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^. is I 1 i ' Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Besidents Number 164: Volume 53 r Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY /TV THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1953 Price Five Cents WINS BATTLE OF THE CATS—Robin Powell of New York, Cape Cod, Mass., and Coconut Grove, Fla., poses in court at New Braunfels, Tex., with two of three cats she regained possession of. In a petition filed with the court Robin’s father, J. B. Powell, said that Air Force Lt. John Farrar, stationed at nearby Gary Air Force Base, had kid naped the cats and was bolding them as “ransom’’ to regain the affection’s of Robin. Powell asked that the cats be returned. Hist. Judge Fuchs ruled “it shouldn’t happen to a dog,” and ordered the lieutenant to return the cats to Powell. (AP Photo) CELL AWAITS MOSSADEGH AFTER TREASON TRIAL TEHRAN, Iran, (/P)—A solitary S-oll today awaited weepy, talkative Did Mohammed Mossadegh follow ing IN:'conviction an-treason charg es. It was not known yet whether he would appeal the sentence giv en him by a military court. The five-man tribunal convicted the former Iranian dictator yester day on 13 counts of trying to un seat Shah Mohammed Reza Rahlevi last summer and sentenced him to three years in solitary confinement. Christmas C of C Contest Winners Named Winners of the College Station Christmas decoration contest and fi $15 first prize were Dr. and Mrs. 3). W. Andres of 1201 Munson E. Second prize of $10 went to Mr. find Mi's. Ed Garner- of 209 Grove Street. Third prize of $5 was taken by ('apt. and Mrs. Walter Heritage of 3 207 Walton Drive. The selections wer e announced by N. M. McGinnis, Secretary of the College Station Civic Develop ment Board and the Chamber of Commerce. ■ The civic organization sponsored the contest and Mrs. Marion Pugh, president of the A&M Garden club, Selected the judges. Judges were members of the Bryan Garden club. The contest was completed last night and more than a dozen Christ night and more than a dozen Christmas decorations were in the final consideration, McGinnis said. Weather Today Mossadegh has five days to file an appeal. His co-defendant and former ar my chief of. staff, Brig. Paghi Ria- di, was sentenced to two years and ordered distmissed from the army. The emotional nationalist leader stood gripping the edge of a bench during the 65-minute reading of the verdict and only mocked the court when it finished. “I thank you very much for sen tencing me,” he said. “ The sen tence has increased my historic glory.” Mossadegh was convicted on charges growing out of his defiance of the Shah’s decree dismissing him last August. An uprising led by the present Premier, Gen. Fazollah Za- hedi, toppled the old man from of fice soon after and put him behind bars. He could have been sentenced to death on the charges, which in cluded illegally dissolving Parlia ment’s lower house, the Majlis, and numerous actions against the Shah and the royal dynasty. Formosa Like Sun; ‘Shines All Around World,’ Says ROW PANMUNJOM—GP)—A smiling Chinese prisoner strolled into an explanation tent today, eyed the Communist Chinese explainers and bowed politely. He took his seat and listened quietly. Communist interviewers talked on for more than 20 minutes. Then the prisoner broke in. “Gentlemen, I understand what you said, but I can tell you I have already lost confidence in the Red regime,” he told them. “I don’t like to blame you. I know that you are employes. I just want to go to Taiwan, Formosa.” “You know how large Taiwan is?” a Red asked. “It is only a tiny island.” “Yes,” the prisoner replied. “I know that. It is tiny. But have you ever seen the sun ? It is also tiny as we look at it from here, but the sun, anyhow, shines all around the world and that is Tai wan today. It shines also all over the mainland—China.” COLD Freezing cold predicted for to night with temperatures between 20 and 25 degrees. Clearing weath er for this afternoon and tonight. I inal gi-ants were from the Julius High. yesterday 66, low 44. Low j Hyman and Company Division of this, morning of 35. • the Corporation, Grant Renewals Posted Two renewals of grants to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station were announced recently by Director R. D. Lewis. Both were from the Agricultural Chem icals Division of the Shetl Chem ical Corporation of Denver, Col orado, and were made through W. E. McCauley, manager, Product and Sales Development. The orig- 4 Move Fa tse A larms S low Recap lu re DETROIT—bP) — A series of false tips in this nervous city slow ed cautious police efforts today to track down the two remaining fug itives from Saturday’s 13-man Southern Michigan prison break. One of the escapees still at large, was Roman Usiondek, convicted murdered and criminal psycopath, known to be dangerous. The other Robert Dowling is a convicted bur glar. A phoned, ananymous tip last night that Usiondek was in a dingy southwest section hotel, sent po : lice through a careful but fruitless search. Still another tip last night elec trified the police network in the southwest area where yesterday three of the escapees were trapped in a small frame house and cap tured without a fight. But the tip, unlike the earlier one to a Detroit newspaperman that led to the capture of he trio, was evidently groundless. The earlier tip came through Ray Girardin, veteran reporter of the Detroit Times, who was ap proached by an unidentified man with the information that the three escaped convicts were hiding in the home of Joseph Rocco, an ex convict. Police found Daniel B. Bousha, 28, Edward J. Emrick, 43, and Vir gil Lane, 27, watching television in the home. They gave up with out a fight. The three were part of the gang that crept through a se\ver, and cut the grates at the open end to escape from the gigantic prison. Police also held Rocco and Ir vin Sullivan of Detroit for inves tigation of harboring fugitives. Rocdo, paroled in 1937 from South ern Michigan Prison, said he had met Ermdck while at the prison. But all three of the escapees en tered his home Sunday night. They were there, Rocco said, when he came home from work. He added that the three refused to leave or let him, Ids wife or Sullivan, who was visiting the Rocco home, leave. Usiondek has repeatedly sworn vengence on the witness and pros ecutor at the 1943 trial where Usiondek drew a life sentence for the slaying of a bar owner. Of the original 13 that escaped, six were captured shortly after the breakout in a shooting chase with state police when their stolen car turned over. Two others were flushed from small Jackson hotels. ★ HAS SPIRIT, PAYS FREIGHT GRAND PRAIRIE, Tex. — <2P)—A Grand Prairie man walked into the post office yes terday and asked Ast. Post master Roy Childs whether he had any Christmas cards mail ed without stamps. Sure, about 200, Childs said. The man thought a while. “Come to think of it,” se said, “I believe I mailed a card my self last week and forgot to stamp it.” He pulled out a $5 bill and handed it to Childs. “Here,” he said, “I guess this ought to cover the postage for those cards and make it a merry Christmas to some people.” Allies Schedule POW BroadcasIs PANMUNJOM—(/P)- 'I’be Allies today scheduled last-minute “come home” broadcasts to the 22 Amer ican POW’s who embraced com munism as hope of face-to-face talks with them was all but aban doned. Midnight Wednesday ends the 90-day period for coaxing home war prisoners who rejected repa triation. The 28 Americans will be listed as absent without leave at that hour. Thirty days later they will be classed asfdddfeftm's. The U.N. Gommand announced it will make three loudspeaker broadcasts to prisoners in the Communist North Camp—one for the Americans, one for the lone Briton and a third for 77 Koreans who did not face interviewers. French Presidential Vote Snarled After 10 Ballots PARIS—6P)—Two tired old men who insist they don’t want the job led the field of possible com promise candidates for the French presidency today. Veterans Ed ouard Herriot and Vincent Auriol came to the fore as Parliament leaders sought to break the left- right ' deadlock that has resulted i nlO fruitless ballots. Herriot and Auriol appeared the only likely figures generally con sidered above the party squabbles. Abriol, 69, winds up a seven-year term in the job Jan. .17. Speculation that one or the other might be drafted mounted after Andre le Troquer, presiding offi cer of the electoral congress, called a meeting of leading politicios be fore members of Parliament met today to cast their 11th ballot. Intervening last night when, on the 10th ballot, no candidate still could poll a majority, Le Troquer declared. “Prolongation of the pi'esent situation would endanger the functioning of democratic in stitutions.” In all previous presidential elec tions, no more than two ballots have been required. Premier Joseph Laniel, who has led the poll throughout most of the five days; of inconclusive vot ing, lost ground last night when the small Social and Democratic Resistance party abstained dh the 10th ballot t« protest continuation of the stalemate. At the same time, the Reds went ahead with face-to-face explana tions. They won back 23 of 242 Chinese prisoner's today. And they asked for 250 more Chinese to morrow, the final day. Texts for the Allied broadcasts were approved by the Neutral Na tions Repatriation Commission and a spokesman said the commission “will make the facilities available.” He noted, however, that it is up to the prisoners “to listen or not to listen.” And Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya, Indian chairman of the commis sion, predicted that the prisoners probably will “all join together and go to the other end of the compound.” Hope for interviews with the Americans all but vanished when the repatriation commission railed that only one neutral observer team will be available tomorrow’s Allied talks. The other teams will be busy watching Communist ex planation sessions. A U.N. pokesman said it would be impossible to conduct inter views unless five site were avail able, but observers pointed out that if tire American should offer’ to attend this decision could be modified. Thimayya said one possibility would be explanations to groups of prisoners—the 22 Americans in one group, the 1 Briton alone and the 77 South Koreans in a third group. No one, however, would predict that the interviews would be held. FIRE LOSSES INCREASE It is estimated fire losses in the United States were $784,953,000 in 1952 compared with $731,505,000 in 1951. BIMON TAKES STAND — Benny Bmion takes the witness stand in district court Dallas to Plead guilty to charges ot operating a million dollar policy racket in Dallas Judo-e Henry Kind (right) sentenced him to four years in prison, the sentence to be servSd concurrently with a five-year sentence Bmion received in federal court Dec. 14 for income tax evasion. _ - (AP Photo) By JOHN SCALI WASHINGTON—(/P)—Diplomatic officials said today the United States would move cautiously in meeting Russia’s professed readiness to talk about the Eisenhower proposal for a pool of atomic materials for peace. Secretary of State Dulles, who said yesterday of Mos cow’s reply, ‘This is hopeful,” had aforum to comment furth er in a foreign policy speech today before a National Press Club luncheon. President Eisenhower, who broached the peaceful-uses atomic I plan in a widely acclaimed United Nations speech Dec. 8, had no com ment on Russia’s reply. The President had opportunity to discuss it with some of his top foreign policy, military and atom ic advisers at a White House con ference this morning. The con- fei'ence was scheduled before Mos cow made public its note yesterday. Hopeful But Cautious Among members of Congress re maining in Washington, the con sensus was hopeful but cautious. Most lawmakers who commented said the Kremlin response wa en- ouraging, but that this govern ment should move with great care. Dulles cleai’ly foreshadowed in a formal statement yesterday a move by the United States to pro vide the necessary explanation” Russia requested about Eisenhow er’s proposal. Whether the President and Dul les will decide this additional in formation should be provided se- cretfy as part of the ■ confidential talks suggested by Eisenhower has not yet been decided. ‘Explore Possibilities’ The United States will, through the new channels which the Soviet Union now accepts, explore every possibility of securing agreement and bringing President Eisenhow er’s historic proposal into the realm of creative action,” Dulles said. At the same time, Dulles em phasized Russia “seems not to have caught the spirit of the Pres ident’s proposal,” as evidenced by outspoken criticism in the Soviet not of some of Eisenhower’s speech. Some officials noted the Rus sians at least 20 times vigorously restated their long-standing de mand for pledges of an outright ban of atomic and hydrogen weap ons as part of Ffisenhower’s plan. Soviet Note “It is necessary that not some part but the whole mass of atomic material be directed completely to peaceful aims,”; the Soviet note said at one poipt. And again it ,Said: “As for the f Soviet Union its position is quit4 clear. It consists in turning the . great discorvery of man’s reason, not against civiliza tion, but for civilization’s all-sided progress, not for mass destruction of peoples hut fpy peaceful needs, for the unbounded rise in the wel fare of the peoples.” The President’s U.N. speech, Moscow contended, bypassed this objective. The note said accept ance of the President’s plan “wolld serve to lessen the vigi lance of the peoples regarding the Ag Economics Profs Attend Meet Three members of the Depart ment of Agricultural Economics and Sociology, A&M College, took an active part at the meeting of the Southwestern Land Tenure committee, recently. Dr. T. R. Timm, head of the de partment, was named chairman of the subcommittee on research planning; W. G. Adkins was re- namedchairman of the subcommit tee preparing a; regional report on land values and R. L. Skrabanek continues as a member of a group working on the impacts of agricul tural technology. Representatives from Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklaho ma and from the USDA and the Farm Foundation also attended the meeting. problems of atomic weapons but would not facilitate the lessening of the real threat of atomic war.” American officials who deal with Russia described Moscow’s latest note as a skillfully written mes sage. They noted that it reflected no basic change in Russia's seven year-old atomic policy, except that in confidential talks about Eisen hower’s proposal. Until top officials have an op portunity to determine how these talks would affect the scheduled foreign ministers’ meeting - with Russia at Berlin, the tendency was to study the over-all Russian reply carefully for hidden booby traps. Ex UN Official Blasts Soviets’ Tarty Politics’ OSLO, Norway—Former U. N. Secretary General Trygve Lie in a newspaper interview today blast ed the Kremlin for failure to co operate in the United Nations, and praised President Eisenhower as a “sti’ong defender” of the princi ples of the world body. Lie was wary in commenting on the pros pects of the proposed four-power conference in Berlin, and saw “no particular reason” to be optimistic about the outlook for peace. But he was less reticent in his view of the Soviets. The Labor party newspaper Arbeider Blndet quoted him as saying: • “In my time as secretary gener al of the United Nations T never encountered a single, honest, real istic attempt on the part of the Soviet delegates to settle interna- ional differences. “Narrow party politics, designed only for propaganda purposes in the Soviet Union and the satellite states, has been the core of their “inflamed speeches.” AFL Predicts Win Over Lewis-Backed ILA in Election NEW YORK—UP)—The struggle between the AFL and the inde pendent International Longshore men’s Assn., now' backed by John L. Lewis, was carried to the ballot box today in a federally supervised election. Some 22,000 waterfront workers in Manhattan and New Jersey be gan voting on their choice of un ions. The election, conducted by the National Labor Relations Board will run through tomorrow. Announcement of results is ex pected Thursday. It is expected that the other 40,- 000 dock workers on the East Coast, all veteian ILA members, will follow the lead of the Port of New York group. The balloting brought to a cli max the rivalry between the ILA and the AFL, which set up the- new 1LA-AFL a few months ago in an attempt to break the I LA’s hold on East Coast longshoremen. The AFL had previously ousted the ILA for failure to purge itself of racketeering elements. ILA President William V. Brad ley, who yesterday won public sup port from United Mine Workers President Lewis, beamed with con fidence last night, predicting a 10-1 victory for his group. Brad ley, a tugboat captain, has sa* he knows of no racketeering the ILA.