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A-6 •• THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. i TCESPAT, APOI'ST ». 195 ft #lfe SIS . npr Jjflfe I I I I ■ I I fit AMERICAN FARMERS ON TOUR— A field of millet is inspected by two American farmers visiting a Rus- * sian collective farm near Odessa in the Ukraine. Millet is an important Soviet breakfast staple. The visitors are Ralph Olsen (left) of Ellsworth, lowa, | and Farris Owen, Newark, Ohio.—AP Wirephoto. Soviet Visitors to See Minnesota Turkey Farm j By TOM WHITNEY Associated Press Stan Writer MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 9.—The 12 visiting farm chiefs today split into two groups in order to make their schedule of visits to farms and farm enterprises here in Minnesota less intense. Three of the Russians, led by livestock expert Turi Golubash. set out for New Prague, where they were to see livestock farms, attend a luncheon with the New Prague Rotary Club and see a turkey growing operation. The other Russians went to visit a dairy between White Bear and Stillwater. They were sched uled thep to see the Green Giant cannery at Montgomery, and to join the other three delegates < later today and motor to North- : field, where it was planned they ] would visit the Casper Peterson farm. i Plans provided that in the ] evening the Russians would go to see the film "Cinerama Holi- I day” in Minneapolis. Nine members of the delega tion are scheduled to remain in Minnesota until Thursday when they will go to Chicago. ( It was announced yesterday < that the Soviet delegation head. < Vladimir Matskevich, and two j other members of his delegation ] will fly to Detroit tomorrow to visit the Ford enterprises in Dearborn, including very likely the River Rouge plant. Yesterday three Soviet dele- , gation members, who had been ‘ on a trip in Wyoming where they saw a big Indian pow-wow ! and visited ranches, rejoined 1 the rest of the delegates in 1 Minneapolis, bringing the group all together again from a series I of side junkets. Mr. Matskevich praised very 1 highly one of the Minnesota 1 farms he visited. It was the ' Odin Odegaard farm near 1 Princeton. 1 Businesslike Enterprise Mr. Matskevich said he found It a very businesslike and re-1 markable enterprise. The Ode- ■ gaard farm has 2,700 acres. More than 350 of the acres are.: under corn, 300, potatoes: 70, > soybeans; 119, wheat: 200, oats: j 600 under barley, and the re mainder under other cultures, i invluding vegetables. The Rus sian visitors observed with in-1 j| "city OF los ANGELES” "CITY OF PORTLAND” ■ ■ I Let US help you plan your trip. . . arrange FAMILY TRAVEL PLAN I Take advantage of this moneysav- §|| now, Union Pacific honors Roil Travel ing plan. It offers an attractive JIR IEI I $ Credit Cards, reduction in rail fares for two or lld I more persons in a family group. W& 600 Shorehom Bldg., Washington 5, D. C. ££!T 1 b ' a ’ w RAILROAD H «... a** 7.0 m I' Merest a newly designed potato j digger at the farm. Mi - . Matskevich, though he ■ , has praised frequently the Amer ican farms he visited, has rarely had such warm words for any 1 ; particular one of them. He was | ; exceptionally enthusiastic. ( The Russian delegation head yesterday manifested interest in 1 purchase of farm machinery. 1 While he gave no details of So- c viet needs or plans for any such t buying, Mr, Matskevich asked 1 whether it was possible and whoi" could arrange it. He was at the i Minneapolis-Moline plant at Hopkins. The company officials | told him it was possible. Any export of farm equipment . to the Soviet Union would, a lo cal Commerce Department of- | ficial explained later, have to : receive export licenses from the United States Government since - they are on the restricted export ‘ list. * l‘ U.S. Farmer Praises \ Russian Tractor LONDON, Aug. 9 i/P.— Amcri- * can farmers visiting Russia ! watched Soviet tractors coming off an assembly line of a factory 8 in Stalingrad. Moscow radio le ported yesterday. One of the Americans drove a a new tractor around the factory j grounds and called it an "excel- r lent machine, very easy to man age,” the report said. c Earlier the Americans visited c a muteum which commemorates I the defense of Stalingrad against 8 German invaders. f Moscow radio sa*d that Wil- 1 liam Lambert, head of the * American delegation, wrote in 1 the visitors’ book: "The Ameri- 1 can people watched the battle of Stalingrad with great attention, 1 and admired the heroic defend- c ers of Stalingrad.” j Ferry Trouble | PALATKA, Fla. bP).—Anybody i wanting to get from the east to I the west side of the St. Johns ( River here probably will have to 1 whistle. Somebody stole the 16- inch bell and the 16-foot post to 1 which it was attached from the 1 Gates ferry crossing. It was used t to summon B. G. Thorpe, the 1 ferry operator. i Wave of Polio Seen Waning in Massachusetts BOSTON, Aug. 9 (IP). —The State Health Department today reported 88 new cases of polio in Massachusetts, and an official said the figure was below what had been expected. Dr. Roy F. Feemster. director of the division of communicable diseases, said a report of about 100 new cases had been antici pated due to week-end accumu lation. He said today’s figure is the lowest reported after a week end since the current out break began. “The wave Is faltering,” he said. "This is some indication that we are leveling off since the week-end accumulation shows a definite decrease.” The new cases brought Massa chusetts’ polio total to 927 cases this year—as against 92 in 1954. Four hundred and eighty-nine cases have been reported this month. Only 17 were reported during the first nine days of Au gust last year. The disease has taken 34 lives in New England. In Providence, R. I„ city health: officials said second-round Salk! vaccine shots were administered: yesterday to 775 schoolchildren Thirty-one cases of polio have been reported among New Eng land recipients of the vaccine. None has died. The New England polio total today rose to 1.183 cases, com pared with 240 reported to this j date last year. ! Totals for the five other New England States with correspond ling 1954 figures: Connecticut, 121-102; New Hampshire, 48-14; Rhode Island, 47-13; Vermont, 19-6; Maine 27-1 13. In Boston, hardest hit New England city, 364 cases were re ported through yesterday, as compared with 5 in 1954. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said 463 hospital beds in Boston are oc cupied by polio cases, Indies'mg that almost a third are patients from outside the city. Italians Flying | Here in Slaying MILAN. Italy. Aug. 9 UP Thirteen Italians left by special plane for the United States today to testify in a reopened investi gation into the wartime slaying of United States Army Maj. Wil-' liam Holohan. The Italians will testify before a Federal Grand Jury in Wash ington on details of the behind the-lines death of the O. S. S agent. The United States Government originally asked that 18 Italians, most ol them wartime partisans, appear before the grand jury. Five either could not be found or refused to leave Italy. An Italian court already has convicted former Lt. Aldo Icardi of Pittsburgh, and ex-Sergt. Carl Lo Dolce of Rochester, N. Y., in absentia of killing Maj. Holohan and sentenced both to prison. Neither could be extradited,, however, and the sentences do not apply unless they return to Italy. Accompanying the group to Washington are Alex H. Smith , of Pittsburgh, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, and United States Army investigator Henry Manfredi. Mr. Manfredi has been in on investigations of the case since Maj. Holohan's body was pulled out of Lake Orta, in Northern Italy, in 1949. The special plane headed for Frankfurt and then Shannon. Ireland. There the group was to transfer to a commercial air liner for the flight across the Atlantic. 9 of 20 Russian Sailors , In Taipei Seek U. S. Entry The State Department has confirmed that 9 of 20 Russian sailors who sought sanctuary on Formosa have applied for entry Into the United States over Vig » orous Kremlin objection. t Sergi Strlganov, minister and 1 charge d’ affairs at the Soviet 1 Embassy, called yesterday on 1 Undersecretary of State Herbert j Hoover jr. with a memo demand r ing return of the Soviet tanker ? Tuapse and the 20 crew members t still with it on Formosa. Mr. - Strlganov later read the memo to reporters through an interpreter. ? Mr. Hoover’s reaction, relayed 1 by department spokesman Lin-1 ■ coin White, repeated the United I States contention that is cannot : be held accountable for National-j t ist China’s action. But he ob-j tjserved that the crewmen "were! ( perfectly free to make up their! own minds as to where they . wished to reside.” i He had reference to a decision ■ by 20 members of the tanker's : crew to stay in Formosa after i 29 other crew members were re . World Church Council Meeting Spurs Unity i J r / < i: DAVOS, Switzerland, Aug. 9 i » o P).—The central committee of < . the World Council of Churches , ended its annual session yester- ‘ day with a slight step toward 1 . closer unity of its 167 Protestant : ‘ and eastern orthodox member i ’ churches. ij Extensive disagreement re mains as to whether organic j 1 unity of the non-Roman Cath- • ' olic Christian churches is pos-t isible, however. N H The closing meeting of the i ■ session unanimously instructed < ■ the world council’s staff to study, i during the next 12 months, the i ' vast problems of bringing the ; ■ Christian churches closer to- ( > gether. Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, presi- j ij - 1 Doctor on Trial i; j In Wife Killing j McALESTER, Okla., Aug. 9 (ip. 1 i —A tentative all-male jury has been selected for the murder ■ j trial of Dr. Ben T. Galbraith, t but each side still had five chal- , lenges in questioning six of the | prospective jurors. Ij Dr. Galbraith, a 34-year-old’’ heart specialist, is being tried for the March 17 slaying of his wife, j He also is charged with murder ( in the deaths of three children. ( Six jurors were approved yes- , terday afternoon. The six others j were put in the jury box, but ' .were to undergo further ques- ! . itioning today. Attorneys closely questioned ' prospective jurors on their feel- , ings toward capital punishment. Six were excused for cause after' they said they already had made up their minds on the case. District. Judge W. A. Lackey said the first witness probably would be called this afternoon. Dr. Galbraith sat silently In the courtroom yesterday, his color improved for the first time since early Sunday when he at tempted to kill himself by slash -1 ing his wrists. Judge Lackey turned down a defense motion for a delay of 30 days to allow Dr. Galbraith to recover fully from his wounds inflicted Sunday in a fourth sui cide attempt. Judge Lackey denied the petition after four of five physi cians testified that the doctor was able to continue with the trial in spite of his slashed wrists.: 363 Kw. Per Farm CHICAGO. An average, American farm during 1954 used about 363 kilowatt hours of elec tricity during one typical month. s patriated to Russia about two i weeks ago. 1 i The Tuapse was captured in r mid-1954 by the Nationalist Chi ■ nese as it steamed for Commu nist-held Shanghai loaded with I jet-plane quality kerosene. ; Yesterday’s seventh Soviet [ communication, like its prede . cessors. was addressed to the ' United States directly, with no . reference to Nationalist China.’ . However, no violent accusations! were made. Originally the So-j 1 j viets accused the United States, of having connived with the Na ! tionalists to grab the tanker. 1 It has been reported for 1 j months that the United States | was considering whether to ad mit those among the 20 seamen 1 ' [interested in entering this coun- ' try. The precise number wasji -not officially disclosed until yes-!< ‘ terday. Mr. White said nine ' have applied for resettlement ■ I here. ( Attorney General Brownell j must recommend a waiver of ] immigration regulations in such ] leases. : f dent of the United Lutheran j Church of America and chair man of the committee session, i commented that “any discus sion of the problems of Christian unity is a step m the right di- c rection.” The central committee also' instructed the world council * staff to analyze problems raised by member churches seeking con-!, verts among adherents of other S member churches. The Greek!, Orthodox Church, for instance, vigorously objects to the activi- j! ties of Protestant churchmen j among the orthodox population ! of Greece. • ■- ij Other studies to be undertaken,! in the coming year include the role which Christians can play t in the development of underde- , jveloped countries, and the diffi- c culties of preaching the gospel i»» ( an increasingly industrialized, ( world. t Reports on all these studies are to be submitted to next year's -of the 90-member central committee. The committee decided to hold its 1956 session in Hungary, in response to an invitation from the Hungarian Protestant churches. The meeting will be ! the first the council has held’in; a Communist country. ¥ The council unanimously ad mitted a fourth member church from Czechoslovakia—the Re formed Lutherans of the Silesian coal mining area. The National Baptist Convention of, America, the second largest Negro church of the United States, was also unanimously admitted to mem bership. The Council's member churches now claim more than 172 million adherents. Announcing a new HUDSON dealer with the most beautiful performers of them all ■H& m -■■i.—.i mm l *] . 0 rntmUmM AU-NCW 1f35 HUDSON HORNET—NEW V-S OR CHAMPIONSHIP SIX ENGINE MITCHELL’S MOTORS, INC. Mitchell Herson, Free. 222 SECOND STREET, N.W. (et Constitution Avenue) PHONE: EXECUTIVE 3-4105 ■RAND-NEW 1955 HUDSON WASP—smartest new cer in the low-medium HS, '<? price held with luxury beyond anything near the price. HUDSONS e RAMBLERS e METROPOLITANS All FKODUCIS OF AMIEICAN MOTORS * NEW-IDEA 1955 RAMUBt America’s lowest priced fsmily car— Kdans, hardtops, station wagons—smartest for town and travel. See "DISNEYLAND," great new 011-fomily show Wednesday evening, 7:30 to 8:30, Station WMAL-TV, Channel 7 Pentagon Lists 14 Plants Due To Be Dropped By JOHN A. GILES The Defense Department, fol lowing a congressional mandate which President Eisenhower has [declared to be unconstitutional, j today submitted to House and [Senate Appropriations Commit tees a list of commercial and industrial-type activities which it proposes to close. The disputed provision In this year’s appropriation bill requires the submission of notice to the committees at least 90 days in advance of any such proposed j closing. The department did not say whether it would await commit tee actions before discontinuing any of the 14 activities on the list. However, in submitting the list it took the first step neces sary for getting committee ap proval. Blasted by President President Elsenhower signed the big money bill last month and at a July 13 news conference blasted the section requiring committee approval as one which would curb the authority of the Secretary, of Defense. He said it would be disregarded as invalid unless "otherwise de termined by a court of competent jurisdiction.” “The Congress has no right to confer the power of veto on one of its committees,” he said. He added that It was his “duty to oppose” the provision. Today’s Defense Department statement said that it was “con itinuingiits present program of reviewing for possible discontin uance the operation of commer cial dhd industrial-type activi ties which can be performed on an economically sound basis by private enterprise without dan ger to the national security. "In this connection, it submit ted to the Appropriations Com mittees of the Senate and House of Representatives a list of those activities which it plans to dis continue in the near future," j the announcement stated. The list of activities scheduled I TofiPfoßETEiT} 1 .Operators ' •- 1 -o. Are iii " DEMAND i IT'S 1 Easy and Fun to Learn| , Short and Inexpensive ! i i * AND i j Free Nation-Wide ! Placement Service Comptometer School f 238 Munsey Bldg. i Dlstrict7^oso3_ for discontinuance wen coffee roasting plants at Atlanta, Ga.; Auburn, Wash.; Oakland, Calif., and New York. It also Included the Navy’s ropewalk, which manufactures rope for use aboard ships, at Boston. Paint manufacturing activities at the naval shipyards at Mare You’re home with her again... by Long Distance i i She’s only a whisper away, the person who wants most to hear from you. You laugh... you talk ... , you get all the news sbout her and home. And you can tell from the lilt in her voice that just hearing from you has done something wonderful for her. So you promise yourself and her that you’ll be with her again—and often—by Long Distance. Isn’t someone longing to hear from you? Call today. The cost is less than you think: From WASHINGTON to Atlanta, Ga $1.05 Chicago, 111 sl.lO Kansas City, Mo $1.35 > Las Angolas, Calif $2.00 Philadelphia, Pa 45$ i Rotes shown am for tho first 3 minutes on statien-to-station colls oft or 6 p.m. and all day Sundays. Thay do not includo tho 10% fodaral excise tax. Always tall by aambar. It's mi foster! The Chatapaaka & Potomac Telephone Company i . ! Island, Calif, and Norfolk, Va.: a bakery at Camp Kilmer, N. J., . and a dry cleaning plant at Fort Benning, Ga., also were on the ; list. Also listed were cobbler shops at the following Air Force bases: Gary. Tex.: Chanute. m.: Lowrv. Colo.; McChord, Wash., and F. E. Warren, Wyo.