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'lo6th Year. No. 305. Phone ST. 3-5000 WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1958 — 36 PAGES Home Delivered:
Woman'sßody
Found, Beaten
And Strangled
Realty Dealer, 63,
Was Missing Since
Thursday Night
Miss Sarah Trachtenberg,
63-year-old real estate operator
missing since Thursday eve
ning, was found dead in her
parked car here early today,
beaten about the head, stran
gled and possibly raped.
Homicide, robbery and sex
squad detectives were in on the
case within a half hour after
the body was found in the car
parked in the 100 block of N
street N.W., about 7 a.m.
Deputy Coroner Christopher
J, Murphy in an autopsy per
formed before noon, did not
announce the immediate cause
of death, but said there were
definite marks of strangulation,
of blows about the head with a
blunt instrument and that
there were indications of
criminal assault.
Miss Trachtenberg, once
widowed and once divorced,
had resumed her maiden name
and operated almost single
handedly with clerk help, the
Square Deal Furniture Store at
5011 street N.W.. the Trachten
berg Properties around the cor
ner at 900 Fifth street N.W.,
and considerable rental prop
erty.
Lived With Sister
She lived with a sister. Mrs.
Sophia Ripper, at 1515 Webster
street N.W. She spent con
siderable time there and with
two other sisters, Mrs. Rose
De Bosky, 1336 Rittenhouse
street N.W., and Mrs. Lillian
Winston, 4120 Eighteenth street
N.W.
Because she divided her time
among them, no concern was
felt over her absence since she
was last seen about 7 p.m.,
Thursday.
The body, clothing pulled up
around the thighs and broken
eyeglasses near her feet, was
found on the floor of her 1949
automobile -about 7 a.m. by a
passerby who reported to a
nurse at the Hahnemann Hos
pital across the street on New
York avenue N.W.
Relatives said they are “going
on the suposition that she had
a considerable sum of money
with her.” Police are non
committal on reports that her
jewelry and money are missing.
Her purse was not found in the
car.
A tall, lanky, and until a
recent illness a vigorous woman.
Miss Trachtenberg did most of
the work in connection with her
real estate holdings, including
rent collections.
Last Seen by Handyman
She was last seen by a handy
man employed at the furniture
store, Le Roy Chapman. 50. of
1537 Eighth street N.W., an
employe there 17 years.
He told Detective Sergt. Ed
win C. Coppage he saw her
leave the store, walk across the
street to a parking lot which
she owns, get into her car and
drive up Fifth street N.W. He
had a delivery to make, Mr.
Chapman said, and drove out
in his truck behind her. The
last time he saw her, he said,
she had stopped her car for a
traffic light and was waiting at
Fifth and K streets N.W.
He said he waved to her and
drove on.
Relatives said her usual route
home was Fifth street to K,
west to Sixth street, north to
Florida avenue, west on Florida
to Georgia avenue, north to
Upshur street, west to Four
teenth street N.W.. north on
Fourteenth to Webster and left
one block to her home.
Relatives also said she usu-
See BODY, Page A^S
President to Talk
To Pact Nations
B 1 the Associated Press
President Elsenhower will go
to Seattle November 10 to ad
dress a meeting of Colombo
Pact nations.
The White House said today
the President s talk will open
the foreign ministers session of
the consultive committee in the
Olympic Hotel.
The meeting of the 19 Co
lombo nations, including the
United States, has been going
on in Seattle since October 20
among lower rank representa
tives.
Secretary of State Dulles is
to preside at the meeting of
foreign ministers.
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GETS JAIL TERM
GRAND HAVEN, Mich.
CAP).—Paul Dubrovin of
Muskegon. Mich., stopped
behind a Grand Haven
police cruiser at an inter
section. He stayed right
there until police com
pleted their investigation
of a minor traffic accident.
When two policemen
asked him what he wanted.
Mr. Dubrovin said nothing;
he was just waiting for the
light to change.
The only light anywhere
near was the red flasher
atop the cruiser.
Mr. Dubrovin. 49, was
hauled off to jail on a
drunk driving charge. Yes
terday he was fined slls
and sentenced to 30 days
in jail.
U.N. Overrides
Reds on Tests
OKs Ban on Blasts
During Arms Talk
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y„
Nov. 1 (AP).—Despite Soviet
opposition, the United Nations
today approved a United
States-backed proposal calling
for the suspension of nuclear
tests during the Geneva Big
Three talks.
The 61-nation political com
mittee voted for the plan, 49-9,
■ '— i
Big Three Delegates Meet Privately on
Test lon. Page A-5
with 23 abstentions, after a
bitter procedural wrangle that
lasted past midnight.
The ballot was hailed as a
victory for the West. Diplo
mats hfld little hope, however,
that it Would do much to win
agreement at Geneva, where:
the United States, Britain and 1
Russia are negotiating over an
international system to police'
a ban on tests.
The Soviet Union voiced
dogged opposition to the reso
lution sponsored by the United
States and 16 other nations.
But it was believed the Russians i
would quietly suspend their |
tests during the Geneva par
ley—rather than risk charges
of bad faith.
Today’s vote came after"the
collapse of Indian-Yugoslav ef
forts to get East-West agree-:
ment on a compromise proposal!
that called for halting tests. No
date for resumption was set. j
The West insisted on vot
ing priority for its plan after
Russia and authors of other
See NUCLEAR, Page A-2
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POLITICALSTORIES
IN TODAY'S PAPER
Special Star Reports
Garnett D. Horner Deicribes Eisen
hower's Campaign Windup. Pag* A-1
Robert K. Walsh Reports Alcorn Is
Optimistic. Page A-3
Charles Hottman Reports on Presi
dent's Indorsement of Maryland
G. 0. P. Candidates. Page A-24
Nixon Heads for Alaska for More
Politicking. Page A-3
Johnson Challenges Eisenhower on
"Radical" Legislation. Page A-3
Bridgas Warns G. 0. P. Not te Imitate
Democrats. Pago A-3
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SITTING ROOM ONLY—Baltimore’s National
Guard Armory is only half-filled as President
; Eisenhower begins his final pre-election cam
; paign speech. A crowcj estimated at 3,500
fllhc Itoeftitta Star
Presiden! Hits
'Spendthrift'
Democrats
Baltimore Address
Rests His Case for
G. O. P. Victory
By GARNETT D. HORNER
Star Staff Writer
President Eisenhower today
rested his case for election of
a Republican Congress next
Tuesday mainly on a rallying
cry to battle against Demo
cratic "free spenders."
The President boasted to the
Nation from Baltimore last
night that the “recession is
. rapidly fading into history”
despite “gloomdoggler” Demo
crats whose spending programs
would have “undermined the
economy.”
He announced that unem
ployment went down another
300,000 during October, mean
ing that the number of jobless
has dropped by 1.5 million “in
just the last three months."
“That’s Republican progress,”
he proclaimed. “Not Just talk,
not leaf-raking schemes, not
. Federal handouts. Just sensi
: ble leadership."
; To keep “good government”
I means “electing a Republican
team” across the Nation, he
declared.
; j
Emphasizes Civil Rights
j Hitting hard on the civil
rights issue for the firs* time
in this campaign, Mr. Eisen
! hower claimed Republican
credit for right-to-vote legis
lation.
He charged that in the civil
rights field “the Democrats
have been too busy battling
each other to have any time
! left for the rest of the Nation.”
Assailing the Democratic rec
ord on everything from cost of
i living to ballistic missiles, he
said “the opposition party" of
| i fers voters “both sides of every
issue” because “the Democrats
are split right down the mid
dle.”
His Baltimore speech wrapped
1 , up the aggressive campaign
waged by the President across
\ the country during the last two
weeks in an effort to help over
come a trend generally ex
pected to increase Democratic
majorities in the Senate and
House.
Small, But Enthusiastic
! His immediate audience, flll
-1 tag little more than half of
some 7,000 seats In Baltimore's
sth Regiment Armory, was
disappointingly small to Mary
land Republican leaders. But
it was enthusiastic, interrupt
ing him 40 times with bursts of
applause. The ABC television
radio network carried his talk
; to the country.
After using airplanes and
helicopters in his previous cam
paigning this fall, the President
travelled to and from Balti
' more by special train. He left
1 Union Station about 7:45 p.m.
i and got back at 10:30 p.m.
I His only other scheduled po
litical activity in this election
i Is to cast his own vote at a
! polling place near his Gettys
burg, Pa., farm next Tuesday.
, His announcement of a 300,-
j 000 unemployment drop for
October was a last-minute ad
’ dition to his prepared speech,
I inserted while en route to Bal
, timore. Unemployment figures
j for one month are uaually an-
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DAYLIGHT/AFTER 9 DAYS—Donald Jewkes
(center with bandaged head) manages a weak
smile after being brought to the surface of the
Cumberland No. 2 mine in Springhill, Nova
Apologetic Pasternak Told
He's Free to Leave Country
LONDON, Nov. 1 (AP).—
Boris Pasternak got a green
light today to go to Sweden
to accept his $41,420 Nobel
Prize for literature. A Tass
news agency report said no one
would care if he did not come
back.
Mr. Pasternak already has
rejected the prize.
These developments cropped
up shortly after Moscow radio
reported that Mr. Pasternak
had written to Premier
Khrushchev begging to be al
lowed to stay in Russia.
“To go beyond the frontiers
of my homeland to me is equal
to death and. therefore, I beg
you not to take this extreme
measure toward me,” the au
thor of “Doctor Zhivago” was
quoted as telling Khrushchev.
In the letter, Moscow radio
said. Mr. Pasternak admitted
he may have made mistakes.
“Whatever my mistakes and
errors may have been, I could
not imagine that I would find
turned out to hear the Chief Executive in the
auditorium which seats 7,000. The picture was
taken from the back of the hall. (Another pict
_ture on Page A-24.) AP Wirephoto.
’ I
myself in the midst of such a
political campaign which has
been fanned around my name
in the West,” the letter said.
“Traitor” Label Affixed
Pressure was building up in
Russia for Pasternak's expul
sion as a traitor.
The Tass report said Mr.
Pasternak would find no ob
stacles before him if he wanted
to stay out of Russia for good
after going to Stockholm for
the Nobel Prize. Mr. Pasternak
turned it down Wednesday,
however, saying that he could
not accept because of the at
titude of “the society I live in.”
“Doctor Zhivago” has come
under harsh criticism in Rus
sia. It ia a tale of ordinary
Russian people caught up in the
Communist revolution. The
book was banned in the Soviet
Union but has been published
in the West. A few pirated edi
tions are reported circulating in
Scotia. He was one of seven more men found
alive today after being buried for 9 days in
the shattered mine.—AP Wirephoto.
Russia, however. After Paster
nak was awarded the Nobel
Prize, he was expelled from the
Soviet Writers’ Union. This ap
parently means be will not be
able to work as a writer in
Russia.
Pleads With Khrushchev
Moscow radio said Mr. Pas
ternak pleaded with Mr. Khru
shchev to be allowed to work
again.
"I can say. with my hand on
my heart, I have done some
thing for Soviet literature and
I may still oe useful to it,”
Pasternak’s letter said.
The writer added, according
to Moscow radio, that he was
bound to Russia by birth, his
life and work and that he could
not visualize his fate apart from
it.
The letter reached Mr. Kru
shchev last night.
The Tass statement about
Pasternak’s freedom to leave
came after Its publication of
the letter.
Won’t Be Deterred
The statement said:
“In connection with the let
ter of Pasternak to Krushchev,
Tass is authorized to state that
no obstacles will be placed by
the Soviet state authorities If
Pasternak expresses his wish
to go abroad to receive the
prize awarded to him.
“The reports spread by the
bourgeois press to the effect
that Pasternak was allegedly
refused the right to go abroad
are a crude fabrication.
“As became known. Paster
nak has up to now not applied
Continued en Page A-13, Col. 7
VMI Cadet Killed
In Fall Off Train
NORFOLK. Va„ Nov. 1 (AP)
—A 21-year-old cadet captain
at Virginia Military Institute
was killed last night when he
fell from the last car of a char
tered train taking the corps to
today's football game here.
He was Samuel Payne Adams,
son of Samuel W. Adams of
Newport News. Re was a first
classman.
Cadet Ken Decker, Mr.
Adams’ roommate, said he and
Mr. Adams had gone to the
rear of the ooach and Mr.
Adams opened the door. The
coach did not have an obser
vation platform.
Mr. Decker said he looked
back along the train corridor
and, when he turned back to
Mr. Adams, he saw tun fall
through the door.
Approximately 850 of the
1.000-man cadet corps had left
Lexington on the 16-car char
tered Norfolk dc Western Rail
way train. VMI played Vir
ginia jjpre today.
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Vote Ordered
Despite Castro
Cuba Ignores
Rebels' Violence
HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 1 (AP).
—Cubans in revolt-torn areas
were ordered today tp vote in
Monday’s presidential election
despite increasing violence by
Fidel Castro’s rebels,
i The Supreme Electoral Coun
cil refused to call off balloting
in nine towns and cities in east
ern most Oriente Province, and
five towns ar.d rural districts
near Santa Clara and Cienfue
gos in Central Las Villas Prov
ince.
Carlos Marquez Sterling, one
of three opposition candidates
for the presidency, asked that
the vote bt suspended in these
rebel-infected areas. He con
tended communications were
lacking and the safety of voters
jeopardized.
Asks Special Inspectors
The council also rejected a
plea by another opposition can
didate, former President Ramon
Grau San Martin. He de
manded that special Inspectors
be assigned to all of the nation’s
8,521 precincts. Mr. Grau said
this was needed to guarantee
; “purity of the voting/’
President Fulgencio Batista
called a special cabinet meet
ing for tonight. Presumably,
the cabinet will discuss the final
election details and the alert
ing of Cuba’s armed forces and
order Monday.
Meanwhile, rebel columns
spread out over wide areas of
Oriente Province, sabotaging
and shooting up railway and
(highway transport, attacking
and burning electoral stations
and clashing with government
troops.
Interest Is Centered
Rebels said they had opened
/‘Front No. 5” In Oriente. con
centrating forces around the
i city of Santiago De Cuba. The
government reported 29 rebels
See CUBA, Page A-2
Prowler Enters
McKeldin Home
ANNAPOLIS, Nov. 1 (AP)
A State trooper guarding the
Executive Mansion while the
McKeldlns were away discov
ered an intruder lurking in one
of the rooms early today.
Trooper Finley R. Sparks said
he spotted the man as he was
making his rounds at 3:25 a.m.
When he flicked on a light, he
said, he saw a man hiding to
an adjacent room.
The man fled through the
muse and escaped.
A check of the mansion was
underway today to determine
whiter anything was misting
REAL ESTATE
SECTION
Pages B-1 to B-12
40 Workers
Still Lost in
Nova Scotia
SPRINOHILL. Nova Scotia,
(AP).—Seven more miners—
incredibly withstanding nin*
days of entombment were
rescued today from the depth*
of a wrecked coal mine.
Amazed rescue workers said
that although some were in
jured all appeared in good con
dition considering the time
they had been trapped without
food or water. Some even ap
peared in better shape than 13
brought out Thursday after six
days of hunger and thirst.
Rescue crews said they were
even met with a Jest when they
flnaly dug through the debris
to reach six of the men 13,000
feet from the mine entrance.
“Give me a drink of water
and I’ll sing you a song,” said
Maurice Ruddick, 46-year-old
father of 12 children. He could
joke despite a broken leg and
hunger and thirst.
One Found Alone
First to be brought to tha
surface to the cheers of towns
people gathered at the pithead
of Cumberland No. 2 was
Bryon Martin. His ordeal was
worst of all.
The rescue squads had found •
Mr. Martin alone in a pocket
only 6 feet square. Separated
from the others, he had been
without fooa, water or light
since a massive earth shift the
night of Octo'ier 23 trapped
174 miners.
“God must have saved this
little hole for me,” Mr. Martin
said.
"I’ve seen a triple miracle,"
declared Victor Hunter, captain
of the rescue crews.
For among the seven was
his brother Frank. Another
brother, Fred, was among the
12 saved Thursday. Yet a third
brother, Percy, was brought
out tike night disaster struck.
Wave to Weil-Withers
Garnett Clark, another of the
lucky seven, had spent his 29th
birthday underground. He was
born October 27. The other
survivors were Currie Smith,
Douglas Jewkes and Herb Pep
perdlne.
Some managed to wave in
greeting to well-wishers as
they were placed In ambu
lances. They were taken to All
Saints Hospital, an asbestos
shingled, 50-bed building s mils
from the mine.
There food, water, clean beds
and the kisses of their families
awaited the haggard miner*.
They had been given a little
| water, soup and coffee by their
rescuers down in the mine.
At the hospital, Mr. Martin
spoke through swollen lips and
whispered: “Thank God I'm
alive.
His family got only a few
broken words from him. He
said the long wait was horrible.
Voice Barely Audible
Relatives said he had dlffl
jeulty hearing their questions.
| His voice was barely audible.
He was in the worst condition
of -the seven.
Mrs. Pepperdine said her hus
band was just fine.
Then she laughed and said:
“The first thing he told me
was Give me a quart of whisky,
I will you?’ ”
Mr. Jewkes was the spryest of
them all. He sat up on the
stretcher as he was carried
from the ambulance, waved to
everybody. He spotted a friend.
Jim McLeod, and called cheer
fully: “Hi, Jim. old man!”
The task of hunting for
See MINE, Page A-3
McElroy in Athens
ATHENS, Nov. 1 (AP).—
j United States Defense Secre
tary Neil McElroy arrived hero
by plane today for a four-day
visit with Greek government
and American officials.
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