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Geneva
Continued From First Page.)

its strategy for the remainder
of the Korean discussions here.
The allied group has appoint
ed a subcommittee of nine to
draft a resolution outlining plans
for free elections in Korea de-
signed to unity the war-torn
peninsula. Members of the SUBJ
committee are the United States,
Britain. France, South Korea,
Thailand. Australia, Colombia.
the Philippines and Turkey.
Creation of the working group
is part of a move to get the
conference narrowed down after
the general policy statements on
Korea have been concluded.
There still was no definite
indication when the talks will
get started on the 7-year-old
war in Indo-China between the
French Union and the Commu-
nist-led Wet Mini.
If the delegates agree the Ko-
rean and Indo- Chinese talks can
so on simultaneously the Indo-
China question could begin next
week.
Private conferences on the
composition of the Indo- China
conference were in progress all
this week and still were not
closed. The East and West ap-
parently we're agreed-at least
tentatively-that there be at
least nine participants in the
talks: The four big powers. Red
China. and the French-Spon-
sored Indo-Chinese states of
Wet Nam. Cambodia and Laos.
May Insist on India.
There had been reports Rus
STA might insist on the inclusion
of India and possibly other
Asian countries in the talks.
A major obstacle in the make
up of the conference was re-
moved when the Wet Nam chief
of state, ex-Emperor Bao Dali.
agreed his representatives would
sit in a meeting with the Wet
Mini.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-05-01
Spurned Lover Kills
Girl and Her Mother

MIAMI, Fla, May IA youth
full spurned lover killed his
would-be sweetheart and her
mother last night and critically
wounded himself.
Sheriff's Deputies Floyd Ais
bury and Pat Gallagher described
this climax of a 16-year-old
girls rejection of a sick
Puerto Rican:
William Rodriguez, %, con-
formed to the custom of his
native land by seeking permits
sion of Cecilio Ramos to court
his pretty brunette daughter
Eualila.
The father consented, but
Eualila refused to date Rodri-
gueZ.
Rodriguez called on the girl
Friday and when she refused
to go out with him, told her:
IF you won't have anything
to do with me. I'll shoot you"
The frightened girl went to
the home of a neighbor but
later returned to her own home.
Rodriguez apparently had been
hiding in bushes near Eualila s
house and when she entered, he
burst in and shot her twice with
a .22-caliber revolver. Her
mother fed into another room,
but Rodriguez followed and also
shot her twice.
Then he dived through a
window screen. ran to his room
a short distance away and bar
ricaded himself.
Police broke into his room
and they found him critically
wounded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-05-01
Wet mCommander
0pposes U.S.. Combat
Planes in Indo-China
BY the Associated Press

SAIGON, Indo- China, May 1.
Gen. Nguyen Van Hinh. chief
Of staff of the Wet Nam Army,
said yesterday American naval
air intervention in the Indo-
China war would cause retalia-
ton by the Chinese Reds.
The youthful commander re-
iterated his opposition to inter-
naturalization of the 7-year-
old conflict But he conceded
that "if worst comes to worst, "
it might have to be done.
In any event, he said in an
interview, he did not anticipate
that American troops would en-
ter the war. Instead, he fore
saw that with American
encouragement the Chinese Ma
tionalists and South Koreans
might broaden the struggle to
contain Asiatic communism.
Hinges on Conference.
"If the Geneva conference
fails, the Chinese certainly will
augment their aid to the Wet
MIMI" said Gen. H1nh. "We
then must increase the effort
on our side. If our effort falls
short it is likely that we will
need outside aid. But it is a
solution We do not like"
international involvment, he
said, even on a naval-air scale,
would bring air warfare to Indo-
China. A former French pilot
who participated in the bombing
of Germany, the general said
"the prospect is terrible"
He said he had undertaken an
ambitious program to make the
Wet Namese army-which now
numbers some 100000 men
mobile, able to fight the same
kind of jungle and rice paddy
war being conducted by their
Wet Mimi enemies. But, he
said, the will to fight must exist
in the army and the people.
Good Radiance, He Says.
II say to those who wish to
join the Wet Mimi, go. 1t will
be good radiance and we can go
on with our work."
Returning to the Geneva Con-
ference, he said he foresaw that
if it fails, France will be unable
to produce another big effort to
continue the war.
1.-The big push must be up to
us. We cannot let the Com
muniSts win.
Gen. Hinh's reference to
American naval-air intervention
was a reaction to the report the
United States was on the verge
of putting carrier-based planes
into the battle of Diem Bien Phu.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-05-01
Reds Reject West Plan
To Lift Austria Air Ban
BY the Associoied Press

VIENNA, Austria. May 1.-The
SovietS have rejected West
ern-backed plan for restoring
Austria's civil aviation.
The Vienna government ap-
pealed to the four-power Allied
Control Council yesterday to lift
the 1945 ban on Austrian plane
operations.
The United States. Britain and
France supported the plea, but
Russia turned it down yester-
day when Acting Soviet Com
missioner S. V. KraShkevich
charged the request actually was
a smoke screen for schemes to
re-eStabliSh the country'S mill
tary air force.
The three Western representa-
tives on the council backed an
Austrian law eliminating visa
requirements for travellers from
Denmark. West Germany, Ire
land, Iceland, Norway, Portugal,
Sweden and Turkey. This also
was opposed by the Soviet COM
missioner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-05-01
By the Associated Press

Tornadoes which killed. in
jured and destroyed also played
deviliSh tricks.
Fred Morris COW was on the
receiving end of one.
Winding her own business on
her INLAND, Tex, pasture yes
terday, the COW suddenly found
herself sucked into the air and
spinning around and around.
The twister plopped her down on
all four legs 80 feet away. She
was unhurt.
AS a black funnel bore down
on their Bismarck, Ark, farm
home, Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth w.
Bergan stood in the living room.
Each clutched a small child
close.
The tornado lifted the chill
dren from the arms of their
parents. then eased them down
in the same room without in
jury.
A brooder house at Greenland,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-05-01
India Gives Tibet Holdings
To Red China as Gesture
By the Asseeiated Press

NEW DELHI, India. May l.
AS a friendly gesture" India
has decided to make a present
of it's holdings in Tibet to Red
China, a Foreign Ministry source
said yesterday.
Under a non-aggression agree
ment signed in Peiping yester-
day Red China asked India to
hand over "at a reasonable
price" the posts. telegraph and
telephone services equipment
and IL rest houses India had
owned and operated within
Tibet.
Peiping radio, heard in Tokyo,
said that under the agreement
India will be pleased to with
draw it's military escorts in the
Tibet region of China and to
hand over to the government of
China all the rest houses and
the postal, telegraph and public
telephone services in Tibet"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-05-01
FILA Suspends Two
Philadelphia Officials
As Probe Widens
BY the Associated Pres.

A shake-up of the scandal
Jared Federal Housing Admins
tration has reached outside OF
Washington with suspension OF
two Philadelphia officials on
grounds they allegedly failed to
answer under oath questions
about acceptance of gratuities. -
Suspension of John P. Nc
Grath. a chief appraiser, and
Wilmer Russell, an inspector,
was announced yesterday by
William F. McKenna, deputy adj
ministrator of the Housing and
Home Finance Agency.
Given S Days to Answer.
Mr.. McGrath and Mr.. Russell
were given five days Ito show
cause. personally and in writing"
why they should not be fired.
Housing Chief Albert M. Cole,
who is heading the Eisenhower
administrations investigation of
reported multimillion dollar
housing irregularities, said Mr..
McGrath and Mr.. Russell were
ordered to state in a question
naire whether they had received
money and other things of
value from certain persons with
whom they were CONDUCTING
business in behalf of the FILA"
Mr.. Cole said they failed to do
so.
Mr.. Cole said Norman P. Ma
son, acting FILA commissioner
directed Mr.. McGrath and Mr..
Russell to answer questions I'M
der oath April 20 after there
were allegations of irregular
practices.
Several Washington officials
have been removed from their
jobs in the shakeup so far.
2 Inquiries Under Way.
Two congressional committees
also are inquiring into charges
that apartment house builders
pocketed up to half-billion dol
lars in excessive profits by OBJ
aiming Government-insured con-
struction loans bigger than nee
essary to meet costs. Also under
investigation are allegations that
houSeholders in many parts of
the country were "fleeced" by
home repair statesmen who per-
suaded them to get Federally
guaranteed home improvement
loans, then ran out without per-
forming the agreed-upon work.
The apartment project abuses
allegedly took place under a
postwar program that died in
1850. The home repair program
still is in effect and complaints
have been received until recently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-05-01
Eisenhower Gets Review
OF Civil Aviation Policies
BY the Associated Press

The comprehensive review of
Federal civil aviation policies
requested by President Eisen-
hover last September was placed
before him yesterday.
It contained a number of
recommendations as to the
stand the Government should
take on major aviation problems.
The recommendations - and
the report itself-were made by
the InterdeDartmental Air Co.
ordinating Committee. The con-
tents were secret, however, to
be made public when and if the
President approves them.
ACC Chairman Robert Muir
ray, Undersecretary of Com
merce, sent the review to the
White House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-05-01
South Asia Leaders
Fail 10 Agree on
ANY United Stand
BY the Associated Press

COLOMBO. Ceylon. May L.
South Asia's five prime ministers
turned to compromise today in
an attempt to find some basis of
agreement which has eluded
them in the past three days Of
hectic negotiation.
Still deadlocked on resolu.
tons covering Indo-China. COM
munism, and colonialism. they
studied revised drafts by which
Ceylon's Sir Oliver Goonetilleke
hoped to heal the split.
Their conference moved today
to the hill station at Randy for
what was originally planned az
a series of post-conference pub
lie appearances. There they
scheduled formal meeting
later in the day to discuss the
compromises.
Little Is Expected.
Little was expected beyond
platitudes from what had been
heralded as an attempt to raise
a united voice in South Asia.
1t is understood the final decla-
ration. if approved by the
premiers of India, Pakistan, Cey-
lon, Burma and IndoneSia.
would consist of a single half
resolution. half cbmmunioue.
outlining in general terms their
opinions on the major issues.
One clear fact emerged from
the discord of arguments at the
prime ministers meeting. This
is that midas Jawaharlal Nehru
usually hailed as ASia's Spokes-
man-does not speak for all this
South Asia region.
Expected to Dominate.
Mr.. Nehru himself has denied
in public speeches that he de-
sires to speak for more than
Indias $40 million people. But
there were those who throught
~ lllOIC Clldll pOoolblC tlAuO 44A0Ad .
skilled leader would run away
with the discussions at Colombo.
Many predicted his ideas would
dominate the other four leaders.
Instead they found Ceylon's
able Sir John Kotelawala and
Pakistan's young Mohammed Ali
trading arguments freely with
Mr.. Nehru.
Officials participating in the
conference said they expected
the three Commonwealth prime
ministers to reply individually to-
morrow to the message from Brit.
ish Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden asking whether they were
prepared to participate in guar
anteeing the security of Indo-
China in the event of a negoti-
ated settlement there.
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Diem Bien Phu Calm,
But Reds Dig Closer,
Defenders Report

HANOI, Indo-C China. May l.
The French today reported
calm" night at the embattled
fortress of Diem Bien Phu after
a series of lightning charges
against Wet Mimi attackers.
Units of the garrison force
struck yesterday in raids which
drove the rebels from an undis-
closed number of entertainments
and gun positions nestled close
to the French barricadeS. Twen-
ty Wet Mimi soldiers were re-
ported killed and some prisoners
were taken.
The French high command
acknowledged, however, that the
Wet Mimi masses surrounding
the remote mountain position
web of trenches and foxholes
ever closer to the shrunken key
areas of the fortress. The dia-
meter of the bastion now is only
about mile and rebel entrench-
ments are within 1900 feet of
French headquarters.
AS the battle went into it's
50th day, there was no sign when
the Communist commanders of
the rebel force would launch
another mass infantry assault
to try crushing the fortress. It
still was expected, however, that
they would try to score a big
victory to sway the Geneva con-
ference in it's Indo-China nego-
tiations.
French planes took advantage
of a brief letup in the monsoon
rains yesterday to parachute re-
Inducements, food, ammunition
and medical supplies to the hard
pressed little stronghold.
Both sides kept up mortar and
artillery dueling.
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Two Men Receive
Long Prison Terms
For HOUSEKEEPING

Two men were given long
prison terms yesterday for
housebreaking.
One of them, Leroy King, 20,
colored, of the 700 block of
Third street Sc, was given
from S to Is years for breaking
into an apartment in the 1400
block of Carrollburg place NV.
and stealing a television set. Sem
tence was by Judge Luther w.
Youngdah1 Of the U. S. District
Court for the District of CO.
lumbia. King had prior GRIM
inal record, the court was in
formed.
Judge Youngdahl sentenced
Clarence M. Williams, A, COL
ored. of the 900 block of West
minister street NV, to serve
from to II years for breaking
into an apartment in the 5400
block of First street NV.
In another case, Judge Ed
ward M. Curran gave Roland E.
Reeder, 10, colored, of the 1900
block of First street NV, from
3 to 10 years for arson. Reeder
was convicted of setting fire to
a building in the 1900 block of
Sixth street NV.
Judge Alexander Holtzoff SEN
fenced three persons of long
prison for narcotic law viola
tionS.
Norman G. Williams, 26, of
the first block of Myrtle street
NE, who was given from 40
months to 10 years and Made
line P. Berry, 35, of the 1900
block of Euclid street NV, and
Rudolph Fisher. &c, of the first
block of Seventh street Sc, from
% months to z years each. All
three are colored. lae af3
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Lionel Corp. Employees
Strike for Higher Wages
By the Associated Press

IRVINGTON, N. j.. May L.
Go employees of the Lionel
Corp. maker of toy electric
trains. went on strike today for
higher wages.
Token picket lines were set up
at the plane by members OF
Local 304, Plaything, Jewelry
and Novelty Worker s(CIO). The
token picket line was established,
although today would not have
been working day at the plant,
which employs about 1900 per-
sons.
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.Tornadoes and Wind!
Lash Six States;;.
| Dead and Sc Hurt
BY the Associated Press

LITTLE ROCK. Ark, May i:
-Tornadoes and vicious winds
flashing six States in the South
west and Midwest left one per-
son dead. at least Sc injured and
caused damages estimated In the
hundreds of thousands of dol
lars.
Texas suffered the most dam
age-39 injured in % towns and
communities. Other States hit
yesterday included Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri
and Iowa.
Mrs. boot Sowell, 10, colored.
of Many, La. was the only
fatality reported. Her body was
found draped around a fence
post. Six persons in the Sowell
home were injured.
Eleven separate but small
tornadoes struck in Eastern
Iowa.
Five in Family Hurt.
One twister injured five men,
bers of a family near Cedar
Rapids when it tossed them
about 100 feet into a field. Their
farm home was destroyed.
The same tornado swept
through Lafayette, Iowa, wreck
ing cars, uprooting trees and
stripping houses of their roofs.
Two were injured in Arkansas,
three at Versailles, Mo-, and one
in Oklahoma.
Eleven children were hurt in
an. East Texas twister which
struck the Beulak schoolhouse,
IL miles southeast of Lufkin.
School Escapes Damage.
West of Lufkin, another tor
nado swirled past the Grape
land, Tex, school building. in
which 600 children were attend
ing classes. The school escaped
damage, but destruction in
downtown Grapeland was esti-
mated at $4,000.
Houston. Fort Worth, Dallas
and San Antonio, all felt the
force of the spring storms that
damaged a Negro housing prof.
ect in West Dallas so extensively
that Is families had to be evacu-
ated.
A protective wall over the
State Fair Auditorium at Dallas
was demolished, causing damage
estimated at 100000.
Home, farm building and
power line damage was extern
Sive.
Chicken Section Hit.
!, In Northwest Arkansas, Sheriff
Bruce Order said loss in the
heart of Washington County's
major chicken producing section
would run above $4,000.
The Arkansas storms hit first
at Mineral Springs in the South
west, where a high school build
ing wall was blown into a study
hall. The pupils had just left
the room to report to the gym
naSium.
A few minutes later, Nashville,
in Arkansas jittery tornado
alley, was hit, and the storms
hurled on into at least II more
Arkansas cities.
High winds or tornadoes were
reported in West Monroe, La;
Hugo, Okla, and Linn and JET
ferson City, Mo.
Other Cities Hit.
Other cities hit by windstorms:
Texas: Bryan. Tyler, Mineola,
Bremond, Eloise, Franklin, Coup
land. Kyle, Taylor, Byersville,
Cause, Jones, Prairie. Minerva,
Hanover Splawn and Lone Star.
Arkansas: Goshen, Greenland,
Baldwin, Clarksville, Hot Springs,
Fort Smith, Massard, Bismarck,
Hoxie. Portia and Beech Grove.
The tornado threat for the
area. sounded first about mid
morning yesterday, was lifted at
$50 pm. (CST) when the United
States Weather Bureau warned
that Tennessee and Kentucky
could expect locally severe
thunderstorms" during the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-05-01

Mr.. Harris,
W ose jour-
naliStic career
in the Orient
extends back
to the early
1920S when he
W or Ike d for
the Japan Ad-
v e r t err in
T ky o. was
on e of the
hundreds of
Americans re-
D a t ri a t e d
from Japan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-05-01
Philadelphia Admits
Torso Staying, Says
He Planned Robbery
BY the Associated Press

1114AAOEAF lila, May L.
Balding, bespectacled Francis X.
Ballem. %. told police yesterday
he lured an unidentified torso
murder victim to his spacious
home in suburban Bywood for
the express purpose of robbing
him.
The robbery angle was con-
tanned in an amendment to a
69-page confession police say he
gave after his capture in his
home Thursday night.
Ballem calmly acknowledged
killing the unidentified man, a
drinking companion. then hack
ing up the body and caching
most of the parts in trunk at
a trolley station.
9 Ballem was charged with
numbering the man whom he in
7. sisted he knew only as "Joe" or
Johnny" after their meeting in
a midcity barroom.
e, Try to Identify Victim.
Police are still trying to iden-
tify the man slain. The autopsy
and Ballem's story indicated the
victim was husky person, about
80 to 40 years old.
AS police led Ballem step-by-
step through his story of what
has been the most gruesome
Staying in Philadelphia in recent
years, they took him to a
Chester morgue to identify the
skull and other parts of the body.
Ballem gazed at them for a mo-
ment, then murmured:
Poor fellow!"
'Ballem was captured in the
five-bedroom, two-bath home in
Bywood, just west of Philadel-
phia. where he has lived alone
since the deaths of both his par
ents last year. His wife said she
left him and took their daughter,
Mary Elizabeth, 2, when the girl
was an infant.
Police who broke into the Bal
lem house found first floor rooms
Uttered with trash and bottles,
Smeared with blood in places,
cluttered with deep dust.
Classical music that Ballem
played was on the piano. Books
of poetry filled the bookShelves.
A parakeet chirped in a cage
on the living-room mantel. In
the kitchen was a pan contain
ing cold stew, awaiting reheat-
ing.
District Attorney Raymond R.
Start of Delaware County, adj
joining Philadelphia, said Bal
LENS statement gave this version
Of the Staying:
He met the man last Friday
In a bar during a drinking spree,
then went to Ballem'S home.
Ballem said he intended to rob
the man because ST thought he
had plenty of money"
Ballem said that apparently
the victim had similar ideas on
robbery because at one point in
the evening he helped himself
to some of Ballems belongings,
including rings and a loaded
pistol.
~ When the victim was return
ing downstairs from a second
floor bathroom, he found Ballem
going through his coat pocket
and threatened Ballem with the
stolen gun.
Ballem fired first, using an
other of his collection of five
weapons.
Ballem drank some more, went
to bed and two days later de-
cided to hack up the body and
dispose of it. Parts of the body,
wrapped in plastic raincoats and
louSed with lime, were found
Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-05-01
Cool to-Cement Rutio

NEW YORK.-About one ton
of bituminous coal is needed to
provide sufficient heat to manu-
facture about 80 barrels of &C.
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-05-01
Saturday Driving Worst

NEW YORK.-The National
Safety Council says Saturday is
the most dangerous day of the
week to drive your car. Tues
day Is the safest.
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Morris J. Harris, A.P.
Veteran Far East
Reporter, Retires

Morris j. Harris. Sc. veteran
Far East reporter for the Asso-
ciated Press, retired here yes
terdaY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-05-01
FOUND.

CAR KEYS. in tan leather case: Monroe
Ford Co. on case found at 14th st.
and Pa. ave. See newsboy on corner
PARAkEET. light blue male. vic, Lee
hwy. and North Lexington. Arl. IKE.
S-6S6n.
SCOTTIE, male black: no indentifica-
tion: vic. 200 E. Marshall st.: owner or
good home. XII. o.3959.