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An Associoted Press Newspaper
101st Year. No. 297.
U. S. Considers
New Cuts in
Aid to Europe
No Weakening Seen
To Defense Effort as
Economies Improve
By John M. Hightower
Associated Press Staff Writer
Administration officials are
considering further cuts in for
eign economic aid on the theory
that, because of Europe’s im
proving economic health, they
would not weaken its defense
effort.
This administration reason
ing is expected to be reflected in
budget proposals to Congress
next year for appropriations for
the fiscal year beginning July 1.
Economic improvements in
Europe are measured, for ex
ample, by the expected achieve
ment of a $9 billion total of gold
and dollar reserves behind Euro
pean currencies. Such gains are
attributed not only to the pro
longed United States assistance
programs, but to renewed con
fidence by the Europeans in
themselves and to the cumula
tive effects of recovery from
World War II destruction.
To Be Reviewed Next Week.
The economic prospects and
outlook will be reviewed in Paris
next week by the Organization
for European Economic Co
operation, which includes 17
nations. Harold E. Stassen,
President Eisenhower’s chief of
foreign operations, will attend in
the role of observer. He is ex
pected to tell the Europeans
they can count on a relatively
stable American economy for a
long time in the future.
Mr. Stassen and his idvisers
estimate that the next round of
congressional appropriations will
show:
1. A further gradual decline in
economic assistance to Europe.
2. An increase in assistance
and development programs in
the Middle East and Far East
and an unchanged continuation
of United States aid to Latin
America. •
’53 Funds Heavily Cut.
These estimates have not yet
been reduced to publicly known
figures. However, funds appro
priated for aid tp Europe in the
fiscal year ending next June 30,
including help to France to carry
on the war in Indo-China, total
$790 million. This compares with
a total of $1,282,000,000 made
available for the same general
purposes in the previous fiscal
year.
The total money available this
year, including new funds voted
by Congress and funds carried
over from previous appropria
tions, stands at $6,652,000,000.
It represents money for military
equipment as well as economic
assistance. The tendency has
been for military help to go up
and economic aid to go down.
Encouragement over Europe’s
economic progress is modified
by a feeling of officials here
that Italy and France still have
some tough problems to over
come. But their efforts will be
made easier, it is believed, with
the general European economy
relatively healthy.
May Partially Support Armies.
One matter under study is
frank advocacy by the admin
istration of a policy of supporting
allied armies in part where the
local government is not able to
maintain the necessary defense
level. Turkey and Greece, for
example, are said to have mili
tary establishments extremely
important to free world security
but gfeater than the Greek and
Turkish economic capacity to
support.
The principle is not new. how
ever. because the United States
has been providing army main
tenance funds to France for In
do-China and to South Korea.
French Ambassador Henri
Bonnet conferred briefly yester
day with Undersecretary of
State Walter Bedell Smith. Mr.
Bonnet told reporters it was a
general discussion touching on
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization and incidentally on
Indo-China.
It was reported, however, that
Mr. Bonnet asked assurances on
America's NATO policy and that
Mr. Smith told him United
States forces would be kept in
Europe as part of the NATO
system.
Martin in Germany
BREMERHAVEN, Germany.
Oct. 24 (A*h —Speaker Martin of
the United States House of
Representatives arrived here
aboard the liner America today
for a tour of West Germany.
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Business Letdown in 1954?
Just a Dip, Industrialists Say
Commerce Advisers Expect No More
Than 5% Under 'Abnormal' 1953 Boom
By the Associated Press
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif., Oct.
24.—The long-feared “business
letdown” of 1954 will be a dip
averaging not more than 5 per
cent under this year’s “abnor
mal” business boom, in the opin
ion of 13 leading industrialists.
The forecast by members of
the Commerce Department’s
Business Advisory Council was
described today as “very heart-
I ening” to members of President
Eisenhower’s cabinet who have
| sat in on the council’s closed
! meeting here.
Cabinet representation grew
to four with the arrival last night
of Interior Secretary McKay. He
: joined Commerce Secretary
Weeks. Treasury Secretary Hum
phrey and Army Secretary Stev
ens.
The council’s economic survey
I indicated that steel production
i may drop to 85 per cent of ca
pacity next year. Autos are get
ting harder to sell, farm ma
chinery is down but the industry
Is “not worried,” and furniture
sales will depend on new home
| building, which is declining.
But retail food sales should be
; strong and the oil and power in
dustries still plan large expan
sion.
The forecasts also included
reports from other corporation
Intensive Fight
For New York Mayor
Is Nearing Climax
Race Vital to New Deal
Democrats Striving
For a Comeback
By Gould Lincoln
Star Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK. Oct. 24.—New
York's mayoralty campaign, now
in its final mud-slinging phase,
I is of vital interest:
First, to the city’s debt-ridden,
; heavily taxed people.
Second, to those New Deal
Democrats who hope to stage a
major comeback in the State and
| congressional elections next year.
Three main candidates for
Mayor are fighting it out. Two
1 are Democrats, although one of
1 them is running as the candi
date of the Liberal Party, and
i the third is a Republican. The
American Labor Party also has
a candidate in the field who will
be an also ran.
Robert F. Wagner. jr„ presi
dent of Manhattan Borough
and son of the late New Deal
| Senator, has the Democratic
nomination. The Liberal Party
candidate is Rudolph Halley,
president of the New York City
Council, who leaped into the
limelight in 1950 as chief counsel
for the Kefauver Senate Crime
Investigating Committee. The
Republicans have as their can
didate Harold Riegelman, whose
most recent public office was
postmaster of New York.
Ruled Off Ballot.
Until last Wednesday a third
Democrat, the present Mayor
Impelletteri, was one of the prin
cipal contenders, candidate of
: the Independent Experience
j Party. Supreme Court Justice
William J. Munson, an up-State
; Republican, ruled in an action
| brought by Mr. Wagner, that
1 Mayor Impelletteri’s nominating
petitions had only 5,278 valid
signatures when a minimum of
7,500 were required. This threto
Mayor Impelletteri off the bal
lot. The Mayor has decided not
to attempt a write-in campaign.
His elimination has brought
(See POLITICS. Page A-3.)
Four Income Tax Agents
Convicted in Shakedown
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK. Oct. 24.—Four
| income tax agents in New York
State were convicted last night
of taking part in a tax-fixing
rin'g to shake down taxpayers.
A fifth was acquitted.
Found guilty by a Federal
court jury were Maurice F.
O'Brien, 56, former head of the
Internal Revenue Bureau at
Troy, N. Y.. and three of his
assistants: Murray Talanker, 45;
David Witt, 56, and Abraham
; Inkeles, 34.
Edwin F. Rourke, 32, was ac
i quitted.
The Government had pre
sented evidence to show that 17
taxpayers in the Albany <N. Y.)
area paid approximately $35,000
for the fixing of fraudulent re-
I turns.
The conviction carries possible
penalties of three years in prison
and $5,000 fines each. Judge
Henry W. Goddard set next
Thursday for sentencing.
| Slocks in the Spotlight |
NEW YORK UFI. Following are the
sales (add 00>, high. low. closing price
and net change of the 20 most active
stocks for the week:
Sales. High. Low. Close. Chee.
U S Lines 80S 18", 14', 14’, —.1 >»
North Pacific 085 till's 55', 58 J-2'»
4 Am Tel & T 587 15ti"« 155', 15ti -
Gen Electric 521) Sil' 2 78 Tit', ',
Nall Distil! 4115 18’, IT 3 , 18 ', 4-
U S Steel 47 7 57’« .'Hi 3 , 57 ', -r- ",
Balt A Ohio 4i>7 ', 'll', 21
Studebaker 44!» 25‘ 2 24',+
Lockheed 442 2ii 3 , 25', 25", 4-
Gen Pub Svc 441 4 :»’•« 4
20th Cnt-Fx 422 17', 14', 17',+ 2',
Westinghse 411 48 : 's 45 3 « 48', —l-',
Gen Motors 401 5)14, 58', 5ft 3 , ‘j
Mack Trucks 504113«5 3 « 11", ]s‘, + 1V»
! Ceianese 584 2n 3 , lst 3 , lit 3 , —1
IN Y Central 57ti 2o 3 , in’, in’,— 3 ,
I Sorony Vac 574 55 3 » 52', 55', t- »,
| N Am Avia. 57 O in IT*, I«',+ *»
1 Int Harvest, 350 27’i 2« 3 ,27 V, 4- %
8t Regia Pap 347 20Vs 19’, 204* +
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V / J y WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ym/ \^/
WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1953—FORTY PAGES.
chiefs in basic fields. Council
Chariman John D. Biggers sum
med up the speakers’ findings
as follows:
"Their combined judgment
seemed to be that we could look
for continued business in 1954
within 5 per cent of the boom
levels attained by the artificial
impetus of war and other fac
tors this year.
“We are now experiencing what
I would consider a moderate ad
justment from an abnormal to
i normal (situation)—a very high
normal.
“I would say that industrial
production in 1954 will be higher
than in any previous year with
'the exception of the artificially
high year of 1953.”
Mr. McKay said in an address
last night the Eisenhower admin
istration is “not giving anything
away” but in line with historic
national policy wants the public
domain used by private enter
prise “to provide a sound foun
dation for economic activity
which multiplies itself and bene
fits our whole society.”
“Public ownershrip,” Mr. Mc-
Kay said, “is not an end in it
self. It is merely an aid to private
economic activity.”
The council prepared to end its
three-day session at Del Monte
Lodge today.
Intruder Assaults
Sleeping Mother
In Prince Georges
Enters Apartment
After Her Husband
Leaves for Work
A 22-year-old mother of three
children was strangled into un
consciousness and raided in her
bed in Prince Georges County
early today.
Prince Georges police issued a
lookout for a short, stocky, col
ored man.
The woman, who also is four
months pregnant, was asleep in
her apartment in the 6800 block
of Greig street, Gregory Estates,
jan apartment development in
Seat Pleasant. The man en
tered a bedroom window,
crossed the room where the
three children were sleeping,
walked across a hallway and
entered the woman’s bedroom.
Her husband had gone to work
two hours before.
Used Shirt to Choke Her.
The assailant used a shirt to
choke her. After recovering con
sciousness, her screams aroused
a neighbor, but by that time the
rapist had fled.
She was treated at Leland
Memorial Hospital for cuts,
bruises and shock.
| Meanwhile, Alexandria police
| today were looking for an early
morning prowler who attacks
women while they sleep. Three
such incidents have occurred in
as mftny months.
Awakened by Blow.
The latest attack occurred
about 3:35 a.m. today at 310
South Pitt street. The victim,
Mrs. Liza Paluch, 29, told nolice
she was awakened by a blow on
the head. She said a strange
man was standing beside her bed
| and struck her about 10 times
| before her screams drove him
away.
Police said the man had
climbed through a window of the
| first floor, propping the window
open with a stick.
Two similar attacks have been
reported in the old section of
town during the past three
months. Police said they believe
the same man is responsible for
ail three cases.
Gandhi's Son Released
JOHANNESBURG, South
Africa, Oct. 24 UP). —Manilal
Gandhi, 61-year-old son of the
late Mahatma, was released from
Pretoria prison today after serv
ing 38 days of a 50-day sentence
imposed for violation of racial
regulations at the Germiston
African settlement on December
8.
early today
U. S. Corporal Who Quit Reds Tells22Othersto'Comeßack'
By tht Associated P r ess
MUNSAN, Oct. 24.—Corpl. Ed
ward S. Dickenson, who quit the
Communists to return home, ap
pealed today to 22 American war
prisoners who chose to stay with
the Reds to “take my advice and
come back . .
“Boys, I’ve found out that the
Communists have told nothing
but lies to us,” he wrote.
Corpl. Dickenson of Big Stone
Gap, Va., made his appeal in a
VFW Post of Big Stone Gap Likely to
Bar Dickenson. Page A-3
letter which will be distributed
among his friends now held by
Indian guards in the neutral zone
of Korea.
It is the first attempt to per
suade the 22 Americans to
change their minds and return
home. The allies have until De
* I
Troops Move
Oil Supplies in
London Strike
Vital Services Kept
Operating, Bus Tieup
Fails to Materialize
By the Associated Press
LONDON, Oct. 24.—Troops
moved strike-bound gasoline and
oil supplies in London today, pre
venting a complete collapse of
j essential road transport, food de
livery and public health services
in the great metropolis.
A spokesman for the main dis
tributing companies said: “The
first phase of the operation has
been completely successful.”
Prevention of a complete gaso
i line famine brought no signs of
a back-to-work movement by the
2.600 striking tank truck drivers.
I They began their wildcat walk
-1 out six days ago.
Bus drivers in one garage
threatened to go out in sympathy
; if their vehicles were loaded with
j “black petrol.” This threat, caus
, ing anxiety to London transport
officials, thus far had failed to
materialize.
Red Backing Denied.
The job started with 2.600
troops—one for every striker.
Today the War Office decided
to provide for a shift system be
ginning tomorrow and will bring
4.000 additional troops into Lon
don.
In ordering out the troops, the
government said it had received
information that Communists
were backing the walkout. This
was denied today by strike lead
ers, including Bert Black, the
driver named by several newspa
pers as the brains behind the
walkout. He said it was untrue
to suggest he was a “Communist
mischief maker working to cause
unrest.”
The strikers have ignored ap
peals by the government, the
opposition Labor Party and their
own Transport and General
Workers Union to return to work
and submit their grievances to
normal negotiation machinery.
At depots throughout the city
the troops, many of them young
national servicemen, struggled
to learn the intricacies of the
unfamiliar equipment. Many of
them had difficulty jockeying
the big trucks through depot
gates, strikers jeered them in a
few places, but good natured
bantering went on at others.
Traffic Moves in Trickle.
London’s streets took on al
most a Victorian appearance.
Motor traffic moved in a thin
trickle. Highways leading from
j the city were almost empty. A
1 private motorist has to travel
40 miles from the city to reach
| areas with adequate gasoline
supplies. Only about a third of
London’s 5.600 taxis were on
the streets.
Prime Minister Churchill went
to Chequers, his country home,
for the week end, but directed
Labor Minister Sir Walter Monc
ton and Home Secretary Sir Da
xid Maxwell Fyfe to keep him
apprised of every strike develop
ment.
A strict ration system was im
posed to give essential public
services first call on available
gasoline and oil. «
The armed troops—l.6oo sol
diers and 1,000 men of the Royal
Air Force—marched briskly into
the city’s gasoline depots at
dawn today and swung aboard
the fleets of idle tank trucks.
Arbitration Refused.
They had been ready since the
strikers refused union appeals
last night to end their wildcat
walkout and submit their de
mands to arbitration.
The 2,600 drivers quit work
Monday demanding the dis
missal of all non-union co-work
ers, full union recognition by the
industry and a 10 shilling ($1.40)
weekly pay raise. They have
been getting seven pounds five
shillings and six pence ($20.37)
a week.
Ibn Saud Improved
LONDON, Oct. 24 UP) .—A
Saudi Arabian Embassy spokes
man said today King Ibn Saud
has cabled Queen Elizabeth that
his health has “vastly improved.”
The spokesman said the message
yesterday was in answer to an
expression of concern sent by the
Queen after word had been re
ceived here that he was ill.
| cember 23 or 24 to talk w’ith the
balky POWs.
Corpl. Dickenson was turned
over to the U. N. command
Wednesday after telling Indian
guards he was through with
, communism. He is to hold a
news conference Monday in
| Tokyo and is expected to explain
j his action in detail then.
1 1 His letter to his former com
j rades is now in Munsan await
: ing transmission through the
: | Indian command, wdiich runs
the POW compounds.
“Boys, take my advice and
' come back to this side.” Corpl.
' Dickenson wrote in his 400-word
letter.
“They only want us for their
benefit. You boys of the weaker
type have no future whatsoever
by going to China or any Com
munist country. I found out a
lot of things about the Com
munists that you didn't know
i about," the letter continued.
4
*
WHEN I WAS YOUR
ASE THEY TOLD ME, x S'
TOO. THAT I WOULD 7 J//7.
At EVER 6 ROW UP/
United Nations Day—l9s3
Young La Plata Matron Seized
In Slot Machine Tax Thefts
Mrs. Martin Charged With Embezzling;
$5,000 Shortage Found by Internal Revenue
Special Dispatch to The Star
LA PLATA, Md., Oct. 23.
Mrs. Elsie M. Martin, 25-year
old La Plata society matron, has
been arrested on a charge of
embezzling slot machine tax
money while employed by Charles
County as amusement device
clerk.
Shortages in slot tax funds
have totaled more than $5,000
over a period of a year, accord
ing to the county commissioners.
An audit of the slot machine tax
money collected from June 1,
1951, to June 15, 1953, the period
in which she was employed, has
not been completed.
Mrs. Martin was bonded for
SIO,OOO and an agreement has
been reached with the Maryland
Casualty Co., which wrote the
bond, whereby the county will
Vandals Ransack
St. Agnes School
St. Agnes Episcopal School in
Alexandria was ransacked by
vandals last night. The damage
* was estimated at SI,OOO.
Alexandria police said ink and
papers were scattered all over
the floor in four classrooms, and
important records were dumped
on the floor in the office.
Ice cream and food were
thrown on the cafeteria floor,
and a fire extinguisher was
sprayed on the walls.
The school is located at Rus
sell road and Windsor avenue in
Alexandria on a secluded wooded
tract. Police said the culprits
entered the building by taking
the hinges off a basement win
dow.
Scrawled on the blackboards
were the names, “Houdini” and
“Valentino.”
j Police said the same school
was broken into October 17 and
about $lO worth of stamps and
money taken from the office.
King of Nepal Stricken
NAPLES, Italy, Oct. 24 f/P>. —
The International Hospital said
today that King Tribuhavana of
the Himalayan kingdom of Ne
pal, who suffered a heart attack
yesterday, is slightly better. Doc
tors advised the 47-year-old
monarch to take a prolonged
rest before he continues to Rome
and Switzerland. He had just
arrived from the Far East.
“There is really some pretty
; women here” and “there is plen
ty of money waiting for you
boys.”
He referred to the accumu- 1
lated back pay the Army owes
, prisoners of war.
Several of the 22 Americans
still in Indian custody were
identified by name in the letter. ,
All names were deleted from
' copies distributed to newsmen by
i the Repatriation Commission.
“Hello, boys,” Carpi. Dicken
son began, “here is a few
lines from me to let you know
that I’m back with my own peo
ple once again. Boys, it’s really
sreat to be out of that damn i
place where you-all are . -. I
really got a big and happy re
ception from our side . . . I’m i
leaving today for the good old :
|U. S. A. There's really some :
| pretty women here but you will
[ be able to see that from the pic- j l
1
be reimbursed, the commission
. ers said.
Discrepancies in her accounis
were were uncovered by the In
-5 ternal Revenue Service about two
f months ago, in comparing tax
: deductions claimed by slot ma
. chine operators with amounts
’ paid in taxes as reported by the
! county.
SpeciflcaUy, she is charged
* with the tfteft of $1,500 on or
j about June 3. 1953, only 12
days before she resigned for per
sonal reasons.
Mrs. Martin was arrested
: Wednesday. Charles County
. Sheriff R, Vernon Cooksie said
I today. She posted bail of $7,500
> for appearance before Trial
Magistrate LeMorton Crist on
November 6.
> Mrs. Martin is the mother of
I one child, the wife of a promi
■ nent businessman, and is widely
i known in Charles County society.
Bishop's Wife Dies
i In 16th Street Fire
Mrs. Viola Spottswood. wife of
Bishop Stephen Gill Spottswood
of the African Episcopal Zion
Church, died in a fire early today
at her home, 1931 Sixteenth
street N.W.
Mrs. Spottswood, 54, colored,
apparently had gone into the
basement apartment where the
fire was, thinking her two grand
children were there. The chil
dren, however, were safely out of
the apartment.
The fire burned out two rooms
in the basement apartment,
where the Spottswoods’ daugh
ter, Mrs. Alleyne Nixon, lived
; i with her children, Stephen, 5,
1 and York, 4.
Bishop Spottswood, who lives
on the first floor, found his wife
on the bathroom floor soon after
he returned from notifying the
Fire Department. He discovered
the fire about 6:30 a.m.
Mrs Spottswood was active in
church affairs and was district
supervisor.
Eisenhower to Spend
Week End at Camp
Bv ♦h* As«ociat*d
President and Mrs. Eisenhower
arranged today to spend a quiet
week end at Camp David in the
Catoctin Mountains near Thur
mont, Md
They may attend church in
Thurmont tomorrow morning
and return to the White House
tomorrow evening. No official
guests were listed for the trip.
ture that I’m sending to you
guys. . .
“I found out a lot of things
about the Communists that you
didn’t know about. The leaders
of you boys will be (deleted) or
(deleted). Boys your loved ones
are calling day and night for
you—all to come back to them.
(Deleted), you and the other
ones that I mentioned should
not have any fear at all of being
harmed if you come back. There
has not been any article printed
that some one said you wrote
“You guys can see by the pic
ture ol the reception I got at
the hospital after getting into my
uniform. Yes, boys, life can be
beautiful if you make it that way
The step you boys are taking
will be a dark life for you. Once
more I will ask you-all to change
your minds and come on back.
My picture is already on tele
vision in the good old United"
States."
I
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Area Gets Light Rain;
Relief From Drought
Not Yet in Sight
Virginia Bans Hunting;
Two National Forests
In State Will Close
Virginia has banned hunting
beginning at 5 p.m. today as an
other step toward protecting
tinder-box forests in a drought
for which weather forecasters
saw no relief .
The decision to bar hunting
followed closely one to shut down
the State’s two national forests
—Jefferson and George Wash
ington. Permission to close the
forests last midnight was given
by the Philadelphia regional of
fice of the Forestry Service.
Cloudy skies this morning
raised some hope that the long
i awaited rain was on the way.
; Light rain fell in the Washing
: ton area this morning, but the
j Weather Bureau said any rain
that fell would be only widely
scattered and brief sprinkles.
No Heavy Rain in Sight.
The weather observers pre
dicted continued “parching
j weather” today and tomorrow,
and said there is no heavy ram
in sight. Brisk northernly winds
were expected to lower the tem
perature slightly tomorrow, but
these could add to the forest
Are hazards by fanning any
flames which started.
Nationally, the Weather Bu
reau said the drought was the
worst in history in some areas.
But rains already have come to
! the parched Southwest and Mid
! west, breaking the severe dry
spell in those areas.
Missouri Hard HR.
Ivan R. Tannehill, head of
weather reporting and forecast
ing, said this has been the worst
drought in history for part of
the Southwest, and especially
; for Missouri.
Mr. Tannehill said the “storm
j area has a good chance of com
■ ing East,” but there was no pre
diction of when it might arrive,
i Long-range forecasters see
j signs that the “usual” pattern
of wind movements will be re
established soon, and that rains
will once more begin to fall.
"But man can’t do much about
a drought except talk about it,”
Mr. Tannehill said.
Rockville Co-operation
In Saving Water Urged
The restriction on use of water
in Rockville expires officially
next week end, but the Rockville
Council today asked residents to
co-operate in saving water.
A notice to citizens pointed out
that the drought had caused the
water level to drop sharply.
The notice said the restriction
would not be renewed.
ROK Flyer's Desertion
In F-51 Is Confirmed
By th# Associated Press
SEOUL, Oct. 24.—The Defense
Ministry today confirmed the
defection of a South Korean
pilot with an F-51 Mustang
fighter plane to Communist
North Korea.'
The Ministry identified the
deserter as Capt. Kim Sung Bar,
27. an instructor in the Republic
of Korea Air Force.
The official announcement
said the plane took off from a
ROK air base at Sachon in
Southwest Korea. It did not
say when it happened. But*the
flight was reported last Monday
by Communist correspondents at
Panmunjom.
The Defense Ministry said Kim
had been grounded because of
carelessness that had caused two
crashes.
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Farm Advisers
Meeting Today
With President
'Caravan' Coming
To Capital Despite
Benson's Plea
President Eisenhower and his
top agricultural advisers today
began to shape up the program
j the President has promised “will
build markets, safeguard farm
income and protect consumers.”
As Government authorities
and advisers studied the farm
problem at a conference here, a
cattlemen’s caravan pushed on
toward Washington despite Agri
culture Secretary Benson’s plea
that the delegation of some 250
Western cattlemdn call off the
move.
President James G. Pauon of
the Farmers Union, which organ
ized the procession, sent word
that it was too late to stop The
group expects to arrive here to
morrow and hopes to see Secre
tary Benson and possibly the
President this week.
Meeting for the first time at
the White House was the Na
tional Agricultural Advisory
Commission, whose ultimate
membership oi 18 will include
12 practical farmers. The com
mission, headed by Dr. W I.
i Myers, dean of Cornell’s Col
! lege ol Agriculture, still has two
vacancies.
1 Secretary Benson also sat in
on the conference.
The White House expected to
have some announcement on
progress after the meeting, which
follows a two-day session of the
commission at the Agricul' re
Department. The conferees are
lunching at the White House
after the morning session
•
Backs Price Supports.
While the President has prom
ised that a “better” farm pro
gram will be forthcoming than
that under which the crop and
cattle growers are operating, he
has presented publicly thus far
only what he himself describes
as a “sketchy” outline on the
steps contemplai.ed.
Addressing a Kansas City
crowd of about 12,000 including
7,800 members of the Future
Farmers of America last week,
Gen. Eisenhower stressed that
“the price support principle must
be a part of any future farm
program.”
i The supports, applying to cot
-1 ton, corn, wheat, peanuts, to
bacco and rice, are designed to
, give the farmers an even break
between what they sell and what
they must buy, and they now are
scheduled to expire at the end
of 1954.
Influential mem ers of Con
gress already have let it be
known that they will battle for
continuance of the program,
which Gen. Eisenhower said
might undergo some changes.
In announcing today’s meet
ing. Gen. Eisenhower said the
commission was ready to go to
work on the final phases of the
program to be submitted early
in the next Congress. Its con
clusions will tie in with those
reached by the farm belt studies
of the Senate and House Agri
cultyre Committees.
TraifT Studies Involved.
Influencing the ultimate
White House decisions too. no
doubt will be the trade and tariff
studies of the commission head
ed by Clarence Randall, presi
dent of Inland Steel, which is
expected to emhasize this coun
try’s need for foreign markets
to handle farm surplus.
About 25 busloads of livestock
growers from 20 Western States
are in the caravan heading
toward Washington. One group
of 40 cattle and sheep growers
from Utah and Idaho stopped
off in Springfield, 111., for the
night.
Secretary Benson tried unsuc
cessfully late yesterday to per
i suade the caravan from coming
to Washington. In a telegram
to Mr. Patton he said such a
conference involving “such a
large number of people is, not
suitable for an adequate ex
change of ideas.”
He declared a big session of
that kind in Washington could
j "accomplish nothing” and that
a series of regional meetings
would be more practical. He also
said he would gladly confer with
a “small workable group in
(See AGRICULTURE. Page A-2.)
Maryland U. Students
Fight Religious Apathy
RELIGION ON THE CAMPUS—
Maryland University’s Student Re
ligious Council starts its work to
'erase the blight ot religious apathy”
from the College Park campus as soon
os new students arrive eoch yeor.
Stor Writer James B. Rowland ex
omines the group's activities on
page A-9.
PARCHED MONTGOMERY —The
drought has hit nearby Montgomery
County forms so hard that some
farmers ore osking thot the county be
declored a disaster orco. Stor Re
porter Jomes Birchfield gives e report
on conditions there on page A 2.
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