Kentucky New Era (Newspaper) - June 29, 1953, Hopkinsville, Kentucky warm DAILY SUNDAY JUNE 29 1953 ItM Jww It 53 t 1 I t M H M tl B M 11 U U 1869 VOL 190 Ike Wins First Round In House Over Tax Plans Special Committee Will Send Proposal For Debate Despite Reed Washington June 29 The F isenhower administration its battle today to consideration of ex- ending the excess profits and did M without floor fight In maneuvers Mouse Republican leaders got satisfactory to them that the Ways and Means Com- Would send an extension to the floor despite the adamant opposition of its man Daniel Reed GOP Floor Leader Halleck Ind announced then to a ing House that the leadership would not press the drive it launched last week to bypass Reed's group and get the to the floor with a special rule from the Rules Committee The Ways and Means tee has kept the blockaded for weeks despite all leadership efforts to dislodge it GOP leaders have said that both the House and the Senate would vote to continue the tax if an extension could be brought before them The to syphon in- to the treasury extraordinary profits made by pires tomorrow midnight President Eisenhower asked that it be continued for six months although saying he didn't like the tax in order to bring 700 to 800 million dollars of needed revenue to the ment Reed has kept the extension bottled up by refusing to call a meeting of his committee to on it This led the ship to launch the extraordinary of trying to get it to the floor by Rules Committee tion The leadership did not disclose its full hand but indications were that it had rounded up the votes to force a meeting of the com- if necessary This can be done by a petition of a majority of the group Reed in a voice filled with emo- tion told the I'm not surrendering Reed demanded a showdown vote then and there saying it was a matter of principle as opposed to expediency Let's vote now and see where you he said Stand up like men It was time for the House to settle by its own vote he said whether the prerogatives of com- can be usurped as he claimed the GOP leadership was seeking to do in this case Despite Reed's opposition his committee could be forced to meet and vote on the tax by a petition signed by a majority of the group The indication from Halleck's announcement was that the had determined by private canvass that this would be done Reed said he was at the statement of members who now say they would vote to report the from the Ways and Means Committee but who had opposed that action previously Three committee Reps Simpson Martin Iowa and Curtis Neb had told on Page 12 CoL 7 INQUIRING REPORTER BOON TO is shown the session of the Christian County Fiscal Court this morning when the tax rate was reduced County Judge James E Higgins is shown on the bench Seated directly in front is George N treasurer while at left in dark coat is W E Rogers county attorney New Era photo County Effects Kent Tax Cut Fiscal Court Fixes New Lowered Rate The Christian County tax rate for county purposes for 1953 was whittled today to 49 cents per hundred dollars worth of assessed valuation one cent below the constitutional limit The rate was fixed by fiscal court as it met today to approve the budget The action was taken in special session since the next regular meeting will be next Tuesday after the July 1 line The rate represents a two-cent cut in the county tax rate from last year and 30 per cent reduction in the past 12 years When County Judge James E Higgins and County Attorney W E Rogers took in 1943 the tax rate was 70 cents ent officials do not know if it has been any higher than 70 Judge Higgins said today he does not know how the lowered tax rate compares with those of adjacent counties but he ed the belief there are not too many counties in the state with a rate belov the limit for county purposes Christian was able to cut its tax rate because for the first time in nearly a century it is out of debt The county has had a debt since the railroad bond issue of 1865 was approved Technically there are still some bonds outstanding These total only however and the county has in the sinking fund to retire the bonds when they become due between now and 1960 The surplus plus the money which the invested portion of the bond funds will earn will cover interest on the bonds until they are retired Were the bonds callable the entire amount could be paid off now and the last trace of county debt be wiped off the book The new rate will be charged against taxes to be paid this fall Taxes will be figured on property as assessed m an assessment taken as of last Jan 1 The county used to assess as of July 1 a time-table still used on Page 12 Col 8 THE How should parents and age children divide up time on the family car THE Mrs H R I think the child should have it two or three nights a week but I don't think he should have jt every night If both the parents and child want it it depends on what each of them wants to do For anything special the child should have it if possible John It should de- pend on who needs it most I don't think the parents should have any priority over the all the only car for the whole family Miss Carol The parents and child should reach a definite agreement about how often the child can have the car I think the child should get it most of thp he wants it but not all the time If both parents and child want it the parents should vr n out Mrs Pat parents and children should have definite as to what the children can have the car They should have certain evenings that can use tt ami thr Of the time parents should have it Reluctant Recess Granted By Court No one ean deny that county court had its hottest session in many a day this morning It was not just that the ther was so warm or that the court had its heaviest docket in years Midway in the court session smoke was seen com- ing out of the floor of the bench Someone had dropped a cigarette in a crack Judge James E Higgins ed hearings briefly while de- jailer Mack Witherspoon was dispatched into the ad- jacent office of judge to get water find any other container the deputy er brought the water in a drinking glass This appeared to do the work and the court was resumed without the smoke Low Farm Price Warning Given Ike Administration Man Wants Laws Used New York June 29 top Eisenhower administration farm official said today it is more im- portant to save fanners from prices than to ry out campaign promises to re- duce the government's role in agriculture President John H Davis of the Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corporation CCC said farmers are in a crisis because of pluses declining markets and failing incomes This makes it he said that the government put into full gear the farm programs that exist under present tion Even though these laws have he said there is not time to change them to the present emergency Davis made these statements in a speech prepared for a meeting of the American Seed Trade sociation Granting that the present farm program has weaknesses certainly this is no time to hold on Page 12 CoL 4 Churchill III Top British Official To Talk Problems Before Bermuda Meet Washington June 29 White House said today a top British government official may come here soon for informal talks but no formal conference of U S British and French for- eign ministers is planned Britain's acting cabinet boss Richard A Butler said in London today that Britain is negotiating for a quick meeting among the three powers to dis- cuss common problems in ad- ivance of the postponed Bermuda conference 1 He said Britain s tive would be Lord lord president of the council who has taken some foreign responsibilities President Eisenhower's press secretary James C Hagerty told reporters there has been of Lord Salisbury's coming here for informal discussions Hagerty thp British gested when they told us of the illness of Prime Minister chill that Lord Salisbury would be willing to corn to coun itry within wrrk- Churchill s post of the ing which had been tet for July 8 President Eisenhower last month invited and the French premier to meet to Strengthen Western unity and 1 Britain offered Bermuda as a i site The meeting was first because of France's i longed government and Saturday when Churchill's doctors him to take at least a month s complete rest His indisposition dismayed the British press and the Mirror so far A to cal on him to resign Butier whose normal job is chancellor of thp exchequer off suggestions that in absence of Churchill and thp foreign office HP bury a foreign undersecretary i before War II and since then holder of varied ministerial jobs has the right experience and wiil aided by of State Llojd and two under m bauds Butler Claude Barnett Heart Victim Funeral Set For 2 P M Tomorrow Claude Arnold Barnett old retired farmer of the son Road died at yesterday afternoon of a heart attack at the home of his son Ray A nett 923 Bast Seventh Street Although he had been a cardiac sufferer for some time and had been confined to the home here he was able to be up Sunday The first-aid truck of fire department was summoned after the attack but Mr Barnett failed to rally The body is at Keightley neral Home where the funeral will be held at 2 p.m Tuesday Burial is to take place at side Cemetery A lifelong resident of Christian County he was born Christmas Day of 1895 and was the son of Abraham Lincoln Barnett and Alice Caraway Barnett He was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Dawson Springs In addition to his son he Is survived by one daughter Mrs Harold Boyd Dawson a grandson Jimmy Boyd county two brothers W N Barnett Pike and G L nett Dawson Springs and five sisters Mrs Zora Gross son Springs Mrs Grace more Mrs Hazel Pitts and Mrs Zetta Strickland all of ham and Miss Dixie Barnett De- troit John J Ladd 77 Dies Here Sunday John Jefferson Ladd contract painter here for approximately 40 years died at Sunday at his home 1101 East Seventh Street after suffering a heart attack He was 77 years of age The body is at Keightley neral Home where services are to be held at Tuesday ing Burial will follow at side Cemetery The Rev Howard Stevenson Christian Church ister will be in charge Mr Ladd was born Oct 29 1875 and was the son of the late Mr and Mrs James Ladd He is survived by his wife Mrs Susie Morgan Ladd four ters Mrs Ernest Taylor ton Ky Mrs Morris Hawkins Elizabethtown and Mrs Emery Harris and Miss Annie Ladd city two sons Howard Ladd and John Ladd Jr city and 18 grandchildren He also leaves four brothers Mike Dick Tom and Neeley Ladd and two sisters Mrs Frank Row ell and Mrs ham all of the city Thi i said Two Women Injured In Accident On 41 Two Todd County colored women were confined to Brooks Memorial Hospital today ing from injuries received in a traffic accident at 8 o'clock last mem five miles south of kinsville on Highway 41 The arp Lucy Mav ers 49 nf who a head injury and Mathis 29 who received on the leg The women were in a 1932 Ford driven by William Manon Fox of and traveling north on 41 The other car involved was a 1950 Ford operated by Jack Roger Uffelman of vilip and alv headed north The investigation Indicated Fox was to pass the car and apparently swung over to the right too quickly The Fox car struck thp Ford s front fender then went into the ditch Koreans pushed Back By Attacking Reds Artillery Barrage Laid Down By Communist Too Heavy For ROKs By JOHN RANDOLPH Seoul Tuesday June 29 South Korean infantry fell back from four outpost guarding the northern approaches to Seoul under a nese Red attack The Korea Di- vision began to pull back from Queen Bak and an ed height under orders A record Communist artillery rage made the positions too ly to hold They retired in good order however and still held four other contested at last reports The South Koreans also were forced back on the East-Central front where they were unable to hold towering Lookout tain more than feet high after fighting to its summit Far to the north Allied Sabre jets blasted six Red MIGs to earth running their score for the month to 59 MIC kills only four short of the one-month ord set in September 1952 The MIGs were shot down as the Sabres flew a tight cover over 36 striking at near in North western Korea The Reds poured a division or more into battles for two outpost hills 40 miles due north of the capital just as South Korean had swept to the crest of one of the hills The furious Red usual because it came in broad daylight hit a stretch on the Western Front The targets were bloodied out posts Bak and Queen rising 500 to 800 feet There was an unconfirmed re- port that one Red to 750 broken past the heights and was assaulting the Allies heavy line The Communists under cover of artillery that one Allied of- ficer said hammered hills like an slammed back ROK First Division who had clawed up the slopes of out post Bak The ROKs counted in- coming rounds of mortar and ar- tillery up to noon as the Com- concentrated two-thirds of their entire day's shelling in the narrow sector American and South Korean big huge 240 millimeter back at the advancing Chinese and their support areas The Red thrust was another in a series the Chinese have hurled at South Korean units in recent aimed at pun ishing them for resisting an arm istice On the Eastern Front Third ROK Division troops recaptured towering Lookout Mountain for the se time in four days in on Page 12 CoL 2 Huddleston Funeral Planned For Today Funeral services were led for 4 o'clock this afternoon at Myers Funeral Home Crofton for Mrs Alma Huddleston who died late yesterday afternoon at her home a few miles from ton Burial is to be held at the cemetery near Rock Bridge in Christian Mrs Huddleston wife of George E Huddleston had been ill for several months In addition to her husband she leaves three daughters Mrs Ethel Crick Evansville Mrs Sam Cotton Hubbard Tex and Miss Nelda Huddleston two sons Roscoe E Huddleston Fort Campbell and H Huddleston Chicago and five grandchildren Also surviving are two broth ers George and Lawrence Huddleston Hammond Ind and two sisters Mrs Ivy Grace mond and Mrs Myrtle Alien Haley's Mill Allies Ask Reds Agree On Date To Sign Truce Plan Rhee May Accept Court 40 Fines After Mannington Raid A total of 40 fines wu in county court today in tion with a raid at Mannington at a m Sunday in which 21 state police participated Site for the raid was a ing known as the Gray Cock located just north of the old road at Mannington and between the two railroads The spot is only a short distance from the Hopkins County line Ronald youth identified as an AWOL soldier who appeared to be ating the place and making the beer sales at the time officers ar- rived Sunday morning was ar- into court on three charges today was fined on a charge of operating a place of entertainment without a permit He was also fined and costs on a charge of selling beer out a license He was ordered held to the grand jury under bond on a charge of selling whisky without a license The youth entered a plea of guilty to the charges today but officials expressed the belief he is not the actual operator of the Gray Cock Further investigation as to the owner of the site is ex- Between 75 and 100 were at the Gray Cock when of- arrived Some 38 of these were accused of being drunk in a public place and brought to Hopkinsville There were two women in this group Thirty-three persons forfeited bonds of when their cases were called this morning Five other fines of and costs totaling were assessed Taking part in the raid day morning were most of the state police of the Pint District which hat its headquarters at Madisonville Two First District officers and a state alcoholic tax unit agent aided in the round-up Troopers surrounded the ing and then was no chance for anyone to escape without being talked to Most of those arrested for be- ing drunk gave the area along the line as their address Only one man in addition to was listed as a soldier East Germany Quieting Down May Relax Martial Law In Near Future Berlin June 29 Communist Eastern zone ed closer to its occupation normal today as many Soviet troop units moved back to their barracks curfews were relaxed and an- was expected soon of the lifting of martial law German police took over troling in parts of East Berlin and units of the two armored di- visions which quelled the June 17 workers revolt there drew The curfew was cut to four hours nightly Similar action was taken in many of the other revolt centers Throughout the Soviet Zone Red leaders staged loyalty lies to bolster East German pet premier Otto Grotewohl's shaky regime Continuing their policy of de- communization to placate the population and restore German efficiency the East government gave back more plants and shops to former private owners and re- turned farm lands to ed owners Along with reports of release for example of 700 men jailed in Halle for infractions of economic laws now virtually the West heard reports of more strike leaders arrested Underground sources said also there had been three more tions by Russian firing squads bringing the reported total of such dead to 32 Scores of others died in the most of them at the hands of the excited and frightened German nist police Allied officers agreed the Russians had done most of their firing over the heads of the on Page 12 Col 5 Word To Says UN Will Truce As Well As Con 87 ROBERT B Tt Seoul June 29 Allies today the Reds to agree immediately date for i Korean truce indicating they lave either persuaded rebellious President Syngman Rhee to agree to an armistice or have de- to go ahead his okay Gen Mark Clark U N mander told the Reds in a delivered at Panmunjom thai tiie U N Command win enforce truce terms the limit of its ability His letter was delivered ly after he conferred in Seoul with Rhee President er's personal envoy Walter S Robertson and other top U S officials Although the meeting was cret the readiness to go ahead with its truce plans ed it had found some sort of lution to the problem of the born South Korean leader's re- to accept the present truce terms and his threat to fight on alone if an armistice is signed on those terms There was no Immediate com- ment from Rhee on Clark's letter The ROK President's arbitrary release of Korean War prisoners had frozen the truce talks just as the tors appeared on the verge of final agreement The Reds protested angrily in a full-dress truce session June 20 demanding recapture of the soners and assurance the UNC would control Rhee if an tice were signed Clark's answer delivered at Panmunjom by liaison officers told the 1 It would be to recapture the released POWs 2 The UNC will make every effort to gain South Korean operation in a truce 3 Where necessary the UNC will to the limits of its ability establish military to enforce truce terms 4 The truce would be a tary armistice between the military commanders of both sides answering a Red question if the South Korean nation would be included in a truce 5 The UNC does not exercise authority over the Republic of Korea which is an independent sovereign state but it does No Foolin It's Been A Suffering Month Not Quite Up To 1952 Man 71 Held For j Beating Of Wife I resident of Avenue in the West 19th Street area was held under SI 000 bond l today In connection with the beating of wife Pendleton is charged with licious sinking and hn is now for tomorrow morning at 19 o clock in Officer do not know that will be able to come to Officers reported wife had both blackened and a cut on her head understood hit with s bottle Pendleton was arrested by Saturday and thp charge was increased to striking the woman condition was learned So Bub you think you've been i continued hot i hot month you in sight hut you will Buffered two davs this Junp than during Suspect Waives In April Theft Pete Bowles Arrested On Return To City A suspect in the break-in a Haddock Brothers Grocery on East Ninth Street April 12 waiv ed to the grand jury today cli maxing what police described as one of the most determined in- bere in years The suspect Pete Bowles year-old colored resident of the Old Clarksville Pike and ton W Va was picked up at a tavern here Saturday after noon only a few days after he had returned to the city from West Virginia Police Chief Russell Greenwel and Patrolman Billy Harris saic today they had been on Bowles trail since immediately after the Haddock break-in The chase was interrupted when the left Hopkinsville shortly after the grocery robbery and they could not locate him The officers said they might have made an arrest sooner but their part in the investigation had to be limited to the city lim its Bowles waived examining tria today when arraigned on two charges of storehouse breaking and grand larceny Bond in each case was fixed at and the bail was not executed immediate The grocery was entered by breaking the glass in the front door Two bean sacks were tied on the floor and the sacks were used to carry away the loot which included about 13 packs of cigarettes and in cash Police refused to be thrown off the track by the fact there were a number of reports that a group of small boys had lO lurking in front of the on the night of the break in I I Donors to the Red Cross blood bank at the Ninth Street Christian Church tomorrow will receive something more than the satisfaction of knowing they are giving their blood to the defense effort James Cassady chairman of the program for the Christian command the ROK Army 6 The UNC still considers the prisoner breakout an escape M far as it is concerned Clark said the prisoners were released in that without the the ROK government knowledge of and contrary to the intent of the UNC planned and arranged the breakout Clark's letter was addressed to Marshal Kim II Sung North rean commander and Forces Commander Peng Teh Huai both of whom signed the June 20 protest It was delivered after the U N commander sat in on Robertson's fourth conference with Rhee in his mission to persuade the aging fiery President to accept a truce Rhee has demanded a U South Korean mutual security on Page 12 CoL 4 F eery on and I County Chapter said today High mark of the the year so on June 20 same month last there was a reading of 101 year of the fabulous bake If thp weatherman is and he s pulled very few bonprsidavs That Saturday sandwiched in between 99 and this summer when it to continued heat tomorrow will make the day of thp month the has to 90 degrees or above LaM on the drv county Some there were 26 days with tempera i of the county reported showers past week-end although the of the month boon with exception of thr driving rams that ipd thr windstorm That day saw a of 1 01 of ram fall turps 90 or more The first four days of Tune were the 80s hut on this June 5 the mercury started acting WP do mean up That wave was broken by the windstorm of afternoon the 13th to al low breathers of 85 and 89 de- grw to follow On the however the of thermometer registered 06 from then vou know the the old 95 on of final gauge was able to eke a measurement of only 01 of an inch The Pembroke and C had some rain afternoon and some areas m thp city experienced a drizzle Sunday rams were re- north of Christian C although the area remained drv U was fli here Sunday and free ticket to any future Hoppers ball game being contributed to each donor by Russ manager of the local baseball team The Red Cross received Mr MeW vm s offer last During the of the unit from 1 to 6 p m thp ter hopes to schedule 220 today there were openings for 50 more who may be accented donors by mg the chapter No 1628 until 8 o tonight has been with the police to parking space in thr vicinity of the church while arr there may park on the north side of from Virginia to Liberty and on he side of Liberty from to Eighth the chairman said i IT I th
