
licans out of State Capitol ad
ministrative jobs.
With fewer than 650 of the
State’s 4,783 precincts unreported
—all but 15 of them outstate—
Dr. Clair L. Taylor, incumbent
Republican, trailed Democrat Dr.
Lynn M. Bartlett of Grosse Potnte
for State superintendent of pub
lic instruction.
And Circuit Judge Eugene F.
Black of Port Huron held a lead
for a seat on the State Supreme
Court—the body he called “anti
quated” and a tool of the busi
ness interests.
Eisenhowers to Attend
Easter Services Here
* President ahd Mrs. Eisenhower
I are planning to attend Easter
church services at the National
I Presbyterian Church here Sun-
I day.
| White House Press Secretary
| James C. Hagerty told reporters
today that he understood this
plan is definite and that the Ei
senhowers intend to be in Wash
ington over the week end. They
spent last week end at their
farm home near Gettysburg, Pa.,
and there had been some specu
lation that they would return
there for Easter.
Mr. Hagerty also said the
President will forego his usual
weekly news conference this
week.
“Congress is in recess and wt
want to take a recess,” Mr.
Hagerty said.
Red China to Answer
Question of Peace
Or War, Dulles Says
Secretary Stresses
Continuing Parleys of
U. S. and Other Nations
BY JOHN V. HORNER
Secretary of State Dulles said
today the United States is in
close touch with other nations in
a continuing effort to ease the
crisis in the Far East.
The question of peace or war,
i he said, will be answered by Com-
I munist China, but he declared
I this Government will keep work
ing to eliminate the highly
j dangerous situation in the For
mosa area.
The Secretary told a news con
i ference that the nations with
; which the United States is con
ferring include Britain, France,
Australia, New Zealand, Canada
&nd India.
In assessing the prospects of
peace or war Mr. Dulles said it
would be necessary for him to
read the minds of people to
whom he has no access. He said
these are the Red Chinese bosses
in Peiping.
| U. S. Position Clear
The Secretary remarked that
. the United States repeatedly has
made clear that it desires there
shall be no war and that there
be a cease-fire in the Formosa
: Straits between Communist and
I Nationalist China.
Mr Dulles again declined to
;! spell out United States inten
. j tions in regard to the defense of
* j Quemoy and Matsu. He reiter
j ated that the only American
; committment is to defend For
i mosa and the Pescadores Islands.
;! In response to a question on
! 1 Canada’s announcement that it
would not join in a defense of
Quemoy and Matsu, Mr. Dulles
said the United Btates had never
expected Canada to participate
The Secretary said it would
be unlikely that a formal meet
ing of the Big Four foreign min
isters could be held during the
. United Nations anniversary ob
. servance at San Francisco in
, June. He pointed out that much
preliminary work must be done
before a meeting could be held'
, between ministers of the United
States, Britain and France and
J their Soviet opposite.
Doesn’t Know Molotov’s Plans
Incidentally, Mr. Dulles said
’ he did not know whether Rus
sian Foreign Minister Molotov
- win attend the U. N. gathering
’ in San Francisco.
1 Mr. Dulles said that in a
brood sense the United States
i decision to allow 76 Chinese stu-
I dents to return home after long
i detention in the United States
is on indlcotioo of Americon de
i sire to hove civilized end peoeo
. ful relations with the Chinese
Carney Denies
Setting Any Date
For Red Attack
Wouldn't Predict
Quemoy Action,
He Tells Senators
BY CECIL HOLLAND
Admiral Robert B. Carney to
day flatly denied saying the
Chinese Communists might
launch an attack on the Quemoy
and Matsu islands off the China
coast by April 15.
"1 would not have the temer
ity to predict what any potential
enemy might do,” the Chief of
Naval Operations told a Senate
Appropriations subcommittee.
The prediction was attributed
to Admiral Carney after a
background briefing he recently
held for a group of newspaper
men. It set off a furor of de
bate over whether the United
States would or should defend
the islands against ,the Reds.
Ellender Raises Question.
The issue came up when Sena
tor Ellender, Democrat, of Louisi
anna said Admiral Carney had
been quoted as telling a group
of newsmen on March 24 that
an attack could be expected about
April 15.
Senator Ellender said this and
later reports that the White
House bad no such intelligence
had created quite a lot of excite
ment both in this country and
overseas.
He asked Admiral Carney if he
had changed his mind.
“I have not changed my mind
because I never made such a
statement,” the admiral replied.
Discussed Capabilities
Senator Ellender said fie
thought that Admiral Carney
ought to explain just what rib
did say in order to clarify the
matter.
Subcommittee Chairman Cha
vez, Democrat, of New Mexico
intervened to say that Admiral
Carney denied the statement and
that ought to clear it up “pretty
well.”
But Senator Ellender persisted,
saying Admiral Carney could
answer or not as he wished.
Admiral Carney said that he
had discussed the capabilities of
the known or possibfc’ enemy and
our capabilities for meeting
them.
He said that “no experienced
military man” would claim the
ability to predict what was in
the plans or minds of a possible
enemy.
Earlier. Navy Secretary Charles
S. Thomas testified the admin
istration’s reduced military pro
gram is “adequate to meet the
See MILITARY, Page A-12
RedsWillGet
Haiphong Six
Days Early
BY JAMES E. ROPER
Star Staff Correspondent
HAIPHONG, North Viet Nam,
April 5. —French authorities have
decided to evacuate the city of
Haiphong in Northern Indo
china and turn it over to the
Communists on May 13—six days
ahead of the deadline set in the
Geneva agreements, it was
learned today.
Allied evacuation of the zone
around Haiphong will begin on
April 20 and continue through
May 19, when the last French
ships will leave the islands off
the coast at the expiration of
the deadline.
The free zone is the last area
which the French must yield un
der terms of the Geneva settle
ment. Then all of Viet 'Nam
north of the 17th parallel will be
in Communist hands.
French and Communist au
thorities meet regularly at the
free zone border. They have
agreed In principle to the evac
uation plan, although the Reds
keep demanding assurances the
French won’t blow up bridges
and other facilities before they
depart.
Under the plan, French troops
on May 13 will pull out of Haip
hong block by block according to
a strict dawn-to-dusk timetable.
The Viet Minh will march in as
the French march out. This same
system was used in the evacua
tion of Hanoi and no incidents
developed.
Mother Spurned by Son She Saved From Reds
A heartbroken Washington
woman who sent her 12-year
old son to America from Austria
to save him from the Russians,
heard the boy testify In a Penn
sylvania courtroom yesterday
that he would rather stay in
the foster home he has occupied
for two years than return to her.
Mrs. Johanna A. Nestor. 37,
of 5917 Gloster road, Woodacres,
Md., sat sobbing in Montgomery
County Court, Norristown, Pa.,
the Associated Press reported, as
her only son, Frank Nestor, said,
“I am tired of being pushed
around like a paper sack.”
Mrs. Nestor has been the sec-!
ond secretary of the Austrian
Embassy here since last Sep- i
tember.
She is seeking, in a habeas j
corpus action, to regain custody i
ot her handsome blond youngster
'. . . Oh, That's Just a G. 0. P. Harmony Meeting!'
Red Cross Moves
Toward Merger
With Chest Drive
Organization Relaxes
Rules, but Conditions
May Bar Unification
A merging of the Community
Chest Federation and American
Red Cross drives into one cam
paign became a possibility today
when the Red Cross relaxed its
rules.
The Red Cross announced that
local chapters may participate
in community or united fund
raising drives, but set up condi
tions. The conditions make it
likely that extended agreement
on one drive in the District area
may come only after cartful ne
gotiations between the two or
ganizations.
The District Chapter of the
Red Cross said its Executive
Committee probably will discuss
a united campaign here when it
meets April 22.
Hails “Co-operative Spirit.”
Ferdinand V. Grayson, execu
tive director of the community
Chest Federation, said of the
Red Cross move:
“This indicates a fine co-oper
ative spirit leading to better co
ordination of welfare activities.
We believe in the principle of
united fund raising and are al
ways ready to discuss it.”
The National Red Cross board
said each local Red Cross chap
ter will keep these rights:
1. To determine and control
its budget and its goal.
2. To conduct a roll call for
members and funds in the month
of each year designated by the
board of governors.
3. To conduct emergency cam
paigns in case of disaster, war
or other unforseen need when
authorized by the board of gov
ernors.
4. To issue a membership card
to each person from whom the
Red Cross receives 61 or more.
Combined in 400 Cities
Some variation of a united
fund drive is now carried on
in about 400 cities under an ear
lier liberalization of policy al
lowing united or concurrent fund
drives. The larger cities where
this is done are Detroit, Balti
more, New Orleans, San Fran
cisco, Kansas City. Houston and
Portland, Ore#.
In some cases it is a double
barreled drive designated as a
Community Chest and Red
Cross campaign. Pressure to
ward a one-drive arrangement
came from industries which ob
jected to more than one yearly
solicitation in their plants. Some
Government agencies in Wash
ington have similarly worked
toward this end.
In some cities the Red Cross
has joined in united drives for
solicitations in plants and then
conducted membership cam
paigns in residential areas.
from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A.
Brustman of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Nestor testified that be
cause she feared for her own
life and that of her son, she j
signed his custody to Mrs. Brust
man, so the boy could be brought
to the United States. Mr. Brest- {
man, an engineer with the Radio i
Corp. of America, was a class- I
mate of Mrs. Nestor's in Vienna.
She obtained the Embassy Job
here in order to be near her son,
Mrs Nestor told the court.
The boy told Judge John C.
Corson that his mother “is only
a diplomat. If I go with her she
might become attached to me
and take me back to Europe. I
am tired of being pushed around
from country to country like a
paper sack.”
Wolf son, Here in Ward Fight,
Accuses Avery of ' Sellout '
Young Financier Threatens Legal Steps
To Fix Liability in Union Stock Deal
BY HERMAN F. SCHADEN
Louis E. Wolfson carried his
fight fpr control of Montgomery
Ward & Co. to Washington to
day and accused Sewell Avery
of “the greatest sellout in cor
porate history.”
Missing no bets, the 43-year
old challenger of the present
Amount of Transit Fort Increase Un
decided, Wolfson Says. Page A-2
Ward management called a
morning press conference before
jumping to the Capital Transit
Co. annual meeting and then
hopping to a Ward stockholders
meeting at the Willard Hotel
this afternoon.
In a prepared release, the fi
nancier with the football shoul
ders "threatened legal steps” to
make the 81-year-old Mr. Avery,
chairman of Ward’s board, and
eight other directors liable for
13,500 shares of stock “bought”
from the AFL Teamsters Union
in the big proxy fight.
Warns Each Director
Hoping to seize control of
Ward’s at the annual meeting
in Chicago April 22, Mr. Wolf
son wired each director:
“This telegram is to advise
you that in view of the memo
randum of agreement signed by
the present management of
Montgomery Ward & Co. and
the Teamsters Union on March
31, 1955, any long-term con
tracts made with officers of the
company or any other long-term
commitments made in anticipa
tion of a change in the member
ship of the Board of Directors
next April 22 will be rigidly
examined with a view to fixing
personal liability for each di
rector participating in any such
act.”
Mr. Wolfson’s reference was
to an agreement signed between
Mr. Avery and Dave Beck,
teamsters president, reportedly
giving the teamsters mainte
nance of membership status and
other concessions in Ward’s for
15,000 of the 50,000 employes,
to become effective in 60 days.
Mr. Beck in return said he would
“urge” pension fund trustees
holding the 13,500 shares of
stock to vote it for the Avery
forces.
Bad Faith Charged
Bristling with the pep he has
displayed on a coast-to-coast
appeal for votes which would
give him chairmanship of the
big mall order and retail busi
ness, Mr. Wolfson charged Mr
Avery had acted in bad faith
with the stockholders.
“I don’t object so much to
the agreement,” he said. “I
think Avery should have put out
the figure what it would cost
the stockholders. I don’t know
how many other agreements he
has entered into we don’t know
about.”
Coolly predicting his side
Belgium and speaks English,
French and German, said he
wants to “stay here, become a
citizen and later on join the
j Navy or enter forestry school.”
! Mrs. Nestor said she has en
| rolled the boy in Georgetown
I Prep School and is now finan
i daily able to support him. She
i cited her salary of SBOO a month
and said she maintains a six
room house. She said she brought
her mother with her to this
country and the two live to
gether
She said she hopes to stay in
this country “indefinitely,” but
1 has no assurance she can.
Judge Corson, before tjEWt
the case under advisement com
mented: “If this boy leaves here.
It would be e loes to America.”
The boy "really awes me.” he
From Slave Camps
John H. Noble, who returned from
Russian slave camps, continues his series
of stories describing his ordeals behind
the Iron Curtain.
Page A-20.
New York Markets, Pages A 22-23.
would wind up with 51 per cent
of the votes and thus take con
trol, Mr. Wolfson scored his
adversary for abruptly changing
his labor policy. He said Mr.
Avery refused on April 25, 1944,
: to accede to a maintenance of
membership condition, thus de
fying the President of the United
States in wartime and forcing
Government seizure of Ward’s.
Quick Change Challenged
Mr. Wolfson questioned how a
man could change his policy so
quickly and called the action
dangerous in the effect it might
have on future relations between
corporations and unions.
“It was a sellout because the
j Ward officials sought out the
i union, contacted them and told
! them to come over,” Mr. Wolfson
i said.
Asked whether he would enter
into a s|milar deal if he were
board president, Mr. Wolfson
said he certainly would delay it
See WOLFSON, Page A-6 j
2 Top Psychiatrists |
Back Fight on Ruling
Curtailing Testimony
Overholser and Cavanagh
Letters Support Rover
Plea for New Hearing
BY MIRIAM OTTENBERG
United States Attorney Leo A.
Rover today presented opinions
from two top psychiatrists to
back his plea for the entire U 8. j
Court of Appeals for the District i
of Columbia to rehear the Taylor i
case involving the testimony of
psychiatrists in criminal trials
In a split decision last month,
the appellate court ruled that
Mont* Durham Seeks Another Insanity
Defense Appeal. Page A-18
testimony by a hospital psychi
atrist who treated a prisoner was
a violation of the confidential re
lationship between physician and
patient.
Attorneys and psychiatrists
have contended since the de
cision in the case of George
Taylor last month that the de
cision effectively gagged the
psychiatrists who knew most
about the patients and that the
only psychiatric testimony that
could go into the record was
that favorable to the defendant.
Serious Complication!
In filing a petition for a re
hearing by all nine Judges. Mr
Hover argued that the case in
volved a question of “extraordi
nary public importance," that it
raises substantial questions which,
“deeply affect and change both
civil and criminal law” and that
Is poses "serious complications
to law enforcement in this Juris
diction.”
He included in his petition
letters from Dr. Winfred Over
holser, superintendent of St.
Elizabeths Hospital, and from
Dr. John Cavanagh, associate
clinical professor at Georgetown
University Medical School and a
psychiatrist in private practice j
See PSYCHIATRISTS, Pg. A-12 i
Twister Hits lowa
MINBURN, lowa, April 5 (/P).—
A twister which witnesses said was
composed of two funnel-shaped
clouds struck two farms near this
central lowa community late
yesterday. The storm caused con
siderable damage to outbuildings,
but no one was hurt. The places
bit were the P. H. Ooldsberry
and Olenn W. Thompson Mms.
¥
Maryland Beats
Move to Extend
Racing Season
Assembly Clears
$29 Million Program
In Hectic Windup
BY GENE GOODWIN
Star Staff Correspondent
ANNAPOLIS, April s—The
1955 Maryland General Assembly
closed in a frenzy early today
after several hours of open war
fare between the Senate and
House on one hand and the race
tracks and railroads on the other.
Hanging in the balance during
the wild struggle which preceded
adjournment at 3:05 ajn. was a
$29 million tax program needed
to balance the State’s $269 mil
lion budget for the next fiscal
year.
It finally was approved but
only after removal of a half
Details an Racing Reason Extension
Defeat. Page C-l
Other Maryland Legislature Stories.
Page A-17
million dollars in tax relief for
railroads and 34 extra racing
days for Maryland horse tracks.
The climax to the tug-of-war
that went on between the two
chambers over the tax program
came when House Majority
Leader A. Gordon Boone literally
marched on the Senate—followed
by several delegates and re
porters
Moments before, the Senate
had refused to send back a bill
Increasing racing days. The
House had passed the bill, be
lieving the $350,000 in new rev
enue was necessary to balance
the budget. Later, when the
Senate insisted on restoring a
House reduction in th- >-" <1 —1
gross receipts tax rate, the House
saw that the racing money wouid
no longer be needed, and wanted
to take another vote on the bill.
Makes Personal Foray
Informed by the press table
that the Senate had voted not
to return the measure to the
lower chamber as requested, Mr.
Boone jumped to his feet and
shouted:
“I’m going over to the Senate
and personally get that bill!”
As he charged down the aisle
and out of the House, his fellow
Delegates stood to cheer and ap
plaud. Some followed him across
the hall and into the Senate
chamber.
Mr. Boone’s group stormed
. into the Senate just as Senate
Majority Leader John G. Turn
j bull was moving reconsideration
| of the vote by which the body
j had refused to return the race
{track bill.
With Leader Boone sternly
standing, arms crossed, in the
rear 6f the chamber. Mr. Turn
bull said that while he looked
with dismay on such ultimatums
he thought the Senate ought to
consider “the temper of the
House at this point.”
The Senate voted 15 to 12 to
return the bill.
, There were more cheers and
applause as Mr. Boone, bill in
hand, returned to the House.
Sequence of Events
Here’s how it all started:
Members of the Democratic
controlled Legislature came back
for their final day yesterday
Continued on Page A-12, Col. 1
Spencer Will Sludy Plea
To Extend Daylight Time
Commissioner Samuel Spencer
today promised to see if thero ,
is any sentiment in Washington
for asking Congress to extend
daylight saving time one month
to keep up with similar moves
in New York and New England.
District officials had thought
that annual congressional battles
over daylight time were ended
two years ago when Congress
turned the whole problem over
to the Commissioners.
The law, however, authorized
them to proclaim daylight time
only from the last Sunday in
April to the last Sunday in Sep
tember. Recent actions by New
York and the New England
States have extended the period
to the last Sunday liy October.
Commissioner Spencer made
his promise at the request of
television officials who desire to
maintain their scheduling in
line with that of New York.
Schacht Quits Choir,
Haunts J andlots
THE BEGINNING—AI Schocht, is
a Mnu tram hit book. My Own Par
ticular Screwball, tells how he left
Cantor Caopentein'i Jewish chair and
started playing baseball Page C-l.
DISTRICT CRISIS—A heavier rale*
fox is being considered as one method
of getting eat of the District’s fi
nancial .naze. Set Page A-12 for
the sixth in a series The Financial
Crisis We Face.
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