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AuToMoBILEs FOR SALE

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\ 1-owner car, r. and D., turn SIGNALS
seat covers. Special price. $899
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Abductor of Girl
Gets ~ Years

TORONTO. April Is (P.-A
plumbing contractor who alb
Quoted Alice Nesbitt and bar
gained for $4,000 in exchange
for her life, yesterday was
sentenced to ga years in a
penitentiary.
Philip Odesse, 80, told a
crowded courtroom he had done
"a terrible thing" when he pulled
the 8-year-old girl into his car
March 16.
"I'd hate to think of a mother
going through all that anguish, "
he said. Odesse was sentenced
on a charge of abduction. A
charge of kidnapping was dis
missed.
The Nesbitt girl, daughter of
w. Rankine Nesbitt, wealthy
Toronto lawyer, was held for
nearly four hours after she was
pulled into a car as she walked
home from school for lunch.
Two phone calls to Mrs. Mes
bitt demanded $4,000. but the
girl was dropped safely near her
home shortly before Odesse was
arrested at gunpoint. No money
was paid.
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ST RIKES
Continued From First Page

Continued From First Page
Steelworkers at Birmingham
ended their one-day strike in
sympathy with the CWA walk
out.
A 70-pair cable between At
lanta and Birmingham was cut
yesterday and a cable between
Atlanta and Rome, Ca, a long
distance cable linking Miami
with Key West, and Havana
Cuba, was shot out.
Walkout at Buffalo
In another labor development,
a wildcat walkout of crewmen
of the South Buffalo Railways at
Buffalo, N. Y, threatened the
operation of the Bethlehem
Lackawanna plant and the Ford
Motor Co. stamping plant. The
Bethlehem plant employees 1850
and the Ford plant 1900.
About 400 railway employees
are involved in the walkout. A
Brotherhood of Railway Train
men official said he knew of nc
reason for the strike, which he
termed unauthorized" He said
it apparently started because oil
lack Of progress in mediation
over a new contract. The line
carries freight and finished prod
ucts and services some eight
plants employing about $4,000
workers.
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HEAD TRAPPED IN SWING
Arlington Boy, 2, Receivers
After Rescue from Hunqinq

Two-year-old Mike McCusker
of Arlington was in fair condi.
ton today after being rescued
yesterday by neighbors who
found him hanging limp from
the cross-bar of a swing. his
head trapped between the swing
and wall.
Artificial respiration by a
neighbor who had been TRAINED
as nurse and oxygen Id d
fire department ambulance
helped revive him. He was taken
to Arlington Hospital. The hos
pital said ne is under observa-
ton for a possible head injury.
Mike is the son of Air Force
Capt. and Mrs. Kent McCusker
of 1907 South Thirteenth road.
He was playing in the yard of
Comdr. and Mrs. Moffatt Plaxco
at 1922 South Thirteenth road,
when the accident occurred
about 5 pm.
In the Plaxcos' back yard was
the metal swing, its end pushed
up against a cinder block wall
about 4 feet high. There was a
space of few inches between
the crossbar on the swing and
the wall. In some manner,
neighbors said, Mike got wedged
in with his chin over the bar
and his head between the bar
and the wall.
About Is minutes after Mrs.
McCusker had checked on
Mixes whereabouts, another
neighbor. Mrs. Betty Neff of
4815. found him. He was blue,
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insist the refugees stay another
day for another lecture before
they are respectable citizens en-
titled to travel.
Before long the refugee
learns that his exit permit is
good for only Is days-and that
the Is days are UP. Then he
drifts back to his home, some
times finding that the Com
munists have taken over his
property as abandoned,
American authorities report
numerous cases of physical
abuse of refugees. 1t. Tom
Dooley of st. Louis, United
States Navy doctor. treated a
Catholic priest who had been
stripped, hung by his feet and
whipped with sugar-cane stalks
slit to resemble a cat-o'-nine-
tails. Chopsticks had been
plunged into the priests ears.
1t. Dooley also treated a
woman who had been hohbled.
a boy beaten on the head until
he was paralyzed, a man beaten
on the feet with gun butts, man
with half his face shot away,
and scores of others.
When the victim desires, the
incident is reported tosthe Inter-
national Control Commission,
which is supposed to supervise
carrying out Of the Geneva
agreements.
The Control Commission.
swamped with complaints. takes
a standard line:
How can you prove these were
Communists chopsticks in the
priests ears? How can you
prove these were Communist
bullets that hit the man in the
face? How can you prove it was
a Communist blow that paralyzed
the boy?
The French admit they can't.
Then they send their ships out
at night to do the work they
feel must be done.
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Provdo Says Course Like
Austria S Would Aid Germany

MOSCOW, April is iP.-
Pravda called on Austria today
to maintain a neutral position in
world affairs and said a similar
course would be useful for Ger
many.
The Communist Party organ
advanced the suggestion In q
front page editorial commenting
on the results Of Austrian-Soviet
talks over an independence
treaty which wound up yester-
day.
Pravda said the negotiations
between Austrian Chancellor
Julius Raab, Soviet Foreign
Secretary v. M. Molotov and
their aides had important re-
suits" 1t forecast favorable
possibilities" for ending the 10
year occupation Of Austria.
Aimed at Germany
The government newspaper
Izvestia and the trade organ
Trud carried similar editorials.
Diplomatic circles In Moscow
are specializing that the Russian
governments favorable response
to an Austrian treaty was de-
signed to influence West Ger
many which has just ratified the
Paris accords authorizing her
rearmament.
western observers believe
Russia finally decided to 60
along with the West in the
desperate hope that an AUS
trian pact would persuade the
West Germans to scuttle their
rearmament plans In the belief
they could reunify their d.
vided land by similar deal)
There also has been much talk
In diplomatic circles that Russia
wants q neutral bloc extending
from Finland and Sweden
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which developed In the second
half Of 1854 Is getting worse. I" he
said. They want to get the
election over quickly before un-
employment increases"
Budget Due Tuesday
Last February the Churchill
government took action to speed
the now Of exports and to slow
down imports.
Among the steps taken by
Chancellor Of the Exchequer r.
A. Butler were increasing the
interest rates and restricting in
stallment buying. A month later
he said his emergency measures
were paying of.
On Tuesday Mr.. Butler will de-
tail Britain,s economic outlook
when he presents his new budget.
Laborite left-winger Michael
Foote declared the main issue
in the election is "are we going
to turn out these people who
have helped prevent high-leyel
talks?"
Wants Big Power Talks
The Labor Party, spanked by
moderate leader Clement Attlee,
has pressed for immediate big
power talks on the hydrogen
bomb. disarmament and other
world problems.
Both Sir Winston and Sir An
thony took the stand that the
Paris agreements to rearm West
Germany must be adopted prior
to any high-level Big Four con-
ference. They argued that the
West must negotiate from a po-
sition Of unity and strength.
Final ratification of the Paris
accords is now at hand and pre-
liminary steps toward possible
Big Four talks are being taken
by the West.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-16
Youths Rob,
Beet 7 Men

NEW YORK. April is (P.-
Two teen-agers were held today
for allegedly pistol-whippine
seven men In a drunken, savage
rampage.
One victim, beaten on the head
with a gun butt yesterday. may
die, police said. He was oper-
ated on in an effort to save
his life.
Kings County District Attor-
ney Edward Silver charged the
youths with robbery, felonious
assault, kidnapping, grand lar
ceny and violation Of the weap-
ons law.
The youths were identified as
John Gilroy, II, who has a rec
ord as a car thief, and Matthew
McGhie, IL. who was once ar
rested as a juvenile delinquent
Mr.. Silver said the pair
started out on a rampage
Thursday night in Brooklyn
They stole two cars. comman-
deered another, drank heavily
and robbed and gun-whipped
men they came across casually,
he said.
During the holdup of three
men, Mr.. Silver said, Gilroy lust
for the hell Of it," clapped the
gun to one of the mems heads,
spun the cylinder and pulled
the trigger. The hammer clicked
on an empty chamber.
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Red Infornner
Status Ended

The Justice % Department has
stopped Classifying as consul
tants former members of the
Communist Party who are used
as witnesses in trials.
Attorney General Brownell
told news conference yester-
day the decision means 81 ex-
Reds will no longer have a status
resembling Government en-
ployment.
incidentally. the change will
save the Government consider
able money. The pay for CON
sultants" range upward from $25
a day during periods their serv-
ices are required.
A Government witness nor
mally receives only 81 a day. plus
expenses, while being used.
ConSultants who can qualify
as expert witnesses-as some of
II the former Communists did--get
as much as $50 day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-16
Flyer Parents
Face New Veto
On China Trip
By the Associated Press

Secretary of State Dulles is
expected to reject again the re-
quest of an American couple to
visit their airman son in his Red
China prison.
Mrs. Harold Fischer of Swea
City, Iowa, said last night she
and her husband would renew
their request although they had
received a letter from U. N. Sec
Rotary General Dag H M
marskjold which she said adj
vised against a trip to Red China
at this time.
Mr.. Hammarskjold Is seeking
the release Of their son and other
American flyers held by the Reds,
The Fischers said they had re-
ceived promises Of cooperation
from the Chinese Red Cross
since Mr.. Dulles last January
turned down their request for
passports to visit their son, Air
Force Capt. Harold Fischer. jr.
Situation Unchanged.
Publicly, the State Department
was withholding comment on the
Fischers' statement that they
planned to renew their requests.
But officials said neither the sit
uation nor the departments at
titude has changed since Janu-
airy. Therefore, they said, the
answer still must be no.
Capt. Fischer, a double jet ace
has been held by the Reds since
his plane was shot down NEAR
the Yalu River during the
Korean war.
The Imprisonment Of Capt
Fischer and IA other American
airmen will be the subject Of
an inquiry. starting Monday. BY
the Senate Investigations Sub
committee. Eleven of the air.
men are held on spy" charges
- charges this country has
labeled as false.
Will Hold Hearings
Chairman Mcclellan said State
Department and Air Force repre-.
sentatives will be heard in closec
sessions before the subcommittee
decides whether to hold public
hearings.
Mrs. Fischer said Mr.. Ham
marskjold wrote that he is con.
tinuing efforts to gain the re.
lease of the airman and Twill
not relax as long as I see the
slightest chance Of success
The U. N. official flew to Rec
China in January to seek theil
release.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-16
Communist Tricks
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity-Fair to-
night, low near So. Tomorrow,
sunny and warmer, high near 80.
Virginia-F'air tonight, low
1854. Tomorrow, some cloudi-
ness and warmer.
Maryland-Fair tonight, low
1855. Tomorrow. sunny and
warmer. high 1892.
Winds-Gentle and variable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-16
Thieves Get $3.50
At Store, Including
$500 in Quarters

Norman j. Ableman, owner Of
the Clifton liquor store. reported
to police yesterday his store was
broken into and $3.50 was taken
from a cash register and one Of
two safes.
Mr.. Ableman said a second
strong box was tempered with
but was unopened.
Part of the loot, he said, rep
resented 500 in quarters kept
in the cash Register. Entry, he
said. was made through a sky
light. The store is at 2502 Four
teenth street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-16
Britain Economic Health
Is Key Election Issue

LONDON. April is B.-Brit-
aims general election next month
may well be fought around two
main issues-the nations eco
nomic health and her role in
easing East-West tensions.
The battle-ground has been
shaping up for months in Par
lament and press. It was thrown
into sharp focus last night after
Prime Minister Anthony Eden
called elections for May 26.
Leaders of the opposition
Labor Party quickly declared
that Sir Anthony's 10-day-old
government was afraid to delay
the election because economic
conditions showed signs of
worsening.
And there was renewed Labor
tie criticism because the Con-
sentative government has not
seen At until now to press for
big power talks on world prob
lens.
Uncertainty Cited"
Sir Anthony went on the air
last night to make his terse an
nouncement of the election date
which had been widely forecast.
He told the nation uncertainty
at home and abroad about the
political future is bad for our
influence in world affairs. bad
for trade and unsettling in many
ways"
He said Parliament would be
dissolved May 6.
Hugh Gaitskell, former Labor
lite chancellor Of the exchequer,
declared the real reason" for an
early election was government
concern over the economic situa-
ton.
"They fear a trade deficit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-16

slant guard during its So hours
in Rangoon. Not even airport
officials were permitted to ap-
preach it.
Mr.. Chou had refused the re-
fueling facilities Of the British
owned Burma Oil Co. His air.
craft had carried its own fuel all
the way from Running. China.
All these precautions doubtless
were the consequence Of the
crash of another chartered
Indian plane carrying eight Red
Chinese to Indonesia last Mon
day. Peiping Radio said it had
been sabotaged.
Mr.. Chou had to cancel
scheduled stop at Penang.
Malaga, and put down at Singa-
pore because of weather. I'm
mediately Singapore's Kallang
airport swarmed with police and
security guards. Mr.. Chou went
into seclusion in the important
guests lounge. declining even to
walk to the restaurant, although
the building had been sealed OF.
Jakarta Closely Guarded
At Jakarta, where the dele
gates were to change to smaller
planes for the last lap to Ban
dung, protective measurers were
extraordinarily tight.
Before Mr.. Chou and his party
of % took of from Singapore
the British commissioner general
for Southeast Asia. Malcolm
Macdonald. rushed to the air
port for q brief chat.
T Delegates, their aides and OBJ
servers and newsmen already
have swamped this resort town
1000 feet up in the hills and
rs miles south of Jakarta.
Delegates from as far east as
the Philippines and as far west
as Liberia. with India, Ceylon.
Pakistan. Burma and Indonesia
as hosts. are gathering. They
will speak their minds on such
subjects as how to improve back
ward economies. neutrality be-
tween East and West, colonial-
ism, racialism and the United
Nations.
No Europeans or Americans
have been invited, but the
United States and other West
ern countries will have OBJ
servers.
One of these is Representative
Adam c. Powell, jr.. Democrat.
Of New York, present as an un-
official observer and cor
respondent for the Defender,
Chicago Negro newspaper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-16
Walker Considered
For Court Vacancy

Harry Lee Walker. As. an
Assistant Corporation Counsel
for the District. is under con-
sideration as a possible nominee
for a Municipal Court bench
vacancy. it was learned today.
Mr.. Walker. of IS Crittenden
street NE. has been on the city
legal staff since 1913. He is
married and has a daughter.
June Lee. Is.
A longtime Republican. Mr..
Walker has the backing of the
District Republican State Com
mittee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-16
Formoso Talk Not Proper
At Bondung, Nehru Says

BANDUNG, Indonesia, April
Is (R.-Prime Minister Nehru
of India arrived here tonight
and declared next weeks Asian
African conference should dis
cuss general principles rather
than specific problems"
FormoSa, he told reporters,
was a specific problem. "a con-
troversial issue which I imagine
should hardly be discussed at
this conference" He said he
thought the agenda should in
clude:
/. Peace in the world.
2. Economic conditions in
Asia.
3. Other general issues.
Asked whether he thought the
problem Of Formosa could be
settled peacefully, Mr.. Nehru
replied:
There is no other way to
settle it. Either you settle it
peacefully or you don't settle it. !"
Some delegates already pres
ent for the Donation session
were openly questioning the pur-
pose Of the talks in Rangoon
yesterday between Mr.. Nehru,
Red China's Chou En-lai, Abdel
Canal Nasser of Egypt and
Burmese Premier y M. Pre-
sumably the leaders discussions
concerned the conference here.
Today they few on to Indonesia.
Control Caucus Feared
What did they have to talk
about at Rangoon that we
couldn't all hear?" demanded an
Arab delegate among the early
arrivals in Banding.
His question was echoed re-
peatedly in hotel Hobbies here
while the delegates-there will
be 600 to 1000 in all-were get
ting acquainted.
No one seemed to know the
subjects under discussion at
Rangoon and most were frankly
concerned by what appeared to
some to be a control caucus.
Egyptian delegates who ar
rived ahead Of Col. Nasser said
it was Mr.. Nehru who took the
initiative in arranging the Egyp-
tan leaders stop in New Delhi
and the preconference meeting
with Mr.. Chou in Burma.
Chou Takes No Chances
Red China's Premier was TAX
ing no chances on his journey to
Banding. He slipped out of
Rangoon on his chartered Indian
Skymaster ahead of the others.
The plane had been under con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-16
DRIVER GIVES Toe
TO VICTIM, FLIES

PATERSON, N. j., April,
16 (P).-Adding insult to
injury:
An Unidentified witness
told police last night he saw
a driver run over a mans
right foot and knock him to
the pavement, step from the
car, hand the man a dime,
get back in the car. and
drive off.
An X-ray of the foot of
Dominick Terschi, about TO,
showed no broken bones.
Police have the drivers IL
cense number and will track
him down today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-16

she said. and his arms were
hanging limp at his side. She
shouted to Mrs. Plaxco, who
phoned for help.
Mrs. Plaxco, who had taken
nurses training before her mar
riage. applied artificial respira-
ton until the ambulance ar
rived.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-16

through Germany. Austria and
Yugoslavia.
Switzerland Benefits
Pravda said such q country
as Switzerland is enjoying the
benefits Of its development be-
cause it does not enter into any
blocs or union.
THE creation OF such a firm
international position by Austria
the real prospects Of which
are opened now before it-signi-
fies an important step toward
strengthening the peace Of
Europe and the whole world.
This cannot but be taken into
consideration by other European
nations and primarily by the
Germans" the paper added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-16
ROPER

Continued From First Page
later. HE has been into Com
munist territory eight times to
organize refugee groups that
can't escape any other way.
"Junks are too frail to go out
on the high seas. If they stick
close to shore as they go south,
the Communists sometimes spray
them with machinegun bullets on
put out patrol boats and capture
them. So the French will put
his junk on a transport vessel
and move it south so he can
earn a living in the area he has
chosen to live"
600 Escape Drowning
Refugee groups picked up
secretly have ranged from twos
or threes to $500 rescued by a
French repair ship with the APP
propriately picturesque name of
Jules Verne.
One time French vessels res
cused 600 refugees from a sand
bar where they had fed and
then almost drowned when the
tides rose. Some of the smaller
refugee groups Just happen to
spot a friendly vessel off shore.
They leap into a junk or SAM
pan or onto a raft and row to
the friendly vessel.
Even with these lucky con-
facts and with considerable clan.
destine effort. the French are
unable to help all the North Wet
Namese who want to move south.
There are estimates that an adj
ditional 100000 want to go south
but can't.
The Communists have used
some extraordinary methods to
stop them. In some villages
families are organized into
groups of three. Each family
has to report on the movements
of members of each of the other
two families.
If a youth is invited to an
other house for dinner. he has
to report to the families in his
own family trio" and also to
the families in the trio to which
his host belongs.
Such complex measures are
applied only in unreliable" viii
lagos, but there is a widespread
pattern of Red trickery to pre-
vent refugees from going south
at this time.
While the Geneva agreements
provide for liberty of movement,
that does not necessarily dis
pense with government docu-
fnentation.
Communist Tricks
In many cases the Red re-
gime has given exit documents
to refugees. The Communists,
pretending to be helpful. give
the refugees rice and start them
off on the normal walk of four
or five days toward the border
of Southern Wet Nam. After
the refugees have walked a
couple of days, the Communists
stop them for schooling" but
always conclude that the refu-
gees do not learn their propa-
randa blossoms" well The Reds