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Red China Frees 9 U.S. Civilians

3 Other Americans Also Get Nod to Leave Later GENEVA UP)—Communist China notified the United

States today that nine American civilians detained in China, including six women, were now free to return home. * ™

Red Chinese Ambassador Wangi Listed for immediate departure Ping-nan toki V. S. Ambassador U.j were: Alexis Johnson at their 13th meet- Miss Emma A n g e l a Barry a

.. . „..iji young girl living in Shanghai with mg that two other Americans could; £ e r J ^ ^ a t-Wte-Russian who leave at once if they asked for exit' w a s not an American citizen, permits and a third could leave I Ralph Sharpies Boyd. Shanghai within two or three months. j representative of the North Ameri-

The two ambassadors have beeni can Syndicate, born in Washington, meeting at intervals since Aug. 1, D. C , in 1891. negotiating the release of 41 Amer-j Mrs. Juanita Byrd Huang, a icans imprisoned in China or de- . Southern Baptist missionary mar-nied exit permits. j ried to a Chinese citizen, born

The announcement by Wang was i in Mount Olive, Miss., in 1904 Robert Howard Parker, a retired businessman, born is Philadelphia, Pa., in 1873.

Howard Lischke Ricks, mamager the Chinese Reds would release the« of Bills Motors Branch in Shanghai 29 Americans not mentioned on born in New York City in 1833. Wang's list, but the ambassadors) Mrs. Howard Lischke Ricks, his

the first positive result of the talks since they began.

29 Others* I'nmentioned There was no indication when

agreed today to continue their se-cret talks on Saturday.

wife, born in Shanghai in 1834. Miss Eva Stella Dugay, known

American delegation members as Sister Theresa, a nun in the were able to find only a partial' Carmelite Convent in Shanghai, identification for some of the born in New York City in 1833. Americans lusted for release by I Mrs. Nadesha M Romanoff, a Wang. A delegation spokesman j white Russian living in Harbin who said none had been imprisoned. See RED CHINA, Page 2

Russia Frees Two GIs, One Civilian BERLIN* •,¥)—A civilian handed

over to U. S. control by the Rus-sians after seven years in Soviet labor camps was questioned close-ly today to determine his claim to American citizenship. . U. S. officials said that Frederick

Charles Hopkins told "so many different stories" that his actual citizenship could be open to ques-tion. The man reportedly said yes-terday after the Russians released him that he was from New York

Hopkins is in the custody of in-telligence agents. He is in good health in spite of his long years in camp, doctors said.

He was handed over by the So-viets yesterday along with Pvt. Wilfred C. Cumish, 39. of Ames-bury, Mass., and Cpl. Murray Fields, 36. of Bayside. N. Y.

Both soldiers had been missing since 1948 and may be tried as deserters. Tney were under guard today in the Army hospital until medical examinations are com-pleted.

The three said they knew nothing about a report another American by the name of Grishman was in Soviet hands and was about to be released. The report came from Austrian repatriates in Vienna last week.

Officials said that Hopkins ap-parently had some reason for clouding his past and they had not yet discovered what it was. One authority said the man "acts and talks like an American."

Army spokesmen said it was presumed all three had been held in various slave labor camps for the past seven years.

The three were turned over to a U.S. State Department official, A. E. Dubois, at the Soviet con-sulate in East Berlin. The Rus-sians had said earlier they would be released at Karlchorst and a U.S. liaison team had gone there to get them.

Dubois, who had gone to the con-sulate to pick up a visa, was stopped by a Soviet official, who said:

"By the way, will you sign this receipt for these three Ameri-cans?"

Dubois signed and took the three to the U..S provost marshal's of-fice in West Berlin. They were

arrested immediately and sent to an Army hospital for examination. Cumish and Fields said they need-ed medical attention. Hopkins said he was in good health.

All three are scheduled to be screened by Army's interrogators after several days medical treat-ment.

The Army indicated that both soldiers might be subject to court-martial for desertion. In view of Cumisli's military intelligence work, officials were anxious to learn what he might have told the Russians during his captivity.

Authorities also planned to ques-tion the three about other missing Americans, especially soldiers who have disappeared from Berlin in recent years.

Austrian prisoners released by the Russians some months ago from arctic labor camps reported that the three men had been among their fellow prisoners. The Soviet Foreign Office was asked by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to re-lease them and the Russians said Aug. 20 they would comply.

Fields told authorities on his re-lease his name was Cpl. Michael Feingersch, although Army records had always listed him as Fields. Mrs. Herman J. Bailes, a sister in Bayside, explained that Feingersch was the family's name but her brother had his changed legally to Fields about 15 years ago.

Mrs. Bailes said her brother served in the Army in the early 1940s and received a disability dis-charge about 1943. During the lat-ter part of World War H, she said, he worked in shipyards, defense plants and the Merchant Marine. He left his ship in a German port in 1947 and rejoined the Army in Germany, she added.

Members of the family said the statement of the released Austrian prisoners was the first information they had received about Fields since he disappeared in 1948.

Mrs. Burton Martin, a sister of Cumish in Rowley. Mass.. said their family usually spells its name Kumis She said they had thought her brother dead until she received a postcard from him last June from a Russian camp.

Cumish's divorced wife, Mrs. Preston Lane, and their two chil-dren now live in Plaistow, N. H.

Faster Than Sound Speed Record of 822 mph Set

PHILADELPHIA i^ -The three-day National Aircraft Show—the Aviation Industry's annual report to the public—was capped yester-day by announcement of the world's first official faster-than-sound speed record: 822.135 miles an hour.

A North American F100C Super Sabre piloted by Air Force Col. Horace A. Hanes, 39, bettered the previous official speed record by almost 70 miles an hour, in two dashes eight miles above Southern California's Mojave Desert Aug. 20.

Hanes flew the same F100C be-fore an estimated 102.000 awed watchers at the aircraft show, im-mediately after*the new record was announced.

He made the fly-past, about 600 feet off the ground, at more than 700 miles an hour, still under the 760-mile-an-hour speed of sound.

Fred C. Crawford, board chair-man of Thompson Products. Inc.. Cleveland, presented Hanes with the Thompson Trophy for a new record for a 15-25 kilometer (roughly 9-15 mile) straightaway course.

The previous record of 755 miles an hour was set in 1953 by Air Force Lt. Col. F.K. Everest, in an earlier-model F100A. over Califor-nia's Salton Sea Until the recent development of equipment for measuring high altitude flights at supersonic speeds, speeds greater than that achieved by Everest could not be officially recorded.

In setting the new record. Hanes met the requirement of two dashes within a single half-hour per iod-one run in each direction—over an 18-kilometer (about 11-mile) "supersonic course" near Palm-dale Calif.

The record is the average of the two runs—a downwind pass at 870.627 miles an hour and a return flight, against a 50-mile-an-hour wind, at 773.644 miles an hour.

Informed sources said Hanes flew under instructions not to go

too fast, lest potential enemies get useful information about the speed capabilities of the F1O0.

Hanes is director or flight tests for the Air Research and Devel-opment command at Edwards Air Force Base, 'Calif.

New Air Force planes demon-strated were the F101 Voodoo, which made a fly-past at 697*2 miles an hour, and the Lockheed C130 Turboprop cargo transport, which flew here nonstop from Ed-wards. Calif., at an average speed of more than 300 miles an hour.

The security mixup involved the showing by the Glenn L. Martin Co. of pictures of the XP6M Sea-master, described by the company as the world's first multijet sea-plane.

Available for inspection by all visitors—including representatives of the Russian. Hungarian and Czech Air Forces were three photographs which seemed to show the Skymaster in flight.

The Navy has refused for securi-ty reasons to release in-flight pic-tures of the plane. A Martin repre-sentative first said the photos dis-played obviously were taken in flight. Later, a company spokes-man said the$e were ground pic-tures, released earlier, superim-posed on a sky background.

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French Seeking To End Strife In Morocco

Hold Conferences With Two Sultans As Fighting Continues

RABAT, Morocco l&—Two Mo-roccan Sultans on opposite sides of Africa were the objects of de-termined French wooing today.

The Sultan France wants to put off the throne she put him on two years ago, Mohammed Ben Mou-lay Arafa, received the new French resident general, Gen. Pierre Boy-er de Latour, for the first time yesterday.

The Sultan France exiled to Madagascar two years ago, Mo-hammed Ben Youssef, received Gen. Georges Catroux there yes-terday.

Catroux, who has held high French posts in North Africa, flew to Madagascar to seek Ben Yous-sef's approval of Premier Edgar Faure's plan for Emited home rule in the turbulent North African pro-tectorate.

The plan calls for replacement of Moulay Arafa by a regency to satisfy the Moroccan nationalists, permission for Ben Youssef to live in France although not to return to the throne, formation of an all-party Moroccan government and negotiations to relax French con-trol.

There was no indication from Madagascar of what progress Catroux was making. The Moroc-can nationalists have insisted Ben Yaussef must approve Faure's plan before they will agree to it.

Arafa May Quit There was some indication in

Rabat, however, that Moulay Ara-fa might be coming around to the French view that he must quit. A communique issued last night after his meeting with Boyer de Latour said the Sultan had emphasized the "divine nature of his mission" and "dwelt on the obligation he is under to remain on the throne until he is called to God." Eut it added the monarch showed h i m s e l f "comprehensive of all the political realities."

The resident general was report-ed convinced that Moulay Arafa would step down eventually.

The nationalists, meanwhile, had their eyes firmly fixed on Faure's announced aim of getting a settle-ment by Sept. 12. A group dubbing itself "The Hero of Independence" called a general strike for that date in Casablanca, commercial capital of Morocco and the seat of the strongest nationalist feeling.

Many feared the strike, if it materialized, would turn into an-other bloody uprising like the one which marked the second anniver-sary Aug. 20 of the ouster of Ben Youssef.

Europeans Killed The chief nationalist parties con-

tinued their conferences on the Continent on the French proposals.

In Casablanca, police said they had arrested four Moroccans who admitted bombing a downtown cafe during the July 14 celebra-tion. Six Europeans were killed and 37 were wounded. Enraged colonists surged through the city seeking reprisal and at least 64 French and Arabs were killed in the ensuing riots.

Violence was reported from var-ious points in Morocco and Algeria. Two French soldiers were killed yesterday in Casablanca's New Medina native quarter. French soldiers were ordered to enter the quarter in the future only when heavily armed and ui groups of four or more.

Authorities in Algeria reported a rebel band raided a native vil-lage near Constantme Sundav night, killing seven notables and slicing off the noses of four other villagers. Presumably they were considered pro-French.

Valuable Redwood Groves Threatened By Forest Fire

SAN FRANCISCO tf)-Destruc-tive waves of flames threatened two priceless redwood groves to-day as raging forest fires blazed out of control in northern and cen-tral California.

More than 1,500 fire fighters battled flames whipping through the Sequoia National Forest in the Sierra Nevada east of Fresno. More than 7,000 acres were already blackened. Damage was estimated at more than $650,000.

The crackling flames reached within a mile of the famed Gen-eral Grant redwood, the world's largest tree and possibly the old-est living thing on earth. Its age has been calculated at more than 3,000 years.

In the northern section of the state, between 17.000 and 18,000 acres were aflame in Humboldt County.

Fire fighters fought to save Rockefeller Grove, one of the few remaining stands of virgin red-wood.

A brush and forest fire was fin-ally brought under control in Lake County, about 100 miles north of San Francisco, after more than 200 persons were forced to evacu-ate their homes in the Whispering Pines resort area.

The Fresno County communities of Hume Lake and Grant Grove were evacuated from the path of the Sequoia National Forest fire.

THREE SUB8 HUNTED OFF PHILIPPINES

MANILA (if)—Philippine army planes and navy ships today were ordered to search for three uni-dentified submarines reported moving southward off Itbayat Is-land off the northern tip of the Philippines. Similar previous re-ports of submarines have never been confirmed.

8 Killed, Many Injured In Area During Holiday

Lake Takes Second Victim And Seven Die in Traffic

Death took over the area's Labor Day Holiday with a vengeance, piling up a grim tally of eight fatalities, seven of them on the highways.

Chautauqua Lake claimed one* "" holiday victim, 62-year-old La-Verne Cook. Route 4- North East, Pa., who drowned while saving his 11-year-old grandson, when their boat capsized in the choppy waters off Midway Park Monday afternoon.

Dead as a result of highway ac-cidents were:

Mrs. Dorothy Manley, 55. of 368 Lakeshore Drive West, Dunkirk.

Charles D. Bright, 22, Shelby, N.Y.

Frederick E. Dailey, 79, Olean. Mrs. Eva H. Fritts, 76, Govvan-

da. Albert Trott. 47, Erie. Pa Mrs. Faye Trott. 44, Erie. Pa.,

his wife. Karen Trott, 4, their daughter. Highways in Chautauqua and)

Cattaraugus Counties registered; Egypt struggled today to maintain

Israel Egypt Keep Shaky Peace in Gaza

Jerusalem Apologizes For Patrol's 'Error' In Crossing Border

JERUSALEM —Police Capt. Mi-chael A. Clougherty said 17-year-old Arthur H. Martin, an honor student at Boston Latin School, ad-mitted last night he stabbed his father to death and lived alone in their home with the body for five weeks.

Mrs! Isabel Martin, 39, last night found the body of her husband, Manuel, 51, on their bedroom floor. She had been away on an extended vacation.

Clougherty said the son told de-tectives he stabbed his father with a trench knife last July 28 during an argument over washing the kitchen floor.

No charge was brought against the boy immediately.

two nations agreed late last week to Burns' request for a cease-fire. They renewed their pledge Sunday after fighting broke out again Saturday, but each said again they would shoot back if attacked.

Nail Found in Head Weeks after Blast

TOULON. France M-\ French surgeon worked three hours yester-day to remove a three-inch nail from the head of a young woman.

The patient. Miss Evelyne Plotu, 20, apparently had suffered only burns and scratches in an explo-sion in a Paris fireworks store where she worked a few tveeks ago. But she complained of con-stant headaches.

An X-ray examination disclosed a nail had entered her skull and was lodged between the brain and the bone. Doctors said it probably entered through the left eye socket without injuring the eye.

The name of the surgeon was not disclosed.

Los Angeles Cools Off To 99; Frisco Quakes

LOS ANGELES (B—The 100-plus heat wave in Los Angeles has cracked, but just barely, and the forecaster predicts continuing hot weather today. A downtown maxi-mum of 98 is expected.

Yesterday the high was 99. It was the first time since last Tues-day that the mercury had not siz-zled up over 100 in the heart of the metropolis.

The daily maximums in the record-breaking scorcher were: Wednesday 101, Thursday 110 for an all-time high, Friday 108, Satur-day 103, Sunday 101.

Gentle sea breezes and some high cloudiness are credited for the slight crack in the blistering weath-er.

Elsewhere in southern California yesterday the maximums includ-ed: El Centro 114, Needles and Blythe 113, San Bernardino and Burbank 111.

The heat wave death toll mount-ed in Los Angeles County. The coroner's office said 51 deaths were attributed to the heat since last Wednesday. The number of nat-ural deaths was 277 in that period, nearly 2V2 times the total of 113 in the corresponding period last year.

The coroner said the heat was an apparent accelerating factor in many of these deaths.

FRISCO BUILDINGS ROCK IN QUAKE

SAN FRANCISCO (B—An earth-quake set the earth to pitching Saturday evening from the San Francisco Bay area south as if a giant were shaking a 150-mi'e long carpet.

Buildings began to pitch and buck in downtown San Francisco at 7 P.M. PDT (10 P.M. EDTl. Lamps were sent crashing to the floor in residential districts and quake-conscious San Franciscans rushed into the streets In some sections.

The quake registered "strong" on the University of California seismograph, reaching a magni-tude of 5.5 on the Richter scale.

A spokesman said it centered about 130-150 miles south of here in the vicinity of HolUster.

The quake apparently followed the San Andreas and Hayward Faults.

Police headquarters at Hollis-ter, 130 miles to the south, report-ed "It shook the town for nearly three minutes", but thert were no reports of damage.

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