Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - May 22, 1954, Reno, Nevada Strike Back 1954 Cancer Drive out n at EIGHTY-FOURTH 150 PHONE Largest Morning and Sunday RENO NEVADA SATURDAY MORNING MAY 22 1954 23 1870 A COMMUNITY JOB HELP BUILD THE NEW Y TEN CENTS ON NEWSSTANDS FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY BEAR ING WOU N DED from fallen Dien Bien Phu Ilown to Hanoi Luang Prabang Laos Indochina after first-aid casualties were International TEEN-AGE VOTE DIES IN SENATE Big Powers Rush Cease-Fire Talks Political Problems Shelved iti Try To Solve Indochina Crisis GENEVA Switzerland May 21 Indochina peace conference reached final agreement today on a plan to shelve political problems and begin military talks for a cease-fire However the Communist bloc refused to go along with the idea of separating the problems of the Indochinese elated states of Laos and Cambodia from Viet Nam where most of the fighting of the seven and a half year war has occurred The record four hour and Age Benefit Boost Voted Social Security Base Wage Increased session was posed to be secret But as usual conflicting versions of what took place in the meeting almost immediately after the delegates left the room French officials said it was giblo the actual technical work of drafting a cease-fire might begin Monday when tne next session was scheduled Other ions took a much more pessimistic view They said conference merely agreed to consider the key clauses ot the rival French Communist Viet Minh peace plans Britain had indicated before the lession began refusal of the Red delegates to got down to Planes Sight 4 Survivors Of Sea Crash Vast Search Launched As Craft Ditched In Pacific less after a month of fruitless ar- gument and propaganda ments might be taken as the signal settlement was impossible at Geneva That in turn would have in- Britain to join the United States and France in plans for a Southeast Asian defense pact Authoritative sources emerging from the secret conference said the agreed to get down to cases in their attempt end the years of war in Indochina by trying to compromise rival French and Communist Viet Minn for a cease-fire in Viet Nam Viet Nam is the state of the three associated states of Indo china in which most of the bitter fighting has occurred Guatemala Holds Arms Cargo Legal GUATEMALA CITY Guatemala May 21 government said today it had a perfect right to buy arms in Communist countries and rejected the intention of the American government to supervise the legitimate acts of sovereign governments A statement issued by the malan foreign ministry was the first official reply to a U S State Department report Monday that a Swedish freighter delivered an im- portant shipment of arms from Communist Poland Cost of Living Decline Clips Penny From Pay Hike WASHINGTON May 21 IP Federal sales tax reductions dropped the cost of living enough last month to clip a penny oft a nickel an hour pay hike due more than workers on June 1 The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that the price index declined o cue per cent between and mid-April This put consumer prices at 114.6 per cen of average prices and back to the level of last July The BLS said the decline was du mainly to the excise sales ta reductions although only abou half of the excise tax reduction were passed on to consumers in th first half of April Singapore Chinese To Assist Invasion SINGAPORE Straits Settle May 21 OB Representa of 150 Singapore Chines organizations today pledged to Generalissimo Chian in any Nationalist lion of China mainland The pledges were made at meeting to celebrate Chiang's in an president of Nation China for a second term Loca Chinese also were urged to figh Communism throughout Asia The ministry of foreign affairs to state that Guatemala has ever negotiated the purchase of rms in the USSR or in a communique said Furthermore the government that there are no arms or in our territory in those countries but most emphatically states that even it had made such acquisitions no ne can question her legitimate to buy freely from any ry in the world WASHINGTON May 21 The Swedish ship which delivered omc tons of arms to mala received mysterious orders en oute diverting it Irom North Caribbean and Honduran ports it finally docked in mala it was revealed today sources aware of the course followed by the sol believed that the clocking would not have been sary if the arms were to be used only for defensive purposes The investigation also indicates the arms cargo may be valued at about or of Guatemala's annual budget WASHINGTON May 21 The United States today welcomed Nicaragua's suggestion that a meeting of American foreign ters may be needed to consider the growing Communist threat in the Western Hemisphere Randolph Trails In ITU Election WASHINGTON May 21 The House ways and means corr voted today to increase fee eral old age insurance benefits b as much as a month as rec by President Eisen The committee also approved the President's boost the benefits by at least a month for persons now on the rolls as well as tor those who retire in the future By a vote of the committee agreed to the administration posal tor hiking the wage base for social security tax purposes Irom the present a year to a year This change if approved by the House and Senate will be- come effective Jan 1 1955 Under existing law social ity taxes are paid only on the first of income Under the new ilan fhe 2 per cent social security would be levied against the firs of income The minimum old age insurance benefit would be increased from a month to a month for retired workers now on the rolls The maximum benefit for those on the rolls now would be increased from a month to The minimum in the future would be a month also But the for a retired worker would go up from the present a month to Family benefits could go as high as a month in the future compared to the maximum set by existing law Besides voting to increase old age insurance benefits the com- decided to continue for an- other year present matching formula for old age sistance The present law calls for a cut in the federal portion of this program to become effective Sept 30 Hero Jailed HONOLULU T H May 21 The Navy reported that rescue planes from Pearl Harbor ing for a seaplane down at sea early today have sighted only four survivors The plane carried a crew of eight The first planes over the area where the Marlin ditched when one engine conked out re- ported sighting four survivors in one and three empty rafts The Navy here received a radio message from the crippled plane at HST saying it was letting down for a ditching while on the San Diego to Honolulu leg ot a training flight to the Far East Navy search rescue headquarters at Pearl Harbor said an LST 32 miles from the sighted survivors was en route to pick them up The were sighted by a crew of a Navy radar plane at nearby Barbers Point Naval Air Station The were found after spotting a flare The crew of the radar plane said it was unable to determine the number of survivors However a Coast Guard plane which ently was at the scene at the same time said it dropped a to men sighted swimming in the wa- ter and t hree men climbed into the The plane radioed for help at HST saying it was ering one engine Planes were dis- patched to intercept Hie crippled cratt and escort it to Pearl Harbor At 8 HST 11 PDT the plane still was unsighted by the armada of search planes and the surface flotilla However Navy officials said there was a good possibility the Marlin a seaplane and not amphibian could stay afloat in calm seas However no radio contact had been made with the plane after the radio message saying it was ditching The Marlin was one of 12 planes assigned to Patrol Squadron 46 at San Diego and was on route to the Far East for training The Marlin Jater radioed search and rescue headquarters it was ditching 460 miles northeast of the island of Oahu Another lowing a half hour behind the ing plane radioed Naval ters here that it was unable to sight the clowned ship when it passed over the reported ditching area Speeding to Court Draws Extra Charge For Ohio Motorist COLUMBUS 0 May 21 James R Wilbur 18 told Judge Fred Donnelly he was speeding because he wanted to get to court to pay a fine for a muffler lation The court clerk couldn't find any record of a muffler violation against he did dis- cover an unanswered charge that Wilbur had passed a red light State Rights Issue Raised By Southerners Roll Call Count Short of Needed Two-Thirds Democrats Demand Phone Call Texts Bombshell Tossed as Hearing Scheduled to Be Resumed Greenlease Police Get Prison Terms New Mortgage Terms Adopted Keystones to Housing Program Approved WASHINGTON May 21 The Senate banking committee voted today to liberalize mortgage terms on individual houses The committee overriding Dem opposition also voted to ac cept the administration's slum clearance and urban program Chairman Homer E Capehart termed the decisions a great victory for tlv administration The liberalized mortgage term and the slum re- programs are the keystones of the administration's housing gram now being drafted by the committee for Senate action The committee actually voted to ease the required down payments on mortgages more than had been proposed by the administration Democrats on the committee fought to retain the present re- quired down payments which run irom 5 per cent on low-priced homes to 20 per cent on more ex- pensive homes This motion made by Son Paul H Douglas D 111 was defeated by a voice vote The committee defeated a motion by Sen M Ives R N Y to adopt the House proposals for easing down payments Sen erick G Payne R Me sided with Democrats to defeat the motion The committee then struck a compromise with a down payment of 5 per cent required on the first and 25 per cent on thing over that V Decision Due Site of Air Academy To Be Announced KANSAS CITY Mo May 21 IP Former St Louis Police Lt ders hero of the break in the Greenlea.se case was N sentenced to three years in federal prison today for perjury in with the ransom money His partner in the sensational last October suspended Patrolman Elmer Dolan drew a wo year sentence for perjury Both were jailed immediately in Jackson county's skyscraper jail Carl Austin and Bonnie Brown Heady were confined during the trial that them to death in the Missouri gas chamber INDIANAPOLIS Ind May Si AFL International graphical Union reported today that unofficial returns show dent Woodruff Randolph trailing by 697 votes in his bid for a sixth two-year term George Bante Chicago date trying to unseat Randolph had votes and on the basis of reports from 210 of 700 local unions But Don Hurd the union's sec running.on tile Progres sive ticket with Randolph said the reports indicate pretty def Randolph will win by 2.500 to votes 1 Steelworkers Seek PITTSBURGH May 21 The CIO United Steelworkers have handed the steel which industry sources estimate could cost as much as 50 cents an hour it was learned today Negotiations between the union and the U S Steel Corp for the in- dustry were recessed Thursday after throe days of talks permit both sides to do their work The homework was con- the broadest set of in the of the union Segregation Ban In Housing Sought SAVANNAH Ga May 20 A group of 18 negroes today sought a federal court order that would end racial segregation in public housing projects Their attorneys headed by good Marshall of New York asked the federal district court for permanent and preliminary tion against agents refusing negro applicants residence in Fred sels Homes an all new white ment project Toft Hartley Law Termed Only Issue Industrial Shares Reach High Ground NEW YORK May 21 shares rose to further new high ground in almost 25 years on the stock exchange today Trading was moderately active The industrials closed at their best levels of the day They had ranging to more than a point with a few pivotals showing much wider gains Railroad shares also were strong LOS ANGELES May 21 Sen Barry Goldwater says labor leaders would become distracted if the law were written off the books They wouldn't have an he told some 500 members of the Los Angeles Food Employers Council Inc at a banquet last night Having been on the ton Goldwater said I can report that America is farther down the road to Socialism than many dare think Congress is the last bulwark of freedom WASHINGTON May 21 Son Homer E Capehart said he expects a final decision by the end of next week on a site for the Air Force academy The Indiana Republican said he was told that a site along the Ohio River near son Ind is one of the few localities still under final consideration Capehart made his statement after a telephone conversation with of Air Harold E Talbott Capehart did not disclose the names of other sites still being con- But other sources said they were believed to include sites in California Colorado Michigan and one other st ate Stassen Hits Back At McCarthy Speech WASHINGTON May 21 Foreign Aid Chief Harold E sen charged today that Sen Joseph R McCarthy purposely issued false facts in his attack on ad- ministration trade policy to reach vicious conclusions Stassen told a news conference just about every paragraph in the Wisconsin Republican's Senate speech Wednesday attacking ad- ministration policy on East-West trade was false He said thy made a legion of false ments in his speech WASHINGTON May 21 The Senate today rejected dent Eisenhower's plan to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 years The roll call vole was 34 to 24 for the of necessary two-thirds majority needed for a constitutional amendment A ol 27 Republicans and seven voted for the proposal A solid block of 24 Democrats opposed It The President had proposed the lower voting age in his State of the Union Message The Senate's Southern crats some still smarting under the impact of the Supreme Court de- outlawing segregation in lic schools led the fight against the plan They called it an invasion of the states right to set qualifications for The Senate Republican leadership had lined up behind the proposal Senate Republican Leader William F cited tional statistics and military acy data designed to show that the 18 to 21 year old age bracket is the nation's best educated and best in- formed Knowland had argued that Iho proposal is not compulsion on the states because they will pass upon it Sen William Langer R-N D had pleaded that it is tally wrong to draft young men who do not have the right to vole However Sen Richard B said the vote proposal violates the founding fathers precept by invading state control of elections Russell said the proposed amendment is an to stale governments The proposal was a feature of Eisenhower's State of the Union address It had the strong support ot other administration leaders including Vice President Richard M Nixon Paradoxically Georgia Russell's own state is the only one in the nation which permits to vote Russell said the provision has worked very well there But he said it is an insult to slate governors and state legislatures for the federal government to tell other states that they must give the vote to WASHINGTON May 21 today de- manded publication of all monitored telephone calls in the But Sen Karl E R-S D said the technicalities they raised may make it impossible Mundt told a news conference that he asked Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr Wednesday whether the calls could be marie public in view of the presidential order Definitely finally he said Mundt told newsmen Sens Stuart Symington Henry M Jackson Wash and John L McClellan Ark gave their consent to the use ol any transcripts of telephone calls in which they took only if all calls in the case were made public In effect their move a challenge to the four Republican subcommittee members and to Sen Joseph R McCarthy Wis and the Army to do the same thing The Democrats spurned an agreement already signed by Carthy and the Republicans which would give consent only for the records to be shown to counsel for the subcommittee and both sides of the fight without making them public Our consent goes beyond Jackson told a news conference Waves of Reds Hit Outposts Garrisons Hold Fast Under Attack HANOI Indochina May 21 Waves of Communist troops ed at French DOS Is today m the Red River south of jittery Hanoi The lour garrisons hold fast as ouch wore attacked by a lull Communist 800 men The garrisons in the Phu Ly and Thai arpas 35 to 40 miles south and southeast of Hanoi each wore manned by a company of 230 Viet soldiers About 75 miles west of Hanoi a massive air assault temporarily halted lour Communist divisions moving toward the city from fallen which Symington also attended If the parties to a lawsuit can look over the evidence in advance Bien Phu A siring of French posts look over the evidence m of Hanoi has torn under lor to net and have adopted th consent of the parties involved would be required before they could he puL in the record under that plan Symington said the Democrats made their move because is an impression that the four Re- publicans consented to have their conversations made public They were never even ashed ta pound tho Hears Crest 2 More Dikes Wash Out On Kootenai River SEES GOP SUICIDE CHICAGO May Leads Incumbent Oregon Primary Vote Count Starts 21 BONNERS Idaho May Two more big dikes washed out today as the Hooding Kootenai River surged toward its crest but troops and tling the tide wore confident main dike protecting the own ol would hold The districts rt the he plans to make 7.00 the HoodM Joseph R McCarthy said today that Hie Republican party is committing slow and painful suicide before the television was in the fight between him and the Army Turboprop Plane Given First Test FORT WORTH Tex May 21 The first military transport using turboprop power was test flown yesterday by its builder Con- Vultee Aircraft Corp Convair's made a flight with test pilot Erickson at the controls from Carswell Air Force base at dusk Former Russ Agent Appeals for Family May 21 A former Soviet secret police agent today dramatically begged dent Eisenhower and the American people to help save the wife and two-year-old son he left in cow when he fled to freedom The former MVD officer Nikolai Khokhlov told an extraordinary session of the Senate internal curity subcommittee that the ples of the free world could put to the Russian government the blunt Are you with the murderers or the people who want to live in peace and PORTLAND Ore May 23 Early returns in Oregon's primary election tonight gave Tom Lawson McCall Portland radio news commentator a substantial lead over incumbent Rep Homer Angell for the Republican nomination in the third dis- Mrs Edith S Green Portland housewife took a com- manding lead over her two lesser known opponents for the cratic nomination for Congress Suspect Arrested In Extortion Plot LOS ANGELES May 21 An attempt to extort on threat of bodily harm to Governor Goodwin J Knight was disclosed tonight with the ar- set of William Bradburn Barrows 42 B a r r o w s whereabouts was traced within 24 hours after the letter was received at the stale capital in Sacramento Newton A Stearns the governor's press made public the extortion letter which Dear If you are en- joying and want to keep it you had better send me five thousand dollars by return mail This is no hoax Barrows signed his own name but listed an apparently incorrect address police reported LEAP FOILED REDWOOD CITY Calif May 21 girl's attempt to jump from the parapet on top of the San Mateo County house was foiled today by the quick action the building's a complete statement At- kinson Wis tomorrow ing the future plans ol and his staff in the congressional hearings which will resume day at Washington He said ho hoped that between now and Monday someone with good sense will got to the dent and advise him to modify an order which prevented tration witnesses from tolling what took place at a meeting j which allegedly resulted in the Army's charging that McCarthy and his staff were trying to ob- tain preferred treatment vt 0 David Schine Enemy Cooperation Inquiry Scheduled WASHINGTON May 21 Deputy Defense Secretary Robert 3 Anderson said tonight he has proposed an investigation ol whether officers who cooperated with their Red captors in Korea got off lighter than same charge by tho collapse oi dikes and below tho town At 7 a m the river stood at o foot slightly higher than tho est reached in ISMS when two foot of water the main stroot But tho level had dropped to 32.9 at as tho water tilled the two latest districts to go under Commissioner Weeps At Senate Pressure WASHINGTON May 21 Miss Frieda B lono an member of Iho into lours today when berated tors for usint senatorial o get stations lor their home towns I Miss a l member of the commission at her eyes awl told Senate com- merce 1 am rendy to cry and give up Tho subcommittee is troubles of new TV in the Gl's facing the Anderson said Defense Secretary W Wilson now is ing the recommendation It calls creation of a special high-level committee to sift complaints that officer collaborators received vored treatment The defense official said he be- tho complaints raise some very fundamental lems in which the whole of the American people are going to take a keen interest Cornell Withdraws Faculty Invitation ITHACA N Y May 21 Cornell University today withdrew a teaching invitation to Dr Harry C of San Diego after learning the professor had been dis- missed from San Diego State Col- lege for refusing to say whether he was a Communist m ultra-high frequency band which has been opened to TV only in recent years Most present TV stations operate on tho very high frequency band Court Ruling Near On SAN Calif May 21 Judge Thomas F Keating said lie would rule early next week on a writ ol beas corpus lor Caryl Chessman after studying de- fense briefs over the weekend The judge cancelled a scheduled court of Attorney Berwyn Rice's arguments this morning agreed instead to accept hi the lawyer Mexico May 21 The Marchioness ol Haven was granted a divorce from the Marquess of Milford Haven today on of incompatibility
