Hamilton Daily News Journal (Newspaper) - April 29, 1954, Hamilton, Ohio Keen America United States Bonds p Jite precinct to build HAM I LTD N JOURNAL FORT HAMILTON IN nutter it tt Mt of Mirth 187�. APRIL 2 9, 1954 VOL. 6S-NO. Ill PRICE FIVE CENTS on nnn ln the family ot possible 36 PAGES WEATHER HAMILTON AND VICINITY t CLOUDY AND TERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LOW IN 80s. PRESIDENT FIRM ON INDOCHINA POLICY OPPOSES CORB Good News To Va. - U. S. Col. Frank H. who a false while a prisoner of the mists in is shown with hij their home in holding papers telling him that top Navy and Marine officials decided against court martial in his Stock Market Hits New Peak NEW YORK - The stock market hit a new high for the year today with good gains registered in most major The market yesterday as measured by Associated Press average of 60 stocks reached a level equal to the April 15 high of the and today the market stepped on up into new At The Associated Press average was at highest level in the past 24 The rise carried prices up between 1 and 2 points in many Losses were small and General Motors was higher on its earnings and others gaining included U.S. American New York Texas Paramount Kennecott North American Westinghouse General Bullard and Outboard ike comments on oppenheimer WASHINGTON OB- President Eisenhower today declared his admiration for what he called the very great professional and technical attainments of J. Robert the atomic scientist suspended as an adviser to the Atomic Energy The President said he had known Oppenheimer for some but he felt it inappropriate to comment on the security issues involved in a current inquiry on the physicist until the government's review board brings in a In reply to a direct question at his news as to whether the administration's aim in reopening the Oppenheimer case was to keep it in the executive branch and a public Eisenhower As he had stated many the responsibility of such investigation falls squarely on the shoulders of the executive fight flares at akron Ohio maintained a watch today on the Motor Cargo Trucking Co. scene of a fight yesterday over a proposed pool of owner operated there were no serious injuries as some 100 pickets clashed with a like number of men who drove up to the terminal in cars and jumped out wielding ball bats and jack police The battle lines were somewhat as members of the AFL teamsters local here reportedly are divided in the But 24 set up the picket lines last week in to a company move to pool their DOGWOOD JN BLOOM IN SOUTHERN OHIO Ohio annual big show of dogwood and redbud blossoms again is coloring the hill sections of southern Ohio Dogwood is coming into full bloom in the Hocking edging In Jhe already Propose French Use U. S. Atom Bombs In Indochina WASHINGTON W - Rep. Sikes proposed today that the United States supply the French with atomic bombs for use in Indochina to the war won so we won't have to send American boys have all kinds and all sizes of that have never been tested in conventional Sikes said in an see if they He said the Indochinese in which French and native troops Auto Industry To Be Probed Study Possible Violations Of Laws NEW YORK Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. says the Justice Department is starting a probe of the auto industry for possible antitrust violations because of a pattern of Speaking last night before the Economic Club of New Brownell know well that increasing concentration in an important industry contains dangerous We do not know what is the explanation of the developing pattern of concentration in the automobile We want to find out whether this pattern is nothing more than the consequence of competitive forces at or whether any one or more of the facts which amount to collusion or the suppression of competition has been at Four Phases Recently the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department disclosed it was looking into four specific phases of the auto The phases were not Last Rep. Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. Introduced a resolution charging that independent car producers suffered from what he termed high pressure competitive practices by Ford and General Congress has taken no action on General Motors and Ford both denied their companies were engaged in a race for business or were trying to monopolize the So far this Ford and GM have accounted for slightly less than 84 per cent of the automotive Chrysler has around 12 per while the small independents share the remaining 4 per cent. j A General Motors says the company is basing production only on market Ford and GM further maintain that their production merely reflects public demand for their products and deny assertion the two companies were forcing cars on dealers gems stolen in n. y. NEW YORK bandits trussed and robbed a jeweler of gems he estimates were worth and in cash last police Joseph Goldblatt reported he was accosted by the men as he entered his 16th-floor offices In a Manhattan Other employes had gone One man shoved a gun In his the jeweler forced him to open his grabbed the cash and then scooped unset stones and gold and platinum settings into a The bandits ignored a handful of gems which slipped through their fingers and scattered about the The pair tied up Goldblatt with yards of twine and He broke free and telephoned WOMAN WINS CASE IN COURT Ohio 94-year-old woman who told the court a lot nearer heaven than any of you and I'm not going to ruin my chances by lying won her case 14}ly Adell Caldwell contended she did not owe 13.49} to C. an attorney who settled the estate of her She said she probably signed a note Hasse had in court but did not know it was a Then she added iht had paid lor the law now at with tor have been lighting forces for more than seven becoming serious enough so that wc had better use every weapon we've got to win Bennett Resolution a member of the House Appropriations subcommittee which handles said he opposes sending American forces to Indochina without prior congressional approval but would back maximum material aid to the Rep. Bennett prepared for Introduction in the a resolution aimed at barring the dispatch of American troops to Indochina approval and consent of Such resolutions normally do not have the binding effect of but are advisory to the Treaty Obligations Rep. Coudert has proposed a move if approved by the House and would have Drafted as an amendment to the defense money now before the it would prohibit use of any funds in the to send U. S. troops into combat without congressional approval except to uphold treaty obligations or in It s e em e d likely to touch off the only heated debate on the armed services budget for the year starting July 1. Bennett said in a statement he was offering his resolution because of the last few weeks make it appear that the pattern of Korea may very well be repeated all over again in the case of Indochina many Koreas must we have before Congress will reassert its constitutional 4> 4> * Planes Pound Vietminh Troops No Important Land Action Reported In Indochina Indochina 00-French warplanes swooped down through cloudy skies today to hammer at Vietminh troop ammunition dumps and supply routes from Red China leading to besieged Dien Bien The French high command reported no important land fighting around the threatened northwest Indochina French Union defenders continued violent artillery duels with the rebels pounding away at the heart of the Roar In Low Transport planes roared in low over the braving Vietminh antiaircraft fire to dump more tons of ammunition and other war supplies to the embattled fortress and its isolated southernmost cut off from ground contact with the main defense The Vietminh had stepped up pressure against that scattered fighting around the fortress French military sources believe the Vietminh soon will try to smash the isolated and then move northward to tighten their noose around the mjain fortress three miles The defenders continued to build up additional fortifications inside the heart of the whose perimeter has narrowed to less than a mile in In Prince premier of the Indochinese state of came out flatly today against any dismemberment or partition of his Australian Envoy Urges Free Elections In Korea BULLETIN GENEVA - Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov told the Geneva conference today he agrees entirely with the declaration of Chinese Communist Foreign Minister Chou GENEVA G. foreign minister of told the Geneva conference today United Nations forces may have to remain in Korea until that divided peninsula has been united under a democratic Casey's declaration to the 19-nation conference preceded a scheduled major policy speech on Korea by Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. his first since the parley opened Outside the conference a French source reported talks between Russia and France for a truce at Dien Bien Phu to permit evacuation of French Union have virtually Molotov Vs. Bidault Informants said Molotov and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault exchanged heated words at a dinner last with the Soviet diplomat expressing surprise that Bidault had injected the truce question into a discussion of what parties should participate in settlement of the Indochinese Bidault replied he was just as surprised the Russians had violated confidences by disclosing his request without notifying the French Molotov said he did so so to counteract what he called tendentious articles in the world The Russians repeated that a truce should be arranged the French said it should be done Stevens Feared Ft. Monmouth Officer Acted Too Quickly On Security Cases WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Army Stevens testified today he was apprehensive the Ft. N. commander was moving too fast against alleged security risks last He said it was the Maj. Gen. Kirke had been asked to withdraw some Stevens been confronted at the hearings with a statement by Lawton that Army Counselor John G. Adams telephoned him early in November urging him to certain seek of hearings WASHINGTON - Chairman Mundt said today he will try to speed the hearings by a- tighter enforcement of rules against The possibility of resorting to night he in the The hearings are now in their sixth day and dragging at a pace which prompted Sen. Potter to say yesterday may be here until Labor President Eisenhower told his news conference today he hoped the hearings would be completed Potter said today if things don't move faster by next he will demand the committee meet at It already is holding two sessions a two hours in the morning and two in the soviet artists tour canada W-A troupe of six Soviet artists currently touring this country find things in Canada very Thus the group cautiously avoids all controversial issues might raise a howl in Canada or get the artists in trouble back The stars include a violinist with a two ballet a tenor and a They been drawing capacity crowds to and school auditoriums across Canada they arrived April IS under the sponsorship of the Soviet Embassy in Canada and the Soviet Friendship The general audience reaction is one cJ polite RAILROAD WORKER KILLED IN WRECK Ohio 0, of a signal department worker lor the Nickel 4M toJay when his car collided with truck on curity at the Army radar research In a dramatic Ray H. special counsel to the Senate investigations produced the two hours saying had dictated it in Important Memo The memo was handwritten in Jenkins said Capt. Joseph E. Carr aide to had taken general's Jenkins termed the memo of vital importance to the contention by Sen. by Stevens sought to stop the senator's investigation of alleged subversive activities at The special counsel conducted such a hammering cross-examination of Stevens that Joseph N. special counsel to the protested Jenkins was going at it as if it were a Stevens swore he had no recollection of the purported telephone conversation between Adams and prison escapee killed by train I Ohio A man identified as an escapee from a prison honor farm near Portsmouth was killed early today when he apparently lost his balance leaping from an eastbound freight Lawrence County Coroner Henry The man was identified as John 25, whose body was found by the tracks only a short distance from hit home at nearby Pigeon Nine cents and a blood donor card were found in his Sheriff Carl E. Rose said Jenkins escaped from Shawnee Prison Farm Sunday where he was serving to 15 year sentence for grand larceny and breaking and DEFENDANT MAKES APPEAL BUT LOSES grudge Mary Grossman said E. lins was fascinating to listen to and could be an excellent criminal But then she sentenced him to eint months in the workhouse and fined him * narcotics conviction 43. acted as his own Police said he gained a knowledge of by spending many years browsing through jail libraries In New York and the District of But Stevens said it could be it was had told Adams he had better call Gen. Good Judgment Stevens said he did recall that last Oct. 31 he had talked to Gen. George I. chief signal and told him he wanted the Army's commanding generals to exercise and good in carrying out the government's program to weed out security The secretary said he told Back to democratic chief enjoys hearings Ohio A. national Democratic party says he finds the hearings watching all this on wondering what is the secret of success and wondering which or will turn out to be the or he lied and it was not a Contending Republicans are with the nation's foreign he our friends America does not appear as a serene land sure of our strength and confident in our Instead it appears as a divided nation with Republican energies being spent in charging Democrats with treason when they run out of saying the same tilings about one so in germany Germany U.S. Army disclosed today that it now has 30 of its giant 210mm. atomic cannons in The first battalion of between 500 and 900 men and six which fire either atomic or conventional arrived last The second arrived last The Army confirmed last that a at had but would nqt say DAYTON CONSIDERED FOR AIR ACADEMY Ohio (i - The * mission studying sites for Force Academy says Dayton still being considered the The Dayton and Jessamine am Mercer counties In Kentucky It leaves today for and plans to go from there to by field commanders in neither side would budge and there the matter no further meetings on Free Elections Casey urged free elections in both North and South Korea as the vehicle for unification of the He noted that earlier in the conference South Korea had proposed elections only in North Korea because of the to Page 10, U. S. Air Strength Compared To Reds Rapid Increase In Soviet Air Potential Reported WASHINGTON new estimates were before the American people today on how their air strength stacks up against Soviet 1. Word from U.S. diplomatic sources that there has been a rapid increase in Soviet air through the conversion of much of Russia's 20,000-plane force to modern jet 2. A statement by Rep. Scrivner chairman of a House Appropriations subcommittee handling Air Force that the United States outnumbers Russia 3-2 in the air and that the Soviets have no range bombers able to the United States and return to home Consider Appropriations The views were given out at the time of these events ton and Congress was considering the annual Air Force appropriation Adm. Arthur chair man of the Joint Chiefs of had just talked with President Eisenhower after a hurried trip to Europe and a visit with British Prime Minister The North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion was reassessing its own and Soviet strength in the on the ground and at sea The diplomatic who may not be yesterday made available an over-all sum mary of Communist military million men under arms in Eastern Germany and the satellite 22 Groups In Germany They figured that 4% million of the six million are in ground that 22 divisions are in constituting ready made for a rapid advance into that the bulk of the 22 divisions are armored outfits with nearly a complete complement of tanks and self-propelled Backing up the 22 divisions are another 60 Soviet divisions based in western Russia and Eastern satellite And the satellites themselves have about 80 twice the strength of 1947. Communist air strength was calculated this way by the diplomatic food everywhere but none to eat FORT Ind. Tennessee hitchhiker told police last night he spent a hungry 28 hours locked in a truck trailer loaded with canned The young Carl of Tracy was released after driver John 33, heard his cries while checking the tires on the held on a loitering told police he had been drinking and broke into the trailer near to get out of the The door locked on him and he was unable to make himself heard until the stop at Fort TWO EARTHQUAKES RECORDED IN N. Y. New York Oil - Two estimated here to have occurred 2,300 miles west of New were recorded Seismographs at Columbia and Fordham universities recorded the first shock at 5:56:11 and the second at 0:41:19 a.m. In the Coast and Geodetic Survey said it had recorded two and they apparently occurred the West coast CINCINNATI DOCTOR CLAIMED RY DEATH CINCINNATI Arnold 85, a member of the as attending staff of Bethesda Hospital for many died Probe Death TROOPS No U. Entry In War Seen Unless Congress Acts EISENHOWER Special To NEW La. - Mont gomery Evans whose death in New is being inves as possible is shown as he sat in front of photo of his wife who was murdered in 1953. 56, scion of a banking was found dead April 24 in his An autopsy attributed death to a fractured A William Davis was convicted in the murder of Mrs. Two Recorded Calif. UK - Two apparently centers off the west coast of were recorded early today on American Assistant Seismologist Don Tocher of the University of California located the center in the Gulf of perhaps off Guaymas or The first recorded in Berkeley at 5:52.18 a. m. EST was very Tocher and the second The second intertwined with the began at 6:37.22 a. m. EST. The recordings lasted for Director Beno Gutenberg of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena said it is a major and estimated the epicenter was down in the probably close to the ike unaware of pvt. schine WASHINGTON Ufl - President Eisenhower registered incredulity today when asked whether Secretary of Defense Wilson had consulted him about the alleged favored treatment the Army gave Pvt. G. David drafted former aide to Sen. McCarthy Appearing taken You mean about this Then the President added that he had never heard of it. truck drivers ordered back Ohio - Truck drivers who walked off the job Tuesday at the Portsmouth area atomic plant were warned they would be discharged unless they returned to work The announcement made by Peter Kiewit prima contractor for the huge plant construction Joseph counsel for the said replacement for the AFL teamsters union members who do not return to work will be hired Some 950 truck drivers and 1,200 pipefitters refused to report to their jobs this week following the settlement of a walkout last week at the Lee said all the walkouts were unauthorized because the strikers are out in defiance of orders from international union NAME COMMITTEE OF GOVERNORS WASHINGTON - of Wetherby of Murray of of West of Illinois and Fine of Pennsylvania were elected to the Executive of a Permanent Fuels ference The composed of governors pi coal producing says it is dedicated to helping pull Declines Any Discussion On Oppenheimer Or Veto Of Farm Measure WASHINGTON - President Eisenhower declared anew today the United States is not going to get into any war in Indochina unless Congress declares it. the President told a news conference a proposal in Congress to forbid the sending of American troops to or any other place in the world without prior congressional could not fail to damage his flexibility in handling the The President was asked for his evaluation of the possibility of American combat forces having to be sent to He replied he already has expressed his views on that matter rather At a news conference about a month he he said the United States would not get into a war except through constitutional process. Only By Congress And that Eisenhower only through a declaration of war by He said this country has provided technical and equipment to bolster the fight against communism in That is as much as the present foreign assistance law he So far as speculation on the future is the President he didn't want to do too much talking at this He noted the Geneva conference dealing with Indochina now is in session and said it would be inappropriate for him to speculate under those Other Matters On other matters the President had this to The congressional campaign - Eisenhower reiterated he has no intention of engaging in state and local but he said he does intend to get around the country to talk about his administration's He predicted the overriding issue of the campaign will be whether the administration has made a record of he put along the Oppenheimer President said he always has had the greatest admiration for Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer from the standpoint of his professional and scientific but that he did not want to say too much about the case while it is under Oppenheimer has been ed as an adviser to the Energy Commission and barred from access to atomic data pending a hearing on whether he might be a security Farm Istua Farm declined to speculate on whether he might veto a farm which would continue mandatory government price supports at 90 per cent of parity on basic The to joe laurie jr. taken by death NEW YORK Lauria one of last great died today in St. Clare's hospital after lengthy He had been in for some during which ha devoted himself chronicling tht history of the American entertainment world during tht past ball Laurie was one of the first of tine show world venture into radio as an Important entertainment and for years on a network program You Top Among Sick 11 p Classified Iff Crossword ta Deafen H 199998? 45
