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Page 2 Is Welcomed THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Heroic Nurse Tuesday, July 27, 1954 U.S. DRAFTS PROTEST (Continued froin Page One) ence with search and rescue opera- tions in the area of the incident.” ‘Statehood Bill \Out This Session | WASHINGTON (#—Any lingering | Possibility that Congress would Eden also revealed that about! vote at the current session to take FIRING STOPS IN PART (Continued from Page One) paths and in the rice fields may take their toll for months. No one could be certain that ail the thousands of Communist-led Vietminh guerrillas or all the ir- regulars loyal to the French-sup- ‘US. Agent Is | Reported As | ‘Berlin Suicide nouncement of his identity until}known Dr. John, former chief of!11 DIE IN FLOOD the family is notified. the West German Federal Office KAGOSHIMA, Japan (A--Elaven Rumors that the agent was be-| for Protection of the Constitution, | persons died and three were ine ing questioned and that he was | or some time. The agent shot him-|jured when a violent rainstorm suspected of disloyalty were flatly | self the day after John’s disap- | flooded homes and rice paddies and denied by U.S. authorities tod pearance in the Soviet sector was |touched off earthslides last night shows the man to be above ™#de public. A senior officer said a com lee Kyushu, southern Japanese is- land, Kyodo news service reported. ported Viet Nam government. had | A received the stop-fighting word er | terintelligence agent, known to be| would obey it. a friend of missing West German! an hour after the British airliner | Hawaii and Alaska into the Union |was shot down on Friday the Red #8 States was wiped out late yes- icion. Officers said the agent had terday. In Washington WASHINGTON W—French nurse Genevieve de Galard - ferraube flew in today to thank President| Eisenhower and congress for invit- ing her to visit this country as an honored guest. The 29-year-old brunette heroine of Dien Bien Phu was welcomed by representatives of the state department, congress, the French Chinese Communisi radio had an-| embassy, the diplomatic corps and | the three Indochinese states—Laos, | Cambodia and Viet Nam. | She came in from New York} aboard a military air transport) plane to receive honors for aes fated French fortress in Indochina. | The key to the city of Washing- ton and huge bouquet of red roses were presented to her. Afterward she reviewed an honor guard of 12 armed service nurses—four each | from the Army, Navy and Air| Chinese sent: a message warning |that any warplanes sent to search| voice vote, decided against send- ;would be fired on if they ap-| ing separate House and Senate bills proached land. Further British Protest He described this ‘message as |‘‘against all international custom | m |and behavior” and said Britain) voted to give statehood to t Was making a further protest. Tokyo monitors reported that the The House Rules Committee, by jto conference to iron out differ- ences. + The House had voted statehood for Hawaii, as the Eisenhower ad- inistration asked. The Senate | Hawaii and Alaska. | PILOTS TELL OF nounced the Peiping aber (Continued from Page One) was lodging a “grave protest”) i éver the shooting down of two Red |17,000 feet when the four fighters Planes off Hainan Island Sunday by U.S. Navy aircraft. A statement issued by Vice For- eign Minister Chang Han-fu claimed the American planes vio- lated Chinese skies in shooting down the planes. The United States insists the Red planes attaeked over the open sea. At the Capitol, it was disclosed that the Senate Foreign Relations | appeared behind him. | The transport continued to| Tokyo. | Later Capt. Max C. Weber of| Great Barrington, Mass., pilot of a an American World Airways | transport which arrived here from | Bangkok, reported he was “es- ‘corted” for a few minutes by four | U.S. Navy jet fighters. | COMMISSION AIRS Many observers believe it will be a matter-of only two to four years before communism engulfs all of Viet Nam and perhaps Laos and Cambodia as wel. Elections In 1956 The cease-fire agreement pro- vides for internationally supervised elections in July 1956 to unify Viet Nam. The French commander in the North, Gen. Rene Cogny, said recently he believed South Viet Nam could be defended militarily against the reds, but he only shrug- ged when asked about the political Prospects. Many French civilian officials here share Cogny’s doubts of the future. With the cease-iire, Cogny turned his effort to the mammoth task of moving his thousands of French and Vietnamese troops from their shrunken sector of the northern delta to the southern holding left to the Viet Nam government head- ed by ex-Emperor Bao Dai, The Vietminh were expected to take control rapidly of the territory security chief Otto John, has com- | mitted suicide in his Berlin quar- | ters, it was learned today. | Fellow officers found the man, a | naturalized American with the rank of captain in the Coane | intelligence Corps, mortally wounc- | ed in his billet near the American | Army hospital last Friday. He was | pronounced dead on arrival at the | hospital. } The Army has withheld an- POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Francis at Truman DIAL 2-9193 Your PURE OIL Dealer Tires . . Tubes . . Batteries ACCESSORIES Mat. 2:30 & 5:25 "Night 8:20 STRAND 106221 Conan The Finest and Largest Theatre in Key West Tues. - Wed. - Thurs. We Deal In New and Used Furniture Fri. and Sat. 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Withdrawal Begins The first phases of the military withdrawal began with the armi- stice hour. Companies began fall- ing back to their battalion head- quarters areas in preparation for and TV Service ANTENNA INSTALLATIONS $75.00 TV SETS, ACCESSORIES Tait “WITH Robert Stack AND TV Service | Factory Methods Used— All Work Guaranteed to & microphone to read a state- ment of appreciation. | ‘She expressed thanks to the Pres-| ident and congress, and the Ren. | Frances Bolton (R-Ohio) who put through. congress the resolution in- viting her. “T have already said in New York, where I received the warm- est welcome, that this great honor seems to me completely unde- served, for I have only done my duty,” Miss De Galard said. “I accept it as a tribute to the men who fought and died) in Dien Bien Phu and to the nurses who, wherever they may serve, devote themselves to the sick and “I want to tell you how touched were in Indochina by the un- derstanding and moral backing that so many Americans gave us u those last battles. my own name, and on be- of my friends and comrades. to you from the bottom of MAN CLEARED IN (Continued From Page One) “a man has a right to deliver his | Neblett's Comment Neblett added: in-| mission of mercy.” The U.S. planes | Peace system, That system has done away with in some Flo- ida counties by local option. “There are better methods of ad- justice,” Neblett add-| bs, nd I will study the matter is the Democratic nomi- state senate for this dis- he has no opposition in the November ballot his clec- Vagrancy charge was a “trum-! up charge” to get Cone out! of the way while McDonald exa-| mined Cone’s wife. | The Citizen could not reach Mc- | today for his comment. Cone acts as a guide for visit- ing spearfishermen and also is a part-time mechanic. MRS. RUTH BRYAN (Continued From Page One) Of Miami from 1926 to 1928, when | successfully for a Florida U. S. Congress. ed in the House from | 1932 was followed as e eight Pacific Coast| gers reside in Cali-| the off season. | secretary. The weekend plane clashes, cli maxed by the shooting down of two attacking Chinese fighters by U.S. | |investigate the possibility of pay- ing motorcycle officers “hazardous duty pay” of $15 per month. | Roberts said that he recommend- | down the Communist attackers, be- the Senate Foreign Relations Com- | looks like somebody is spoiling for will discuss the situation during | the week with Secretary of State |he said, “in bringing our planes, ;Communists for years in Korea.” | Communists. planes, aroused angry protests in| ed the additional pay for all grades | Congress and further embittered of officers who ride motorcycles, American feelings toward the | but he met considerable opposition Peiping regime. jon that point. Strong Foreign Policy | “If it is hazardous for patrol- Sen. Ferguson (R-Mich) said to-| men, it is hazardous for officers,” day the Communist world should | he said. read.‘‘a strengthened U.S. foreign| Commissioner Delio Cobo then policy” into the shooting down Sun- | advanced the suggestion that the day night of the two Communist| grade of “motorcyele patrolman” Planes off the Red-held island ‘of | be established. Hainan. Others on Capitol Hill joined in L.A. GUNMAN IS (Continued From Page One) a general ‘well done” for the U.s. Air vhe e erie Dine. she related. The ring was found on the slain man’s finger. Ferguson, — chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Commit- tee, said it was wise policy to shoot pececdmcnecked Leds aes Police identified him as Jack B. Lyons, 39. They said records |showed he was arrested here in that Americans won’t fight,” 1939 in a burglary case and in “Let this be a lesson to them, | Pontiac, Mich., in 1943 in a forgery that Americans will defend them- | investigation. | selves and their rights on the high! The doctor and his wife had seas,” he added. dined late at a Wilshire Boulevard Ferguson said the Communists | cafe. When they entered their | should have recognized “‘strength-|car, the gunman rose up from the ened U.S. foreign policy” in recent | back seat. They drove to a drug- | months, particularly since Presi-| store at Wilshire Blvd. and West- | dent Eisenhower had sent aircraft | ern Ave., where the manager, | carriers to ‘protect and help the | Earl Clone, gave Dr. Anton $57, = fy tipped police, and followed the vie- were aided in a search for possible | tims car to a nearby intersection. Survivors of the British plane. | Dr. Anton was shot as he rolled White House Lead from his car. Police detectives Chairmen of both the Senate For-| cinsed in and killed the kidnaper eign Relations and Armed Serv-| at ices committees urged colleagues |** he) Gedy after) ficiag a bullet to let the White House and State |? nb Bucs corarcnes @above Department call the signals. /easaeaeens eau Sen. Wiley (R-Wis) announced cause failure to fight back “might have misled them into believing mittee which he heads probably |a fight and I don’t like it.” “I don’t think we are justified,” Dulles. |ships and personnel to patrol the Wiley said his advice, mean |coast of China to protect British while, is that “this should be leit | shipping and planes. Let Britain do | in the hands of the executive’ and | it.” that official Washington should} Sen. Symington (D-Mo) told the “not fly off the handle.” |Senate that “I do not believe we He said the Red shootings ‘did | are taking adequate steps to de- not create a new situation — we | fend ourselves” in the face of what have been at war with the Chinese |he termed growing strength of the “But if these conditions persist,” Rep. Judd (R-Minn) said he saw he said, “I personally feel we | ‘cold calculation” by the Reds in should indicate we are ready to|the attacks and he added: “It was protect our rights on the sea lanes|an attempt to follow up the Indo- of the world, and that we will not | china cease-fire by trying to push tolerate interference with those | our face in the dirt. The Reds ao. rights.” | parently do not realize that they Haven‘t Changed Spots ‘can push us only so far before we Sen. Saltonstall (R-Mass), chair- | will strike back.” man of the Senate Armed Services | The Navy Department, mean- Committee, told newsmen the in-| while, reported American carrier cident “shows the Communists, | planes were continuing to patrol either Chinese or Russia, haven’t/the skies around Hainan Island, changed their spots.” ‘searching for possible additional | Rep. A. L. Miller (R-Neb) said survivors from the British airliner | in a separate interview that “it| which was downed Friday. | a progessive withdrawal to the port of Haiphong. By Aug. 11 Cogny must have soldiers and civilians being eva- cuated from north, west and south of Hanoi massed in a 10-mile zone around the North Indochina cap- ital, once the official seat of | French power in the Far East. | | | Marine Radios & Asst. Equipment | FOR PROMPT AND RELIABLE SERVICE—SEE DAVID CIFELLI $20 Truman Avenue (Rear) TELEPHONE 2-7637 They must be out of the Hanoi area within 80 days from today. | The marchers to the sea must be | past Hai Duong, midway on the | route, 20 days after that. The eva- | cuees have 300 days from today | to quit their Haiphong beachhead, | destined to be the last French foot hold in North Viet Nam. Not all the Vietnamese troops will be moving south. The French admitted yesterday that a number of the native soldiers were pulling out of their posts and disappear- ing, presumably returning to their homes in hopes the Vietminh would forgive and forget. Civilian Move Planned French officials also pushed | plans to move hundreds of thou- | sands of French and Vietnamese civilians southward, as many as | want to get away. They planned to begin a combined sea and air lift | tomorrow and predicted it would be taking 5,000 persons daily away | from Hanoi and Haiphong by mid- | August. It was an hour of triumph for Ho Chi .Minh and,the Reds, an hour of bitter defeat for the French and the anti-Communist world. Under the terms of the Geneva agreement, Ho and his Vietminh get control of almost 78,000 square miles of Viet Nam’s total 127,380. In that northern portion live be- tween 11 and 12 million People. | Each side had paid a heavy | price for the result, Though the | French officially put the total of | military casualties on both sides | at around 320,000, _—_— unofficial sources figured them at close to 800,000 dead, wounded or missing. Of these, 173,000 were French Un- ion Vietnamese troops. The Viet- | minh dead and wounded were es- timated at 600,000. There was no estimate of civilian casualties, | In money and materials, the war | cost France and the United States some 10 billion dolirs. 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