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Colbert Citizens Enthused
Over Improvement Program
Probe Continue
Into Narcofics
WASHINGTON, June 27— (AP)
Senate Investigators had new wit
nesses today to continue, under
television’s eye, a baleful account
of how street corner dope peddlers
enslave children to drugs they
can pay for only by crime and
prostitution.
There was a suggestion that the
trail of illicit drugs might be
traced from schoolrooms back to
“Lucky” Luciano, deported vice
overlord of New York now in
Italy.
The Senate crime committee
calied a second day of televised
hearings as part of a narcoties in
vestigation that so far has focused
Irgely on the sordid and agonizing
path which drug addicts travel.
But the name of Luciano crept
into the record near the close of
yesterday’s day-long testimony in
connectlon with a new Oldsmo
bile sedan delivered to him in
Italy in 1948.
Chairman O’Conor (D.-Md.)
told reporters the committee
would not be interested in the car
if it were an “isolated transac
“\",r!."
He caid it ties in with efforts
“to establish the continuing con
nection of Luciano with the Mafia
and the dope traffic in this coun
try” and that other witnesses
would be omestioned about it.
Mafin Organization
The Mafia is a secret, under
world society founded in Sicily,
and the erime committee has said
its *“lnternational ramifications”
are most apparent in connection
with the narcotics traffic.
Testimonv was received yester
dav from five addicts, only one of
whom consented to have his face
televised.
They told how victims of the
drue habit are driving into crime
and prostitution in their desperate
need for money to satisfy their
craving for dope. Officials warned
that use of drugs among teen
agers is becoming epidemic.
The committee was blocked, at
least temporarilv, in efforts to
bring Benedict Prano, a federal
prisoner, before it for testimony
today.
A eommittee spokesman caid
Prano, serving a term in the Milan
(Mich.) federal prison farm on
charges of illegal possession of
narcoties, “might be an important
witness.”
Testimony Challenge
The Justice Devartment chal
lenged the committee’s right to
reauire the testimony of a federal
prisoner at the televised hearing
and obtained a temporary re
straining order from a federal
judge here.
Attorney General McGrath told
newsmen his policy of full coop
eration with congressional investi
gators into underworld activity
will continue. But he added that
he has *“an equal responsibility
for protecting the civil rights of
federal prisoners” who may be
reluctant to testify publicly about
narcoties.
McGrath said of these persons:
“They are paying their debt to
society, I do not see where any
thing is to be gained by subjecting
them to exploitation.”
O’Conor gave no advance hint
of whom the senators would ques
tion about the car sent to Luciano,
now in Italy.
The committee previously has
said it has received information
that large bundles of bank notes
were being taken from this coun
try to Luciano. It has pictured
him as a sort of arbiter between
two of the nation’s major crime
syndieates,
Lueiano was sentenced to 30 to
60 years for enforced prostitution
in 1936 but ten vears later Gov
ernor Thomas E. Dewey commut=
ed the sentence and he was de
ported.
WAKEENEY, Kas.,, June 27—
(AP)—A tornado slashed through
this western Kansas town today,
killing three persons and injuring
approximately 40,
The vicious winds turned a
five-block restdential area into a
mass of splintered wood and
brick,
Trees were uprooted, water
mains broken, and power and
communicatton line damaged.
The dead were Mr. and Mrs.
James Hladek, both about 85, and
Dan Rohrbacher, 60. -
Mr. and Mrs. Hladek died in the
wreckage of their home. .
Rohrbacher was blown frcm his
house and his body found in the
debris on the street. .
Mrs. Marie Engleman, a Hill
City, Kas, newspaper woman,
who ?)u_rod the area gave his de
scription:
“Devastation was everywhere in
the five blocks. Automobiles were
overturned and crushed under
houses, some homes had the roofs
blown off, others were flattened
Sompletely.
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated PTa:s Service
COLBERT, Ga., June 27 — En
thusiasm for developing a better
community here is growing daily.
Colbert is entered in the Georgia
Power Company Town Improve
ment contest as well as a similar
contest sponsored by the Xroger
stores. i
The most recent public meeting
to promote the community’s ad
vancement program was held here
Monday in the school lunch room.
Mrs. T. W. Porterfield, general
chairman, presided.
A representative from each or
ganization in the town was invited
to meet with the chairman of all
committees. Reports were given on
the progress made thus far and
additional plans for other projects
were discussed and more com
mittes were appointed.
A full list of the general com
mittee and special committees will
be announced tomorrow.
Members of the general com
mittee at the last meeting, Mon
day night, included the Chairman
and R. Q. West, Mr. and Mrs. J.
K. Brookshire, Mrs. H. J. Arren
dale, Mrs. H. H. Hampton, Jim
Hitchcock, Mrs. E. R. Hart, B. T.
Hardman, Oscar Adams, L. C.
Hickman, Mrs. Raloh Collier, Ger
ry Bowen, Phil Hardman, and
Mayor E. A. Elder, John L. Smith,
and Mrs. J. C. Hardman.
Much Enthusiasm
One of the outstanding features
of the meeting was the enthusi
asm and interest of those present.
Several times during the course
of the discussion, various members
of the group would voluntarily
suggest a needed improvement and
then would offer to do the job.
“When citizens are interested in
doing what is needed without be
ing asked or urged, it bespeaks a
spirit of service that can bring to
the town many needed improve
ments and can weld into one uni
fied group all of our citizens”
one of those present declared.
“Regardless of whether Colbert
wins or loses in the contest, all
the efforts of the citizens will be
worthwhile if the town is cleaner,
happier, healthier, more attractive
and more cooverative at the close
of the contest than at the begin
ning. The committee urges all citi
zens of the town to make all im
provements possible on their prop
erty and in this way they will be
doing for themselves and setting an
example for their neighbors.
“1f everybody will push a little
nobody will have to pull the load”
and with this thought in mind all
citizens are urged to “push a lit
tle” and make the load lighter for
everybody else. No service is more
rewarding than unselfish service
with no thought of personal gain.
Money can buy no pleasure that
will compare with the pleasure to
be derived from working together
with your neighbor for something
that will make of your own town
a better town because you have
lived and worked for-it.”
C. A.P. To Hold
Meeting Tonight
The regular meeting of the
Athens Civil Air Patrol will meet
Wednesday night at 8:00 at the
C. A. P. Headquarters at the air
port.
John Pollock of the University
of Georgia, Department of Indus
trial Arts will be guest speaker.
Mr. Pollock is a captain in the U.
S. A. R., having seen service
overseas in the 82nd and 101st Air
brone Division.
All members are urged to at
tend this meeting as a most inter
esting talk is anticipated.
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TRIED FOR CHILD’S DEATH—Mrs. Mamie Price (up
per left), 54, sits in court at Augusta, Ga., during her
murder trial for the death of her seven-year-old grand
daughter, Lois Janes. At extreme right is her attorney,
Isaac Pfetples: At bottom 1§ & courtroom view of Lovie
Ivey ( est), 57, impovérished fisherman, who testified
he killed the little girl on Mrs. Price’s promise to pay
him $75. In the center 1s Pete Hornburg, a witness for
the prosecution. At right is Abby Cook, & guard. Ivy will
be tried later on a murder charge. Mrs. Price is accused
of 'l&ting the ¢hild’s death to collect $4,000 insurance.
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGCIA OVER A CENTURY,
Spalding County
Sets Celebration
GRIFFIN, Ga., June 27—(AP)
—Spalding county will celebrate
her 100th birthday with a histori=
cal pageant, “the story of Spald
ing,” the week of August 6.
The Spalding ventennial com
mission is headed by Albert Swint,
Orchard Hill farmer and mer
chant, and George Patrick, jr.,
principal of Spalding High School.
The centennial program includes
many features such as the selec
tion of a Cotton Queen and a Miss
Centennial. The Cotton Queen will
be crowned at a special cotton ball.
Miss Centénnial will be crowned
at the opening performance of the
pageant and will reign at all four
of the performances.
To create advance interest in
the Centennial two organizations
have been formed. One is “The
Brothers of the Brush.” The other
is “The Sisters of the Switch.”
“The Brothers” will allow their
beards and mustaches to grow and
prizes will be offered for the most
successful “brush.” “The Sisters”
will agree to forego the use of
cosmetics, between July 1 and the
Centennial, unless they have a
special permit and wear a “sisters”
locket round their necks.
Moscow Pressed For Explanation
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Jah Entezam (above), president
of the United Nations General
Assembly, has - taken personal
charge of U. N. efforts to deter
mine Moscow’s terms for ending
the war in Korea. He hurried to
New York from Washington to
discuss Russia’s recent peace
proposal with Ja s Malik, So
viet delegate to the U. N— (AP
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GUNS CLEANED AFTER BATTLE — After furiously
engaging Chinese troops on a “heavy’ patrol, men of a
tank crew clean their tank. Sergeant Sud Tackett, Pike
ville, Ky., is on the ramrod while an unidentified tanker
from Detroit, Mich., breaks down the 30-caliber ammo
while Corporal Enoch DeFratus, Potsboro, Texas, cleans
the machine guns.— (Exclusive Photo by Staff Photogra
pher Jim Healy) —(NEA Telephoto.)
Russian Dispatches Promise
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Clarification By Week's End :
BY FRANCIS W. CARPENTER
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., June 27.—(AP)—The West
pressed Moscow today to spell out what Jacob A. Malik
meant by the Russian proposal for a Korean cease-fire.
Acting on Washington’s instruction, U, 8. Ambassador
Alan G. Kirk called on-Andrei Gromyko, Deputy Foreign
Minister in Moscow. They talked for 20 minutes, and Mos
cow dispatches said clarification of Malik’s suggestions
was expected by the end of this week.
Secretary of State Acheson said
the United States had not learned
the intentions bzhind the Malik
proposal, “but we hope today will
bring further light.” At the time
he made this comment in Wash
ington, Acheson evidently had not
received Kirk’s report on his
meeting with Gromyko.
Malik, Soviet delegate to the
United Nations, proposed Satur
day that the belligerents in Ko
rea open talks about a cease-fire
coupled with mutual withdrawal
of forces from the 38th parallel.
The West wanted to know, among
other things, what “belligerents”
the Soviet Union considered to be
involved, and what guarantees
would be given against reopening
of the fighting if a truce were de
clared.
Always Hopeful
U. N. Secretary General Trygve
Lie returned to New York from
Norway reiterating he is “always
hopeful.” He called his U. N. aides
into conference, and planned later
to see Nasrollah Entezam, of Iran,
plresident of the General Assem
bly. |
There was no indication here
that Entezam had been able to see
Malik, who has been reported ill
since Saturday.
The U. S. delegation also was
silent on whether Ernest A. Gross,
U. S. ambassador to the U. N, had
been in econtact with the Russlans.
Both Gross and Ambassador
Kirk in Moscow were instructed
by the State Department Monday
night to seek clarification of the
Russian proposal. Gross called off
plans to go to Burlington, Vt., for
the golden wedding celebration
yesterday of Warren R, Austin,
chief U. 8. delegate to the U. N.
Malik is scheduled to make an
appearance tomorrow night at a
dinner he hag arranged as retiring
president of the Security Council.
The Council presidency rotates
monthly, and the dinner is a usual
formality marking -the change in
presidencies. The Council has
held no meetings during Malik’s
tenure this month. However, the
Council several months ago gave
up study of the Korean question,
turning this over to the Assemnbly.
U. N. Secretary General Trygve
Lie cut short his vacation in Nor
way to return here and press for
action on a Korean cease fire. He
had just reached his home in Oslo
when he heard of the Malik broad
cast suggesting a conference of
the “beligerents” to discuss a
cease-fire armistice and with
drawal of troops of both sides
from the 38th parallel.
Lie Statement
Lie next day issued a statement
urging that cease-fire negotiations
begin as soon as possible. During
a London stopover en route back
to New York he told reporters he
was returning to New York to “get
all the facts” before deciding upon
hig next step.
The Secretary-General said he
regarded Mallk’s statement as a
sincere one, to be taken seriously,
but added that it might take two
weeks to clear up the question of
just how a cease-fire might be
brought about.
Some U. N. sources said they
suspected Malik’s broadcast state
ment was a Krerhilin document to
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Man With Hoe
In B: f Money
Bracket Now
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 27.—
(AP)—The man with the hoe—
an econontic problem most of the
year — is making “big money”
right now.
Cottonbelt farmers are bid
ding against each other for ne
gro field hands to chop the
grass out of their crop.
Mrs. Clara Kitts, director of
the Tennessee Farm Labor office
here, said chopping wages have
soared to $lO a day in some
areas — more than double last
year’s top.
About 13,000 choppers are be=
ing hired out of Memphis daily,
Educafion Board
Okays Buildi
ATLANTA, June 27.—(Af)—A
$500,000 building program at the
State School for the Deaf at Cave
Springs was approved by the State
Board of Education today.
The Improvomen? approved to=
day will be financed with a $600,~
000 appropriation which becomés
available July 1.
The Board also “accepted for in=
formation” recommendations for
an estimated $605,000 building
program at the institution in the
fiscal vear beginning July 1, 1952,
Approval of the project was
voted after vigorous objection was
entered by Board members Here
schel Lovett and Irwin Kimzez'.
The two, however, did not vote
against the motion which author
ized the architectural firms of
Bothwell and Nash of Marietta
and Montgomery-Turner Asso
ciates of Rome to proceed with
detailed plans for the first year’s
program.
The proposed construction in the
fiscal year beginning July 1 in
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Service Station
Is Burglarized
Fanders Gassaway’s Service sta
tion, located just beyond Betha
bara Church on the Athens-Mon-~
roe highway, was burglarized last
night, Sheriff M. Bond of Ocdnhee
county, revealed today.
By jimmying the front door
with a screw driver the burglars
were able to gain entrance, the
zheriff stated in an interview to
ay.
getween 25 and 80 cartons of
cigarettes, several pocket knives,
two boxes of cigars and some
wrist watch bands were stolen,
according to ?herift Bond, and the
total value of the loot was placed
at around SSO.
Sheriff Bond and G. B. I. agent
Jim Haralson are investigating the
burglary.
Chinese Red Buildup
Indicates Early Push
BY OLEN CLEMENTS
TOKYC, June 27.— (AP) —Reds began pulling out of
one buildup area in Korea tuday but poured fresh men and
supplies into another center for a new try at cracking
Allied lines. United Nations officers were not worried.
“They can hit us anywhere, at any time, in any
strength,” a U. N. briefing officer said. '
Other officers predicted Chinese
Reds would strike in the second
week of July—probably down the
Uljongbu-Seoul invasion corridor.
Strong Communist screening
forces Wednesday blocked Allied
patrols %robing toward four Com=
munist buildup areas.
Chinese d;g in even on the flat
lands south P{(:;filgang to pro
tect their major uy, north of
the formrer iron triangle. This is
the ared into which Chinese com
manders were reported pouring
new men and materials,
East of the iron triangle Reds
began haullur}f supplies out of &
secondary buildup area near Kum
song. A four-mile Allied advance
Tuesday endangered the Reds’
Kumsong area.
Machineguns, mortars and artil
lery opened up on Allies tryinfl to
approach the other two buildup
points, near Inje in the east and
Yonchon in the west.
Peace Talk
Chief front line topic continued
to be the possibility of a cease
fire agreement. But the talk didn*
affect action. #
l Chinese were mounting an un
usually strong lcreeninf force in
front of their main buildup north
of the triangle, The fact the[v were
digging in on flat land—for the
first time in the Korean war—in
dicated their determination to
ke;g the Allies from disturbing
their buildup for an attack.
~ Front line dispatches reported
‘increases in Red artillery fire and
emplacements al'otr:f the eastern
front where sev grenade toss
ing battles broke out. And in the
west U, N. patrols were forced
back by 105 mm. field guns.
Fighting was vicious, but on a
ml;liltlt;c% ilots port-
Force pilots su
ing ground troops with fire gombl
and rockets reported they killed or
wounded about 600 Reds. Most of
the casualties were inflicted in the
Kumso&gkarea by two F-51 Mus
tang strikes.
One fhg\t caught 500 Reds fir
ing on a U. N. tank column louBl‘:
of the city, where a four
gain was reported Tuosdal%. An
other hit about 400 Reds closer to
Kumsong, 29 miles north of the
38th parallel and east of the for
mer Red “iron triangle.”
Bomber Raids
Far East Air Forces stefiped up
bomber raids on Red air fields in
western Korea, Twelve fields were
cratered Tuesday, and five more
during the night. Gommunists keep
repairing them for possible use by
the growing Chinese air force.
The Red air fleet “may bhe
thrown fully into the battle” at
any moment, U. 8. Air Secretary
Thomas Finletter said in Washing
ton Tuesday. The Secretary, re
cently returned from a visit to gle
Korean war front, said the Chi~
nese have 1,000 war planes coms
pared with onlg 200 last October.
The entire Chinese force, h¢
said, is in Manchuria ready for
quick use in Korea.
American jets patrol the border
alert for a possible air invasio{:
which might endanger VU. N. &
supremacy, They shot down one
Red jet and damaged another
Tuesday.
F-80 Downed
Ong U, 8. F-80 Shooting Star
was shot down by ground fire
while strafing Red troops.
Allied night raiders hammered
Communist supply lines. Lg.ajg
General Freni F. Hverest, Fif
Air Force commander, sald they
stopped several large truck 00&;
voys and forced others to turn 0
ont :secondmgl routes.
l?. N. warships shelled cgasta}
highways and supported Sou
Korean ground troops at the ca,’t
ern end of the 100-mile battle
front.
The Canadian destroyer Huron,
a new addition to blockade fleets,
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partiy cloudy and continued
hot tonight and Thursday. Scat~
tered thundershowers this even
ing and again Thursday affer
noon. Low tonight 72; high to
morrow 98, Sun sets 7:48 and
rises tomorrow 5:24.
GEORGIA — Partly ocloudy
and not much temperature
change this afternoon, tonight
and Thursday with widely scat
tered afternoon and evening
thundershowers.
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Congress Reacs
Warily To
Acheson Views
By BARNEY LIVINGSTONE
WASHINGTON, June 27—(AP)
Congress reacted warily today to
Secretaty of State Acheson’s state
ment that a cease-fire on the 38th
Parallel in Korea eould be viewed
as a “successful coniclusion” to the
fighting there.
For the most part, Republicans
criticized settling the Korean eon
flict on the 38th parallel. Demo
cratic reaction was more mixed.
The 38th parallel was the dividing
line between north—Communist—
Korea and South Koreg before the
North Korean attack a year ago
set off the present battle between
Uhited Nations forces and Com
munist armies from China and
North Korea.
As “peace” talk mounted, Ache
son returned to Capitol Hill for
another round of questioning by
the House Foreign Affalrs Com
mittee.
Acheson yesterday called on
Congress to authorize the admin
istration’s vast new program for
$8,500,000,000 of military :fd eco
nomic aid to the free world dur
ing the coming year—regardless
of what happens in Korea.
Acheson Statements
In response to committee gues
tioning, he sald:
X %lthdrawal of Communist
forces behind the 88th parallel in
Korea could be considered s nuc-‘
cessful eonclusion of the conflict.”
“If this agression is stop |
and with guarantees that it will
not be resumed, then you ‘
have repelled aggression and E_‘
storeg peace and security in the
area,” Acheson said. ‘
He stressed the military objec-~
tive eg entirely apart me:f the
long-range goal of a unified Ko~
rea. Unification must come later,
he implied.
2. “Disaster” threat!axlz la Iran,
where Iranian nation: fu on of
the British-developed off industry
has created a new world ofl% |
3. Even in the event of an “hon
orable negotiated peace” in Korea,
the $8,500,000,000 mutual nimfiy
program of economic and military
ald still is vital.
“This program w%xld not Pa 16~
duced In any way by solut ?n of
the Korean problem,” he insisted.
Malik Proposal
Acheson’s views on ondhzg tg;
Korean conflict were promptéd
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US Trying To Determine
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Russian Intent -- Acheson
Achason ld today the United States iy atempiths 1o g
out from the Soviet government “b;fr{ th% mosg divect pos
sible means” the {ntentiong behind Russia’s informal sug
gestion for a cease-fire in ?(oreg._“ i : e
Tension Mounts
In Oil Situation
TEHRAN, Iran, June 27—(AP)
?rudo oil pumYSng of Southern
ran’s largest field has been halted
because of an Anglo-Tranian Qil
Company decision to withdraw {ts
tankers, British Ambassador Sir
Francis Shepherd announced to
day.
His announcement came 8s @
showdown appeared near in the
British-Iranian oil dispute. Tene
sion was growing over reports
that all Britons would be evacuat
ed from the oil flelds.
Production at the Aghajari
field, about 100 miles northeast of
Abadan, site of the world’s largest
reflner‘y, hag been ltopged because
there is no more loa infi[ at the
deep sea port oißandur ashur.
Ambassador Shepherd estimat
ed that pr%?uotion at the Abadan
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continue notheg oto 14 aflj
before storage faoilities were |
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drive to nationalize the
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news that Britain hag ordered her
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M’ARTHUR INQUIRY
Warning To Reds
In Final Report
BY JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, June 27.—(AF)
-—Senator Russell (P.—Ga.) pro
posed today a bi-partisan warsing
to Russia against judging the Mae-
Arthur ouster controversy as a
sign of U. S. division and weak
ness.
Russell told reporters he will
lay befoer the Senate Armed Ser
ices and Foreign Relations Cem
mittees a proposed statememt as
serting it would be “foolish™ and
“fatal” for the Communists to take
that position.
The Georgia senator called the
committee together to discuss the
writing of a report on the group's
two month investigation into
President Truman’s removal of
General Douglas MacArthur &s
Pacific commander,
Russell Statement
In advance of the session, Rus
sell told reporters he hopes mem
bers will adopt unanimously a
statement that the differences over
the ouster and Far Eastern rdtles
“do not ge to the extent of divid
ing the American poorlo in their
determination to resist aggres
sion.”
“If the Commmunists are 8¢ fecl
ish as to be deceived into belisv
ing that we really are divided and
make the fatal mistake of waging
war, it will result in- thelr wlti
:ndata destruction,” Rusesll decler-
Senator Brewster (R.-Maine),
with whozx. &:fln ”dlscunt the
proposed 014 & reporter
he m no nuo:%hgl&o commit
| lfioo uld not adopt it unanimous
y.
“I think we hav damonflted
in &hue hcm'lngoi fimt she demo
cratic 3 a ng |
thing,” EOWIW said. re '
ences over policies dfim te
that Amotiog is not ted op
position to Communism.”
Russell sald his state
ment would be ig W :jog 0 &ny
rop:rt the oomxlttu mbke
on its investigation.
Possible Repart
He indicated that if 8 substan~
tial majority 031 €9 On some
poinzst. %.thwo d%or fim ._:
report. n'wl&z !
bers may j\rt gdr theip
individual views.
The differences of whlgh S=
sell spoke m Vx«{
MacArthur's pr for va.
blockade of China of
Manchurian ?a:u add u i
nese Nationalig m% gom re
;noza against the hina maine
and,
Boy;?&dmfigt, moxfilgfg Bfi?:éed
over a!ta‘m ) n
China since tha g&fi 1 oon!
ference.
““We have not guegeeded, but we
flgfi:”todeny wlfl %r?gg mlher
Aghesop made these statements
in réspopse to 3uo‘itions from
memberts of the fi use iorm af
fairs oogmittg?. @ was be the
group for a discugsion of ?0 ade
ministration’s foreign aid pro
grams,
In lg)eaking of hopes of learning
something more definite today,
Acheson ‘?resumably had in mind
the ¢all U, S, Ambassador Alan G.
Kirk was making on the Soviet
foreign office in Moscow.
Mosccw dispatches said Kirk
talked for 20 minutes with An
drel Gromyko, deputy foreign
minister, but would not comment
to reporters afterward. The dis
patches said the feeling in Mos
cow wag that western envoys
would get considerably more de
‘[ tails as to what Russia has in mind
by the en? of the week.
’ It was learned here that Kirk
was under instructions from g’d;ae
| son o find out whether the Soviet
government n%w believes the Ko
r;:& fvlvar ean :‘ nt:led and what
s ¢ peace steps it proposes.
mg;lt:gm wd‘% gut Monday
dor filmnt A, Xrou at md
Nationg gontact the highest
R ' ol avtfl%blc and seek
a de gon of the
o-nr- ut Uth-nl
@ &"l delegate,
?lsfi all& ‘ y u{bmn
. w‘i ! tlvo; all 18 eoun
@B m-—z(
the South -
ul:’dlt to “fi.‘ at te Daps-’
m oon » .
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