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Weather Forecast: Partly Cloudy Friday. Showers Tonight THE DAILY Register-Mail A Better Newspaper Pledged: 842,038 Goal: $75,513 VOLUME LXXII 250 GALESBURG, ILLINOIS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1953 PRICE: FIVE CENTS FARM FAMILY The parents of Cpl. Edward Dickenson were happy to hear that their son decided to reject the Reds and return to VN forces in Korea. Dickenson was one of 23 American prisoners of war in Korea who had refused to return to the U.S. The parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Van Burcn Dickenson, stand in front of their mountain home near Cracker's Neck, Va. Change-of-Hea rt GI Wrote of Love And Desire to Wed KINGSPORT, Tcnn. (UP)-Pfc, Edward S. Dickenson, the of-heart American GI who dramatically turned his back on communism this week, wrote tender love letters back home while he was in Korea to a girl named Kate whom he wants to marry, it was disclosed today.

The homesick 23 year old mountain boy from Crackers Neck, spilled out his affection for 20-year-old Kate Laney, a girl he knew but had never dated. I would like very much to have you for my wife," he wrote in one letter. Miss Laney said she replied that It would be best for them to wait until he returnea so both could talk.over the; marriage proposal. She, denied earlier reports that she had written him a "Dear John" after hearing he had at first refused repatriation in the Korean prisoner of war exchange. In a series of letters written by Dickenson between Dec.

15, 1952, 1 and last May 3 to his mother, Mrs.l Bessie Dickenson, and to Miss Laney, the Virginia mountaineer! CHICAGO, revision of the gave no hint of why he refused state banking laws was proposed repatriation at first. The letters Wednesday by Illinois State Audi- were published today the tor 0rville Hod 8 Kingsport, News. i He suggested modernizing the Dickenson wrote only of his long-' 1U( hic is based on ing to return home to his family the IIlmoIS constitution of 1870, and and his desire to marry Miss bringing it into line with the regulations under which the Federal Would Revise Banking Law Call Official Of Cab Firm In Money Hunt ST. LOUIS (AP) An official of the taxicab firm employing the driver whose tip put the kidnap-slayers of 6- year-old Bobby Greenlease behind bars was a surprise witness today at a top-level police inquiry into police handling of the case. The first witness as the hearing entered its fourth day was Joseph Costello, an ex-convict and an official of the Ace Cab Co.

Costello's name had not been on the' list of scheduled (Witnesses for today Security Tax Hike Needed, Chairman Says WASHINGTON UPl Rep. Curtis (R-Neb) said today a scheduled 33 per cent increase in social se curity taxes seems necessary to carry on the vast program of death and retirement benefits. Curtis is chairman of a special social security subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Com mittee. He plans hearings next month as part of a broad investigation of the present social se curity system. His comment puts him at odds with Rep.

Richard M. Simpson (R-Pa), another influential mem ber of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, who said it would be wise to freeze social se curity taxes at their present levels Simpson noted that for many persons in low income groups the scheduled social security tax increase would more than.offset a 10 per cent reduction in personal income taxes also set for Jan. 1. President Eisenhower asked the 1953 session of Congress to cancel the scheduled social security tax boost. The lawmakers took no action on this, however, and the administration did not push the request.

Jumps Automatically Under. security tax atically on 1 from 3 per cent of a person's salary, up to $3,600 a year: Half of the tax is paid by the employe and half by the employer, so the individual rate would go up from Vh to 2 per cent year. The total increase could amount to roughly one billion dollars next year. the Ne'itral Nations Repatriation Commission to send a chair- swinging Chinese war prisoner back to" Communism. Laney.

Proposes By Mall Dickinson proposed to Laney in a letter dated Dec. "Kate, I would like very much hm 11 be a Deposit Insurance corporation and Miss'the Federal Reserve system oper- 15 'ate. In addition he said it should be made certain that bank owner- matter of public to have you for my wife," knowledge wrote. "I know that I never tried Another change sought, he said, to go with you before, but I'm ls the provision of the law sure that we could be happy to-i wmc4h rcc ulr es tha 1 gether. I have some money in to organize a bank live within the very three miles of the bank to be could build a house when I cned impracticable in home, or I could write to Papa and he casc a cl 'y such as Chicago he could build it for us while I f- few ons or mu am still here jbanks live near them, Hodge said.

In a tender'letter to his He said be wa to see the-law on Mother's Day, 1952, Dickenson I with respect to the sa j(j. I tighter restrictions on a bank's "In these lines, I'll try to ex-, loans to directors, plain how much I love you, but I He ald he lans to name two can never tell you on paper. It has committees to write proposed seemed like years to me, but Mom a maybe some day if God is 1 et her revisions would be con- I'll come back to you. I miss st lonal and 10 hne Public your Bible reading and the teach- wlsnes ing you gave to us kids before we went to bed at night. "You are the sweetest mother anybody could have and now I am away from you, but I pray to almighty Gbd in heaven for my safe return to you someday.

"My prayers here and Jesus are the only ones I have to rely on, I hope the war will end very soon and there will be peace on earth again when everybody can live happy once more." Drought Does Job MANHATTAN, Kan. Wl-Kansas State College experts had to give up on their experiments to find which chemicals kill crabgrass the quickest. The prolonged drought killed the crabgrass and there was none left for testing the chemicals Where to Find It 2 Sections 32 Pages Abingdon 29 Bushnell 8 Classified Ads 30,31 Comics 27 Editorial 4 Food Section X7-26 Galva 5 Knoxville 29 Markets 28 Monmouth 12 Obituary 29 Social 10,11 Sports Theater 6 Weather Unveil Plans for Law Building At University CHAMPAIGN were unveiled today for a $2,300,000 University of Illinois law building. The plans for the two-story glass and brick structure, designed by Architecture Prof. Ambrose M.

Richardson, wero submitted to the University Board of Trustees. The College of Law now occupies Altgeld Hall, formerly the Univer sity Library. Expect Drive To Guarantee Annual Wage NEW YORK (UP) CIO United Steelworkers union's Policy Committee was expected to announce today its intention of making an allout drive next year for a guaranteed annual wage for its 1,200,000 members. Otis Brubaker, of Pittsburgh, Pa. USW economist who as a member of a CIO committee has made a study of the guaranteed wage pro posal, was scheduled to give a de tailed report to the powerful 170 man policy group on the subject today.

The guaranteed annual wage question was expected to be a major issue in negotiations between the union and the big steel companies next spring, when current contracts expire. Basic steel workers currently are paid an average of $2.06 an hour, and the guaranteed annual wage would be based upon that rate at 2,000 hours per year, union sources said. The Policy Committee opened a two-day session Wednesday to map strategy for contract negotiations next year with David J. McDonald, USW president, describing the conference as "operation sound-off." McDonald said the union officers were there to listen to the rank and file opinion as relayed to them by the committee members. He limited Wednesday's discussions to the union's insurance and pensions programs, and said today's discus- ions would be primarily on the guaranteed annual wage.

Police Lt. Louis Shoulders, key witness in the inquiry, was questioned for seven hours Wednesday. He was back in seclusion at his home today. It was Shoulders who received the tip from the cab driver and arrested Carl Austin Hall, the confessed kidnap-killer, on Oct. 6 and recovered nearly half of the ransom money.

take two OFFIcials It is the particulars of Hall's arrest and the handling of the ransom money that is under investigation. Half of the $600,000 Greenlease ransom is unaccounted for. Police Chief Jeremiah O'Connell told newsmen the panel of investigators may recall Shoulders for further questioning, but added Shoulders would not reappear today. The entire board of police commissioners joined O'Connell and the panel of investigators in questioning Shoulders Wednesday. It was the third day of closed-door sessions.

Ducks Newsmen Shoulders, a 6-foot, 55 -year -old police veteran, ducked past newsmen after testifying and rode a private elevator to the ground floor of police headquarters, where the inquiry is being held. His appearance came as a surprise. He had been excused through the first two days of testimony because of IK All a nervous conditton. 1 01,1 "his home, ah unidentified friend told telephone callers Shoul ders was "resting" and unable to talk to newsmen. O'Connell declined to comment one way or another on the results of Shoulders' testimony.

"I am sure we will have a statement to make when the entire investigation is completed," he said. Shoulders was the only witness Wednesday. Others scheduled to be called were excused. Hall's arrest by Shoulders came on a tip from John Hager, a taxi driver. Hall himself told police where his accomplice, Mrs.

Bonnie Brown Heady, was staying. She was arrested a few hours later at a St. Louis apartment. PRESIDENT GREETS Eisenhower greets Maj. Gen.

William F. Dean, one of the nation's most famous ex-prisoners of war, who was his guest at a White House breakfast. Gen. Dean arrived in Washington for reassignment and an operation on his eye. (NEA Telephoto.) U.

N. to Protest Decision to Return Chinese Prisoner PANMUNJOM, Korea jto return to communism of the The United Nations announced anti-Communist prisoners day it will protest a decision oflheld by the Allies. Will Not Quit, Benson States WASHINGTON (UP) "I didn't want this job, but I'm not going to quit so long as the President wants me here," Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson told the United Press in an exclusive interview shortly before Mr. Eisenhower gave him a 100 per cent endorsement. The President blessed Benson Wednesday in his news! conference.

A great many farmers do not feel way about the Secretary. He is in real political trouble. "I certainly am not going to resign," he told this reporter. Benson said he would stay on the job even if Congress refuses to accept the farm program which he now Nineteen of the turncoats changed their minds after "explanation" interviews, but the others The prisoner will be one of three-made their decision without seeing Chinese and North Korean war prisoners to be handed over to the Communists here at 11 a.m. Friday (9 p.m.

EST today). Friday's repatriation will bring to 158 the number of Chinese and North Koreans who have decided Seek to Halt Recover Body of Illinoisan From Canadian Bay SIOUX NARROWS, Ont. (UP) The body of Paul Klose, 59, Elgin, 111., has been recovered from Whitefish Bay on Lake of the Woods. Klose was reported missing after he and a companion had gone into the bay area with a guide and landed on an island to hunt. Authorities said Klose went back to pick up the boat, beached some distance away, and apparently fell from the boat on his way to pick up the other two men.

His body was found Tuesday. Sioux Narrows is about 50 miles northwest of International Falls, Minn. Court Provides Nurse LOS ANGELES (fl-Mrs. Violet Leduc, a juror in a civil suit, phoned the judge Wednesday that she would have to care for her 2-year-old grandson the next two weeks because her daughter-in-law was about to have another baby. Judge George A.

Dockweiler recessed the trial and went into a huddle with the lawyers. Then he phoned Mrs. Leduc and told her, "We hired a nurse. Trial will resume Set Meeting WASHINGTON UP) Chairman Francis A. O'Neill of the National Mediation Board said today he has arranged for representatives of the nation's railroads and 15 unions to meet in Chicago Nov.

3 in an effort to avert a rail strike. O'Neill said the board will not step into the 5-month-old dispute unless the talks break down. The unions, representing workers who do not actually operate trains, are demanding a health plan and four other improved fringe benefits. Wages are not involved. George A.

Leighty, chairman of a joint negotiating committee set up by the unions, announced Tuesday that the one million members of the 15 labor organizations would be polled to find out whether they want to strike. To Carry Out Plans Leighty told reporters today that plans for 'the stnke vote will be carried out, even though the two groups are to meet in Chicago. At a Tuesday news conference Leighty accused the railroads of stalling and announced that the unions had asked the mediation board to intervene. He charged that the railroads ignored a union invitation to begin talks here Tuesday. However, railroad spokesmen emphatically denied this.

They contended they had informed Leighty that prior commitments prevented a meeting on the date suggested by the unions and that they had offered to confer in Chicago Nov. 3, The nonoperating unions represent clerks, telegraphers, maintenance and similar employes. To Publish Report TOKYO fJV-A Japanese publishing firm today announced plans to publish a Japanese language translation of Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in The Human.

Female." Communist political officers. The Chinese who changed his mind did so after an intensive 45- minute. grilling by Polish and Czech members of the commission, who ended a three-day boycott of the commission's activities. is attempting to devise. He acknowledged Congress' right to accept or reject his recommendations "because Congress writes the laws." "If Congress decides our recommendations are not politically expedient and changes them," Benson said, "I'm not going off in a corner and sulk.

I'll administer the program Congress enacts to the best of my ability, so long as the President wants me to do that." If Benson's recommendations would much change or in any way diminish present farm subsidies, Congress is very likely to reject them. The House Agriculture Committee has just completed a series of hearings in various parts of the country. Wants Him Fired The word from the grass roots was: Fire Benson and don't do much tinkering with the farm program, unless be to extend and improve it. Not everyone wanted to fire Benson. But many did, including Republicans.

The secretary said he had hoped to do the farm job without getting involved in politics, but agreed that would be next to impossible "in the coming year." The administration should make Two Share in Nobel Award For Medicine STOCKHOLM, Sweden The Nobel prize in medicine and physiology was awarded jointly tonight to a Harvard University scientist and a Briton for their discovery of fundamental life mechanisms inside human cells. The winners are Dr. Filz Albert Lipmann, 54, professor of biochemistry at the Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, and Dr. progress this week toward a The National Agri cultural Advisory Commission was that the Chinese, who tried to hit a Communist propagandist with a chair last Saturday during a "come home to Communism" interview, now wanted to go home. A United Nations Command spokesman-said the Allies objected tff of the Chinese because the five-nation neutral commission had failed to inform the TJ.

N. the man would be heard. In the near-riot last Saturday, in which all but nine of 440 Chinese noisily refused to return to Communism, the chair-swinging prisoner was questioned by Red persuaders for three hours. At that time Brig. Gen.

A. Hamblen, chief of the U. N. re patriation group, protested the treatment of the Chinese as "cruel and inhuman." The new U. N.

protest was being considered on the ground that no Allied interpreter was present at the session to verify the prisoner's statement that he wanted to go back to Red China. While the U. N. was preparing its complaint, Lt. Gen.

K. S. Thimayya, chairman of the neutral commission, lodged a "strong protest" with the Allies because a U. interpreter had cursed at a Polish officer during the Saturday incident. I set up to fulfill campaign promises that farmers would have a real part in policy decisions.

It is meet ing here today and Friday with Benson. The committee will see the President "Saturday. Benson, a Utah Republican, has been 6a the Cabinet hot seat for biochemistry at Sheffield Unj Dr. Lipmann iHans Addlph 53, professor Israeli Freight Train Wrecked By Land Mines JERUSALEM Israeli freight train was wrecked today by land mines near the border of Jordan and an Israeli spokesman said it was an act of Arab sabotage. The mining of the train was the latest incident of violence in a series of acts which have inflamed relations between Israel and her hostile Arab neighbors and precipitated a menacing crisis in the Middle East.

In another development, Israeli officials charged the United States was trying to win the friendship and sympathy of the Arab states at the expense of the Jewish state. They said the suspension of economic aid to Israel was months. Drought, over-production and sagging prices plague the farmers. Their woes were translated into anti-administration votes in Wisconsin's recent special congressional election, in which a Democrat won a House seat long claimed by the GOP. The secretary does not like the high and rigid price support system of protecting the farmer.

He explained Ms position on that in an interview in, his office. "Did you recently call high and rigid price supports morally and economically unsound?" Benson was asked. "I did not say morally unsound," he replied. "But high, rigid supports (as now authorized by law) will require acreage controls if surpluses are to be avoided. High price supports are likely to price some commodities out of the market.

Butter is being priced out now. If the dairy industry had tried to help a competing product, it could not have done a better job than has been done by the existing butter support program. "We've been trying for 30 years to get a farm program which would work right. The high and rigid support system has been made to appear to work because of inflation and two wars. "The program has appeared to accomplish things which actually were accomplished by war conditions." versity, in Britain.

They share the prize money of 175,292 crowns Dr. Lipmann gained the distinction through his discovery of a coenzyme an organic substance that plays an important part in nearly every biological process. Dr. Krebs was cited for his "wheel of fortune" explanation of how food becomes energy in living tissue. The two developments are closely related.

Both achievements were described by Dr. Goran Liljestrand, secretary of the medical Nobel committee, as being "of the utmost theoretical significance and very likely to have great practical importance in understanding diseases and similar disturbances." The award was the 44th made by Stockholm's Caroline Institute of Medicine under the will of the late Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, who died in 1896. The will established similar annual prizes for outstanding work in literature, physics, chemistry, and toward world peace. The literature prize this year already has been awarded to the British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill. The other awards are still to be announced.

LEBANON, Ky. (UP) Rep. Frank L. Chelf (D-Ky.) today said that President Eisenhower's defense of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson Wednesday "proves to me more than ever that the President is a great guy, a wonderful fellow trying to cover up for a poor one." Chelf, in a heated telegram to Benson calling for Benson's resignation, said "I believe you are a good Impellitteri Is Ruled Off N.Y.

Ballot NEW YORK Vincent R. Impellitteri has been ruled off the ballot for the Nov. 3 mayoral election because he failed to file enough valid signatures to his nominating petitions as an independent candidate. Impellitteri has declined so far Says Farmers Did Good Job on Insect Problem CHAMPAIGN chief of the State Natural History Survey says Illinois farmers "did the best jcb in history" in meeting insect problems this year. Dr.

Harlow B. Mills reported Wednesday Illinois farmers faced more insect troubles in 1953 than they bad in 20 years. "By acting promptly on control information issued at least weekly by the Natural History Survey, they were able to save thousands of acres of clover, soybeans, corn and other crops from heavy or complete loss," be said. U. S.

Plans to Tame Atomic Power for Industry CHICAGO United States today announced the first full- scale attempt to tame atomic power for move billed as "America's answer" to Soviet claims of mastery over dread new nuclear weapons of war. Thomas E. Murray, a member, said the Atomic Energy Commission will build an industrial power reactor producing at least 60,000 kilowatts of electrical energy I enough to run a city of 50,000. He said the project will cost such facility at Oak Ridge, and is building others at Paducah, and Portsmouth, Ohio. He said Westinghouse Corp.

will be the principal contractor for the new plant which, be said, is of a design "inherited from a naval project." Rear Adm. H. G. Rick- over, the Navy's reactor expert was given "immediate responsibility" for the new program. Murray's historic announcement little more than eight years after the United States unleashed "many tens of millions of dollars" the world's first atomic bomb at and that the AEC hopes to in a speech pre- an operating plant in three to four years.

The plant, Murray said, may be located "at or near" an AEC facility for separating uranium-235 the paydirt of atomic power, from uranium. The AEC one pared for the electric companies' public information program. "This is America's significant peacetime recent Soviet atomic weapons tests," Murray said. "It should show the world that, even in tail' gravest phase of arming for de fense, America eyes are still on the peaceful future." Murray said the world was stunned when Russia announced recently it had the hydrogen bomb. But he said world peace would have been more gravely endangered if Russia had announced successful operation of an industrial power had offered to swap atomic know-how for uranium produced by other countries.

Countries hungry for the new source of power, no matter how repelled they are by Soviet tyranny, would gravitate toward Russia, he said. But Murray stressed that the AEC was not putting all its atomic reactor eggs in one basket. "Ia the immediate future," he said, "we ezpect to propose the man. But I also believe that you are rather stupid." to whether he lU onduct 8 He told Benson that he should St "forthwith thereby prevent-! eft t0 him lf he continues efforU latest result of this alleged newling your later removal" by a fine t0C4w re State Department policy. 'but most embarrassed President." rfi WeS day that the mayor's Experience party petitions contained no more than 5,276 valid signatures among the 24,187 filed.

The law requires a minimum of 7,500. A spokesman for the Republican mayoral candidate, former Acting Postmaster Harold Riegelman, claimed that the barring of litteri would help Riegelman. City Council President Rudolph Halley, mayoral candidate of the Liberal and Independent parties and onetime chief counsel to the Kefauver Committee, contended construction of different types of reactors that will explore promising avenues of approach to practical nuclear power." Mrray said the tremendous cost of building, testing and perfecting an industrial atomic power plant rules out any such development by private enterprise without government help, but "the work should gradually be transferred from the federal government." While Westinghouse was chosen as principal contractor, he said, the AEC welcomes offers from other firms "to invest risk capital in the building of the steam and turbine portions, as well as in the operation of the entire plant." The AEC commissioner gave these details: 1. The design chosen was herited from a naval presumably some modification of the type originally envisioned for powering an aircraft carrier. 2.

Westinghouse was picked as principal contractor because of its "previous experience with the reactor system chosen." 3. General supervision of development would aid him. new project will be in charge of AEC's Reactor Development Division, with immediate responsibility assigned to Rickover because of his "unique experience and accomplishments in building propulsion power reactors for the commission and for the Navy." 4. Costs of power from the projected plant "will be higher than costs from modern (non-nuclear) planfe." No Comment There was no immediate comment from the camp of Manhattan Borough President Robert F. Wagner who beat Impellitteri for the Democratic nomination by almost 2 to 1 at the Sept 15 primary.

Wagner's supporters had previously claimed Wagner would get at least 40 per cent of the ImpeMteri vote tf the mayor were ruled elf khe ballot..