Beatrice Daily Sun (Newspaper) - December 31, 1953, Beatrice, Nebraska Temperatures High few today lew year ago 240 2 unofficial 50 Precipitation this month Precipitation this year BEATRICE DAILY SUN If Vou Didnt It In fhe Sun ft Didnt Happen Member of the Associated Press windy and A tittle warmer tonight low tonight about 35 Prl considerable windy and colder high Friday In 52 THURSDAY DECEMBER to Per Copy 14fl Claims Ike Is Popular With Farmers Farm Prices End 4 Month Report Confirms WASHINGTON ft Thye said Thursday that Eis Administration is definite ly on trial with farmers at the coming session of a supporter of President Eisenhower and a member of the Senate Agriculture said farmers arc going to be watching closely what is done in The just back from the said Eisenhower as popular as ever with farmers and that they feel better about recent In there isnt the fear in the minds of the farmers there was eight months he Pork Trices Pork prices have egg prices are solid and there has been a strengthening of beef In the last few months fear had made the market softer than even the supplies Official confirmation that farm prices had ended a four month decline came Wednesday from the Agriculture which put the increase for the month ended 15 at per This left average farm prices about 6 per cent under the level of a year earlier and about 20 per cent below the record high of Feb ruary the November December level was about 5 per cent under that when the Eisen hower Administration took office last MidDecember Farm prices in mid December averaged 91 per cent of a legal price said by law to be fair to farmers in relation to prices they must pay for things they That with 96 per cent a year ago and 122 per cent in October noting that the present system of high rigid price supports for basic crops expires with 1954 declared that we cant let the agricultural economy slide and I will not go for anything below 90 per cent of parity as the level for support of major French Report Clash With Rebels Indochina UP The French Thursday reported their first sizable clash with the Com munist led Vietminh at last major French posi tion in northwest Indochina and perhaps the first objective of the winter Rebel The French said patrols moving out from their heavily fortified po sition on the plain just north of Laos fought for more than an hour with Rebel units they The French claimed 54 Vietminh dead and said their own losses were Mobile artillery and fighter planes finally forced the Vietminh to the French The Vietminh Wednesday were reported active close to Dien Bien Phu for the first time since French paratroopers grabbed the post and its airstrip five Since then the French have poured men and arms into News of the Vietminh activity there aroused speculation that it was the Rebels first major target and that their dash across central Laos to the Mekong River last week was a diversion to draw off French Extension Board Elects Officers The Suns Own Service Elk was elected president of the Johnson County Extension Board at a recent meeting Other new officers are Al vice president Delbert and Mrs Walter secre Elected to the board of directors were Christy Sterling Fred Cook Ed gar Steinauer Kenneth Sterling Roberts and Forecasts Colder Than Usual January WASHINGTON Weather Bureau expects a colder than usual January for most of the United It said Wednesday in a monthly report The 30day outlook for January calls for temperatures to average below seasonal normals over most of the nation except for above normal over the Northwest and in New The most unseason able coldness is indicated in the West Gulf states and central Mis Precipitation is expected to ex ceed normal in the Gulf states and in areas east of the much of it in the form of snow north of WINS CONTEST Linda 6yearold daugh ter of Bet 6431 Garden has won first prize in a ed coloring contest for children five to eight years The a is wait ing for her at the local Sears according to a letter sent by store Humboldt Woman Hers 22 Year Attendance Record UPl Mrs Ward Merritt has rounded put 22 years of church attendance with out a The pastor of the Shubert and Christian has a five year perfect attendance Denies Plan To McCarthy Republican Leader May Initiate Study Of Rules By JACK BEIX WASHINGTON Know land said Thursday the Senate Republican Police Commit tee may study a change in sub poena but he declared there is no GOP move afoot to curb the scope of investigations by Mc Carthy the Senate majority said in an interview the policy group may look into the wisdom of requiring approval by a committee quorum a fixed num ber of members that varies by committees before issuance of any for witnesses or doc This issue was raised last month when Chairman act ed alone in signing a for former President Truman to before the House Un American Activities Committee in the Harry Dexter White Tru man refused to honor the sub not because of the way it was but on the ground that Congress may not require an ex president to Although there has been com parable action in the Knowland said he thinks it might be wise to clarify the rules on this Unconfirmed Talk There has been unconfirmed talk that some Republican leaders would like to curb the farflung investigation activities of McCar thys permanent investiga tions Some mem bers of the Senate Internal Securi ty Subcommittee grumbled pri vately that en on their field of hunting for Knowland said he hadnt heard of any move among Republicans to limit He that he doesnt know what the Democrats may It is difficult to define the field of investigations under the 1946 LaFollette Reorganization the authority of the committees often Knowland I dont see any practical way of changing this situ ation short of agreements among the chairmen on the scope of their Although he didnt say it in so many attitude indicated that Republicans dont plan to support a resolution by which would have the Senate itself de fine the field of each committees Separate Interview said in a separate in he intends to bring this proposal up when the Senate is asked to supply additional funds for the investigating He said he knew of no Democratic move to slice these funds as a means of limiting the WORK ON ECONOMIC extreme confers witli his advisors nt the temporary executive offices at the National Golf Club in in working on his economic report to Left to right arc Arthur Chief Counsel of Economic Advisors Gabriel economic and nnd Charles NEA Year To AH Says Tax Cut WASHINGTON W Uncle Sam presents a New Years gift Friday to more than 50 million individu als and corporations r the first general tax cuts in five The three big changes are Individual income tax rates will drop about 10 per cent for all except the highest chop ping three billion dollars annually off federal The excess profits tax on corporations will reducing government income two bil lion dollars The social security payroll levied on both employes and will go up from to 2 per It is collected on the first paid annually to a work That will increase income to the special social security trust fund by almost billions an Forest Fire Causes Million Damage LOS ANGELES were winning their battle Thurs day against two forest blazes which have caused million dol lars damage to the in the San Gabriel Observatory and television in atop threat ened several times since fire broke out Sunday on Monrovia appeared to be Richard Forest Service fire prevention said crews hope to have the blaze under control unless the wind He also said the second 20 miles east in the Baldy might be controlled Thursday un der the same who estimated the wa said the Monro via Wilson fire front is controlled except for 13 Nearly a thousand men are on the 33mile Acreage burned in the Wilson region totals On the Baldy fire are 500 men on a 10mile The burned area forest ers totals ON VIRGINIA PROGRAM The Suns Own Service VIRGINIA Among Beatrice residents who will furnish enter here for the PTO pro gram Saturday night is Her name was omitted from a previous account of the Repatriated Americans Tell Of Red Forced Labor Camps BERLIN Americans re leased by tho Russians after years of imprisonment and forced labor said Thursday Soviet detention camps arc hell holes where murder and violent death are com Leland a merchant seaman from San told a news conference he had been a Communist but never Homer of Oklahoma said he was blown off the aircraft carrier Yorktown before the Japanese sank her in 1942 and that was a picnic compared to the Russian work The two men were turned over to the Americans in Berlin two days as a result of negotia tions between the Stale Depart ment and Crossed Border in SI Towers said he had tried to go to the Soviet Union to see what the mainspring of Communism svas like and nacl been refused a he he crossed into Russia over the Fin nish border in 1951 and was ar convicted and sentenced to three years for breaking a military police man in West said he was apparently drugged in a cafe the night of and when he awoke he was in Russian He said they gave him 53 years after a quick trial on charges of being part of an intelligence or and suspicion of having slain a Russian Both men said they saw many foreigners in various work camps in the Soviet these included of Breck and Andrew of American soldiers once stationed in and six other soldiers from the Austrian occupation Cox said he worked in a coal mine at the infamous Vorkuta Every day somebody he said Some were by Soviet troops for Others were victims of Fights broke out constantly and some re in Towers worked in a Of all he would say It was very A Communist since Towers said I dont know any more what the word Communist I thought and still think there is lots wrong with the capitalist taut the Russians are starting from J love freedom more than ever although I still think there is plenty of room for im provement in the capitalist Towers declined details of his experience in Asked if he haa in some capitalistic in stinct for selling his story he grinned sheepishly and said Youre getting Asked whether he be a Communist Towers replied good The Russian handling of their Communist state is complete he He plans to visit Spain and before go ing back to the United he if that is Drives already have started on two fronts to give even bigger breaks to taxpayers during the con gressional election year of Chairman Daniel Reed R NY of the House Ways and Means has said the 10 per cent income tax cut is not enough and he hopes for an other reduction as soon as pos Reed also called for cuts later in corporate income and excise or sales Cancel Increases The Eisenhower administration has asked that the social security tax only immediate thorn in the rosy picture of tax almost 60 million in dividual income taxpayers will ben from the 10 per cent But in the lowest income lax the social security tax increase will amount to more leaving a net loss takehome pay for about 10 million Economists have been saying the income tax reductions should spur consumer buying and help ease threats of any business recession next And for death of the excess profits tax the way for for newer and smaller which can retain more of any expanded The excess profits tax has been 30 per cent of income above a standard set by Piled on top of the regular 52 per tion income it has imposed a levy of 82 per cent on some cor After Friday After the income lax payroll withholding rate will be reduced from 20 per cent to 18 per cent of after allowances for personal and de Some 46 million workers are subject to The increase in social security taxes also will be reflected in the first pay chocks after It amounts to a maximum of a year on The break even the two changes almost offset each roughly as follows A single man with no depend income a married cou ple with no married couple with one depend married couple with two married couple with three Most taxpayers in those situa tions making more than those amounts will have a net increase in takehome Below those fig they will take a net loss unless and until Congress cancels the social security Wood Field Man For Concert Organization Richard son of G Rains of this in January starts to work as u field repre sentative for the National Con certs and Artists in its organized audience which corresponds to Columbia Cooperative Wood conducted four campaigns for Columbia the past fall switching to He will head quarter In New and will work mainly in the For six until the past he had been with the YMCA and City Recreation De of Idaho managing and directing the little theater and a com munity Man Confesses A Shot That Missed CHICAGO dashed into the police station Wednesday and shouted Ive just shot my Police found Conrad standing daml outside Gren das Im wailing for the pain to he told Both police were mis The pistol bullet Grenda had fired through a door way went over Wisinskis head and lodged in the house next Both men were locked Wisin skis wife charged him with dis orderly Grenda was ar rested for assault with a deadly weapon and for firing a gun within the city Showdown Seen On Increase Of Gas Rates The proposed increase in gas rat es as presented recently by Central Electric and Gas to the city comes up for a possible showdown Early this week City Commis chose to sit pat on the in crease and now officials of the gas will meet with the council Tuesday afternoon at 2 Hal local office mon uger for the utility said today that Central Electric and Gas vice and general will be present for the The gas company requests a ro tuil increase to cover an increase it must pay to Nothern Natural Gas Pipeline council is of the opinion that the local increase be less than as outlined by the gas Says Shoulders Kidnap Catcher To Stay Free On Bond LOUIS Former Police Louis a veteran cer who has survived Investiga tions in the now Is prepared to fight a federal perjury indict ment in an aftermath of the Green lease patient and smiling for posted bond here Wednesday to remain free while awaiting a call to Kan sas City by federal The bond was posted for Shoulders by a professional The date of Shoulders arraign ment has not yol been but bis Henry told newsmen If it becomes necessary to en ter certainly will be one of not A Kansas City grand jury Tues day charged In its indictment that the 55yearold former Louis police officer gave false testimony in describing his handling of suit cases containing a portion of the record ransom A little more than half of the ransom still is Shoulders has stated the suil were brought to a district police station along with Carl Aus tin since executed with his Bonnie Brown for tha of 6yeur old Bobby shortly aft er his arrest on the night of The after studying testi mony of other alleged statement to be Picture below ut Romanian Legation To Stop Publishing WASHINGTON m State Department Thursday ordered the Romanian Legation to stop publi cation of a newspaper and other I Communist publications in the I United Stales A department statement said the action was taken as a result of the Romanian governments banning of a monthly publication Issued by the American legation in Bucha rest on This called News from America and printed in svas first is sued last October with a circula tion of about the State Department Overtoil Brooks DLa Is sued a statement this week pro testing publication in the United States of the Romanian weekly i called The Romanian I A State Department spokesman said the banning of this paper was I taken because of the Romanian prohibition of the American pub and was not related to Brooks HAM City Hall will close Saturday giving employees a three day County Courthouse will also Split Over Manpower Plan Says He Saw Kuykendall On Death Nite Seemed He Was In Dazed Witness Testifies By BASIL OMAHA W A witness In the Joseph Kuykendall murder trial said Thursday Hint about Insl June 18 he suw rocking and reeling in her house trailer homo while her slumped in a chair with his eyes This was approximately two hours before WHS found dying in the The witness was operator of the Stables where the had their frailer parked during Insl summers meeting Mountjoy took the stand as the defense the end of its of witness in the first degree murder trial of the year old Arizona horse trainer accused of killing his wealthy Medical witnesses have testified that had a skull fracture and brain Defense attorneys have contended Hint she could have been injured In a full or falls and that nt the was In a dazed condition from chloral hydrate placed in coffee he had drunk Sheet Mountjoy said lie hud gone to the Kuykendall trailer to get an overnight listing the horses starting times for Thurs days twilight racing Ho said asked him in and looked for the said was sitting in a chair In the living He was slumped his head hanging his and apparently saying Mountjoy he couldnt tell whether Kuykendall sww him but if he he apparently didnt know who I He apparently didnt know any He wasnt x He looked said this wus unlike normally friendly be As for she looked very Mountjoy re Earlier she told him that she had suffered pneumonia and nhc feared a Mountjoy On this he she told him she apparently was having a Mountjoy said he told her he thought you should go to the hos pital because you look very But she she had had this before and there WHS noth ing that could be done about it and she would bo all the witness I didnt know what might havii been holding her Mountjoy Loved Kach Other In testimony Johnny Clements of told Uic district court jury that Joseph and loved earn He was in love with her and she was in love with said un exercise boy who lived the before On the way to Omaha lust Clements almost turned back when on one of his frequent calls to her ho learned was being hospi tal The day before she arrived in Clements Kuy kendull got four or five dozen roses for her and put them 4n the house Bandits Out At Stroke 01 Midnight Idaho slot machine Cinderella In the fairy a close eye on the clock At the stroke of midnight their Cin golden be no H Thats the hour set by the Legis upheld last week by the Stale Supreme the machines and other gaming de vices to quit 135 Chinese Ask To Go Back To Reds South Koreans Renew Free All POWs PANMUNJOM troops made a year head count of Chinese war prisoners In their cus tody Thursday and 135 of the checked asked to return to Com munist An Indian spokesman that the count was not a screening and did not substitute for Interviews which ended Indian guards gave prisoners wishing to return home every chance to ask for No Indication There was no indication whether the would be extended to the proCommunist North Camp which holds 22 Americans who refused to return Nor was there any Indication whether the count would be ex tended to North and South Kore or the one Englishman In cus South Koreas Foreign Minister Pyun Yung Taj hinted that If the Indian Command continues Its pro gram the ROK government might take steps to free the nist Unless the Indian guards re verse Pyun told we cannot let our anil prisoners remain In say why he opposes the head count and there was no comment from the Indian Com Friday An Indian spokesman told news men to call him Friday to find out whether the count will be contin The 135 Chinese who asked to go home were returned to the Com Thursday Jt was by fur the largest transfer of pris since the formal POW ex change The 135 of tally was about per approximately the as for the 10 days when prisoners attended tho count is being made to give the Indian Command an opportunity to check its pris oner rosters and to find out exact ly how many captives It GP Loan Mails Dividends Ten per cent stock dividends have been mailed by he Gage Pawnee National Farm Loan according to Mike secre Checks totaling were sent to 400 fanners of Gage and Paw nee County who huve loans in the NO Dully Sun will not un New Years GOP Senate Leader Will Fight Policy Issue Involves Contract Grants To Critical Areas WASHINGTON OB Disagree ment has broken out between Pres ident Eisenhower and his chief nontenant In the Knowland of over a new administration program to combat Just a week before the opening of Congress next Knowland called the new policy u disappointment and said he would back legislation to modify He took that position in the face of statement two days ago declaring complete agreement with the Whether the disagreement would affect attitude toward other White House policies could not be The policy is designed to steer some government defense con tracts Into areas plagued by large scale Southern Democrats Southern Democrats voiced bit ter outcries oC protest over the similar to one put effect by the Truman administra tion In 1952 and dropped last Au Maybank DSC said In a statement Thursday he would In legislation the very first I can to prevent the program from being carried But even If Congress should block or drastically curb the pro there remained the facts of unequivocal opposition to it and the as yet effect the might have on Democratic support ers legislative Sparkman DAla said the President seemed to bo doing everything in his power calculated to drive the froni giving him support on his pro a tew Northern Democrats praised the unemploy ment move the opposition was concentrated In Southern Democrats have also condemned the policy on grounds it deprives the Southern textile in dustry of government contracts and places them in New England towns hard hit by Conference Knowland told a confer ence late Wednesday the order needs curtailment and leaves the door open too wide for gov orders to be set aside from normal procurement meth ods and channelled into jobless Last during Senate de bate on the he favored an which would have for bidden the letting of government contracts to anyone other than the lowest He did not say Wednesday whether he would go that far Observers could not Immediately recall an instance when a majority on the eve of a new con had taken He issue with his President on administration policy and sided with a powerful segment of the position Democrats Republi 48 to The 96th seat Is held by Morse of an inde pendent Thus must have some Democratic votes in tho Senate on almost anything he McCarran said tho program could mean a return to a form of controlled and a pretty ugly and undesirable GRAND JURY District discusses the federal grand jury indictment of Louis police Lieutenant Louis Shoulders with Ada jury of and George jury secre tary of Rock Shoulders was indicted on perjury in connection svith the disappearance of of the Greenlease kidnap ransom money after the arrest of Carl Austin Hall in Jouis in The jury met in Kansas NgA Delaware River Mishap Kills Nine PHILADELPHIA today probed the scorched hulls of tankers which collided and caught fire Wednesday in the early morning fog on the Delaware Riv Five bodies have been ered from the Four other crewmen are missing and pre Rescue craft con their patrol of the south of and 25 miles below Phila The the Atlantic Engineer and the tic both owned by the At Refining arrived at the companys docks here Wednesday AND COSTS William 902 8th today was fined and costs by Police Judge for driving a vehicle on a learners Local Grain Following prices based on the normal freight Wheat
