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London Lady Dies
In Climbing Fall
FORT WILLIAM, Scotland, April
20—(A*)-*—A London woman moun
tain climber met death today as
mountaineers fear it. She perished
dangling from a rope over the edge
of a precipice, near the frosty top
of Ben Novis.
The woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Em
ery, 39, lost her footing yesterday
afternoon on a rock formation
„ known as Tower Ridge. She slipped
from a ledge which sloped off to a
sheer drop of more than 100 feet.
Mrs. Emery went down but a
climbers’ rope, attached to her
- waist and tied to a 26-year-old gird
who followed soine yards behind,
retarded her fall.
The rope caught on an out-crop
ping of rock and after swinging
for a few ghastly seconds Mrs.
Emery hung suspended several feet
from the rock face of the mountain.
For more than 20 hours Mrs,
Emery hung in the precarious posi
tion while rescue teams from Fort
William toiled up the dangerous
trails.
/ _ Strong men hauled up the rope
this afternoon but Mrs. Emery was
dead. She presumably had been
dead for some hours. Apparently
„ . she had suffered from shock, but
death presumably was due to ex
posure. It becomes bitterly cold at
night near the top of 4,406-foot
' * Ben Nevis, Britain’s highest moun
tain.
’ Spy’s Wife
Leaves Plane
In Australia
DARWIN, Australia, April 20
LP) — Mrs. Evdokia Patrov,
. . wife of a Soviet diplomat who
. , has handed spy data over to
• • Australian officials, left the
plane Which was returning her to
Russia today and remained in Aus-
■ ’ tralia.
Mrs. Petrov .made the decision
to stay in Australia and seek polit
ical asylum here along with her
husband after being interviewed
by Australian government officers
in Darwin.
Before the interview, Australian
police disarmed two resisting Rus
sian couriers who were escorting
- - her back to the Soviet Union
aboard a British BOAC Constella
tion. Two .32 calibre pistols in
shoulder holsters were taken froin
them.
While the couriers were being
searched, police separated Mrs.
Petrov from them, and R. S. Lay-
- * din, Northern Territory govern
ment secretary, talked with her
nearly three-quarters of an hour.
Police, Soviet officials and anti-
Eommunist refugees fought an
eight-minute battle with fists at
■Sydney late yesterday when Soviet
officials, firmly holding Mrs. Pe
trov by the arms, escorted her up
the ramp to board the plane.
Bystanders said she was protest
ing, “I do not want to go.”
The dramatic scene took place
at Kingsford Smith Airport where
. - 1,500 struggling, screaming people
attempted to halt the blonde em
bassy employe’s return to Russia.
Her husband, formerly third secre
tary at the Soviet Embassy in Can
berra, turned over spy ring data to
Australia last year and asked for
asylum.
Weeping and bedraggled, Mrs.
Petrov was pushed for 200 yards
around the air strip and up a gang
way to a British Constellation
plane.
In the crowd hundreds of per
sons shouted that she had said re
peatedly in Russian, “I do not want
to go. Save me.”
The U. S. Census Bureau esti
mates that another person is add
ed to the population of America
every 13 seconds, on the average.
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Without extremely heavy cloth
ing survival in such an exposed
situation would have been miracu
lous, experienced climbers said.
The girl at the other end of the
rope from which Mrs. Emery dan
gled was Miss Arthea Russell of
Templeton, England. She managed
to fasten her end of the rope to
jagged rocks, but she did not have
the strength to pull up her com
panion.
Easter Holiday climbers on other
paths, who were unable to ap
proach, saw Mi’s. Emery’s predic
ament, and hastened to Fort Wil
liam for help. Numerous volun
teers and a mountaineering de
tachment of the Royal Air Force
risked many dangers to reach the
spot at night.
Indochina War Unlikely
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 20—<A>)—
President Eisenhower and Secre
tary of State Dulles evaluated “the
menace of Soviet communism” to
day, and the Cabinet officer later
declared it is “unlikely” American
troops will be sent to Indochina.
Dulles said the violent battles
being waged in Indochina are not
creating any spirit of defeatism.
“On the contrary,” he said in a
prepared statement issued after an
hour-long session with the Presi
dent, “they are rousing the free
nations to measures which we hope
will be sufficiently timely and vig
orous to preserve these vital areas
from Communist domination.”.
The secretary was referring to
United States efforts to build a
Pacific defense alliance . against
the spread of communism.
Newsmen’s questioning of Dulles
about whether there is any “seri
ous possibility” of American troops
being sent into Indochina was
prompted by Vice President Nix
on’s statement last Friday.
At a meeting of the American
Society of Newspaper Editors in
Washington, Nixon, replying to a
hypothetical question, said U. S.
forces might have to be dispatched
to Idochina if the French pull out.
He prefaced his answer by saying
he regarded French withdrawal as
unlikely.
The vice president spoke with
the understanding his remarks
would not be attributed him, but
what he said was traced quickly
to him. His remarks touched off
a storm of controversy in Congress
and brought demands that Eisen
hower say whether Nixon’s views
represented administration policy.
After today’s session with Eisen
hower the first question put to
Dulles at a news conference was
whether he felt there is any seri
ous possibility of U. S. troops going
to Indochina.
“I think it is unlikely,” he re
plied quietly.
Asked whether he was speaking
for the President, the secretary
said no—only for himself. He said
later he didn’t think the troop mat
ter had been discussed at his meet
ing with Eisenhowex 1 .
Garnet Horner of the Washing
ton Star then put this question to
Dulles:
“Do you agree with Mr. Nixon
in favoring the sending of Ameri
can troops to Indochina, if neces-
sai’y, as a last resort, to save that
area from Communist domination
if the French should pull out?”
Dulles replied that Nixon had
answered a hypothetical question
off the record and that he, Dulles,
wasn’t going to answer a hypo
thetical question on the record.
The secretary said Nixon had
expressed a personal opinion and
that the vice president was en
titled to do that.
United Nations Forms
Disarmament Committee
By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., April
20—OP)—The U. N. Disarmament
Commission today set up a Big
Power subcommittee for a new look
at ways to control the hydrogen
bomb and other weapons.
Russia hinted she would boycott
the subcommittee because Red
China, India and Czechoslovakia
were omitted.
Climaxing a day long wrangle
between the Soviet Union delegate,
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, and the West
ern delegates, the commission vot
ed 9 to 1 in favor of a British
resolution to put Britain, France,
the United States, the Soviet
Union and Canada on the subcom
mittee.
Vishinsky voted against this pro
posal and the delegates of Lebanon
and Nationalist China abstained.
The commission earlier had voted
10 to 1 against a proposal by Vish-
insky to add India, Communist
China and Czechoslovakia to the
subcommittee. Vishinsky was the
only delegate raising his hand for
that proposal and Lebanon abstain
ed.
Before the rush of ballots, Vish
insky had warned the commission
that. defeat of his proposal would
create difficulties for the Soviet
Union as regards its participation
in the subcommittee.
“Without the participation of the
people’s republic of China, India,
and Czechoslovakia, we cannot
imagine the success of our work,”
he said.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U. S.
delegate, I’eminded Vishinsky that
he was going against the majority
of the commission and said that
this was a “thinly veiled threat”
not to work in the subcommittee.
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