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Evening star., 1953-12-26
BY the Assoeioted Press

DANA, Fla, Dec. ga
Christmas eve drinking party
left a West Palm Beach hair
dresser dead today and a re-
tired Baltimore (Md) physician
and his wife in Jail on first
degree murder charges.
Police Chief william N. Horri-
gan said he signed warrants
charging DR.. Francis Fielding
Reid, 81, and his wife, Frances,
with the murder of George Lee
Grim, 81.
Mr.. Horrigan said Grim, who
lived with his wife Lea, aboard
their cruiser, drowned early yes
terday after a drinking party
aboard his boat and that of DR..
Fielding-Reid, tied up nearby.
The physician admitted he
struck Grim with a pop bottle
some time between 2 and 3
a.m.," Chief Horrigan said. after
Grim boarded the doctors So
foot cruiser, Kattiwake, tore off
the deckhouse door and alleg-
edly "grappled" with Mrs. Field
ing-Reid.
Chief Horrigan quoted Knox
Christopher, caretaker at the
yacht basin. as saying that Grim
was struck on the head by the
physician and then pushed over
the side. Mrs. Fielding Reid told
police that she showed Grim 10
keep him from coming back on
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Reds Out 10 Win Nehru
Al South India Conference
By the Assoeioted Press

MADURA, South India, Dec.
26.-Indian Communists open
their first national convention in
five years today with high hopes
of wooing Prime Minister Nehru
into virtual united front"
Delegates arriving here for
eight-day sessions of the Indian
Communist Party's third con-
gress speculated that United
States-Pakistan military aid
plans would force Mr.. Nehru to
relax his anti-Red internal poll
cies and even adopt a conciliatory
attitude.
In plain bid to exploit India's
violent nationalist reaction
against the United States-Paki-
stan talks, the Indian Communist
Politburo declared on the eve of
the congress that compulsory
military training should be In
dia'S answer to increased Paki-
stan armaments.
Communist leaders predict Mr..
Nehru will have to accept the
Red embrace on the home front
offered in the name Of national
unity. But bitter disputes ap-
pear likely over just how far the
Communists should go in seeking
to capture Mr.. Nehru through
supporting his policies.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
March | Target Set
For Montgomery CD
Program and Budget

Next March / has been set as
a target date by the recently
organized Montgomery Civil De-
fense Association for submitting
to the County Council an inte-
grated plan and budget for the
county's civil defense.
The council has been Informed
of this objective in a letter from
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey,
National director of Selective
Service who also is chairman of
the association.
Association members will con-
duct a countrywide survey of
resources and then make an es-
innate Of requirements. Gen.
Hershey said the survey should
be completed by February / to
allow association staff members
time to prepare the integrated
plan and budget.
Submission of the plan to the
council is the sixth of eight OBJ
jectives of the civil defense group.
The final one, according to the
information handed the council
members, is to assist and sup
port the County Council and all
elements of the civil defense or
ganization in the operation Of
an effective civil defense in
Montgomery County,"
Gen. ~Hershey's letter also in
ciuded list of "basic assump-
tion3" regarding enemy attacks,
a restatement of the associa-
tion's goals. an organization
chart of the association, and a
memorandum to the associa-
tion's deputy chairman for tech
11ical services asking them to
undertake two studies.
Gen. Hershey reiterated that
the association has no intention
of serving in other than an ad-
viSory capacity once a civil de-
tense program is established.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Fire Kills Mother
And Five Children
BY the Assoeiofed Press

FRENCHBURG, KY. Dec. 26.
Flames swept through a small
frame home near here early to-
day. killing a mother and five
of her six children.
Menifee County Coroner Joe
Slusher said he suspected foul
play and has asked the Ken
lucky State police to send a de-
tective to investigate.
The father Of the children es-
capped from the burning home
and managed to save one Of
them.
Burned to death were Mrs.
Arnold Crouch and FIVE young
children. Names Of the children
and their ages were not avail
able Immediately.
Mr.. Crouch. 36. was taken to
a hospital at Lexington suffer-
ing extensive burns. His son.
Eddie. 9. was brought to a hos
pital here. Attendants said
their condition was not deter
mined Immediately.
Hospital attendants said the
father told them he did not
know how the fire started.
Neither Frenchburg nor Salt
Lick, the two towns nearest the
rural home. have ire depart
ments.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Baby Dies as Result
OF Crash Before
He Was Born
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEWARK, N. j.. Dec. ga
baby boy died here yesterday
as the result of a car crash that
happened before he was born.
His mother and father also were
killed.
The accident happened as Mr..
and Mrs. Luther Dickson Ct Jer-
sey City, were returning from q
shopping trip on Christmas Eve.
Their car struck a utility pole
here. Mr.. Dickson, %. was dead
on arrival at st. James Hospital.
His wife, Is, eight months
pregnant, suffered two broken
legs and fractured pelvis. Yes
terday doctors at the hospital
delivered a baby boy to her by
CaeSarian section. He died i'm
mediately after birth.
The mother died minutes later.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Former Baltimore Couple Held
Drinking Party Death

our boat to cause further trou-
ble."
Crim's body was recovered
shortly after police reached the
scene.
Chief Horrigan said he UNDER
stood the Crims invited the
Fielding -Reids aboard their
yacht for a few drinks Christmas
eve and later all four went to
the Kittiwake and continued
drinking until the early morn
ing hours.
Cause Of the argument was
not determined.
DR.. Fielding-Reid is a son of
the late DR.. Harry Fielding Reid,
physicist on the Johns Hopkins
University staff and one of the
original members of the National
Academy of Sciences. DR.. Fran
els Fielding Reid received his
medical degree from Maryland
University.
The accused doctors sister.
Miss Doris Fielding Reid, and
his mother live at 2448 Massa-
chuSetts avenue NV, Washing
ton. Miss Reid is investment
counsel for a Boston firm.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
BY the Assoeioted Press

TOLUCA, Mexico. Dec. 26.-
The little mountain village of
Temoaya mourned today for %
friends and neighbors killed in
a panicky stampede after a
Christmas mass in the local
church. Some 200 other wor-
shippers were injured in the rush
for the doors.
The tragedy was touched of
by a failure of the church's elec-
trio lights. Many of the 5000
faithful jammed in for the mid
night mass early yesterday were
country people unused to elec-
trio lights.
The parish priest, the Rev.
Mr.. Jose Cruz, said he tried vain
ly to quell the panic-stricken
crowd pushing toward the
church's two doors.
Mass was just finished" he
said, "and the congregation was
leaving the church. Somebody
stepped on q wire lying on the
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Chinese Report Raidinq
Red Convoy on Mainland
By the Assoeioted Press

TAIPEH, Dec. 26.-The Chi
neSe Nationalist Interior Minis
try's Ia Tao News Agency yes
terday reported that 5000
Nationalist guerrillas and 5000
Communist troops fought a
three-hour battle this month on
the border of the mainland
provinces of Szechwan and
Kweichow.
The agency said the fight fol-
lowed a December Z raid by the
guerrillas on Red truck convoy
carrying salt.
Ia Tao said 500 Reds were
killed or wounded and more
than 800 others taken prisoner.
Although the agency claims
underground sources on the
mainland. there is no way of
telling whether the story is cor
rect. Reports from Nationalist
sources on mainland events often
are exaggerated.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Red Ambassador Offers
Seasons Greetings
by the A.seeiosed Pres.

Christmas greetings from the
Soviet Ambassador to the Amer
lean people have been extended
through a national radio pro-
gram.
David Wills, NBC news COM
mentator. said in his broadcast
yesterday Ambassador Georgi
zaroubin had asked him to "con-
vey to the American people his
Christmas greeting and his best
wishes for the New Year."
Mr.. Wills said the Ambassador
has been asked about the sig
nif1cance of Radio Moscow's
beaming of good wishes to the
people of the United States. He
said the ambassador declined to
comment, saying he had not
heard the Moscow broadcast, but
asked that his own greeting be
passed along.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Richmond Prepares
For Inauguration
Of New Governor
BY the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND, Dec. rs. - The
State Capitol will begin to show
signs around the first of the year
of Governor-elect Thomas B.
Stanley's pending Inauguration.
That's when workmen will be-
gin to build temporary platforms
over the south portico steps. On
these platforms, General Assem-
bly, members. State Supreme
Court Justices, and other State
dignitaries will gather to induct
the new Governor.
E. Griffith Dodson, clerk of the
House of Delegates, has begun
work on preliminary plans for
the January 20 affair. He is be-
ing assisted by other State off,
cialS.
Retiring Gov. Battle and the
assembly's inaugural committee
will greet the new Governor at
Hotel John Marshall and then
escort him at the head of a pa
rade to Capitol Square.
There the Governor will be
sworn into office shortly after
noon on the south portico Of the
capitol. 1t. Gov. A. E. S. Ste
phens and Attorney General j.
Lindsay Almond. jr., also will
take the oath of Office there.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Terry Moore Packs Away
Bathing Suit on GI Tour
BY the Assoeiafsd Press

UNITED STATES 45th DIVI-
SION, Korea, Dec. 26.-Actress
Terry Moore said today she has
packed away a controversial
ermine bathing suit that makes
me look like a little Santa Claus"
and will continue her Today
Korean tour for the USO.
The robust young blond said
she had been ordered home by
George Murphy. chairman Of
the Hollywood Committee for the
USO, after four shows in the
suit. But she added that now
everything is Strengthened out. "
Johnny Grant - Miss Moore
called him the commanding
officer" of the troupe-said Mr..
Murphy ordered the actress home
because she wore the ermine
against Murphy's instructions.
In Los Angeles, Mr.. Murphy
said:
1T is unfortunate that with
so many entertainers making
such a fine contribution that
one of them should use such a
tour as a means of personal
publicity"
Both Mr.. Grant and Miss
Moore said the Army had moth
ing to do with the order for her
to return home, other than to
relay Mr.. Murphy'S message.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Train Wrecks Around World
Kill 362 at Christmustide

about so miles an hour, shot into
the swollen Wangaehu River
shortly after floods had swept
away a section of the railway
bridge. Another car tottered on
the brink a few moments and
then toppled into the food.
A rescue organization was set
up within a few minutes but
135 of the 267 persons on the
train were still unaccounted for
and there was little hope they
would be found. The known
dead numbered 81.
The force of the crash man
gled the bodies and tore off most
of their clothes, making identifi-
cation difficult. Dead and in
jured were taken by train to
Auckland.
The Government controlled
press in Communist Czechoslo-
vakia released little news of the
accident in that country, and
western newsmen do not operate
there. An early announcement
over Radio Prague said only
that many persons were killed
or injured"
The radio added, however,
that Interior Minister Rudolf
Barak and Traffic Minister An
tonin Posposi had rushed to the
scene of the wreck, about IL
miles north Of the Austrian bor-
der. indicating it's serious nature.
A telephone operator at Brno
told the Associated Press in
Viena she overheard Czech Off
cials place the death toll at 1876.
Only two wrecks are known
to have taken a greater toll. The
worst such disaster was the 1917
wreck of a French troop train
in the Alps. Six hundred per-
sons were reported killed, ac-
cording to the records of the
French News Agency. The sec
ond worst rail accident occurred
in Poland in 1949, when 200 per-
sons were killed.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
10000 Left Homeless
By Hong Kong Fire
BY the Associated Press

HONG KONG, Dec. 26.-Fire
that started Christmas night in
the squatter area of Kowloon
burned itself out today, leaving
more than 10000 homeless. caus-
ing two deaths and more than
so injuries.
officials of the Hong Kong fire
brigade estimated that more
than 5000 dwellings, some of
them little more than huts, had
been destroyed in the Sekkipmei
district, which has been con-
gested with war refugees. Both
death victims were women war
refugees.
It was the worst of a number
of fires which have swept the
squatter district since refugees
began thronging into the area
from Red China several years
ago.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Fantastic Court Battle Near
Over Coty Perfume Millions

boy. In 1929 Coty and his wife
were divorced.
Coty handed over bonds worth
81 million for Henriette to keep
in trust for their children.
There was another $4,000 for
Henriette. At this time Coty
was believed to have made about
$40 million by speculation on the
New York Stock Exchange.
Shortly afterward Henriette
and Coty married, but French
law prevented him giving his
name to the children. The mar
riage lasted only a year. A
divorce suit was filed, but a week
before it went through Coty
died.
Henriette Married Again.
Henriette married again
Maurice de Hanoi. former busi-
ness partner of Coty's. Three
children were born to them. and
by French law became heirs to
their mothers fortune. The
Coty children complain that
they were left out in the cold.
But in 1885 came an extraor-
dinary episode. A penniless
Fraench nobleman, Theodore
Spreng. 78-year-old Duke de la
Shatre. legally recognized the
five Coty children as his. and
had them registered in his name.
The duke died four years later
and thus Christian. the son of
Francois Coty. became Duke de
la Shatre.
Henriette has since divorced
NJ. De Hanoi and resumed her
maiden name of Dieude. She
lives near Aix-en-Provence.
Christian is now leading his
three sisters in the lawsuit
against her for recovery of the
Coty inheritance. The fourth
sister Francoise Is with her
mother.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District and vicinity-Fair to-
night, lowest around 80. Tomor-
row partly cloudy and colder.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. cloud
ineSs with a few snow f1urrieS
likely in the mountains tonight:
lowest 1884, except near IS in
the mountains. Tomorrow partly
cloudy and colder.
Virginia-Some cloudineSs to-
Evening star., 1953-12-26
By james Moyo

PARIS, Dec. 26 (NANA) A
fantastic battle over the missing
millions of perfume king Fran
co.'s Coty will be fought out soon
in French courts.
After 20 years work on Coty'S
private affairs, international law
yers and bankers are untying the
last knots of the most extraordi-
nary love-and-gold tangle of the
century.
Judge Jean Aussot of the Paris
referees court refused to grant
Coty's children a seizure order on
the property of their mothers
second husband.
The children, all poor, claim
that before he died in 1884 Coty
left so million gold francs-al-
most 81 million today-with their
mother under contract that she
should divide it among them
when they came of age. Instead
they alleged, it has disappeared. y
Coty's widow, now Madame Hen
riette Dieude, retorts that the
money was hers and that she has
only about $4,000 left.
Judge AusSet has ordered the
case to be heard early in the
new year.
Loved Salesgirl.
The fabulous story Of the loves
of Francois Coty began in 1918
when he walked into the perfume
shop he had just opened in Paris
and fell in love with 18-year-old
SaleSgirl Henriette Dieude.
Coty-his real name was Spor-
turno-waS married with two
children. Telling his wife he
wanted T. a divorce. he installed
Henriette in a sumptuouS fiat.
Five children were born to Coty
and Henriette-four girls and a
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Priest Helps Thwart
Escape Of 5 Men at
Milwaukee Jail
BY the Assoeiot.d Press

MILWAUKEE,, Dec. 26. "A
Catholic priest. waiting to ad-
minister holy communion, yester-
day helped balk the escape of five
prisoners from the Milwaukee
County Jail.
Sheriff Max Barczak said one
Of the quintet, Vernon Phillips,
26. had asked to receive COM
munion from the Very Rev. Ed
mund Kramer in q consultation
room q few feet off the cell block
corridor. Mr.. Barczak said Jailer
Paul Kozlowski unlocked the door
Of the cell area for Phillips but
was rushed by the group and
felled by blow from a mans
sock which had been filled with
soap bars. Mr.. Kozlowski's keys
were taken and he was locked
inside the area.
Father Kramer said one pris-
oner, keys in hand, came to the
conference room and attempted
to lock 1t, saying Sorry. Father, :"
before joining his fleeing mates.
The priest said he tried the door
of the conference room, and,
finding it unlocked, approached
Mr.. Kozlowski. The jailer yelled
for him to use the intra- Jail tele-
phone to warn of the break. The
priest called Immediately and a
jailer in the Office pressed an
alarm button.
The five prisoners ran in cor
fidors between the first and third
floors, but found none of Mr..
Kozlowski's keys fitted the exits.
About 40 armed guards and
police closed in on the trapped
prisoners, who surrendered
meekly.
Mr.. Kozlowski was hospitalized
briefly for a head injury.
Mr.. Barczak said Phillips was
waiting trial on burglary charges.
He said the others, all in their
20s. were in jail on charges of
burglary. arson, larceny and va
grancy.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
% NIedin Church Stampede
In Mexico After Liqhts Fail

floor. There was a blue flash
and lights went out. They
rushed for the doors.
The loudspeaker system has
its own batteries and was still
turned on. I told them there
was no danger and to go out in
an orderly manner. But they
didn't pay any attention. We
couldn't see much by the light
of the candles on the altar and
around the shrine.
Then when the lights came
on again, there was nobody in
the church except me and the
victims. I went around and
administered the last Sacraments
to them. There was nothing
else could do"
Bodies Of the victims, who in
cluded a 2-month-old baby girl,
were brought here from nearby
TemoSya for burial. Most Of
them apparently died of as
phyxiation but autopsies will be
held.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Four Pedestrians Killed
By West Virginia Car
BY the Associuted Press

WEIGH, w. Va, Dec. ga
Christmas Day automobile acci-
dent killed four pedestrians here
who were hit by car police said
was speeding.
The four were struck by car
just outside a beer tavern, Club
16, on State route 16 about two
miles north of Welch.
The dead, all of Mcdowell
County, were identified as Ralph
Sanders, "a, Of Caples; Charles
Robert Blevins, %, Kimball;
Army Pvt. Edward Smith, %,
Kimball. and Pvt. Smiths wife
Leona, 20.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Queen Joins in Prayer.

night, lowest 1884. Tomorrow
partly cloudy and colder in east
and north sections.
WindS-Southwest to west at
20-25 miles per hour tonight.
shifting to northwest tomorrow.
River Report.
From q. S. Engineers.)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear at
Harpers Ferry.
Humidity
tReadings Washington National Airport
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Kyushu Drinkers Buy
'Tiqer Bone Brew

TOKYO (NANA) In Kyushu,'
southernmost tropical island Of
Japan, hot-blooded drinkers are
avidly buying a heady new bev-
erage christened tiger bone
brew"
It is a secret blend of 26-proof
sake (rice wine), the bones Of
tigers imported from Hong Kong.
ginger, seaweed and IA other in
gradients. chastely, If mysteri-
ously, classified as wholesome
and encouraging" The completed
brew is advertised specifically as
medicinal"
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Wreckage Of Guam Plane
Found in Volcano, 10 Dead
BY the Asseeiosed Press

GUAM, Dec. ga search
team today found the wreckage
of a big Navy plane that disap-
peared Sunday while looking for
another lost Navy weather
plane. The team said there were
no survivors of the 10 crewmen
aboard.
Wreckage of the R4D8 was
found in the crater of an extinct
volcano on tiny Agrihan Island,
$50 miles north of here.
Searchers said it apparently
had crashed into the cloud
capped, 3,166-foot cone. Search
for the missing weather plane
was called off by the Navy at
noon today.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Smashup on Toy Vehicle
Sends Boy, s, 10 Hospital

A 6-year-old West Hyattsville
boy was hoSpitalized yesterday
with a severe head bump received
when a Christmas toy vehicle
ran into a brick wall.
The boy, John Pyle, 5704
Queens Chapel road, was playing
with the toy. a sled with wheels,
when the accident occurred, ac-
cording to his mother, Mrs. Anita
L. Pyle. The boy was in good
condition today at Prince
Georges General Hospital.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

Four countries around the
world counted a death toll of
possibly 362 persons today as a
result of Christmastide train
wrecks.
Two of the rail disasters-in
New Zealand and Czechoslovakia
were among the worst in his
tory. The other accidents were
reported from Peru and Pakistan.
In New Zealand, an estimated
166 lives were lost when a speed
ing wellington Auckland pas
senger train plunged into a river
gorge Thursday night after a
bridge had washed out $50 miles
south of the capital. The catas-
trophe cast gloom over the little
country at the time it was enter
tanning Queen Elizabeth on her
commonwealth tour.
The BratiSlav-Prague express
in Czechoslovakia smashed into
another passenger train near
Sakvice, killing from 100 to 1856
persons according to unofficial
piecemeal reports from the Iron
Curtain country. The wreck, also
on Christmas Eve, may have
been the third worst train crash
in history.
Ore Train Jumps Tracks.
A heavily loaded ore train
jumped the tracks on an Andes
mountain grade IL miles from
Lima, Peru, and six crewmen
were killed. The seventh man
aboard the train was seriously
injured.
Another freight train derail-
ment in Pakistan took the lives
of four crewmen. This accident
occurred yesterday about 80 miles
from Quetta in the western part
of the country.
In Auckland, Queen Elizabeth,
broadcaSting her annual Yule-
tide message to nations of the
commonwealth around the world,
paused to express her sympathy
to the families of the New zea-
land wreck victims. The young
monarch'S voice wavered as she
spoke of the grave disaster.
New Zealand Prime Minister
Sydney Holland rushed to the
scene of the accident on Mount
Ruapehu as soon as he was
notified early yesterday. In
ternal Affairs Minister w. A.
Bodkin was appointed Minister
in Attendance to the Queen and
it was announced that the sched-
ule of her royal tour would not
be altered.
Queen Joins in Prayer.
At Christmas services in st.
Mary's Cathedral yesterday, the
Queen joined the congregation
in silent prayer for the victims
and today she visited three of
the survivors in their homes.
The engine and five cars of
the train. which was travelling
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Feeding Birds Is FotoI
To Italian Womun, 100
BY the Assoeiated Press

BOLOGNA, Italy. Dec. 26.-
Mrs. Enrichetta Minghetti. who
celebrated her Tooth birthday
last month, died on Christmas
Day. Doctors said she caught
cold sitting by an open window,
where she liked to feed the SPAR
rows.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
2 USO Girls in Hospital
After Koreu Stove Blast
BY the Assoeioted Press

TOKYO, Dec. 26.-Singer
Phyllis McCann Of a touring
USO troupe suffered minor first
and second degree burns in q
stove explosion in Korea yester-
day and was taken to a Tokyo
Army hospital for treatment.
Miss McCann and Lucille Ben
nett both were burned by a stove
explosion which threw scalding
water on them. Miss Bennett is
in a Seoul hospital.
Evening star., 1953-12-26
Us. WEATHFR BURfAu MAP
Department ei cemmsfes

Snow forecast for tonight in Northern New England
the interior of New York State Northern Upper
Michigan Northern border of Minnesota North
Dakota and in the Northern Rockies. Elsewhere generally
fair weather expected 1t will be colder in New England
the northern portion of the Lakes the Dakota
Little temperature change is expected elsewhere.
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