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i The Rhinelander Daily News and THE NEW NORTH THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR-NO. 182 RHINELANDER, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1953 10 PAGES TODAY PRICE SIX CENTS Ike Voices Full Confidence in Secretary Benson resign because, Young said, the Cabinet member had "lost the confidence of the farmers." Eisnhower said he thinks it is up to the President to decide who should be his principal advisors in each field of government. And he declared he has seen no one more dedicated than Benson to working out the problem of the conflict between producers and consumers. Eisenhower declined, with a laugh, to say whether he thought discontent. over administration farm policies was the chief factor in the recent election of a Democrat to Congress from a normally Republican congressional district in Wisconsin.

The Chief Executive was in a bouyant mood and touched a wide range of subjects in his news conference. He said among other things: 1. He does not plan to take part on the state or local level in next year's congressional elections but hopes he can help the Republican party by trying to establish policies which the overwhelming majority of Americans approve. 2. On the subject of Cpl.

Edward S. Dickenson, the soldier who changed his mind about remaining in Communist handsconsidering the intense indoctrination to which American prisoners were subjected, he sometimes wonders there weren't more who elec: -ted to stay behind. 3. He does not know whether it would be possible to sell the Tennessec Valley Administration (TVA) to private industry without wrecking the entire system. He had been asked to comment on the statment by Clarence Manion, head of a commission studying federal-state relations, that TVA never should have been built and ought to be sold by the federal government.

Approved Aid Cut. 4. On Israel, he replied with a firm yes, but did not elaborate, when asked if he had discussed with Secretary of State Dulles the WASHINGTON (A) President Eisenhower today voiced full confidence in Secretary of Agriculture Benson who has come under fire from some Congress members. Eisenhower also told a news conference he believes the cattlemen and farmers are taking their current problems in stride and are not as upset about them as some politicians are. The Presidont said he is not going to be critical of his secretary of agriculture because Benson has not yet produced solution of the farm problem." His statements came when he was asked about assertions by Sen.

Young (R-ND) that Benson should cutting off of economic aid to that country. Dulles announced Tuesday the United States is withholding further aid because Israel will not accept a U. N. ruling as to diversion of Jordan River water. Mainly, today's news conference centered on the drought, falling farm prices and related matters with which the President concerned himself during his recent visit to the and his swing to the Rio Grande.

The President did say, in another connection, however, that while the general cost of living has continued to rise it is levelling off to a considerably greater extent than in recent years. Trade Study Group Seeks Top Advice WASHINGTON (P--President Eisenhower's 17-member study commission has decided to ask the advice of Adlai E. Stevenson and former President Herbert Hoover in a search for a nonpartisan solution of the foreign trade problem. The commission, headed by Clarence Randall of Chicago, president of the Inland Steel scheduled hearings behind closed doors today and Wednesday. It asked for testimony during the two days by Republican.

Paul G. Hoffman and Democrat W. Averell Harriman, former foreign aid administrators in the Truman administration. Sen. Bush (R-Conn), 3 member of the group, said the commission will open its doors next week for public testimony by Hoover and Stevenson.

the 1952 Democratic presidential nominee. Bush said in an interview he was impressed with an evident determination within the group to reach some sort of agreement on a new foreign trade program that might remove the issue from politics. "It's going to 'be difficult to find a formula which will step up our imports and still not threaten individual American industries," he said. "But if there is an answer, I am confident the commission will find it." Smiling American Soldier Changes His Mind, Decides To Desert Reds for Home Sought Unifying Ways to Relax Tension Dulles Triestenew concept is in the making which could bury these bitternesses. It would draw Yugoslavia together with Italy and the other NATO allies in a common strategy designed to ensure the safety and well-being of south EuYugoslavia cannot be sure rope.

as an independent nation without association with its NATO neighbors The Western ministers believe their decision. to relinquish the administration of Zone A of Trieste to Italy" will pave the way to a final peaceful solution." Koreadivision of Korca is wrong and, unhappily, there similar wrongs elsewhere, as in Germany, but new war is not the way to right such wrongs. They should be made to respond to peaceful treatment applied with patience, persistence and wisdom." Indochina--The ministers "welcomed" developments, seeking to meet the for freedom of the people of Indochina while protecting them "from being taken over by the enemies of fredom." Nations is the United which played an essential part in creating the state of Israel So we agreed to join in asking the United Nations Security Council to take jurisdiction of this matter (of recent Israeli-Arab tensions)." NEW YORK (A) Secretary of State Dulles says the recent cign ministers meeting in "sought unifying prisciples which might relax tension" in the world but "avoided platitudes without practical relevancy." Dulles adds that what the ing did not do is as important as what it did so, asserting: "We did not undermine the moral strength of free world by resort to measures of short-range expediency." The secretary of state, in a speech Tuesday night at the 22nd annual New York Herald Tribune Forum, gave a panoramic view of the talks he had at London with British Foreign Secretary Eden and French Foreign Minister Bidault. Dulles returned Monday from the meeting. One of the chief results of the London sessions was the sending to Russia of a proposal for a meeting of foreign ministers at Lugano, Switzerland, Nov.

9. "This proposal," Dulles said Tuesday night, "will provide an answer to whether the Soviet government is willing to have a meeting on terms which will provide an actual testing of its intention in terms sufficiently concrete to be significant. "That is the single project now before the Soviets. Their decision (in relation to that is what we now rawait. We hope that theanswer will be affirmative.

In" any event it will be Reality, Not Illusion. Dulles said a meeting on the foreign ministers level was proposed since "it is our view that few things would be more dangerous than a meeting which produced illusion of agreement, without the reality of agreement." British Prime Minister Winstoh Churchill has suggested a mceting of heads of state of Britain, France the United States and Russia. The secretary of state made these comments on other decisions reached at London: Superior Editor To Reply to Charge SUPERIOR -Knut Einer Heikkenen, 63, described by the FBI as one of the key Communists in the United States, Tuesday was given five days by Federal Judge Patrick Stone to reply to a charge that he failed to obey a deportation order. Heikkenen, associate editor of a Finnish-American newspaper with pub-' lished here, is charged fully refusing to remove himself from the United States as ordered. Judge Stone gave him five days to introduce a motion attacking the information.

If one is ed it will be heard next Wednesday at La Crosse. Judge Stone also denied motions to set aside Heikkenen's waiver of preliminary hearing and to reduce his $10,000 bond. I Had Says American POW Who Quit Communists Ore Ships Laid Up for Winter CLEVELAND (P--Thirty vessels from the Great Lakes ore carrier! fleet alroady have been laid up fort the winter and 10 more probably will be taken out of service in schedule the next for two ship weeks. repair A jobs the coming winter is partially responsible for the carly lay-ups. Another reason is lack of storage space on lower lakes docks where ore is arriving faster than it is: being consumed by steel mills and available winter storage space ready is filled.

'Espionage Pattern' Seen in Currency Printing by Russia WASHINGTON A Mundt (R-SD) said today he hopes to show by nightfall "a pattern of espionage" he contends helped Russia get from the U. S.government materials to print vast sums of wartime German occupation currency. Calling witnesses for more publie testimony in the Senate subcommittee's study of the big money deal, Mundt told reporters: re going to nait that point down so no skeptic will doubt it." Mundt is. running the hearings as acting chairman of the subcommittec. Two former government officials, Harold Glasser and Frank Coc, fused at the start of the public hearings Tuesday to tell whether they were "engaged in espionage" for Soviet Russia when the money agreement was made in 1944.

The agreement gave the Russians plates and other materials to print their own supply of occupation currency for use in the Allied invasion of Germany. The United States printed the currency for the other Allied powers. Two witnesses who said they had fought the plan to turn over the plates to Russia testified they never suspected that spies might be involved in the negotiations. Daniel W. Bell, who was undersecretary of the Treasury at the time, and Alvin W.

Hall, veteran director of the bureau of engraving and printing, both won praise from Mundt for having resisted the plan. Bell, now president of the American Security and Trust Co. here, said a letter rejecting Russia's request for the plates was written but never sent, and he finally got orders from the then Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. to send the plates. Bell said Coe and Glasser might have participated in the.

negotiations, but he was not sure about it. He said Harry Dexter White, then assistant to the secretary, was active in the talks. White, now dead, has been described by witnesses in congressional investigations as Communist connections. HEROIC STEWARD--Albert Folli, 29, steward aboard the Eastern Airlines plane that crashed at wild Airport in New York was credited with keeping the death toll low. He was burned about the face and hands leading trapped passengers to safety through flame-blocked door.

(AP Wirephoto) Southern Mountain Boy Says More Gls Will Seek Release ED INTERNATIONAL DAM DEDICATED BY PRESIDENTS President Dwight Eisenhower (left) and President Ruiz Cortines (right) stand under the seals of the United States and Mexico on the internalional boundary on five-mile long Falcon Dam, Thetwo seals were officially unveiled, dedicating the $39 ,000,000 structure across the Rio Grande -(AP Wirephoto) Former Monico Man Is Killed Woman Passenger Dies In Hospital Later Albert E. (Al) Collier, 46, of Green Bay, a former well known resident of Monico, was killed outright when his car collided with truck on county trunk road in Forest County late Tuesday afternoon, and one of the two Indian wom who were passengers in his died in a. Laona hospital early this morning; the Forest County sheriff's office said, todays Collier's car struck 'a cheese company truck, driven by the son of the owner, Marvin with such force that. the top was sheared off his 1953 Chevrolet coach and the platform and dual rear wheels of the truck were torn off the chassis. Forest County officers said Collier was practically decapitated.

Clara Williams, about 30, died in the Laona hospital at 2 a. m. without regaining The other woman, Rose Beamis, 20, was reported good condition' in the same hospital. The nature of her injuries was not reported. According to the truck driver, he' saw the Collier car coming around a curve and pulled the front of his truck off the blacktop surface as far as possible.

The car thus struck the front of the just behind the cab. The truck driver was not hurt. Held Negligent. A coroner's jury, impaneled at the scene, returned a verdict holding Collier nogligent in the mishap. The truck driver was absolved of blame, according to Undersheriff Iner Osgood.

The mishap occurred on County Trunk about five miles east of Soperton at 4 p. m. Collier's body was taken to the Boyle Funeral Home at Wabeno. Born March 19, 1907, in Crandon, Collier moved to Monico with his parents when he was five years of age. He was married to Della Kayhart in Dubuque, Dec.

2, 1941. enlisted in the Army May 11, 1942, and was discharged March 23, 1944, after serving in Europe with Headquarters, 3032nd Enginecr General Service Regiment. Before he entered service he was employed as a brakeman by railroad and then the and North Western railroad. He returned to the C. N.

Chicago W. employment after his military experience, Bay. and He was was a employed member out of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen lodge No. 191 of Milwaukce. Funeral Here Friday.

"Surviving, besides his widow, Della, are three sons, Roland, Thomas and Slewart, and one Sharon, all at home; his daughter, 86-year-old mother, Mrs. Nancy Weather Forecast for Wisconsin Partly cloudy with scattered showers beginning Thursday showers, windy and coolnorthwest late tonight. er. Low tonight 50-55 northwest, 55- 60 southeast. High Thursday 62-70 northwest, 70-78 southeast.

Southerly winds 15-20 mph this afternoon and early Thursday. Shifting to northwesterly 20-30 mph later Thursday. Rhinelander Weather: Tuesday's temperatures ranged from a high of 79 degrees to a low of 51. The overnight low was 46. It was 4 48 degrees at 7 o'clock this morning.

SEOUL (-An American' war prisoner who quit the Communists and was returned to the U. N. Command today told a news conference "I had enough of their life." Cpl. Edward S. Dickenson, 25, of Big Stone Gap, refused to answer almost every controversial question about why he first elected to stay with the Reds.

"I did not want to stay with the Communists any more," he when asked why he had changed his mind. Dickenson was among 23 American war prisoners who originally refused repatriation. The others are being held by Indian troops in the Panmunjom neutral zone pending a final decision on their fate. Dickenson told newsmen after he was returned to the Allies today that it is "more than likely" that some of the other Americans will change their minds. However, he refused to tell ens of newsmen at an evacuation hospital here anything about his former comrades.

Dickenson was asked if force was used to convert him to Communism or to keep him from returning home. "I don't think I should answer that," he replied. I Asked how long he had contemplated returning, Dickenson answered: it in mind for quite a while." However, he declined answer when asked if his return had been delayed because he was afraid of prisoners in his neutral zone compound. "I can't answer that." Asked how the men in the neutral. compound felt about returning, Dickenson said "I don't know what them men want to do." As questions were fired by about 30 Dickenson fidgeted nervously and sat unsmiling.

After about 10 minutes, he turned to an American major and said: "I think this is enough." Dickenson appeared slightly bewildered at his reception, but he spoke clearly and chose his words carefully. For the many questions he turned aside, Dickenson explained it was his own decision not to answer them. He said he had not been warned by American officers to refuse to answer some questions. The young soldier said flatly: is not my belief, have my own beliefs." Dickenson said he has received no mail since he was turned over. to Indian custody nearly a month ago.

Asked how the Indian guards treated him, he replied: "They are neutral." All he wants to do when he returns home 1s "meet my folks." He said he had a girl when he left but "she sent me 'Dear John'" -a soldier's way of saying she had another boy friend. Dickenson, a rifleman with the 1st Cavalry Division, was captured Nov. 5, 1950. He was a farmer on the mountain farm of his father, Van Buren Dickenson, when he enlisted in the army on March 31, 1950. He arrived in Korea less than two months before he was captured.

After telling an army major he did not wish to say more, Dickenson changed his mind and agreed to a short interview before the lights of television and newsreel cameras. He said his treatment in the prisoner early in the war was not and that his food was camps, mostly cracked corn and millet. Industrial Safety Value Cited CHICAGO (P -An employe of a Neenah, pulp and paper mill told a panel session at the National Safety Congress here Tuesday that confidence of employes in themselves and in their firm's labor attitude is stimulated when management promotes safety. Elmer Collar, employed in the engineering department of Kimberly-Clark said "Safety cussions at union meetings late a feeling of mutual welfare. I Men like safety meeings where' they can stand up and state their views.

There's satisfaction in seeing their ideas picked up and developed." i PANMUNJOM (M A smiling Southern mountain soldier quit the Communists today and said it was "more than likely" some of the other 22 Americans who cast their Pentagon Gets Aid From GOP Chiefs For New Weapons WASHINGTON (P)-The Pentagon, in its drive to outfit the military with modern arms, faces the problem of persuading old-line officers that cherished but outmoded weapons and systems must be pruned away. Overnight, the Defense Department's new weapons program, framed by Secretary of Defense Wilson and his deputy, Roger M. Kyes, gained support from a powerful administration source. Secretary of the Treasury phrey, in an address at San Francisco Tuesday night, said that in an 'ages -revolution in scientific and. production techniques "the surest formula for defeat would be static defense -committed to oldfashioned defense, served by obsolete weapons." Wilson said on Tuesday a current reappraisal of strategy and arms includes "all kinds of weapons, guided missiles," and he told a news conference: "We are facing a change in the military situation, like when the cavalry was replaced by the armored division." There are indications one change may be the Army's antiaircraft weapons and units.

Wilson recently commented that the new missile named the Nike is a form of antiaircraft weapon, That missile is intended to supplant some present conventional antiaircraft artillery. The Army said last March some Nike installations would be ready by this summer, but Wilson told reporters Tuesday that he thought none had been completed so far. Another area where the move to discard obsolete weapons may be felt is in the Navy. The continued use of battleships has been questioned before now. Along with the problem of getting rid of old weapons is another involving decisions on the type, scope and use of new weapons systems.

In this field, the Defense Department is confronted with the problem of continental defense against the possibility of Russian atomic attack, Hilton Named In Wayne Divorce LOS ANGELES M--Nicky Hilton, former husband of Elizabeth Taylor, today was subpoenaed to explain his week-long stay last year at the John Wayne home as the guest of Mrs. Wayne while the rugged movie star was in Honolulu. Wayne charged Tuesday during the couple's stormy divorce trial that his wife entertained Hilton during his absence. This followed an accusation by Mrs. Wayne that the movie box office king once had an all-night tryst with actress Gail Russell.

Hilton, son of hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, said he would save comment until "I testify in court." Atty. Jerome Rosenthal, counsel for Mrs. Wayne, said actress Betsy von Furstenberg would testify that she asked Mrs. Wayne to house Hilton while he recuperated from accident injuries. Hilton and Miss von Furstenberg were sweethearts at the time.

On the stand Tuesday, Mrs. Wayne testified her brawny husban hit her with everything from the back of his hand to upholstered pillows during six years of Hollywood married life. But they always kissed and made up, she added. lot with the Reds would change their minds. Apparently in good health, Cpl.

Edward S. Dickenson of Big Stone Gap. was over to the U. N. Command today.

He was the first of 359 unrepatriated Allied POWs to return to the Allies. "It sure feels great to be back in hands of the Americans," Collier of Monico; two brothers, Festus Collier of Neenah and John Collier of Monico; three sisters, Mrs. David (Alpha) DeHart and, Mrs. Elmer (Mary) Schultz, both of Monico, and Mrs. Earl (Amanda) Nehls of Rhinelander.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Friday in the Carlson Funeral Home here, with Dr. W. H.

Wiese officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Home Cemetery. The body will be in the funeral home from late Thursday afternoon until the time of the services Friday. The casket will be closed. McCarthy Gets.

Okeh to Question Imprisoned Spy WASHINGTON 1-Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) said today the Justice Department has agreed to let him question the confessed atomic spy, David Greenglass, in the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Greenglass is the man whose testimony helped to send his 'sister, Ethel Rosenberg, and her husband Julius to the electric chair last summer as spies. He is ing a 15-year sentence for espionage. McCarthy had asked permission to question him in connection with a new investigation of what he has called security leaks at the Army Signal Corps' Ft. Monmouth, N.

radar laboratories. McOarthy contends he has evidence that a spy ring headed by Rosenberg was able some years ago to extract secret documents from the laboratories "almost at will" and that some of the documents are now in Communist Eastern Germany. The Army said it knows of no unauthorized ments in Red hands there. McCarthy, after an inspection trip to Ft. Monmouth Tuesday said he was "very, very favorably pressed by the very aggressive steps" taken to improve security there.

McCarthy said 12 persons had been suspended as a result of the security investigation but Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens, who accompanied the senator, interposed, "'That figure is too McCarthy said a closed hearing would be held Thursday at Fort! Monmouth and another the following day in New York. McCarthy said that after the hearing Friday he will leave for Milwaukee, to attend Saturday's homecoming program at Marquette University, and set out on a speech making trip. He said he is to deliver addresses in Chicago Oct. 28; Phoenix, Oct.

29; Tucson, Oct. 30 and Monroe, Nov. 2. Quarry Polluted Wells Charge OSHKOSH (-Eleven Oshkosh residents filed suit Tuesday for $23,465 in damages from the city of Oshkosh, charging that their wells have been polluted since the city filled a nearby stone quarry. The city sealed the quarry with clay in 1951 and has since used it as a dumping area.

The plaintiffs, whose claims range from $1,500 1o $2,900, said the wells started to go bad last March. Since April the city has been hauling water to residents whose wells were unusable, Mayor John C. Voss said. Dickenson grinned to newsmen at transfer ceremony. His parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Van Buren Dickenson, who live in a remote cabin in the Allegheny mountains, were joyous. His told a newsman, "Well thank God. I knew he was coming home if they'd let him." "If you can," she told the reporter, "I you would get word to him--tell him nobody hcreabouts thinks hard of him for what he done, and we will all give him a big welcome home. Ain't no hard feelings on our part." Dickenson was one of 23 cans, 1 Briton and 335 South Koreans the Red aid refued repatriation to remain under Communist rule.

Didn't Need Coaxing. Dickenson changed his mind with no coaxing. The U. N. Command has not started efforts to persuade balky former Allied soldiers to turn.

The Communist explanations 22,400 North Korean and Chinese POWs, meanwnile, were cancelled again Thursday for the fourth straight day. The Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission, which has custody the balky POWs, made the announcement without details. Delegates from all five nations making up the commission sat on the mecting and quickly validated the return of-Dickenson. It was the first time Polish and Czech members had attended since they walked out of a stormy session Monday. They walked out er the other three members of commission rejected a demand that prisoners be forced to listen to Communist persuaders.

Dickenson, wearing a blue Chinese POW uniform, snapped smart salute as he walked up a Marine major who received him at the transfer tent in the neutral zone, Dickenson angrily crumpled pack of Chinese cigarettes asked an Indian officer. it right to smoke, sir?" The officer replied, "yes" and the smiling corporal lit an American cigarette. Others Coming, Too. Asked by a newsman whether more Americans might return, soft-spoken Dickenson answered, "more than likely." The remark was the first indication that least some of the other balky POWs are thinking of coming home. After the 10-minute transfer process, Dickenson was whisked helicopter to the 121st Evacuation Hospital in Seoul for a medical checkup and processing.

Dickenson made up his mind come back some time before o'clock Tuesday night. The soldier approached an Indian guard, plained of being ill and asked be taken to the medical station outside the stockade. Once there, Dickenson asked an officer, and an Indian commissioned officer asked American prisoner: "What wrong with you?" Dickenson replied: "Nothing's wrong with me. I want to be patriated." Dickenson was segregated the other non-repatriated prisoners. Wednesday morning, one of other American prisoners report ed to Indian guards that Dickenson was missing, a reliable source said.

New British Atom Test Scheduled CANBERRA, Australia An authoritative Australian source says the British will set off another atomic explosion--their third -at Woomera rocket range within a few days. No observers will by present. to of in aftthe a to a and all the at by to 10 to for the is refrom the.