Austin Daily Herald (Newspaper) - April 25, 1955, Austin, Minnesota and tow AUSTIN DAILY HERALD t y T 174 14 VOL AUSTIN MINN MONDAY APRIL 13 Associated Pnw 16 Conferees Break Deadlock on Taxes HE STILL WANTS FORMOSA Chou Chills Bid for Negotiations CLIMINTS BANDUNG Indonesia to the confer headed home today The nation parley to a close yesterday with a ries of unanimous resolutions de- signed to foster peace among the world's diverse peoples Red China's Chou sounded one jarring note at the windup After stealing the show Saturday with his call for direct talks with the United States on the thorny Formosa issue the Communist Premier declared that Peiping would not yield its sovereign right In the liberation of Chiang island bastion Frequent Clashes The seven-day conference was marked by frequent clashes be- tween pro and elements But it reached ute agreement on the major issue that nearly caused a the touchy colonial question After hours of deliberation a subcommittee finally came up with an acceptable resolution ing colonialism in all its It carefully avoided specifying either Western or Com- munist colonialism Both sides in the cold war seemed to have profited during the parley Ceylon's Stand Pleases There was little or none of the bitter condemnation the West had expected from the formerly sub- ject peoples spokesmen captured the initiative at the outset of the conference with telling blasts against Red imperialism Western observers were particularly impressed with the stand of lon's Premier Sir John one of the five conference hosts On the Communist side de- voted himself mainly to winning friends He attracted considerable favorable attention by refusing to pursue the arguments with his critics The Indochinese kingdoms of Cambodia and Laos both espoused Indian Prime Minister Nehru's neutralist policy which Chou vors for the rest of Asia And the Chinese Premier's gesture on the Formosa issue was applauded although some delegates were skeptical that anything con- crete would result The resolutions drawn up at the parley covered a wide field rang ing from demands for a ban on manufacture and tes ing of weapons to cultural cooperation among Asian and African peoples The final conference communi que outlined these principal stands addition to that on colonial during the 1 Universal membership in the United Nations to promote work oblique reference to Red China's demands for a sea in the world organization It was the closest the conference came to backing Peiping on that score 2 Economic cooperation among the nations on the basis of mutual interest and re- spect for national sovereignty Understanding 3 Cultural understanding among nations through cooperation This stemmed from the resolutions con- demning colonialism and racial ism 4 Full support for the principle of self-determination of peoples and nations as set forth in the charter of the United Nations The conference agreed on a seven point blueprint for coexistence in- opposition to collective pacts designed to serve lar interests of any big powers 5 Support for the courageous stand taken by the victims of cial discrimination especially by the peoples of African Indian and Pakistani origin in South Africa Slap at French 6 Support for the rights of the North Africans to tion a reference to the Nationalist demands in the French territories there France was urged to bring about a peaceful settlement out delay 7 Support for the rights of the Arab people of Palestine and a call for a peaceful settlement there Though the resolution did not mention Israel by name its intent clear The resolution on nuclear ons was sweeping It called for an end to production experimentation and use of nuclear and clear weapons and effective inter national control to carry out such a prohibition The delegates agreed to leave the decision whether to hold an- other conference next year to the five sponsoring Pakistan Ceylon Burma and In- donesia Ike Plans Atomic Ship to Circle Globe for U S NEW YORK today unveiled plans to send a new atomic powered chant ship around he globe in a dramatic demonstration of ica's determination to win a just and lasting peace The new vessel the President said will travel thousands of miles without refueling and will strate to people everywhere this use of atomic energy harnessed for the improvement of human living Eisenhower disclosed his tion to ask Congress for funds to build the new ship in a speech prepared for delivery at the annual luncheon meeting of the Associated Press at the Hotel Atomic Test Is Postponed SURVIVAL CITY Nev winds over the Nevada desert day forced postponement of the big atomic civil defense open shot for at least 24 hours The announcement was given to observers this morning by Dr vin C Graves scientific chief for the tests It means the test will not be held before next day at the earliest About of the nation's and editors were on hand for the start of Newspaper Week in New York Tariff Cut The President his prise announcement of plans for the ship with a new plea for congressional ment of the administration gram to cut tariffs 15 per cent over the next three years Eisenhower made no direct tion of Red China's weekend offer to negotiate with the United States to relax tension in the Formosa area But in an obvious reference to Communist China and Russia the President said certain have engaged in a de- conceived drive which periodically creates alarms and fears of war Crisis Ahead Eisenhower also spoke of the unprecedented crises of these with and linked the idea of freer world trade to the battle against Godless Communism Either we foster flourishing trade between the free nations or we weaken the Free World and our own Eisenhower said The administration's to ex- tend the Reciprocal Trade Act three years has passed the House but still faces rough going in the Senate j Highway Patrolman Jerry Sweet peers into the Verplank car which was northbound 2 Dead in Headon Collision Two persons lost their lives and two were injured in a headon sion eight miles north of Austin on Highway 218 early Sunday morning The Clarence E 60 dale driver of the northbound car He was dead on arrival at St Olaf Hospital 19 003 Williams a passenger in bound car She died at 10 a m Sunday at St Olaf Hospital Injured Patricia 17 1807 Eli zabeth a passenger in the bound car She is in poor tion although responding to ment Patricia suffered chest and bead injuries and fractures of both legs She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Samuel McCelland Leslie Newman 26 Austin Rt 2 owner of the southbound car He suffered a fractured skull and an ankle injury His condition is de- scribed as fair All Attended Dances Verplank was alone apparently Tornado Kills 4 in Alabama Windstorms Rip Through East Showers and thunderstorms con- tinned today in eastern and era United States sections where some localities had a tornado a 70 windstorm and stones bigger than baseballs The eastward movement of the storm center however was ex- to clear the skies in the Midwest but only to make way for eastward moving weather now Vatican Simplifies Two Catholic Rites VATICAN CITY The can's Sacred congregation of Rites has decided to simplify slightly the Roman Catholic mass and the breviary which priests recite daily The change is designed to give more time for parish duties Vatican sources said Pope Pius XII agreed to the abbreviation in response to requests from bishops all over the world The changes will go into effect next Jan 1 The decree simplifies the mass only slightly at the beginning and after communion Unchanged are the essential part of the m a a s the offertory consecration and communion 47 Cars Derailed in Wreck Near Dallas DALLAS Forty-seven cars of an Lines freight rain derailed near here yesterday Smashed cars were strewn over a mile of track No one was in- jured The train was en route from Kansas City to Fort Worth TEMPERATURES I 1 P M 2 P M 3 P M 4 P M 5 P M B P M SUNDAY 42 7 P M 8 P M 9 P M 10 P M 11 P M 43 i 43 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 dampening the northern Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest Couple A tornado ripped through three small communities in a northern Alabama farming section day killing an elderly couple and two children a boy and his sister and causing property damage estimated at The twister injured 25 persons including the mother of the two child victims and three others of her destroyed 40 houses and two churches It cut a swath close to a half mile wide through Piney Grove Cedar Plains and An- drew's Chapel 75 miles north of Birmingham Similar spring storms struck the same area in 1932 and 1952 The 1932 total was 31 dead and 81 in- jured and that hi 1952 four dead and GO hurt Ronnie Lee Nails 3 of near Massey died of storm injuries in a Hartselle hospital last night His sister Ida Mane 10 was killed outright Their mother Mrs Clyde Nails and three other Nails dren were among the The other dead were Mr and Mrs Will Smith both about 60 Unroofs Dormitory A windstorm in southern ginia unroofed a student dormitory on the campus of Eastern State College at Richmond felled trees and power lines and blew a ton ship and its dragging anchors 100 yards down the James River There were no reported casualties Thunderstorms pelted the linas with hailstones up to two inches in diameter at Charlotte baseball size at Laurens and York and four inches in st Rock Hills returning home He had attended a dance at cine with an tin woman who told Sheriff bert Reinartz that Verplank had left her about 2 or a m Newman and the girls had at- tended a wedding dance for Mr and Mrs William Low Blooming Prairie at Bixby Authorities are not certain who was driving the Newman car but Highway Patrolman son found Patricia under the wheel Miss Tesch did not drive a car her mother said Reinartz and Dr G W Stahl deputy coroner have not talked with Newman or the McCelland girl to establish who was driving Both cars were in the bound lane Johnson said He and Jerry Sweet state highway man from Albert Lea helped re- move the victims from the car Chou's Paradox on War Smells of Aggression TOKYO Murata for- mer Japanese ambassador to ila today quoted Red Chinese Pre- mier Chou as telling him the Chinese people are simply sick and tired of but For- mosa will be liberated Murata said Chou made the statements to him in January when he visited Peiping for cial tride talks Chou told me he personally feels friendship for the American Murata said in an inter- view but he resents the attitude of dangling weapons before tne Chinese Chou said the United States has surrounded China with military bases and its fleet The Chinese feel they are looking at gun in every direction In such a position it is reasonable for nese to map out their defense Murata said Chou portrayed the Korea War as simply forced on when troops drove through North Korea toward 1 A 2 A 44 12 Midnight 44 MONDAY 43 3 A M 4 A M 42 I 42 9 A 6 A M M 7 A M 8 A M 9 A M 41 10 A M 40 j 11 A M 40 I 12 Noon 34 MURDERS EVERY DAY U S Crime Rate Climbs WASHINGTON Of The U S crime rate took another 5 per cent jump in 1954 with major estimated at FBI tor J Edgar Hoover reported day This translates into one major crime committed every 13.9 Hoover noted that last year was the seventh consecutive year in which the crime rate rose and the third straight year in which than two million serious of- fenses occurred Tba statistics published L the annual Uniform Crime Re- ports showed that while the population grew by 7 per cent since 1950 the crime rate was increasing by 26.7 per cent during the same period Compiled by Ml The 1954 figures were based on data supplied to the FBI by law enforcement agencies ing 90 per cent of the population These reports indicated that for every day in 1954 an estimated M persons were feloniously and ast other felonious assaults were committed curred larcenies were 592 were stolen and there were 185 robberies and burglaries The rise in the crime rate last year was largely due to increases in robbery per 8.4 per cent and larceny 5.8 per Murders dropped off 4.3 per cent in both city and rural areas and auto declined 4.7 per cent Rapes showed a 0.7 per cent in- crease and assaults row i par CHIANG WELCOMES dent Chiang right welcomes U S Joint Chief of Staffs Chairman Adm Arthur W Radford with a handclasp as the latter arrives at Taipei Formosa with Walter S Robertson assistant Secretary of State AP via radio from Formosa The right front wheel of the plank car was on the center line Johnson said Warned About Speeding Verplank had been arrested for speeding on the same stretch on March 7 At that time Johnson I had warned him to slow down or I1 will be pulling you from a ditch one of these days Johnson recalled the warning when he removed crushed body from behind the steering wheel There was a faint pulse when Verplank was placed on the ambulance cart Johnson said Verplank suffered head and chest injuries possible fractures of the skull neck shoulder ribs pelvis and left leg Miss Tesch suffered multiple fractures and chest injuries 8 Blood Donors CilUd Eight blood donors from the Red Cross list were called for sions to the McCelland girl who was taken to surgery There was no evidence of skid marks at the crash scene and both cars apparently stopped in place after the impact Visibility was restricted by strong winds and rain and the highway was slippery The cars collided a short distance south of the curve in the highway Time of the collision has been set at a m and the patrolmen were called at Miss Tesch employed as a in the office of Geo A mel Co She was a 1953 ate of Austin High School Her mother Mrs Stuart Wilson of St Ansgar Iowa formerly lived in Austin Miss Tesch at one time lived in St Ansgar Wednesday Miss Tesch is survived by her mother and Carl of Austin and her grandmother Mrs Robert Bartz of St Ansgar Funeral services will be day at Emanuel Lutheran Church St Ansgar Verplank is survived by his son Joyce Ellendale and three daughters Mrs Utpadel lendale Mrs Glenden Schuster Hope and Mrs Horace sen Hackensack Funeral services will be Wednesday at the Lutheran Church in Ellendale These deaths raise the Mower County highway toll to four Other State Gerald Benson 19 was killed in- stantly in the accident 15 miles west of Grand Rapids thy Lehman 17 was dead on ar- rival at a hospital Nancy Lehman 24 Dorothy's sister was hospitalized in fair con- dition A deputy sheriff said the car failed to turn at a T tion of a gravel road and a surfaced highway The vehicle shot across the pavement and struck the post John A Kalina 25 Lakeville Minn was fatally injured when his convertible overturned in a ditch four miles south of Bloomington Sunday morning He and a ger Donald Tonsager 23 also of Lakeville were hurled from the car Tonsager was hospitalized at Farmington with head and chest injuries Arthur Skime 26 International Falls was fatally injured Saturday in a head-on collision a mile west of International Palls He died about six hours after the accident Five International Falls in the other car driven by David Trach 20 suffered minor injuries London Doily in Financial Distress LONDON JH The Communist Daily Worker reported today it's in new financial difficulties The Red organ said it had been forced to discontinue its final morning edition and to adopt in earlier printing deadline to conserve B- Accept Withholding Tax Plan End of Session Seems Near By JACK MACKAY and ADOLPH JOHNSON ST PAUL AP The tax deadlock which has tied up the Minnesota Legislature for five days beyond tional deadline was broken early today An agreement by the conference committee on a age tax program that will produce for the eral revenue fund each of the next two years to balance the budget was outlined in the House by majority leader Fred Cina Aurora The end of the session appeared in sight but approval of both the Senate and House and the signature of Gov man to the revenue bills before midnight still are necessary to avert a special session A number of legislators have expressed their disapproval of the agreement between the House and Senate conferees hot debate is anticipated before a final decision comes Big 3 Plan Conference but some predicted a special session would be necessary Levy Will Drop The plan also calls for a one mill tax on ty but Cina said the 1955 levy of 9.15 mills will drop to 7.80 mills -a and for the WASHINGTON Western next two This is the tax package together with the estimated yield each Big Three foreign ministers will meet in Paris May 8 to discuss concrete plans for holding a power conference with the Soviet government The State Department in an- nouncing thist oday said the United States Britain and France hope that a four-power con- ference can meet as soon as sible The brief announcement did not say at what level it hoped the meeting with Russia could be held President Eisenhower and tary of State Dulles have said in the past that a four-power ministers conference should pre- cede any meetings of heads of state Is Willing Moscow has indicated a desire for a meeting of Premier Bulganin with President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Anthony British Eden In talking to newsmen at a reception on Saturday Bulganin said he was interested in such a conference and that it was up to Eisenhower and Eden to set a date Deal Only With Europe American officials said they be- any four-power conference should deal strictly with European problems such as Germany's ture and European security Western Germany it was em- will be fully consulted in both the London and Paris meetings especially on any lem which directly involves the future of the divided nation Elects New Chairman MINNEAPOLIS UR Paul S Anderson 28 Grand Rapids Minn was unanimously elected chairman of the Young Democratic Farmer Labor organization at the group's state convention here day The 160 delegates elected Mary Richardson St Paul state woman Harlan Goulett Minneapolis yer was named national committeeman and the national committeewoman post was won by Bette M Jones Minneapolis The organization tabled a tion to admit Red China to the United Nations and favoring of the Red Chinese ment by the United States Adopted was a resolution stating the United States should not insist on holding Quemoy and Matsu lands off Formosa 1 An added income tax of H of 1 per cent on individual incomes under but not on those filing a return and paying only the head 2 An added income tax of W of 1 per cent on incomes over 3 A 15 per cent surtax on lion ore occupation and royalty Corporation Tax Up 4 An added income tax of 1 per cent on net taxable incomes of 5 A 2 per cent tax on 8 A SI fee for transfer of a motor 7 A i mill tax on 8 Charging dedicated funds ther than the general fund for administrative costs of certain state departments passed by both 9 A general increase In state licenses and fees passed by both Besides the tax bills Rep Cina listed these as still awaiting The constitutional amendment to divert the half of the iron ore occupation tax now going into trust funds into current operating funds for schools and the University of Minnesota A conference this morning on this broke up in disagreement over a Senate proposal to give the Legislature authority to use part of the education share for general purposes if necessary The basic school aids which still is in a conference committee trying to compromise the Senate proposition for holding the line at and the House stand for an increase to Education Unsettled The 184 million dollar education which includes appropriations for the University of Minnesota teachers colleges and the ment of education as well as school aids This awaits a decision on the basic aid level The 28 million dollar building This has been finally approved LAWMAKERS Continued on Pace IS Police Station Near but Thieves Ignore It SAN ANTONIO Tex Los Angeles carnival concession owner Albert R Cohn 54 told police he locked for safe keeping in the trunk of his car parked across the street from county jail The auto was stolen early yesterday VERDICT AWAITED Minneapolis Dentist Remains in Custody MINNEAPOLIS m Detective Capt Eugene Bernath said today police investigations of the death of a woman whose body was found in an alley here early Saturday cannot be completed until the County coroner gives a deci- sion on the cause of death The body of Mrs Mary Moonen 21 was found in an alley in the Lake of the Isles district A former resident of Plummer and Thief River Falls Minn she had lived here about tix weeks Her husband Matt is in military service in rea Held for questioning is Dr A Arnold Axilrod 49 Minneapolis dentist Victim WM Pregnant Inspector Charles said Dr Axilrod had told authorities Mrs Moonen had accused hiin of being the father of her unborn child had shown Mrs was in her third month of pregnancy The have a daughter Gloria 9 months Wetherille said Dr Axilrod told him the woman claimed be gave her a sleeping pill in his office mud assaulted her Dr Axilrod denied this He told Wetherille Mrs en came to Us office Friday ing and made the accusation again before they went lor a The dentist told Mrs charge aba was going to expose me to Ae world made him mad He Mid he blacked oat and what be re- gained composure the woman wat gone Wetherille said Dr told hiss fee Had never Mrs Moonen but had once or twin driven fear to the home of bar
