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WEATHER FORECAST Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with little change in temperature. Low about 50 tonight. (Full report on Page A-2.1 Temperatures Today Midnight 56 6 a.m. 51 11 a.m. 55 2 a.m. ,52 8 a.m. .52 Noon ..57 4 a.m. ..SI 10a,m.. 54 1p.m...58 104th Year. No. 303. Prather Jumps SIO,OOO Bond; Warrant Out Ex-Captain Monroe Goes to Jail With 5 in Gaming Plot B.v MIRIAM OTTENBERG Former Probationary Detec tive George C. Prather failed to show up in District Court today for his scheduled trip to jail and Judge Eurnita Shelton Matthews ordered a SIO,OOO bond forfeited and a bench warrant issued for his seizure. His co-defendants, in a sensa tional gambling conspiracy case, including former Police Captain John B. Monroe, were all sent to jail. Monroe, who was convicted on both conspiracy and bribery charges, faces 20 months to five years in jail. He goes to court • gain, hou’ever. November 8 for the second of the five cases against him. Also on November 8. if Prather has,not been caught by that time, the rest of the bond out standing in his case, amounting to another $5,500 will be forfeit. Prather's bondsman, Max Weinstein, said he had posted bond gratis for Prather and his disappearance represents a total loss. “Won’t Sit bv Idly” “I don't intend to sit idly by and let this man get. away with it.” Mr. Weinstein told the judge,; ‘ but I'm ready to take my medi cine.” Defense attorney Myron Ehr lich told Judge Matthews he had no idea Prather intended to jump his bond until last week when he received a 12-page mim eographed letter signed by Prather and postmarked in New York. When Mr. Ehrlich started to read the paragraph in which Prather said he could not get the evidence to clear himself if he were in jail. Judge Matthews interrupted to say she had re ceived a copy of the letter too. Prather who was convicted of bribery conspiracy, drew a sen tence of 16 months and a SSOO fine. He now’ faces a maximum penalty oi five years and $5,000 for jumping bond. His wife. Mrs. Mildred A. Prather, meanwhile, revealed: yesterday she had found a four page letter last Friday attached to her marriage certificate in a desk. She said the letter told her that the only way Prather could clear his name would be to remain free to continue to gather evidence. Six On Trip to Jail With Monroe on the trip to jail today were Roger W. (White top) Simkins. Curtis M. Taylor. Albeit H. Smith. Charles Ander son and Burnie King. Today's proceedings were de layed more than half an hour to! bring King to court from District General Hospital where he has been undergoing psychiatric ex amination for several weeks. His attorney. Curtis Mitchell, urged the court to send him back to District General Hospital and postpone the jail commitment until there has been a fir.»l determination about his mental condition but Judge Matthews questioned King and then sent him to jail with the others. Monroe appeared calm and resigned to the prison term ahead of him. He said he ex pected to be treated the same as the other prisoners but he would prefer Lorton Reforma tory to the jail because there would be more to occupy him there. Prather Injures Self, He Says Os Prather. Monroe said, "He's doing himself an injury Any man can stand just so much. Then there comes a time when he's got to do something about it. I guess that’s what happened to Prather. "I think he thinks he can See PRATHER. Page A-22 Reds Begin Jamming BBC Programs Again MOSCOW. Oct. 29 .APl—The Russians resumed jamming Bri tish Broadcasting Corp. Broad casts in Russian yesterday for the first time since Premier Bul ganin and party chief Nikita Khrushchev visited England last April. .Jamming of Voice of America broadcasts has contin ued uninterrupted. BBC has been carrying Hungarian revolt reports. FOR FAST ACTION Use the Productive STAR CLASSIFIED . WASHINGTON S BIGGEST CLASSIFIED MEDIUM Year In and year out. The Star consistently produces the best vear-’round results for classified ad » e rtisers. That's why it publishes more classified ads than any other Washington newspaper. If - .ou want to buy, trade •ell. rent, hire or be hired, get quick result* bv telling it to the responsive audience cf .Star readers. C«M STtrlinf 3 5000 Aik *or mi taker Phone ST. 3-5000 jga' s GEORGE C. PRATHER 1 Fails to Appear JOHN B. MONROE Sent to Jail G. 0. P. May Get Pennsylvania Margin Cut Likely From '52, However By GOULD LINCOLN Star Btaff Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 29 Notwithstanding Democratic; claims. Pennsylvania seems likely to land in the Eisenhower column on election day. Mr. Eisenhower carried the Keystone State four years ago with a lead over Adlai Stevenson! of 269.520 votes. In that election, Mr. Stevenson took Philadelphia by 162.000. a surprising margin considering the way the rest of the State was going. However, this Democratic victory in Phila-; delphia followed the 1951 over throw of the Republicans, who were completely routed. A long needed reform of the city govern ment was responsible. The feel-; ing agaist the G. O. P. carried over into the 1952 election. Doubts Stevenson Victory Today, while some of the Dem ocratic leaders publicly predict that they will carry the city of Philadelphia by as much as 200.- 000 votes they would be most: happy if they could get the same margin they had in 1952. Pri vately. the estimate of one of them is that the Democratic lead here November 6 will be from 100.000 to 120.000. This same Democratic leader: ’ frankly said he doubted that Mr 1 Stevenson can win this State. He thought that Mr. Eisenhower’s margin of victory would be cut to 100,000. however. 1 Republican campaign man agers. for their part, insist that the President will at least equal 1 his victory of four years ago. ’ Same predict that the Eisen hower vote will be 300.000 over 1 that of Mr. Stevenson. More ob jective observers say he will ’ carry the State by from 175,000 : to 200.000. ' i Both Side* Active i The real horse race in Penn i syivania, apparently, is the con ■ test for the Senate between . Senator Duff and former Mayor i Joseph E. Clark of Philadelphia,; , who. with Richardson Dilworth. now mayor of the city, led the cleanup movement which gave 1 Continued on Page A-2, Col. 3 Walter E. Edge Dies; Jersey Political Leader NEW YORK. Oct. 29 (A 1 ). Walter Evans Edße. 82-year-old former New Jersey Governor, United States Senator and Am bassador to France, died today ; In Memorial Hospital. Death came quietly to the elder statesman of the New , Jersey Republican Party from uremic poisoning. His family was at his bedside. Mr. Edge had remained active until shortly before he enteree the hospital, October 11. Only last August he attended the Re publican National Convention in San Francisco as a delegate—his 11th such meeting. Mr. Edge was a self-made businessman who took his busi ness acumen into politics. He served as Governor of New Jersey during the periods of two great world wars and was Am bassador to France during the Hoover Administration. Power in Politics Mr. Edge, born November 20. 1873. in Philadelphia, was a power in Republican politics both on the State and national level. He was one of the first promi nent public figures to bark Oen Dwight D Eisenhower for the presidency m 1951. He had served as a delegate-at-large at Wnt fymim Staf \ J V, X WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION \^/ ★*S | President Asks State Solutions To Race Issues » Tells Florida Crowd He Favors Action On Local Basis By GARNETT D. HORNER Stir Staff Correspondent EN ROUTE WITH PRESI | DENT EISENHOWER. Oct. 29- President Eisenhower spoke out in the deep South today for handling of race and civil rights problems "to the greatest possi ble extent on a State and local basis.” The President also asserted in a speech prepared for delivery at ! President's Health Held Good. Text et Report. Page A-9 the Miami (Fla.) International Airport that "I don’t believe for one minute” that it is a waste of time to seek Southern votes for his re-election. For the first time in his cam paign for a second term. Mr Eisenhower was invading the South today for airport speeches at Jacksonville, Fla., and Rich mond, Va.. as well as Miami, in personal quest of Florida’s 10 and Virginia s 12 electoral votes that went to him in 1952. Hits Pessimism, Gloom He lashed out in Miami at Adlai Stevenson and other Dem ocratic campaigners for what he: called their "pessimism and gloom,” asserting that “they would be out of business if they had to stop prophesying misfor-j tune and disaster.” The President's Miami remarks on civil rights seemed aimed to please his Southern listeners. While consistent with what he has said previously in news con ferences and in speeches on this issue, his prepared talk put pe cial emphasis on “State and local” responsibility in this field, i Without mentioning the Su-i preme Court re- 1 listed in many Southern States, |— for desegregation of schools, 1 Mr. Eisenhower dealt with the ! general subject in these moderate words: "Four years ago I pledged that as President of ail the people, I would use every proper influence of my office to promote- for all’! citizens that equality oefore the law and of opportunity visual ized by our founding fathers. Reiterates Position "I promised further to do this with the conviction that progress toward equality had to be achieved finally in the hearts of men rather than in legislative halls. “I urged then, as I urge now.' the handling of this question, to the greatest possible extent, on a State and local basis. "I believed then, as I believe, now, that there must be intelli- See EISENHOWER, Page A-4 politic allnews' ON INSIDE PAGES ’ G O B. Seen Leading in Presidency Poll Alone. Page A-10 Text of Stevenson Statement on Bomb Tests. Page A-13 1 Stevenson Issues Policy Stotement on Economics. Poge A-13 Ketauver Soys President Hos Foiled Lib eral Elements. Poge A-9 > Nixon Soys Stevenson Seeks to Divert 1 Voters' Attention. Poge A-8 Early Income Tox Cuts Possible, Secre tary Humphrey Soys. Poge A-12 Hall Denies Any Control of Awarding of federal Contracts. Poge A-9 i ■ Kennedy Soys G O. P. Locks Young Leoders. Poge A-18 - Butler Says Mahoney Is Ignoront of Issues. Poge A-18 /. . % . \ i| WALTER E EDGE > —AP Photo ’ 11 Republican presidential nom inating conventions. During his lifetime. Mr. Edge made a fortune in the advertls . ing and publishing business and [ was credited with helping to pro ! mote Atlantic City. N. J . into a I prominence as a vacation spot With his fortune behind him. . he made his way up In political circles and held sway there for . more than three decades. I He campaigned for office with See EDGE. Page A-*2 WASHINGTON, D. C„ MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1956—56 PAGES $ Budapest Accord Reported; Rebels to Quit, Soviets Go ! —| - , ** ill • I pBT m mm 1 If ;;;' ’ X' v -I . -foaL 'r 'T W/A -' I lll* ll ** Hu 1 jlii 111 Pffe ui SOVIET GUN AFIRE IN BUDAPEST—Smoke rises from blazing tires of a Communist mobile gun in Budapest after fighting in Hungary’s anti-Soviet Stevenson Hits At 'Defeatism' Renews Warning On Fallout Peril By CECIL HOLLAND St* r Staff Correspondent BOSTON, Oct. 29 —Adlai Ste venson today charged President 'Eisenhower with "hopeless de featism’ on the H-bomb problem.! He also said the President 1 "seems insensitive to the danger ’of radioactive fallout from H bomb explosions” despite the: “growing doubts of eminent; scientists” on this matter, j "The President is not only hostile to new constructive; thinking on how to save the world from hydrogen devasta tion,” Mr. Stevenson declared, “but he quite clearly has no, creative or hopeful ideas on his ,owr. in this critical field. As in many other fields, the President simply offers another do-nothing solution." The Democratic candidate un loosed the charges in one of the bitterest attacks he has made on Mr. Eisenhower as he opened the final week of the campaign foi\ the presidency with an intensive one-day drive here in an effort to capture Massachusetts’ 16 electoral votes for the Democrats. Statement and Memo In a 600-word statement and a 3,000-word memorandum Mr. Stevenson assailed the reasons given by the President in a statement last week for not car rying out the Democratic nomi nee's proposal for ending H bomb tests. The memorandum undertook to answer point-by point the objections raised by the President. "The President presented hia document to America and the world as an official statement.” ' said Mr. Stevenson, "but it ap pears to be no more than a campaign pamphlet. And even as a political paper it is remark able for misstatements and dis tortions." Mr. Stevenson said the Presi dent had attempted to create the Impression thßt the Steven son proposal would weaken the defenses of the United States. "He knows better, or at least he should know better.” Mr. Stevenson added. "Along with i other Democrats. I have been doing all I can to keep the Eisen hower administration from slash ing our defense establishments during the last four years. It ill becomes the President to talk about dropping our guard when his administration has consist ently put dollars ahead of de fense.” Wants Strong Defenses Mr. Stevenson said he wanted to see American defenses strengthened and not weakened and there was nothing in his H-bomb proposal inconsistent with this objective. Mr. Stevenson apparently has decided to keep riding the H bomb issue although some Demo cratic leaders fear that it has cost him votes or at the best has not produced any votes for him The statement and memoran dum were worked up in final form as Mr. Stevenson's char tered airliner flew across the • continent from Phoenix. Ariz., where his party spent the night See STEVENSON. Page A-IO ' Hatoyama in Hawaii ‘ HONOLULU. Oct. 29 <AP> Japanese Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama arrived last night en 1 route home from Moscow where ' he negotiated a Japanese-Rus- Man peace treaty Gov Samuel 1 Wilder King and Admiral Felix • B Stump met him at the plane U. S. Evacuates Citizens In Mid-East War Scare Israel Mobilizes Reserve Battalions; Egyptian Warship* Reported on Move JERUSALEM. Oct. 29 (IP).—lsrael mobilized its reserves and the United States began the evacuation of some < of its citizens from four middle east states today in the biggest Arab-Israeli war scare since 1948. Israel, announcing the call-up of reserve battalions in what it termed a "partial mobilization,” denied it had any aggressive intent. Israeli security authorities said two Egyptian destroyers and other warships apparently are headed toward Israel. The In formants said the vessels, five or six in all, left their base at Alex andria this morning and, so far as it is possible to determine, are moving toward Israel. Tension in Israel has mounted since Jordan, which has the long est frontier with Israel of any Arab state, formed a joint mili tary command with Syria and Egypt last week. A pro-Egyptian parliament was elected in Jordan a week ago. President Eisenhower, taking a grave view of the mobilization, sent two messages to Israeli Pre mier David Ben-Gurion, caution ing him to avoid acts “which would endanger the peace.” Washington reports said Israel had mobilized from 150.000 to 200,000 men along her frontiers. In the Israeli side of Jerusalem regular traffic and business were slowed by a heavy movement of troops, guns, tanks and re servists. From 7,000 to 8.000 Americans in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Syria were affected by State De partment warnings and cyders to leave lor points of safety. Tour ists, business people and others in the four countries not per forming "essential functions” were urged to leave. Dependents Dulles Briefs 3 Senators On Mid-East War Threat By JOHN SCALI Associated Press Siaff Writer Secretary Dulles called three Senators to the State Depart , ment for a talk today on the Middle East. The administration was reported gravely alarmed at the possibility of war there in 24 ; to 48 hours. > • The Senators were George, Democrat of Georgia. Fulbright, i Democrat of Arkansas and Lan i ger. Republican of North Dakota Department officials said Mr. . Dulles, In keeping with his pol i icy .during any international : crisis, arranged the meeting to : brief the lawmakers on what the I United States is doing. As a rule. Mr. Dulles calls In ■ any members of the Senate and House Foreign Policy Commit tees who are available in Wash ington. look to Brn Gurion I Officials ar» said to feel that ( only the highest order of Israeli-, t Arab statesmanship could avert a Middle East explosion. They ! were looking mainly to Israel’s . Prime Minister David Ben . Gurion. as the man w ho held the s decision s However, officials were less pessimistic about the situation ■ today than they were yesterday. I They credited a personal appeal ■ by President Elsenhower to Mr. ; Ben-Gurlon, made public yester . day, with having done much to t help cool the situation. 1 With war Jitters mounting, Israel was reported to have mob ilized from 150,000 to 200000 men along Its frontiers. Mr. Eisenhower took note yes > terday of this Israeli military i buildups He issued an unusual * public appeal to Mr Ben-Gurlon ■ that "no forceful initiative be 1 taken which would endanger the i peace " The President said. "We have rebellion. The gun was set afire by rebels near a building housing a Communist Party newspaper.— AP Wirephoto. 1 ■ of United States Government of- 1 • ficials will be eacuated “as soon as possible” by commercial • planes, they were told. Depend • ents in Jordan were told the first flight to take them to Beirut. I Lebanon, was leaving at 2 p.m. today. Two chartered planes air lifted the first group of 75 Amer -1 icans being evacuated from i Jordan. It was estimated 250 Americans would be flown out of the .ountry and another 25 leave by car. Because of the | critical situation those leaving ! by car were advised to be across; the Syrian frontier by midnight. There are about 320 Ameri cans in Jordan, 60 of them in i Arab Palestine. About 100 of , them are there in official capa-; cities. There are 1.893 Ameri cans in Egypt. Many are mis sionaries, teachers, newsmen and • businessmen. Because nonessential British; personnel were largely withdrawn i during the height of the Suez crisis, similar warnings to Brit-; ons in the Middle East-were not , issued by the London govern . ment. i The air of crisis was height ened by the announcement of Israeli military authorities today See ISRAEL, Page A-8 not heard of such large-scale mobilization in countries neigh boring Israel which would war l rant such Israeli mobilization." i As a precaution against pos -1 sible hostilities, the State De partment last night advised from 7.000 to 8.000 Americans In Is rael, Jordan. Egypt and Syria to leave immediately unless they are “performing essential func tions." Secretary of State Dulles, minutes after returning to the capital from Texas, conferred by telephone several times with ; President Eisenhower. He later summoned Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban to the State De partment to back up Mr. Elsen hower’s appeal with his own plea. A responsible official, who is closely following developments, told a reporter it was Impossible to overstate the seriousness of Arab-1.-raeli tensions. The United States is urgently noping. he said, that Mr. Eisen howers public plea will cause Prime Minister Ben-Gurlon and Arab leaders to take a sober second look at where their pol icies are leading. Timing Might Be Ideal This official, who asked not to be quoted by name, said the Middle East picture is far more serious than at any time since the ’948 Israelt-Arab conflict The main American fear Continued on Page A-S, Col. 1 Metropolitan Edition New York Markets, Poge B-15 Home Delivered' D»>lv «nd Bund»y e»r Month. $1.95 Jiume ueuveieu. NleM Pinll Bundav sa.oo Freed Cardinal Greets Crowd Gives Short Talk to Warsaw Catholics By COLIN FROST Associated Press Foreign Correspondent; WARSAW, Oct. 29—Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski made his first public appearance today since his release from house ar mrest. A crowd of cheering, sing-' ing Polish Catholics greeted him at his palace. The cardinal. Roman Catholic primate of Poland, walked out on the balcony above the main en trance to the palace, spread his arms and said: “Peace be with you.” The crowd responded: "And with thy spirit.” Then the cardinal, clad in black robes and red hat, spoke to them briefly. He called for a mature ap proach to Poland’s problems. He asked that there should be no demonstrations and no disorders. A government communique said last night the 55-year-old church leader had returned to Warsaw and resumed his church functions. Was Held in Monastery The cardinal had been con fined to a country monastery in September, 1953, after a vigor ous campaign against Commu nist infringement on religious freedom. The government of then-Premier Boleslaw Bierut, a leading Stalinist who died last March, accused the churchman of constantly breaking a 1950 agreement between the Red Pol ish government and the Roman Catholic Church. The cardinal never was put on trial. ■ Vatican circles hailed the | news of Cardinal Wyszynskl's release as ”an event of great importance.” Sources close to the Vatican press office said. | however, the Vatican still , awaits further developments assuring complete freedom of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland.) Two Others SUll Held Cardinal Wyszynski’s release left two Catholic primates still under confinement in Commun ist countries. They are Josef Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary, serving a life sentence since 1949 after being convicted of treason against the Communist govern ment, and Alojzijc Cardinal Stepinac of Yugoslavia, 'condi tionally'' released in 1951 from a 16-year sentence for alleged col laboration with the Nazis, but confined to his little home town of Kraslc. The Polish government said Cardinal Wyszynski, before nis return to Warsaw, conferred with the new justice minister, Zenon Kliszko As a result of their talk, the communique added, a commis sion of government and church representatives soon will Hacuss outstanding Issues between the church and state The freeing of Cardinal Wys zynski is certain to arouse fer vent enthusiasm from a wide section of the Polish population, about 90 per cent of which 'is Roman Catholic. The clemency was another move by Wladyslaxv Gomulka. the antl-Btallnlst re stored to power last week ar chief of the Polish Communist party, to unite the nation for the all out assault the government must make to ease Poland's economic difficulties Meanwhile, indications mount ed that Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, Poland's Stalln-in- Hee WARSAW. Page A-4 5 CENTS Disbanding Os Secret Police Due VIENNA, Oct. 29 (TP).—Radio Budapest announced late today an agreement has been reached for rebels to turn in their arms and for Russian troops to quit Budapest. At the same time, the govern ment-controlled radio announced Interior Minister Ferenc Muen nich had dissolved the dread Communist secret police. Mr. Muennich announced that secret police guilty of torture and oppression would be pun ished. The agreement concerning the surrender of rebel arms was con cluded by Defense Minister Kar oly Janza. It was not announced who negotiated for the forces of the rebellion. The broadcast said the agree ment provided that Russian army forces will leave Budapest 24 hours after rebel weapons have been delivered. Called Victory for Rebels A Sunday night dispatch from Endre Marton, Associated Press correspondent in Budapest, said the government had virtually capitulated to a revolt led by a few thousand daring young men. He said the most important con cession in principle was an acknowledgement that the rev olution was “caused by the grave crimes of the past decade.” But only a short time before*, these developments, there was still fighting in Budapest. i British Foreign Secretary I Floyd told the House of Com ! mons in London today he had information that the Soviet Union is pouring more troops i into Hungary. He said some i Soviet units and the Hun garian security police "behaved with the utmost ruthlessness” in attempting to put down the revolt. i (At the same time the West German Ministry for All , German Affairs announced in | Bonn that Soviet conscripts . are reported moving into Com . munist East Germany to join I the big Russian force there. It ! said the news came from a monitored Soviet broadcast to Russian troops.) Shooting During Night Budapest radio reported shortly after 10 a.m. that there had been shooting in the capital’s 11th district during the night ‘ and that “there still are elements who want to disturb the peace." The broadcast added that “armed workers' units’’ search ing houses for arms were met with gunfire. The rebels claimed complete control over a strip of Western Hungary 100 miles long and 50 miles wide, only 19 miles west of Budapest at its northern limit. Rebel banners were reported Hy ing all over Western Hungary and in cities throughout the land. Soviet Pullout Reported The Budapest radio announced Soviet troops had begun pulling out of the battle-scarred capital as Mr. Nagy promised. But Rus sian tanks and big guns still were reported camped in the heart of the city. The rebel radio at Gyoer, in northwest Hungary, reported that it had received information from northeast Hungary that a withdrawal of Russian troops in the border area there took place during the night. There was no confirmation of the re port from any other source. There still was no clear an swer from rebel leaders to the See HUNGARY, Page A-5 Koreans to Tour U. S. SEOUL, Oct. 29 (A*).—Seven South Korean legislators left today for a three-month tour of the United States at the invita tion of the United States SZite Department. REDS ADD WEIGHT TO FASHION WORLD FASHION IS o weighty matter with Bunion women, Howard Greer report! otter a trip behind the Iron Curtoin See page 14 MONEY ISNT everything, but neither,it it nothing, Howard Whitmon toy! in another oi hu "Succetl li Within You" ortidei on The Stor’i Feoture Poge, A 23. AN ODD SET of circumstance! will reiult in some new foces appeonng in motor bowl games Jonuary 1. This is explained on poge C-1. Guide for Readers Amusem'ts B 12 13 Feature Page A-23 Business and Los*. 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