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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-28
Soviet Secret Police Deserter
Tells of Deportation of Million
Former Commander
Testifies Before
Congress Group
BY the Associofed Press

MUNICH, Germany, June %.
"A former Russian secret police
commander told in chilling detail
today how he helped betray and
deport a million of Stains sub
jectS because they wanted indie
pendence from the Kremlin.
1t. Col. Grigori Stepanovich
Burlitski, So, emerged into the
glare Of televiSion f1oodlights to
tell Of racial murder in the So
Wet Union. The deserter has
been hidden in the West for a
year by United States intelli-
gence agents and testified today
before a United States congress
sional committee on Communist
aggression.
AS the tiny. blue-eyed Cossack
left the crowded committee room
for the lunch recess, Chairman
Charles j. Kersten, Republican,
OF Wisconsin told every one to
remain seated for one minute.
This was to allow guards to
whisk Burlitski safely away.
Burlitski described how rebel
liouS non-RusSian peoples like
the Checheno-Ingush mountain
people in the Caucasus and the
Tatars of the Crimea were
trapped by Soviet security forces
in merciless Trojan horse" op-
erations.
He told how a million people
were fooled into believing Soviet
Russians overtureS Of friendship
so that they dropped their guard.
Then they found themselves
herded into cattle cars for de-
portation to the wastes of Siberia
under the guns of men they had
been entertaining as guests.
Burlitski said the Kremlin
could not tolerate any indie
pendence movements so simply
wiped out whole regions, leav-.
ing the land silent and deserted
until new settlers could be found.
Burlitski said the Kremlin
during World War II wiped out
the tiny autonomous state of
Checheno-Ingush in the Cau-
casus. It's 500,0 independence
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-28

the New Delhi talks will be fol-
lowed in Rangocn. N. r. Pillai.
secretary general of the Indian
Foreign Ministry, accompanied
the Chinese party to Burma.
That means Mr.. Nehru will get
q full brief1ng on the Chou talks
with Premier U M.
Observers here Speculated
that Mr.. Chou might arrange a
stopover in Jakarta for similar
talks with the heads of Indo-
nesia's Communist supported
government. His present sched-
ule calls for him to head for
Peiping Wednesday via Singa-
pore, travelling in the special
Indian Constellation which
brought him from Geneva.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-28

Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, SUI
preme commander of the NATO
forces. The State Department,
moreover, is known to have OPP
posed the Richards amendment
last year but agreed to a modif1-
cation in the pending bill. short
of outright removal of the re-
Striction.
1.-The new provision" the COM
mittee said today, "perpetuates
the limitation on deliveries with
respect to mutual security funds
for the fiscal year 1854 and ex-
tends it to fiscal 1855 funds. It
should be noted that equipment
purchased from funds authorized
prior to the Mutual Security
Act of 1853 will not be affected"
Four Republican members OF
the committee, in a dissenting
statement from committee APP
prevail of the bill, described
France and Italy as hold outs"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-28
Conference
Continued From First Page.)

against any Communist aggreS-
sion.
The Else nh owe r-Churchill
statement on Western Europe
reflected apparent determine
ton that Western Germany must
rearm in or out Of the proposed
European Defense Community.
Under the Bonn agreements
substitutes for peace treaty
Germany is allowed to have
armed forces only for contribu-
tons to a combined European
army under EDO.
France and Italy, however,
have failed, so far. to ratify
EDO and thus indirectly are
delaying Western Germany's re-
armament. The United States
and Great Britain still hope
they can get EDO into force.
But Gen. Eisenhower and Sir
Winston indicated today they
certainly were not going to wait
too long for action.
1T is our conviction that fur
ther delay in the entry into force
of the EDO and Bonn treaties
would damage the solidarity Of
the Atlantic nations" the two
chiefs of state said.
Gen. Eisenhower and Sir
Winston said:
I'VE are agreed that the Ger
man Federal Republic should
take it's place as an equal part
ner in the community of West
ern nations, where it can make
it's proper contribution to the
defense of the free world.
1--WE are determined to achieve
this goal, convinced that the Bonn
and Paris treaties provide the
best way. We welcome the recent
statement by the French Prime
Minister that an end must be
put to the present uncertainties"
This referred to a statement
by the new French Premier,
Pierre Mendes- France, that he
will put the EDO treaty to a vote
in the French Assembly.
The statement said the four
nations that have already rati-
fed EDO are unwilling to reopen
the complex questions. This
seemed to be in reply to Mr.
ndes-France's statement that
France may seek to alter the
EDO treaty as now proposed.
Atomic Cooperation.
On atomic cooperation, Gen.
Eisenhower and Sir Winston
said: I'VE agree that both our
countries would benefit from
such cooperation to the fullest
extent allowed by United States
legislation"
Under prodding by the Eisen-
hover administration, the Joint
Senate House Committee on
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and directors Of the Huntington
Apartments, which were built
on a mortgage loan of $4,000
as George A. Ford of Washing
ton, William S. Banks of Be-
thesda and Howard E. Everhart
Of Alexandria.
Mr.. McKenna said the Park
lands Manor project was built
under a mortgage loan of So
563, 900. He listed the officers as
Mr.. Cafritz, Edward Cafritz,
Charles H. Purcell and Martin
Atlas, all of Washington.
Loans to Affiliates.
In this case, Mr.. McKenna
said, Parklands Manor, Inc, has
loaned $500, 900 to affiliated COM
panies-the Falkland Shopping
Center, Inc, $4,000, and Park
lands Terrace. Inc, $3.50, 900
although the company's articles
of incorporation provide that it
shall engage in no other business
than the construction and opera
ton of a rental housing project.
Also, Mr.. McKenna said, the
annual gross rental reported for
the year ending June 80. 1858,
amounted to $524,400. and was
$66,336 more than the rentals
shown in FILA records.
Mr.. McKenna said that wind
fall profits were limited to some
large cities, including the Wash
ington area, and that other areas
were not involved.
1.-THE situation in the Wash
ington Office" he said, may have
contributed" to windfall profits.
He cited a complaint by the
General Accounting Office in
1949 that builders were making
substantial gifts to officials in
the Washington office"
He said the top two officials of
the office were allowed to resign.
but that other employees were re-
quired to return their gifts. In
volved, he declared, were eight
television sets and 10 wrist
watches.
The report of an investigation
made at the time was not re-
ferred to the Justice Department
until April Is, 1852, he said.
Report Stifed, He Says.
1.-THE FILA sat on this report
for three years until after the
statute of limitation had run. ~
Mr.. McKenna declared. THAT
had to be a decision of Mr.
Powell or other top officers"
Employees in the FHA's Phil
adelphia and Alaska Offices also
received such gifts, he added.
Senator Capehart termed il
almost unbelievable" that rent
increases we're granted to the
builders and operators of the
Shirley Duke Apartments after
they had cleared better than 81
million in windfall profits, in
addition to another 81 million
made by the financing organiza-
ton.
Mr.. McKenna said q staff Of
95 persons is investigating the
FILA. He declared that SO cases
had been referred to the Justice
Department involving loans to
homeowners for repairs or mod
erniZation.
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loving people were deported ito
distant and unknown parts of
the Soviet Union" he said.
He said the people were
rounded up September %, 1914,
under the ruSe of a festival cele-
brating Red army victories.
Stripped of all weapons. they
were given an hour to pack. then
loaded in railroad cars which
were locked and sealed.
Burlitski said the man in
charge of the operation was 1t.
Gen. Ivan A. Screw, who also
was responsible for ordering
mass deportations from the
Baltic republics after they were
seized in 1910. Serov was ap-
pointed chairman of the Soviet
committee of state security a
few months ago.
The witness said he also par
ticipated in a terror campaign
in 1914 aimed at wiping out a
so-called bandit movement in
Lithuania. These bandits" he
added, were Lithuanians fight
ing for the freedom of their
country"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-28

Atomic Energy has approved in
principle bill to give its
allies in regional security
arrangements information about
the external characteristics of
American atomic weapons. how
to use them and how to defend
against enemy atomic devices.
The Eisenhower Churchill agree
ment would carry out such an
atomic information program
when it is finally approved By
Congress.
The communique concluded:
I'm addition to these specific
matters, we discussed the basic
principles underlying the policy
of our two countries. An agreed
declaration setting forth these
will be made available tomor-
row."
Meet Again Tomorrow.
Today's statement was issued
after Gen. Eisenhower and Sir
Winston, along with Secretary of
State Dulles and British Foreign
Minister Anthony Eden, had
conferred for two hours in Gen.
Eisenhower Office. The ses-
sion was expected to be the
final meeting in the conference
that started Friday. But White
House Press Secretary James c.
Hagerty announced the four
major principals would meet at
1870 am. tomorrow to go over
the statement on basic prin-
ciples of policy.
Just as the communique was
being issued, Sir Winston drove
from the White House grounds
to end his stay at the Executive
Mansion. He drove to the Stat
Ter Hotel, where he had prom
ised to answer questions at a
luncheon given by the combined
Washington press corps.
Sir Winston moves to the
British Embassy this evening.
Tomorrow afternoon, he leaves
for Ottawa for a brief visit.
From Ottawa, he will fly to New
York and there board a steamer
for home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-28
Asia Picture Brighter
Congress Leaders
Are Told by Dulles

Congressional leaders said to-
day after receiving a brief1ng at
the White House from Secretary
Of State Dulles that the Asiatic
situation seems to be "a little
bit brighter" and more encour-
aging" than 1t has been.
House Speaker Martin and
Senate Majority Leader Know
land told reporters after their
regular Monday-morning legiSla-
tive conference with President
Eisenhower that DR.. Dulles also
indicated that this Government
regards news of the Government
upset in Guatemala as ere
assuring"
Speaker Martin said ASiatic
conditions are "a little bit
brighter" and Senator Know
land added the comment that
they appeared to be more en-
couraging than they have been. 1"
Senator Knowland said the
Churchill Eisenhower talks had
been briefly discussed" but he
refused to make any comment
concerning their progress.
Hopes for July 81 Adjournment.
Both leaders emphasized, how
ever, that Secretary Dulles COM
ments had no relation to the
current talks between President
Eisenhower and British Prime
Minister Churchill on Far East
ern affairs.
Senator Knowland told report
ers he didn't think they ought
to read anything into either the
Speakers statement or mine"
concerning possible results Of
the Eisenhower Churchill talks.
Both congressional leaders ex-
pressed confidence that Congress
will be able to make a hoped-for
July 81 adjournment. Mr.. Mar
tin said the House will meet at
10 am. each day for the re-
mainder of the week, and Sen
ator Knowland said the Senate
will begin meeting at IL am. and
run until at least z pm. every
evening in an attempt to clear
the legislative schedule.
Speaker Martin predicted that
the House will approve both the
foreign aid bill and the farm bill.
which come UP this week for
debate.
I'm Pretty Good Shape"
"We're in pretty good shape
as far as both bills are con-
cerned." he said. wen pass the
farm bill, including the flexible
price-supports program the adj
ministration wants, unless all
the big-city Democrats for
political reasons gang up and
vote for fixed parity"
The administration is backing
a flexible supports program
which would support basic crops
on a sliding scale ranging from
IS to 80 per cent of parity at the
discretion Of the Secretary Of
Agriculture.
Senator Knowland said the
Senate expects to complete all
major appropriation bills and
have them ready for the Presi-
dent by the end of the current
fiscal year on June 80. He said
this would do away with the
necessity of passing a contin-
uing resolution to provide tenn
porary funds for the major de-
partments, as had been done in
previous years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-28
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tionS of mutual friendship and
cooperation were only a begin
ming in closer relations between
their big nations.
Sources close to Mr.. Chou's
tight-mouthed delegation arrived
at this estimate of the Chinese
leaders plan:
He hopes with midas active
assistance to build a stout Asian
wall both politically and eco
nomically and thus GUST West
ern interests.
The keystone Of his program
is asia for the AsianS" and its
aim is to combat so-called colon
ialism.
Economic cooperation will play
an equal part with political un-
derstanding. because Mr.. Chou
is under orders to find through
Asian sources a substitute for
China's needs blocked by Wes-
tern embargoes.
It is expected the pattern Of
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hospital. Their daughter,
Margaret. is acting in play at
Binghamton, N. Y, and there
were no plans at present for her
to return home.
Mr.. Humans brother and sis
ter, J. Vivian Truman and Miss
Mary Jane Truman, also visited
the hospital They declined to
comment on his condition.
The hospital said that after
going through the critical
phase, Mr.. Truman's temperature
greatly receded" from about 1O2
degrees. Yesterday morning, the
earlier bulletin said. the former
President was more alert and
most cooperative" and was "re-
ceiving medication by mouth and
taking tea and liquid foods by
mouth"
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TrumunI
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lace Graham and two other
doctors.
Mr.. Adams said Mr.. Truman
continued to show remarkable
spirit.
Mrs. Truman visited her hus-
band again last night after
spending much of the day at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-28
Save on
Water
Heaters

For over a
years John G.
Webster has
sold, Installed
and serviced
m ore Water
Heaters than
any one in
the Washing
ton area.
Smyrna times., 1954-03-04
SPRING FLOWING NEAR
Highway Department Urges Farm
ers Not to Plow Dirt Shoulders

Highway Department Urges Farm
ers Not to Plow Dirt Shoulders
With the approach of the early
spring plowing season, particular
ly in the lower part of the State,
the State Highway Department is
making request to farmers not
to plow out to the dirt shoulders
along highways while working in
fields adjacent to these highways.
The reason for this request is
that when the blowing continues
from the field across the dirt
shoulders, it is necessary for High
way Department maintenance
crews to repair the damage to the
dirt shoulders as well as create
new bitches between the fields and
the roadway.
Department engineers also point
out that the practice of edge
plowing," that of blowing through
the edges of the field next to high
ways, makes it possible for the
earth to run off into the bitches
along the highways in time of
storm and results in the land in
the field along these bitches be-
coming practically useless.
While it is illegal for the dirt
shoulders along highway to be
used in a plowing operation from
an adjacent field, the State High
way Department hopes this diff
Guilty can be eliminated through
cooperation of the farmers using
the adjacent fields, rather than by
legal action.
A department spokesman stated
that the cooperation of the farmers
is earnestly requested in the mat
ter of preventing damage to dirt
shoulders and bitches through
plowing in the adjacent fields.
Smyrna times., 1954-03-04

maximum production"-Dr. John
Scholes, Poultry Specialist, Cay
uga, New York.
More eggs with a summer lay
ing shelter"-E. F. Smith, Jr.,
Kenton, Delaware.
''What do the egg-laying con-
tests show" S. L. McHenry, Uni
versity of Delaware, (Moderator).
Turkey growers, with Wilson
Wilcox, Middletown, as chairman,
will hear:
'Debeaking and wing-notching
turkey poults-why, when and
how it is done"-Richard Figgs,
Delmar, Delaware.
How to grow lb. turkey broil-
ers in 16 weeks Frank Meyer,
Broadway, Virginia.
Smyrna times., 1954-03-04
Oats

Oats
1. Charles Greenplate, Newark.
2. John o'Brier, Greenwood.
Rye
1. Richard Brumley, Delmar.
2. Paul Williamson, Greenwood.
Lespedeza
1. Charles Baker, Harrington.
2. Jack Sapp, Harrington.
Yellow Soybeans
/. Charles David, Dover.
2. William Loper, Caesar Rod
ney.
Black Soybeans
l. Harry Swain, Greenwood.
2. Richard Revell, Greenwood.
Red Clover
1. Eugene Thomas, Marydel.
2. Francis Thomas, Marydel. !.
Class # - Hay
Alfalfa
1. Winterthur Farms, Winter
thur.
2. Charles Greenplate, Newark
Soybean Hay
/. George Wilson, Smyrna.
2. James Mcdowell, Greenwood.
Mixed Hay
1. Richard Draper, Milford.
2. Ludwig Burger, Caesar Rod
ney.
Glass G = Grass SiIage
1. Wills Passmore, Wilmington.
2. Michael Stachecki, Dover.
Class I'll - Corn Silage
L. Kenneth Moore, Dover.
2. Ronald Campbell, Newark.
Glass = Vocational Agriculture
High School Exhibits
1. Conrad FLA. :.
2. Louis L. Redding High School.
Red Clover
1. Harry Mccormick, Newark.
2. Ronald David, Newark.
Lespedeza
1. John Swartzentruber, Green
wood.
2. Robert Mcdowell, Greenwood.
Alfalfa-Grass
1. Jack Richards, Newark.
2. Ronald Campbell, Newark.
Smyrna times., 1954-03-04

Q-I served continuously in the
armed forces, without a break,
since 1910, and I am just now get
ting my discharge. Would I be
allowed to take the maximum of
four years of training under the
World War II CT Bill?
A-No. The reason is that the
World War II CT training pro-
gram, for nearly all veterans,
Smyrna times., 1954-03-04
TOP EXHIBITS
NAMED IN SHOW
Prizes Awarded In Crop I'M
provement Show at Farm
and Home Week
339 ENTRIES

Prizes have been awarded for
the best exhibits in the 45th Della
ware Crop Improvement Show.
There were 339 entries in this
years show, which took place dur
ing Farm and Home Week at the
University of Delaware. Exhibits
looked good" reports William H,
Mitchell. "In the soybean class es-
pecially, the samples were we'll
selected and prepared. Alfalfa
grass exhibits were very fine
also"
Ludwig Burger, a student and
FLA. member from Caesar Rod
ney School in Camden, earned the
most prize money with first
place, a second, and several third
places. Other high-ranking winn-
ers were John Swartzentruber,
Greenwood; Charles Greenplate
and Ronald Campbell, both of
Newark.
Prize winners and classes are:
Class A j Hubrid Corn
New Castle County
1. Richard Biederlnan, Newark
FLA.
2. Lee Hoffecker, Bear
Kent County
1. Carlton Fifer, Caesar Rodney.
2, William Robb, Jr., Dover.
Sussex County
1. Millard Calhoun, Greenwood.
Glass b. - Corn 10 ears
1. Edward Williams, Hockessin.
2. Richard Biederman. Newark
FLA.
Glass @ = Corn single ears
l. Francis Jamison, N ew k
FLA.
2. R. Greenplate, Newark FLA.
Glass ID - Corn
(boys and girls exhibit)
New Castle County
1. Charles Mccall, Newark.
2. Arthur Beecher, Newark.
Kent County
1. William Loper, Wyoming.
2. Eugene Thomas, Marydel.
Sussex County
/. Joshua Messick, Millsboro.
2. Jerry Rider, Delmar.
Glass 4 - Small Grain and Seeds
Wheat
1. Ludwig Burger, Caesar Rod
ney.
2. Norma Robb, Dover.
Barley
/. William Loper, Caesar Rod
ney.
2. Norma Robb, Dover.
Smyrna times., 1954-03-04
Egynt Breaks Un Estate

Egypt, the American Peoples
Encyclopedia Yearbook for 1858,
reveals, has limited the ownership
of arabic land to 200 acres per per-
son. The new law broke up the
huge estates owned by members of
the royal family and a minority of
the big landlords.
Smyrna times., 1954-03-04
POULTRY MEN
PLAN PROGRAM
Details Completed for Short
Course at Dover
March 10
SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED

Program details have been COM
pleted for the poultry short course
on March 10, at the Capitol Grange
Hall, Dover.
Nationally-known speakers will
cover variety of topics in the
fields of poultry marketing, feed
ing, housing, management and
disease control. According to Silas
]. McHenry, assistant extension
poultryman at the University of
Delaware, talks will pinpoint latest
research developments and field
observations in these fields.
with broiler prices below costs
of production for the past two
months, all members of the poultry
industry are concerned with pros
poets for the future" state Nc
Henry. This meeting is designed
to deal with the current poultry
situation"
The morning program, starting
at $3.50, is of interest to all poul-
trymen. Ralph Obier, Seaford, is
chairman. Topics and speakers in
clude: Bronchitis Spray Vaccina-
tion for broilers and layers
"Our experiences in New Eng
land"-Prof. w. c. Skoglund,
Head, Dept. of Poultry, University
of New Hampshire.
Our recommendation for Della
ware"-H. R. Baker, Poultry Path
ologist, State Board of Agricul-
ture.
"How to stay in the poultry
business"-Ray Cook, Lancaster,
Pennsylvania.
whats the real story on broiler
prices ?"-Edward Karpoff, Agri-
cultural Economist, us. Depart
fent of Agriculture.
Infra-red brooding recommend
ations on installation and opera
tion.
Walter Aldmch, Del
aware Power and Light Co.
"Types of brooding units. R.
Carroll, Delaware REA.
Supplementary heat"-O. o.
Stivers, Maryland REA.
Results Harold Johnso
Preston, Maryland.
Continuing the general session
in the afternoon, with Charles
Marker, Dover, as chairman, the
speakers will discuss the question,
(which breeds and strains of broil-
ers make the most money!"
They are:
Trends in consumer prefer
ences'-Ted Ramsey, Pocomoke,
Maryland.
Importance of m It 4 ype
strain"-G. E. Coleman, Jr., King
ston, New Hampshire.
''Why light-feathered breeds
have replaced Barred Crosses
Henry Saglio, Glastonbury, Con
necticut.
Results of State Broiler Tests"
DIR. w. ]. Mellen, University of
Delaware (Moderator).
'Use and abuse of drugs and
antibiotics used in poultry feeds
Karl Seeger, Georgetown, Della
ware.
Separate meetings for broiler
growers, turkey growers and egg
producers will conclude the day.
Heading the broiler group is
Donald Wilbur, Salisbury, Md.
Topics are:
ID b e king day-old broiler
chicks-how it is done and results
to date"-Elliott Evans, Ocear
View, Delaware.
Feed efficiency-the key t.
greater profits" Lindsley,
Easton, Maryland.
Chairman for the egg producers
is George Bringhurst, Dover. Top
les and speakers include:
Restricted VS.. full feeding of re-
placements"-W. c. Skoglund,
University of New Hampshire.
Full-feed and full-speed for
Smyrna times., 1954-03-04

comes to an end on July 25, 1856
about two and one-half years from
Smyrna times., 1954-03-04

now. But you would be entitled to
the maximum amount of training
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