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Let's Keep Our Hodag! Your Help Will Do It! News and THE NEW NORTH THIRTY-SIXTH 277 RHINELANDER, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1954 8 PAGES TODAY PRICE SIX CENTS Guided Missile Program Reported Armed Forces Talk Of $3,000,000,000 For Robot Weapons WASHINGTON Wl The Armed Forces have received or are asking authority to buy more than three billion dollars worth of guided missiles which they started procuring four yqars ago. This does not include other multi- millioiji dollar' outlays for designing, developing and testing expert-J mental gadgets the research part of the program. The figures, made available today in response to a reporter's questions, do not mean lhat the American arsenal now necessarily contains three billion dollars worth of missiles for the Air Force, Army and Navy. An undisclosed part of the value is material still to be dc-j livered on orders placed months or even a year or more ago. And another portion, about 400 million dollars in requests for new spending authorily, is contained in the proposed budget for the fiscal year starting next July 1.

it is a measure of the effort being devoted to producing robot weapons to augment and eventually supplant some of the conventional weapons of the three services. It is indicative, too, of the emergence of controllable missiles from the drawing boards and laboratories to production lines. Air Force Gets Most. The Air Force has had the largest part of the funds authorized for missile contracts, about $1,268,000,000. It is giving major attention to medium and 'long range, surface-to-surface missiles.

The Matador missile, with a range understood to "be about 500 miles, has been in production for more than a missile, the Snark, with a range substantially greater, is approaching production stage. The Army's share is close to that of the Air Force about a billion dollars. Present major procurement by the Army is going to Nike antiaircaft guided missiles, the surface-to-surface Corporal and another, presumably semiguided heavy field artillery rocket design- nated as the Honest John. The Nike has been in mass production for more than a 1 year. The Navy has a share of 742 million dollars in the missile procurement program.

It- has in production several missiles including the Regulus, a surface-to-surface type to be used in firing from ships or from submarines. Also included are two antiaircraft missiles fpr defense of ships against enemy planes the Terrier and Sparrow. Some GIs Still Held by Reds! GREEN BAY WV-Sen. Charles E. Potter (R-Mich) told a Lincoln Day dinner audience Thursday night that "there is reason to believe many American soldiers captured by the Communists in Korea are still behind the Iron Curtain," Speaking before members of the Republican party from the 8th Wisconsin Congressional District, Sen.

Potter, chairman of the Senate subcommittee to investigate Korean War atrocities, said the group would start hearings at Washington within two or three weeks. "We are prepared to do everything in our power to get the information that will tell us what has happened to these men," Potter said. He said that out of 11,622 men captured by the Communists, 3,500 have been returned. Of the remaining approximate 8,000, Potter declared, 5,000 or more have died of what he termed "willful war ciimes." Potter said his committee will endeavor to learn what has become of the still unaccounted for 3,000 American soldiers once held in Red prison camps. 107 YEARS Woolson, last survivor of the Union Army of the Civil War, makes quick work of blowing out the 107 candles on his birthday cake.

The former drummer boy is the last of 2,675,000 boys in Wirephoto) Weather Forecast for Wisconsin: Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday with some light snow likely north and central tonight and in north Saturday. Warmer. Low tonight zero to 5 above north. 15-gO extreme south. High Saturday north, 28-34 sputh.

BUnelauder Wevttpr: Thursday's temperatures ranged from a high ol 13 degrees to a low of tow below. The overnight low was 19 degrees below zero, recorded at 7 o'clock this morning'. Story of Security Dismissals Was 'Leaked'- Rooney WASHINGTON Rep Rooney (D-NY) said today ''someone in the department 'must have the about the number of State Department security dismissals effected under the Eisenhower administation. 1 Newspapers accounts published Wednesday said that iri secret testimony House Appropriations subcommittee W. Scott McLeod, State secur-; Ity administrator, had said that of 534 security dismissals, just 11 could be attributed to reasons of questionable loyalty.

The first published version of this purported testimony gave no indication of its source. Later versions were attrib- buted to House members who asked not to be named. These House members also reported that Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith, testifying at the time, told them no active Communists had been found in the department. He has not commented on these reports. McLeod, now on a Republican- sponsored speaking tour, described the figures attributed to him as inaccurate but gave no others.

"I think Mr. McLeod should be back in Washington looking into his own office," said Rooney, a member of the subcommittee. While Rooney was accusing the department of leaking prematOre- ly information given the House group in confidence, newsmen were scratching their heads over a curtain of confusion apparently stemming from the fact that top department officials are in Berlin for the Big Four The' prime example of this confusion has centered around McLeod and the question: Is he or is he not subject to the Hatch Act, which bars federal employes from political activity? For three days in a row, acting department spokesman Jameson Paker has been issuing sometimes conflicting statements, in written form, and then declining further comment. When pressed, he will say he doesn't know the answer but will get it. His problem seems to be that in many cases whoever has the answer is in Berlin or elsewhere outside Washington.

With Secretary of State Dulles in Berlin are Asst. Secretary for Public Affairs Carl W. McCardle and the department's news division chief, Henry Suydam. Suydam's chief assistant, Lincoln White, is touring with President Celal Bayer of Turkey. As tor the security dismissals, Rooney wouldn't say what the exact figures ware, but indications from other 'committee sources were that the figure of for "loy ally" dismissals was close to accuracy.

Roouey.saJd in an interview he bad no reason to believe that anyone connected with the commitee divulged the information, so "it must have come from the State Department." Coffee $244 per Pound in Japan TOKYO Coffee high back home? Well, it's 30 cents a cup here, 12.24 a pound or $1.40 for a two-ounce jar of the instant type. If you pinch pennies, you can buy a cup of bitter, unrecognizable tor 17 cents. South Korea Offers Army Division to Help Indochina SEOUL South Korea said today it has offered a full army division to fight communism in Indochina and it asked for help from retired U. S. Gen.

James Van Fleet. The government information office, in a statement indirectly critical of the United States, said it had been asked to help fight the Reds in "two urgent appeals signed by the cabinet minister of the Laos government," one of the three states of Indochina. A Communist Vietminh force of 10,000 men is driving south toward Luang Prabang, capital of Laos. South Korean Foreign Minister Pyun Yung Tai said in an interview that his country has offered a division of anti-Communhit forces in Indochina fighting under the French Union banner. A source in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris said it had no information on such an offer.

In Tokyo, the Japanese newspaper Nippon Times said American Air Force units are flying small- scale support airlifts for French troops in Indochina, from Japan via Formosa and the Philippines. Hits U. S. In a swipe at U. S.

and U. N. policy in Korea, the South Korean government declared: "From the United Slates we ask only that it give us the services of its great soldier, Gen. Van Fleet, who achieved such miracles in creating the Korean Army and in Greece." AS commander of the U. S.

8th Army until his retirement late in the Korean war, Van Fleet supervised the training of South Korea's army. "Some Americans may be opposed to active intervention to help the spread of communism in southeast Asia, but we believe that an over-whelming majority of our friends in the United States will applaud a realistic approach to the problem. Most of them know, as we do, that to lose in southeast Asia is to give up to communism the whole of the Asian continent and its adjacent waters and Scotland Yard Sets Dragnet LONDON Scotland Yard spread a nationwide dragnet today for the brutal strangler of a prim u'ttie great-grandmother, "Lady Menzies, and her red-haired daughter at their sedate old folks' home. A police alert went out for two men known to have frequented the many gabled 12-room mansion tucked away in a quiet Victorian style London suburb. Airports and seaports got the descriptions of a middle-aged man and a handsome bearded young man with pierced ears.

Police said they wanted to question them. The 68-year-old Mrs. Mary Menzies, known to the-19 aged residents of the home she ran as "Lady" Menzies, was found beaten and strangled in front of a cold hearth Thursday. The half-clothed body of her daughter, Mrs. Isabel Chesney, 42, was found submerged in an upstairs bathtub.

J5he was undressing to bathe when the strangler struck. Police said there was evidence that a sexual attempt had been made against one of, the women. They did not say which. Nixon Advises GOP Speakers to Take It Easy WASHINGTON President Nixon has advised fellow Repubicans to avoid "indiscriminate attacks on the opposition on the issue of communism, while accusing the Democrats of losing at the conference table victories won in war. Whether by coincidence or In line with President Eisenhower's counsel to shun extreme partisanship, a number of GOP senators seemed to lake a more moderate tone as the Lincoln Day speechmaking reached its peak volume cm this anniversary of the Civil War President's birth.

There were still pienty of accusations that past Democratic administrations had coddled Communists, been outsmarted by them. Nixon himself, in a speech Thursday night at New Haven, paid tribute to the way in which he said Secretary of State Dulles "has stood up to the Communists at the conference table in Berlin." Democrats Too. In counseling Republicans against indiscriminate attacks, Nixon said: "We must remember that millions of Democrats were just as fed up with Trumanism as we were in 1952." Eisenhower told a Wednesday news conference the times are too serious for extreme partisanship. Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis), who had said could not "whitewash" what he cails "20 years of treason" under Democratic administrations to he'p win support jfor parts of Eisenhower's program, returned to his oft-voiced plea for a halt of trade with Red China.

In a speech at Dallas, Thursday night McCarthy said "I know I don't agree with our administration on trade with Red China, but that doesn't mean I don't support that administration." As for Eisenhower's plea to avoid extreme partican attacks, McCarthy said "I think tir is correct In that." He had said earlier he would not change tactics because only MqCartiiy "also-said there 5 nO reason the two 1 'major parties should not work together to make all the world free. He said he has not been denouncing the opposite party" but only "its leadership of last 20 years." Some Trade Needed. The administration has opposed McCarthy's calls for U.S. action against friendly nations which carry on limited trade with Communist China, arguing that Washington should not dictate to its allies and some trade is beneficial to the West. McCarthy said he knows of these differences, but he added he supports Eisenhower "not because he's perfect but because his record has been so infinitely better than those in charge during the 20 years of treason there's no Sen.

Carlson (R-Kan), who told his Senate colleagues Thursday he doesn't thirtk the Democrats "should be crying foul," told a party audience at East Orange, N. J. Thursday night that Democratic administrations "permitted Communists to penetrate into the highest policy-making branches of government." R. W. Scot McLeod, whose political speaking tour has drawn fire from some Democrats because he is the State Department's administrator security, said the security program "must be tight that is where the previous administration failed." Russia Refuses Freedom For Austria; Issue Is as Dead As German Unification Plan Donations to Hodag Fund Total Only $19 So Far Despite widespread publicity about the prospect of Rhinelander losing the Hodag, contributions to the "Let's Keep the Hodag Fund" were coming in slowly today in the campaign to raise.

sufficient money to provide for retention of the only existing replica of the famous nprthwoods creature. Tne fund total today was $19, including a $10 donation from the Khineiander Office Supply Co. and a $6 contribution from an anonymous source. Mr. and Mrs, Allen O.

£prn, Rhinelander High School graduates with the class of 1942, sent a $1 donation from Brulion, where Ijhey live now. They explained they heard about campaign while listening to a Given Bay radio station. "Describing the Hodag and showing pictures of it to friends in this area has been a definite source of entertainment." the Zoms wrote The Daily riews, "The Hodag should stay in Rhinelaader!" Two other $1 contributions, also were listed from Lola Beers Deyo and George Ogle, both of Rhinelander. In connection with the campaign, it was pointed out that all dona- tions will be acknowledged names of contributors will not be published if they request anonymity. fenny Drive Urjed.

One Rhinelander woman sure way" to get the needed funds quickly: "Just ask the children to bring pennies to school to buy THEIR Hodag. I'm sure teachers will cooperate, and the Hodag will be owned by Rhinelander people and will remain here. If the children in Detroit can buy an elephant (by contributing pennies) we cap easily buy a Hodag." Tne campaign to raise funds for the purchase of the Hodag arose because persons at Eau Claire 1 and Bemidji, have offered to buy the life-size replica made by Edward R. Stoltz, who is being transferred from Rhinelander to St. Paul about March 1.

Stoltz has figured he has invested $400 in his replica, carved from, white pine. Metropolitan newspapers and wire services have spread the story cf the Hodag and its possible loss to Rhinelander throughout the middle-west. Besides seeking contributions for purchase of Hodag. residents of the area are asked to suggest plans for the permanent "home" of the famous creature. Legislation Drawn To Cut Payments On Home Loans WASHINGTON (ffi Legislation was drawn today to reduce the down payments and stretch out the repayment periods of Federal Housing Administration home loans.

Identical bills by Sen. Capehart (R-Ind) arid Rep. Wolcott Mich), chairmen of Senate and House Banking committees, were described by the authors as the administration measures designed to carry out President Eisenhower's housing recommendations of Jan. 25. They would cut payments by varying example, by $350 on a $10,000 would reduce monthly payments by extending to 30 years, instead of the present 20 or 25, the time in which a loan must be paid off.

Also, down payments as low on used houses as on new ones would be authorized. There is now a dif- ferei.tial. The legislation also provides: 1. One and one-half billion dollars in new FHA mortgage insuring authority, plus an extra half billion if the President asks for it. 2.

A broad program aimed at eliminating slums. Capehart said in a statement the new program would "assist not only the communities in clearing their slums but also prevent their spread by rehabilitating anc improving blighted Federal federal advances to local cornVmu- nities and states as an aid in blueprinting public works projects. This program could be expanded rapidly, it was explained, if the economic situation should demand a full-scale public works program. 4. An increase in the amount of insured loans, and longer repayment periods, for modernization of both single and multi-family dwellings.

5. Rcchartering the Federal National Mortgage Assn. as part of the Housing and Home Finance Agency. Here is a comparison of present downpayments and those proposed as a minimum in the Capehart- Wolcott bill, on some classes of single-family houses: $10,000 $,125, would be $900; $3,000, would be $20,000 house now $4,000, would be $3,400. Down payments could be set as low as 5 per cent on the first $8,000 and 25 per cent from $8,000 to $25,000.

Three Lincoln Descendants Left NEW YORK 145th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth finds only three descendants all great-grandchildren to join in celebrating the day. They are Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, his sister Mary Lincoln Beckwith, and Lincoln Isham. All are grandchildren of Robert Todd Lincoln, the only i child of the Civil War President to reach maturity. The Beckwiths are children of Robert Todd Lincoln's daughter Jessie. Robert Beckwith was born near Chicago but has lived most of his life jn Vermont and in and around Washington, D.

C. From his mother he inherited a farm near Washington in Virginia. His wife reported, are tiying to- farm it and not doing to good a job." Mary Lincoln Beckwith now lives in Manchester, in her grand- lather's old summer home. Unmarried and in her early 50s, she now runs the estate as a farm. She also paints in oil and watercolor and does "a little sculpture." Some of her works are in private collections, none in public galleries.

Lincoln Isham is the son of Robert Todd Lincoln's daughter Mary. He lives in New Cit antl Dorset, Vt. Reached at his home in Dorset, he thanked reporters for calling but declined to talk about himself. None of the three have children, although Robert Beckwith has several step-children. IKE WILL Eisenhower, holding a shotgun marked with his five-star general insignia, announced that he plans to go quail hunting in Georgia this weekend.

The Chief executive told his news conference that he has been unable to do any hunting in three years. Telephoto) Eve Arden, Donald O'Connor Ed Morrow Get TV Awards 16 Italian POWs Returning Home VIENNA, Austria Sixteen more Italian prisoners of war arrived in Vienna today, on their way the Soviet Union. That brought to 34. the total sent home by the Russians in the past month. 'See It Now" was also best news or sports To Pakistan Despite Protests from India WASHINGTON Diplomatic officials said today the United States has decided to give substantial military aid to Pakistan regardless of India's angry protests.

An American military survey mission, they said, will go to Pakistan to look over its armed forces and determine the amount and type of military equipment needed. An announcement of the decision probably will be delayed until after Pakistan and Turkey sign a broad defense, economic and cultural agreement, these sources said. The two countries are reported to be negotiating the pact secretly, with S. encouragement. The agreement is expected to be announced, formally within a matter of days.

Pakistan officials are said to be eager to conclude it before next Tuesday's important provin-. cial elections, hoping an announcement would help Premier Ali's Any American move to arm Pakistan certain to provoke bitter objections from India's Prime Minister Nehru. He has been mobilizing Indian public opinion against any -such American-Pakistan military tieup on the ground it would upset peace in Asia. Top American State and Defense department leaders, after carefully weighing Nehru's views, are reported to have decided to go ahead with military aid to Pakistan. They are represented as concluding thEjt any backing.down, by the United States now would reinforce India's position in Asia as a potential leader of a bloc of countries neutral in the contest between the Communist bloc and the free world, Ice Pick Stabber Gets Three Years DETROIT 16-year-old high school student must spend the next three years in a training school as a result of the icepick stabbing of a high school basketball player Jan.

15. Probate Judge George Edwards so ruled Thursday after psychiatrists reported the boy "hostile and impulsive." Ross DeBoskey, 17, the stabbing victim, was attacked by the 16- year-old and several companions following a night basketball game. DeBoskey is recovering. Three older teoys are awaiting sentence for assault and tottery. HOLLYWOOD (ffi Edward R.

Murrow, Eve Arden and Donald O'Connor won the too awards of the Television Academy Thursday night, but a pudgy English professor stole the show. Murrcw, who rose to fame with his broadcasts during the London blitz, was named the outstanding TV personality of 1953 by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Mur row's named the programs. Miss Arden, "the glamorous schoolmarm of Our Miss Brooks, was announced as the best female star of a regular series at the gala dinner in the Hollywood Palladium. O'Connor, one of the comedians on the Sunday night Comedy Hour, won the academy's Emmy as the best male star.

None of the top winners was present. The biggest ovation went to Dr. Frank C. Baxter, University of Southern California professor who delivers Shakespearian lectures on KNXT. He won two local awards for the best pub'ic affairs program, and as outstanding male performer.

Continuing on a highbrow level, the academy named Omnibus as the best variety program The two most popular programs in the country repeated their wins of last year. I Love Lucy was selected the gram, Webb's best situation comedy pro- and tight-lipped Jack Dragnet scored as the best mystery, action or adventure program. Other Awards. The other national awards or bests: Dramatic program: U.S. Steel Hour.

Public affairs program: "Victory at Sea." Children's program: Kukla, fran Ollie. New program: Make Room for Daddy and U.S. Steel Hour (tic). Supporting actor in a series: Art Carney of the Jackie Gleason Show. Audience participation, quiz or panel program: This Is Your Life and What's My Line (tie).

Supporting actress of a series Vivian Vance of I Love Lucy. McCarthy 'Right as Rain 1 RACINE McCarthy as right as rain about sending ships laden with anything to a nation such as China or Russia," Sen George Malone (R-Nev) declarec Thursday night. "Any material, be it buttons, is a war material," Malone told 250 persons at the Racine Young Republican Club annua Lincoln Day dinner. (In a speech at Dallas Thursday night Sen. McCarthy iR-Wis) agaii Soviet Will Not Withdraw Troops From Austrian Soil BERLIN Russia refused in effect today to give Austria its independence until a German peace treaty is signed.

New Soviet 'proposals, submitted as the Austrian question came before the Big Four foreign ministers, made it clear that the Austrian issue is just as dead in the Berlin conference as the German unification question. Foreign Minister'V. M. Molotov proposed "certain additions" to the Austrian independence treaty which has ben fought over since 946. The major stumbling block imong his "certain additions" was his: Withdrawal of troops from Aus- ria will be postponed "pending the conclusion of a' peace treaty Germ any" in order to "prevent any new attempts at a new anschluss" (German-Austrian un- on).

This meant the Soviet army las no intention of quitting Austrian soil, thus making a mockery of any pact that would be signed in the name of Austrian sovereignty. Austria appealed to the Big Four today to restore its independence without further delay and at the same time asked for an easing of "hatsh and inequitable" economic concessions to Russia. The appeal was laid before the Berlin conference by Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold Figl as the ministers up the Austrian question, Russia's V. MY, Molotov indicated he had a new propose; to make on the subject. Details were not immediately available.

Figl made his appearance at a regular session late in the after noon which followed a secret meeting on Asiatic questions. He said terms of the treaty draft would benefit Russia as the treaty now stands. They provide for a payment of 150 million dollars over a six-year period by Austria for the redemption of factories in the Soviet occupation zone which were seized as German as.sets. They would a'so give Russia the lion's share of Austrian oil production for a period of 25 to 30 years. There was strong indication that if Molotov would drop his insistence on a Big Five parley including Red China, U.S.

Secretary cf State Dulles would be willing to reverse the previous American position that -Russia should attend the proposed Korean political conference only as a partner of Red China and North Korea rather than as a non-belligerent. Big Three Says 'No. 1 The western ministers made plain to Molotov in Thursday's secret session, it was understood, that they have no intention whatever of accepting his five-power conference demand, but that they are deeply interested in having the Berlin meeting break the Command deadlock over arrangements for a Korean peace settlement. Progress along this line could lead directly into negotiations for peace in Indochina, Molotov reportedly was told. Following the session Thursday, one western, source said the four ministers had made "a shade of progress." Another said there was evidence the East and West were looking for common ground.

The British and French diplomats apparently got the idea that he might be willing to make a new approach to a Korean conference. The question of Russia's role in a Korean conference has been a sore onj for a long time. The communists insist Russia be included as a neutral. Dulles Proposal. Secretary of State Dulles was quoted by a Western source as proposing that the Big Four call a conference on Korea with Red China as a participant along with North Korea, South Korea and other belligerents wishing to attend.

If this version is correct, it woujd amount to some change in the demanded that this country's allies stop, "blood trade" with Red China.) Malone also declared "There should not be a single foot soldier on foreign soil today except those necessary to guard our own vital- air- and naval bases." He said the government should stop giving bilUohs of dollars in aid to European nations and should Would be the South Koreans and allow reciprocal trade agreements! now in effecjt to expire this June. Malone also called for support of the Bricker amendment. American position on the projected Korean political conference. Heretofore the United States has insisted that conference should be two- aided. The North Koreans and their associates, including Russia, would be on one side.

On the other side co-belligerents from toe United Nations. This would group See Four," Page 3..