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y, Posing just like people, an Adelie penguin mother and newly
offspring stare right back at the camera on Mount
• Bird’s well-populated rookery on Ross Island. McMurdo
*’ Sound, Antarctica. The Adelie penguins lay only a single
**egg a year, the Navy reports from its Operation Deepfreeze.
, *', —U. S. Navy Photo from AP Wirephoto.
XL -■ ■ ■ —— --' -
fight on High Supports
Opens, Headed by Aiken
By JOSEPH A. FOX
The administration today opened fire on the high support
price levels, of the new Senate farm bill, as debate continued on
the legislation which .distressed farmers hope will bail them
out this; year.
Leading the attack. Senator Aitcen. Republican of Vermont,
principal farm spokesman for the administration, was prepared
to warn the Senate that he is
convinced the White House “will
not take unsatisfactory legisla
tion.”
»- The Vermonter, ranking Re
publican on the Senate Agricul
ture Committee, told reporters
he had received no further word
from President Eisenhower since
the Chief Executive registered a
protest against the proposed re
turn to high supports when the
bill was being drafted by the
committee. He said, however. Iv
had been in touch with others at
the White House, and is con
. jinced the President would reject
the shift from the lower leveP
♦flexible price scale adopted in
. the administration farm law two
years ago.
Decision to Be Close
& The debate today may furnish
'jtome clue to the extent of Dem
ocratic backing for flexible sup
ports as several members of the
majority, including Senator An
derson. of New Mexico, who was
flecretary of Agriculture under
Truman, are backing
~ the Administration contention
.that high supports were largely
„ responsible for commodity sur
pluses in Government storage
.Which are blamed for depressing
, fkrm prices.
When the issue comes to a
♦ote—probably next week—any
-democratic defections will weigh
--Ijeavily. for the decision is cer
tain to be close, and Republicans
usually will go along with the
-*"3[dministration.
*1 The bill proposes to reestab
lish supports for the basic crops:
jr-wheat, cotton, corn, rtce and
Tpeanuts —at 90 per cent of
and also raise the sup
ports for dairy products. Under
she G. O. P.-backed law. the
-‘supports are graded downward
from 90. Parity is the base de
igned to equalize farm income
'Hand operating costs.
«* Continuing an analysis of the
Till in the Senate yesterday,
'phalrman Ellender of the Agri- ;
"‘culture Committee defended the
jlrtgh-support level which he con-
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I TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT
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District and vicinity—Rain to
night possibly beginning as snow.
Warmer tonight with low in the
jrith occasional rain.
f Maryland—Rain beginning as
■fbow or sleet m west early to
' liight and spreading east. Low
Aonight 26-32 in west and 30-35
In east. Cloudy and warmer to
morrow with occasional rain.
Virginia—Cloudy and warmer
With occasional rain tonight
- ghd tomorrow. Low tonight, 35-
4p in north and in the 40s in
tne south
"i. Wind— Southerly 12-20 miles
jger hour tonight. Southerly. 15-
26 miles per hour tomorrow. Fair
visibility. i;
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WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST —Snow is forecast for to
night in New England, snow or rain in the Middle Atlantic
SUtes, Eastern Ohio Valley and Lakes region, with rain
elsewhere in the East. The Northern and Central Rockies
and Southern Plateau will have snow or showers. It will be
warmer in the Southeast and Ohio Valley; colder over the
Plains and Central Plateau.—AP Wirephoto Map.
I
! tends is needed to get cash into
farm belt pocketbooks this year.
Says Benson Sees Red
Responding to criticism by
Secretary of Agriculture Benson,
| Senator Ellender said. "The trou
-1 ble with the Secretary of Agri
culture these days is that he is
behaving like a bull with a red
flag waved before him. When
' ever 90 per cent supports are
' mentioned, he immediately sees
’ red and runs around in circles.
He has become so obsessed with
the idea that 90 per cent sup
■ ports have brought about high
‘ production that he has over
-1 looked the rather obvious fact
1 that his own Department of Ag
riculture, under the splendid re
search programs which have
i been carried on over the yean, is
primarily accountable for the
present era of agricultural
. abundance.”
Senator Ellender got backing
from three farm belt Republicans
—Senators Young of North Da
kota. Carlson of Kansas and
Thye of Minnesota.
Sponsor of a provision in the
new bill to pay 90 per cent sup
-1 ports for top-grade wheat, and
lesser guarantees only when it
is of low quality. Senator Young
, said "the present flexible price
support program—if continued
i will break most wheat farm
ers.”
Soil Bank Under Fire
The Senator warned, however,
that there are "some potentially
dangerous aspects” to the key
• feature of the new legislation
| This is the so-called soil-bank
' program, under which farmers
would be paid for pulling land
’ out of production as a means of
scuttling down crop surpluses,
t He described as to
the thinking of a great many
! people” an administration pro
posal that would permit wheat
growers to qualify for crop-cut
back payment by “plowing
under" the crop of winter wheat
that was planted last fall.
Senator Carlson, a close friend
Road Conditions
Freezing rain expected in east
this afternoon.
Ohio Turnpike—Freezing rain,
slippery in west.
U. S. 50 west to Ohio—lcy in
mountains.
5-Day Forecast for Washington
And Vicinity. February 25-29
Temperatures will be near the ,
normal high of 48 and low ;
of 31. Warmer tomorrow, turn- I
lng colder Sunday and Monday,
warmer Wednesday. Occasional ,
rain Saturday and rain or snow ;
Tuesday or Wednekday totaling
about one inch.
Kivtr Report | (
(from U. 8 Eminemi
Potomic Rlvrr cloudy at Harper* Ferry <
and xlithtly muddy at Great Falla: 6hen- l
andoeh cloudy at Harper* Ferry.
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Benson Stages TV Show,
Denies Farm Depression
I • By the Assoc
Secretary of Agriculture Ben
the rocks” nor is it “depression-l
Anyone who says it is rend
does “not tell the truth,” he belli
The secretary says, howevei
not sharing as they should in t
For this he blamed farm pro
grams of the preceding Demo- |
era tic administration <
Mr. Benson made „hese state- ]
raents in remarks last night on a j
[television show set aside for him
by the Columbia Broadcasting |
System to reply to Edward R ]
Murrow s “See It Now” TV show
of January 26 entitled “The i
Farm Problem A Crisis in
Abundance.” |
Mr. Benson made only one ref- |
erence last night to the Murrow i
show —to the effect that he “felt •
it gave a distorted impression of i
the farm situation.” The Secre
tary did not say specifically what i
the "distorted” material was.
Through a conversation with ;
Senator Martin. Republican of t
lowa, who appeared with him on
the show, Mr. Benson agreed;
that many farm families were
in trouble because of farm costs
being too high and farm prices
too low.
j He said:
{ "The thing we must all realize
-is that the trouble farmers in
lowa and elsewhere are having
now go back a good many years
—gc back to the unsound farm
programs we inherited pro-
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FOR CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
NEW YORK i/P).—The Government Printing Office
was told yesterday that it will be assured of an adequate
supply of newsprint paper to publish the Congressional
Record, despite the current shortage of printing paper.
The Newsprint Service Bureau, an organization of i
United States newsprint manufacturers, announced it had
developed a voluntary allocation plan under which pro
ducers, large and small, will furnish a pro rata share of the
annual tonnage of newsprint required by the GPO.
The bureau said it had received an appeal from GPO
which pointed out that it could obtain no assurance of
supply for future requirements in the usual manner. The
office in the past has bought its newsprint on a quarterly
j basis.
According to the bureau, the plan was drawn up with
the approval and eb-operation of the American Newspaper
Publishers’ Association.
__________________________.
of President Eisenhower, said he
felt the high support program
1 outlined by Senator Young is
the one “that we've got to fol- '
low in the wheat belt.”
Senator Thye said "the soil
bank program is the first real
approach" made toward reduc
tion of surpluses.
"The support price factor has
not done it in the past, and will
not do it in the future.” he said.
Chairman Ellender is hope
ful of getting preliminary de
bate out of the way early next
week, so voting on amendments
can start.
There already have been 27
. amendments introduced and
more are in prospect. One backed
by Senators Kerr, of Oklahoma,
and George, of Georgia, Demo
, crats, calls for price supports
; for hogs and cattle—a proposal
| the administration rejected
earlier when it was urged by
growers.
Dairymen to Gather
LEESBURG, Va . Feb. 24 <Bpe
; ciah.—C. I. Horrocks. Maryland-
Virginia Milk Producers As
, sociation field man. will speak
at the annual meeting of the
I Loudoun County Dairy Herd
, Improvement Association, at 10
a.m. Saturday, in the Hamilton
, school.
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Temperature* for Yesterday
'Readings Washington National Airport),
Midnight 28 Noon 34
4 am. 26 4 pm. 30
8 •n» 26 h pm. 34
Recard Temperatures Ihls Year
•Itjhest 6:t, on January 30. February
15 an« »8
Lowest, ‘,lO, on January 24, 28 and
February *>*„•
Iftvb and Low of Last 21 Hours
High yesterday, 30. it 4 pm
Ldw last night. 23. at 6:10 a m.
Tide Tables
• Furnished by the United BUtes Coast
and Qeodetlc Survey)
. Today Tomorrow
High . 6:2*1 a.ro. 7:20 am
High ....... 6.55 p.m. 747 pm
Low .... 1:12 p.m 2 06 p.m ■
The Sun and Moon
„ Rise* Sets
Hun. todav flHHa.m 5:.53p.m.
fun. tomorrow 0:47 a m 3.56 p m
Moon today 4 30 pni 3:31 a m
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-naif hour after sunset.
Pie< ipltaflon
Monthly precipitation in inches In the
Capital 'current month to date).
Month 1056 J 055 Av* Record
January 100 iKii 3.24 7.*3 37
February 2.38 313 244 BN4 84
March ** 7«» 3.(13 8.84 Ml
April 257 306 0.13 80
i, r *y 3,38 3.08 10 60 53
•J un# --- 276 3.4 J 16 04 06
232 126 10 63 80
August 14 3) | ,7ft 14 41 28
September 065 4.12 17 45 34
October f 1.46 285 881 37!
November 163 2.73 718 77
r>rember 022 261 756 Ol
Temperature In Various fliles
H L H. 1
Abilene 83 62 Knwtvllle 46 38
Albany 22 -3 Little Rock 63 55
Albuquerque 66 4 4 Los Angeles 54 46
Anchorage 20 13 Louisville 43 4<i
Atlanta 64 40 Memphis 58 52
Atlantic City 36 24 Miami 72 65
Baltimore 37 17 Milwaukee 33 27“
Billings 55 27 Minneapolis 30 26 .
Birmingham 60 55 Montgomery ?J 57 '
Bismarck 27 14 New Orleans 71 61
Boise 4 8 26 New York 33 22
Bo* ton 20 15 Norfolk 4 3 25 ,
Buffalo 27 13 Okla. City 73 40
Burlington 1M -6 Omaha 36 32 .
Charleston 55 61 Philadelphia 36 2o
Charlotte 54 4o Phoenix 76 60
Cheyenne 55 20 Pittsburgh 30 20
Chicago 34 32 P'tland Me 27 16
Cincinnati II 33 Raleith 18 31
Cleveland 28 23 Reno 46 23
Columbus 37 26 Richmond 44 22
Delia? 76 66 8t Louis 45 42!
Denver 63 30 8 Lake City 57 45;
Des Moines 40 34 San Antonio 77 66
Detroit 20 22 San Diego 62 40
Duluth 2.5 22 8 Francisco 54 41
Fort Worth 76 64 flavAnnah 65 46
Huron 32 17 Seattle 36 33
Indianapolis 36 32 Tampa 72 50
Jackson 71 30 Washington 30 24
Kansas city 57 46 Wichita 73 35,
Key West 76 64
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c Inter) Press
nson says agriculture is not “on
bound.”
ders farmers “a disservice” and ,
leves.
t, that “our farm families arei]
this record prosperity.",
grams that under the law
couldn’t be changed at all until
late 1955 on basic commodities ,
and then only gradually."
By ” the “unsound" farm pro
grams. Mr. Benson said he meant ,
high, rigid farm price supports
which Congress is considering
restoring.
Mr. Benson said the high sup
ports had encouraged over
production and the accumulation !
of price - depressing surpluses
which in turn reduced farm in
comes.
He said recent farm recom
mendations of the President
would rectify the problem and he
appealed to his viewers to write
their Congressmen and urge
them to support those recom
mendations.
In introducing the show, an
announcer said CBS had full
confidence in the editors of the
“See It Now” farm show—Mr.
Murrow and Fred Friendly—and
felt confident they had presented
a factual picture of the situation. j
The announcer added, how>
ever, that CBS was glad to give;
Mr Benson an opportunity to
present his views.
Jailed in Torch Death \
MOBILE, Ala., Feb. 24
23-year-old Negro who admitted
turning a Negro girl into a flam
ing torch after a tavern argu
ment was sentenced yesterday to
life imprisonment. William Jack
son said that on June 23 he
poured gasoline on Betty Jean
Watts. 19. then threw a match
on her. She was burned on 70
per cent of her body and died
several days later.
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On Red Trade
By the Associated Press
i Senator McClellan. Democrat
of Arkansas, urged Congress yes
terday to hold up action on the;
[Eisenhower administration’s for
eign aid budget until it gets the
full story of allied nations’ trade!
with Russia.
Senator- McClellan told the
Senate Government officials are
withholding information which
he contended would show West
ern nations are doing a flourish
ing business selling strategic
goods to,Russia with this coun
try’s consent.
The Senate Investigations sub
committee, headed by Senator
McClellan, has been holding a
series of hearings aimed at dis
closing the scope and nature of
such trade, and what role this
country may have played in 1954
negotiations which relaxed curbs
on East-West commerce.
Harold E. Stassen. then for
eign aid director, said at the
time of the relaxation that the
net result would be of benefit to
the free world. Senator McClel
lan disputes this, saying the ef
fect is to build up Russia’s war
making potential.
The Senator urged that Con
gress withhold action on the ad
ministration’s request for about
*4 9 billion in new foreign aid,
money until his subcommittee;
gets the evidence. He accused:
the administration of suppress
ing it to conceal ‘ errors, in
efficiency and bad judgment.”
1 He said his investigation has
shown that responsible United,
States officials have made ”ai
mockery” of the law Under which
foreign aid is supposed to be
denied to any nation selling war
strategic goods to the Soviets.
Officials have so construed it.
he said, that allies are allowed
to “ship strategic goods with im
punity" to the Reds and still re
ceive United States dollar aid.
Senator Mundt, Republican of
South Dakota, a subcommittee
member, described as ‘ purely a
political deduction” Senator Mc-
Clellans charge that officials
were trying to conceal bad
judgment.
: Pranksters 'Smeared'
I YONKERS. N. Y.. Feb. 24 UP).
—Waging a "smear campaign”;
against false alarm ringers. Are-,
men have applied a red sticky
substance to alarm box handles
to smear the hand of anyone
turning in an alarm. One
prankster has been caught red
handed. but two more false
alarms were sounded last night
by culprits who got away.
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