Hamilton Daily News Journal (Newspaper) - April 6, 1954, Hamilton, Ohio America Strone larger interceptor 24indictmenti HAM I LTD N JOURNAL HAMILTON IN Entered matter Feb. at office at ander act of March 8, 1�7�. APRIL 1954 VOL. 68-NO. 91 PRICE FIVE CENTS 90,000 * Readers each day The News family of possible PAGES WEATHER HAMILTON AND MOSTLY CLOUDY AND MILD WITH SCATTERED LOW 45-52.1 WEDNESDAY FAIR AND RUSSIA WON'T RISK Churchill Blasted For Starting Partisan Battle With Charge Labor Party Threw Away Atomic Pact Captured LONDON Even Conservative newspapers lambasted Prime Minister Churchill today his charge that Clement Labor government threw away Britain's wartime exchange of atomic secrets with the United The nominally independent but usually Times of London said yesterday's House of Commons debate on the hydrogen bomb into a angry and pitiful party and the responsibility was the Prime The News Chronicle said the showing of the 79-year-old government chief in the House may foreshadow his early resignation from something many observers have predicted would happen this year The bitter partisan fight in the wake of Sir Winston's charge gen obscured the action of the which on a voice vote called on Churchill to take diate in seeking a face conference with Soviet Pre mier Malenkov and President But the Laborites did not challenge the government's stand that the timing of such an approach should be left to it. Churchill put the House in an uproar with his charge that it was the or of Atlee's 1945-51 government that a hitherto secret 1943 agreement for atomic cooperation was no longer in Under the reached at their Quebec conference in August 1943, Churchill and the late President Roosevelt set up the two-nation agency for development of the atomic bomb and agreed that neither would use atomic weapons Kerr Says Senate To Pass Move To Cut Income Taxes Pierre Du Pont Taken By Death Del. Samuel Du dean of the famed chemical family and a major figure in the development of two of the world's largest died last He was 84 Du who took an active part in the Du Pont empire even after his announced retirement in 1940, was stricken with a severe abdominal pain shortly after dinner at his estate at nearby Rushed to the Wilmington Memorial Du Pont died of what physicians described as an aortic aneurysm of a main blood A younger and his Mrs. R. R. M. were at his They are Du only immediate who shunned publicity and seldom made public was a former president and board chairman of E. I. Du Pont as president of General Motors Corp. for three Pierre was the great great grand son and namesake of a political refugee who fled to America from France in 1799. His great Irenee Du founded the first Du powder mills in 1802 on the Brandywine River near here Pierre's Lammot Du was a noted inventor and authority on explosives who founded one of the nation's first dynamite Chemical Co. N. J. His father was killed by an explosion of nitroglycerin when Pierre was 14. Pierre then took over the leadership of the family as the eldest of 11 THIRTEEN ESCAPE TIJUANA PRISON Mexico bystander was killed by a stray bullet when 13 including two men held on murder escaped from the Tijuana jail Police identified the victim as Raul Gonzalez 35. He was fatally wounded when a guard fired on the Manuel Diaz chief said the prisoners escaped by crawling through a tunnel and out a hole which apparently had been dug by They escaped while most of the police force was attending funeral services for a fellow Two were captured at the Another was seized later in a building adjacent to the RETIRED PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER SUCCUMBS m - Funeral services will he held tomorrow for Dr. Charles R. 81. retired Presbyterian minister and While serving in the Philippines he was president of Manila's Union Theological He died AUTHOR TO WRITE BOOK ABOUT 8ESQUICKNTENNIAL Ohio author and former bus has been commissioned to write a about 150th birthday Harper said he plans to the and technological cJ WASHINGTON Kerr said today his guess is that the Senate will approve a move he co-sponsors to cut income taxes by increasing personal exemptions of each taxpayer and He said in an interview he hopes this action will be taken in the Sen ate Finance Committee but if it is not done he believes success will come on the Senate The Finance on which the Oklahoman opens hearings today on a big tax re vision to which Democrats hope to attach the income tax reduction GOPs Support The Eisenhower administration strongly supports the revision which would make assorted tax cuts totaling to business President Names Budget Director WASHINGTON Ei today chose Rowland R now deputy director of the to be director in succession to Joseph M the President's first bud get has resigned effective 15 to return to the Detroit bank as board The White House said er will formally submit Hughes nomination to the Senate at that 58, is a former vice president of the National City Bank of New He served first in the Eisenhower administration as assistant director of the de Nemours & Co. He also over in that capacity last May 1. Later he became deputy PROPOSE WARNING AGAINST REDS PARIS Eisenhower ad ministration has proposed the United Australia and New Zealand issue a strong warning to ag in southeast French foreign ministry sources said They declined to disclose the terms of this but is being studied by the ministry It clearly would be a warning to Red China against more active participation in the Indochina war One source said the declaration would resemble that made last Au gust by the 16 allied powers par in the Korean This declare in the interest of the peace of the world that if another armed attack should con a new provocation against the principles of the United we would be united and ready to TWO BOYS DROWN AT SO. AMHERST Ohio small outdoors on one of northern Ohio's first warm spring drowned yesterday in 10 feet of water at nearby South just minutes after finished building a plank Eddie who remained on said the raft stuck on a Kenneth 8, and Henry 10, went into the he when Henry tried to the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence had been the member of South Amherst elementary school's Safety Patrol and was to have represented it at a safety meeting in D. C. Kenneth was the son of Mr. and Mrs. General Nelson THREE TRAINMEN KILLED IN WRECK MONTREAL A speeding Canadian National Railways passenger train today with freight cars on a siding afer killing No passengers were and individuals in its first year of Just as strongly it opposes any new income tax Senate Republican leaders voice confidence they can beat the income tax cut as things stand citing indications that the business downturn is leveling off. Democratic sponsors say it is too early to tell about the economic Both sides agree that the economic trend of the next two months probably will determine the outcome of the income tax fight in the The Finance Committee plans to end its public hearings April 23 and finish writing its version of the in It could be June before floor debate is Of Democrats have used the business decline as their principal argument for the income tax They say efforts should be made to build up mass purchasing power instead of increasing incentives for business which the administration says is a main purpose the revision Kerr is a with Sen. to Page REPORT PICKUP IN OHIO TREASURY Ohio Ufi - Money poured into Ohio's treasury during j the last three months more than 10 per cent faster than a year ago State Treasurer Roger listed a first quarter pickup of in general funds despite reports of a private business Tracy said revenues totaled for a 10.42 per cent increase over receipts of for the corresponding period last But about six millions of the crease resulted from time of a first quarter grant of from the federal govern ment for old age The state received only from that source in the first quarter of 1953. The balance came A boost in registration fees at universities and an increase in insurance tax revenues accounted for major Higher university fees jumped first quarter receipts of That was a climb above the for the period last against a third nation without the with anger and backed by a continuous Labor chorus for Churchill to replied that the wartime agreement had been terminated by adoption in 1946 of the McMahon which forbids sharing of U. S. atomic with foreign Churchill snapped back that the the late Sen. Brien McMahon had told him later that the atomic secrets law would hot have been written had he known of the secret Churchill should have let McMahon know about the In the White House confirmed that the secret agreement had been made in 1943 but emphasized it is in effect at the present The Conservative Daily Telegraph called it that Churchill have tried to fix the blame on Mr. for postwar lapsing of the atomic Fear U. S. May Be Forced To Intervene In Indochina Special To Indochina - Here's a closeup of a captured in the fierce Dien Bien Phu where the French and Vietnam forces are This chap was taken while participating in suicide Vietminh Forces Ease Charges At Battered Fort MICHIGAN FORCED TO CHANGE RULES Mich. Michigan's Legislature had to change its rules last night to invite President Eisenhower to make Mackinac Island his summer White House in 1955. The part of the plan for the Soo Locks was contained in a concurrent sponsored by Republican Senators Harry F. Hittle and William A. But Sen. Edward also a protested that legislative rules forbade adoption of concurrent resolutions in the last of a So the invitation was delayed I while the Senate changed the rule and asked the House to do Sen. Donald W. there some way we can invite the President without going through all this It's a nice gesture but after he isn't going to come The House now must act. Indochina - The French high command announced today the Vietminh had eased their fanatical charges at the battered defenses of Dien Bien Phu during the past 24 A terse French communique early today said that last night was But the French Union forces behind the barbed wire barriers and bunkered defenses continued to brace themselves grimly for renewed French throughout the night against the feeder coolie lines bringing in supplies from Red and bombs were strewn along the road and mountain Supplies Received The French were bolstered further during the night by tons of supplies and ammunition para chuted to them from transport The French kept a wary eye on the northwest corner of the where the fiercest of the rebel human sea assaults have struck The French than 1,000" were killed in yesterday's repeated The French believed the enemy had concentrated on the weak point to attract all attention there while Communist Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap regrouped and reinforced his troops for new assaults at other Gen. Henri French commander in chief in forces and expressed the confidence in the success of their He said in an order of the day the courage of the defenders of Dien Bien Phu be an everlasting of heroism to the free WASHINGTON of the House Foreign Affairs Committee seemed worried today that the United States may be forced to decide soon between more direct intervention in Indochina and possible loss of vital Southeast Asia to The committee heard Secretary of State Dulles say yesterday that Red China is giving the Vietminh combat help in the furious battle with French Union He said Chinese Communist antiaircraft gunners have been shooting down French that a j high-ranking Chinese Red General and a group of are at the front and that in other ways the Chinese are awful to a new aggression which he has warned might force American Still In Dark But committee after questioning Dulles in public and secret said they were still in the dark about any specific plans this country may have for countering a Red Chinese in He has called for but this has not been spelled Just last it was reported that the administration is preparing a united action with America's Pacific allies to throw a stern warning at Communist aggressors in Dulles appeared before the committee yesterday to open the Eisenhower fight for V-k billion dollars in foreign aid for the year that starts July 1. He was to be followed today by foreign aid chief Harold E. SENATE GROUP TO LEARN OF HYDROGEN WEAPONS WASHINGTON Atomic and military leaders outline to a secret session of the Senate Armed Services Committee today the hydrogen offensive defensive Chairman Lewis Strauss of Atomic Energy Commission and Adm. Arthur lairman of the Chiefs of will be speaking before a backdrop of world debate on the HEALTH OFFICER OBJECTS TO TESTS Ohio Harvey A. health department chief in nearby objected to day to giving polio vaccine to 4,000 school children in that industrial don't think we can go on with the he adding that the notoriety they have we are just as confused as any earthly beings can won't give the vaccine unless the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis can guarantee that it is absolutely he want more assurance and we are for more information from the national foundation through the state health Radio Commentator Walter said Sunday that not polio virus had been found in some batches of Since then assurances of the safety have come from the U.S. Public Health the National Foundation for Infantile several leading Pharmaceutical making the and Jonas University of Pittsburgh scientist who developed it. CHURCHILL WOULD WELCOME EISENHOWER LONDON V Prime Minister Churchill said today she would be delighted to welcome to London for talks on the hydrogen bomb and 6ther world the prime minister added he did not think the President could leave the United States right Answering a Laborite question in the House of Churchill have more than once expressed hopes that such a visit would be I do not he would feel he could leave his heavy duties at the present CINCINNATI BUS DRIVER DIES OF HEART ATTACK CINCINNATI Joseph yesterday stopped bis bus in the middle of the collapsed of heart attack and OFFICER ADMITS KILLING WOMAN Md. 31-year-old petty officer was held on a charge in St. Marys County Jail today after state police said he had a 22-year-old Navy wife to death with a don't know why I did Storekeeper 2C. William Edward Rudd of was quoted as Trooper John E. Koontz said the lanky petty officer made the statement within a few minutes after he was turned over to state police last night by the He had surrendered earlier in the day at D. C. as an overleave Washington police said he had no funds with which to get back to his the Naval Air Station at Md. Rudd is charged with slaying Mrs. Iona Josephine the wife of James a seaman at Patuxent who was an acquaintance of Vice President Refused Degree President Richard M. at one time scheduled to be the Duke University commencement speaker June 7, was refused an honorary degree by the a university spokesman said here The unidentified spokesman said a graduate of the Duke Law was turned down for an honorary doctor of laws degree 61-42 by a secret faculty vote about a month No reason was The vice president's office announced two weeks ago that Nixon had canceled his engagement as the school's commencement speak the university spokesman said Nixon did not cancel the speech because of the Nixon's office said the address was canceled because of the heavy file before The university spokesman reported that Nixon was willing to make the commencement address after knowing of the faculty Rep. Lawrence H. Smith said he is against sending U. S. forces to but that got to decide within 60 days whether to send Rep. Judd said that if to Pnge Sears Quits As Special Counsel WASHINGTON Potter said today Samuel P. Sears had submitted his resignation as special counsel to the Senate investigations subcommittee and that it had been accepted a prominent Boston was appointed only last an unanimous serve as special counsel for the subcommittee's probe of the charges exchanged by Sen. McCarthy and top Army Potter's statement to reporters was made as he left a closed door meeting of the After appointment was announced last his impartiality came into question in the light of newspaper files showing that in 1952 he had been quoted as hailing McCarthy's re-election and praising his in driving Communists from a past president of the Massachusetts Bar Assn. had told newsmen here last week he never had taken a stand or privately on McCarthy or The subcommittee called him into a closed meeting today to U. S. PREPARED TO HIT BACK Warns Of Hysteria Over Communism PRESIDENT Seeks To Soothe Nation's Quiet H-Bomb WASHINGTON - President Eisenhower told the nation and the free world last night Russia is unlikely to risk so long as this country stands ready to strike back swiftly with all its atomic The President that Americans must prepare coldly and very against the danger that men in the Kremlin might a fit of madness or through plunge the world into a Eisenhower went on all radio and television networks in a half-hour plea for a sober facing of the atomic era facts of a fervent warning against the perils of and hysteria over investigations of communism or the threat of There Are Risks don't have to he j there are but we do not have to be We can be we can be We can stand up and hold up our heads and America is the greatest force that God has ever allowed to exist on his As such it is up to us to lead this world to a peaceful and secure and I assure you tion him about before he be gan actual work on preparing for I we can do it. televised hearings on the | In a plain effort to soothe some FRENCH MARSHAL IS REPRIMANDED PARIS - The North Atlantic Council handed a severe and unprecedented reprimand to France's Marshal Alphonse Juin today for his criticism of the proposed European Defense The action by the permanent delegates of the 14 NATO powers heightened the virtual certainty here that either France would have to ask that Juin be relieved as commander in chief of allied forces in central Europe or the marshal would have to military officer receiving this might be impelled to a NATO spokesman Juin reiterated an earlier statement yesterday he would quit the post only if assured it would go to another something most observers think is a TO SHOW TONIGHT NEW YORK - A nationwide television audience tonight will find out what Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy has to say about criticism of him broadcast recently by CBS Commentator Edward R. Although the senator was vacationing in Arizona he left here a film to be used on Murrow's program It at 10:30 p. m. EST. OHIO RETAIL BUSINESS UP retail in February showed a gain over February 1953 by dipping less than the expected seasonal the Ohio State University Bureau of Business Research reported Total sales fell 2 per cent from January to but the drop was only half the normal seasonal decline of 4 per cent. The net February 1954 was 1 per cent above February 1953. For the first two months of the Ohio retail sales were down two per cent from the same months of 1953. During the ' comparable only the atomic plant area in southern Ohio and the Dayton area had higher retail sales in 1954 than they had in 1953. Dayton enjoyed a 5 per cent increase in retail sales for the period and its February sales were 14 per cent above the February 1953 I BELL TELEPHONE CO. HEARING SET APR. 28 Ohio state utilities set April 28 for hearings on Ohio Bell Telephone request for rate increases totaling nearly nine million Several Ohio cities recently joined in filing a protest against the rate increase POLICE ON LOOKOUT FOR BP GUNS Ohio County policemen kept a wary eye out today for BB Since Saturday pellets have chipped windows of 291 cars parked In used car lots There also have been 25 chipped at and eight at tentatively set for next who came out of the meeting ahead of other told a reporter who met him in the hall that Sears had He in answer to a that the subcommittee had agreed unanimously to accept the He declined to give any other saying Sen. was preparing a statement He said it would give the full SECTION ADDED TO HIGHWAY WASHINGTON Sen. Case said today the federal highway aid now before the Senate contains a in anti - recession which could be triggered within three put a brand new section into this which would allow President Eisenhower to advance the money as much as one year ahead of time if he thinks the national economy needs Case said in an The dollar tion is for the two years starting July 1, 1955. The spending authorization com pares with current federal aid highway programs of about 665 million dollars a The House has approved annual spending of 875 the amount asked by the Case is chairman of the Senate public roads subcommittee which wrote the OSU FUND FIELD WORKER NAMED Ohio Ohio State University Development Fund bag appointed William W. Mahaffey of near Upper Sandusky assistant field Mahaffey was graduated from the Ohio State's College of Commerce in 1933. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Varsity O and Sphinx and senior football His appointment was announced by John B. development fund executive The position is a newly created DEMPSEY'S DAUGHTER WEDS COLLEGE STUDENT LOS ANGELES - weight champion Jack Dempsey's younger and Jack McMillan a Los Angeles City College were married yesterday in our Lady of Loretto The newlyweds will continue their 17, is high school of the controversies boiling in this and to quiet H-bomb to Page Seven Tornadoes Reported In Iowa DES MOINES mi - Seven separate tornadoes ripped up farm homes and buildings on more than a dozen farms in Iowa and Missouri last night to usher in the tornado season in the two Four distinct swooshed through southwest Iowa at and another struck west of Marshalltown in the central part of the Two other twisters smashed across seven farms in the area of Atchison in northwest Miraculously no one was killed and only one injury was farmers today began counting up an expected heavy toll in One of the tornadoes swept along Iowa 333 just north of levelling four farm homes and outbuildings and damaging structures on at least two other APPROVE SALE OF REO MOTORS Mich. one of the pioneers of the automobile is on the way toward Its of directors yesterday approved the 50-year-old firm's sale for 16^ million dollars to Henny Motor of 111., subject to stockholder Joseph Sherer president of and C. Russell president of in a joint statement that the sale would include all assets and all liabilities of principal stockholder in said is our intention to continue operation of the ness and we hope with the cooperation of Reo management and personnel to expand Henny makes bodies for special motor vehicles including hearses and It also does special body Imide Among Sick Amusements Births Classified Comics Crossword IS 14-15 17 8 li Editorials Horoscope Radio-TV When Society ' 0 3 t V. 54
