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Rain Predicted For Tonight And Expected to Continue Tuesday THE DAI LY Help listed for Home Gardeners and Handymen in Building News on Page 10 A Better Newspaper VOLUME LXXIII 98 GALESBURG, ILLINOIS MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1954 Pleads at Conference ARRIVES FOR GENEVA of State John Foster Dulles speaks on his arrival at Geneva, for the peace conference. (NEA Telephoto.) Defense Bill Cut By Large Amount WASHINGTON House Appropriations Committee today approved $28,680,706,500 for President Eisenhower's "new look" military of $1,206,348,500 GENEVA, Switzerland (UP) French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault appealed dramatically today for a truce to enable evacuation of 1,000 French wounded in besieged Dien Bien Phu in Indochina. In an "appeal to the conscience of the civilized issued as the Geneva Far Eastern peace conference met in opening session, Bidault declared: "It would be inconceivable that a conference meeting in Geneva should not open with a gesture to save from the hazards of combat the men who no longer can take part in it because they already have shed their blood. May my appeal, issued from this high place of peace, be heard." Made in Private Bidault's appeal was published after the Conference's first meeting, to which newsmen were not admitted. The anxiously awaited 19-nation attempt to find peace both for Indochina and Korea narrowly had averted disaster at its outset by a last-minute compromise of Russia's demands that Red China be seated as an equal to the Big Four powers.

The conference marked the first time Red China had sat down with representatives of the Western Allies in a major wjjorld parley. The initial session was brief. It adjourned after 40 minutes devoted to procedural matters and was schedule to convene again It was understood the three Western foreign ministers and Molotov would meet during the afternoon in a plenary session. Red China's claims to share in the council chairmanship on an equal basis with the great powers were sidestepped in a private talk between British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Soviet Foreign Minister V.M. Molotov.

They agreed to rotate the chairmanship among the foreign ministers of Thailand, Britain and Russia. 4 appropriated funds which, with the new money, will jmake $76,874,000,000 available torek'on" the" Great for spending in the new fiscal year. The committee said the new military appropriations are based on long-range planning with emphasis ws on the on "improved weapons and £ederal axd that be needed from his The appropriations are for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The funds are $5,632,614,500 less than appropriations voted for this fiscal year ending June 30. However, the committee Start Polio Vaccinations On Wednesday SPRINGFIELD (UP)-The State Health Department prepared today to distribute a polio vaccine for a test on thousands of children in Du Page and Peoria counties.

The vaccine was given a final check by a group of medical experts in Washington to insure its safety and flown here. The vaccinations were scheduled to start Thursday in Peoria County where 10,000 children were eligible and Wednesday in Du Page county, where 14,500 were eligible. Need Permission Health officials said the children were required to have written permission of parents to take the test afnd in both counties the percent- and" continued "buTld age of permission granted 137 wings by 195 running high. 4- Overall military manpower ofi Winnebago County also wasl3.200.900 during fiscal 1955, 202,000 less than Aid for Dust States Under Consideration WASHINGTON said the armed services have an estimated 48 billion dollars left over from previously of five drought-stricken states were invited to the White House today to confer with federal officials on Say Ike May Ask Congress To Aid French GENEVA (UP) Authoritative American sources said today President Eisenhower may ask Congress "in the very near to approve armed U.S. intervention in the Indochinese war if necessary to prevent military disaster.

(In Washington, Rep. Alvin M. Bentley, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he believes the Presi dent will request and get congressional approval to send U.S. troops to Indochina if it turns out there is no other way to save the country from Communist conquest.) Studies Possibilities These sources said the President is studying th'e possibility of addressing a special message to a joint session of Congress, requesting permission to order U.S. air and sea power to strike at the Communist forces in Indochina.

According to these sources, the special presidential message would be dispatched if the U.S. leaders decided to act and if the situation still warranted it. The, message would cite actions taken by the U.S. government in 1947 to guarantee the independence of Turkey and Greece and President Truman's order for intervention in Korea in 1950. The proposal was reported laid before Mr.

Eisenhower following an urgent warning by French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in Paris on Saturday. Points Out Need Bidault warned that unless U.S. air power was thrown into the fighting immediately, not only the beleaguered garrison at Dien Bien Phu, but the entire Red River delta area around Hanoi might soon be lost to the armies of the Communist Viet Minh, Sources here said Dulles replied that he, a Cabinet member, could not make such a promise. He said the U.S. would continue to give all the material aid it could.

Moreover, Dulles said the United States wanted any intervention in Indochina to be an action taken jointly with Britain. Stevens of uest WASHINGTON (UP) Army Secretary Robert S. PRICE: FIVE CENTS President in Talk Warns Red Menace Stevens said today that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy asked to have Pvt.

David G. Schinc's basic training cut in half so his former consultant could be assigned to New York. The Senate investigating subcommittee resumed hearings on the Army's case and McCarthy's countercharges with Stevens returning for a second day of questioning about his relations with McCarthy Subcommittee Counsel Ray M. Cohn, and others in ill Galesbur Cities Listed For Heat Loss SPRINGFIELD nois Power Co. (UP)-An Illi- vice president, the Schinc case.

Stevens testified that he lunched Dec 10 with McCarthy, Army Counsel John G. Adams and Francis P. Carr, staff director for the subcommittee. "MRS. Waii- da Jennings, above, a tall eyed blonde from St.

Louis, was crowned Mrs. America at Ormond Beach, Fla. Mrs. nings was winner of the national contest. (NEA Telephoto.) erica Mrs.

Resumes Role As Housewife 5 ways of combattirig the' dust bowl i the Great A Agriculture Department spokesman said the governors of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and Colorado would be greater reliance on expanded air power." Cuts were possible, the committee reported, because of the end of the Korean fighting, the buildup of NATO in Europe and the development of Republic of Korea forces. "Greatest Army" The bill provides for: 1. the greatest army ever maintained by this nation on a full year basis in the absence of actual! warfare." 2. Construction of a fourth su- percarrier of the Forrestal class and a third atomic-powered submarine. "The fleet will continue to grow in combat power.

the committee said. 3. 120 Air Force wings by June, 1955, five more than June, 1954, this year. "We learned a lot from last year's aid programs and believe some improvements can be made this year," he said. While some areas in the Panhandle have virtually been flooded out by recent rains, the drought still has some places it's now in the fifth southwest Kansas, southeast Colorado, eastern New Mexico, western Okla- home and much of Texas.

Last year, using money from the President's emergency fund and money appropriated by'Congress, the Agriculture Department offered special livestock loans, made government-owned livestock feed available at cut-rate prices, offered emergency loans to drought-area farmers and helped pay Die cost of transporting hay into drought areas. Much of the funds will be depleted by this summer. LONDON (UP) Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the American Joint Chiefs of Staff, conferred tonight with Prime ister Winston Churchill on the military crisis- in Indochina.

The U.S. Embassy announced that the two met after conferences earlier in the day between Radford and British service chiefs. Pistol Packing Papa B1LLINGHAM, Wash. Briggs, 31, Clipper, complained to police Sunday that he was playing a jukebox in a tavern when a stranger walked up to him, objected to a particular number and waved an automatic pistol to DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Mrs.

Wanda Jennings, 28, "Mrs. America of 1955," celebrated a. two-week expense-paid vacation with her family here with more housework today. Her cooking, sewirig, and cleaning which won the title for the tall, 'blShfie beauty over the weekend is a hobby for Mrs. Jennings and she declared, "I'm still a housewif6." Mrs.

Jennings, of St. Louis, moved into the "Mrs. America" cottage here for the two-week vacation with her husband, Madison, and their- son Mike, 8, after receiving the award in a pageant Saturday night. Although she did not win any of the four-day housekeeping tests her all-round 'scores gained her the $15,000 top prize and a year of personal appearances and tours, including a trip to Europe under State Department sponsorship. The 50 contestants from throughout the United States and Canada were judged partly on their looks.

testifying in the firm's case for a $5,650,000 annual rate increase, said today the company is considering abandoning all steam heat service. E.S. Hight, vice president in charge of operations, told the Illinois Commerce Commission "very serious consideration" is being given to the move. Illinois Power now serves Bloomington, Champaign, Danville, Decatur, Galesburg and Urbana with steam heat. No Specific Plans Hight said, however, there are presently "no specific plans except for possible abandonment of service at Urbana." He said the company applied for abandonment of steam heat service at Urbana three years ago but dropped the case because a gas shortage made it impossible to provide substitute gas heating.

Hight also testified the trimming WASHINGTON President Eisenhower declared today that this is "a time of great decisions" in world affairs, with the outcome of the indochinese war carrying "the greatest significance for the United Stales." The President told the United States Chamber of Commerce that Indochina is "the cork in the bottle" whose loss would affect the fate of hundreds of millions in "the surrounding areas of Asia." Eisenhower declared that survival of "the newly formed, cratic government of Japan" may also hinge on events in Southeast Asia, since the affected area is the one with which Japan must trade. Asks Question How can the democratic government of Japan exist, he asked, if those areas are lost to communism? Eisenhower voiced hope, however, that the Conference of World Powers which opened today at Geneva would find some peaceful solution of the hazards. "We would hope," Elsenhower declared, "that the logic of today's situation would appeal to all of their ruthless- ncss. "Wo would hope that they would see the futility of depending on war or the threat of war as a means of settling their difficulties." Wilson Speaks Secretary of Defense Wilson also referred to events in Europe and Asia, saying that events in those Stcvcnn had testified on Friday vy plans policies and spend that Cohn sought to have Schine ing TT nx excused from the entire 16 weeks. Addressing the U.

S. Chamber Stevens told about 1 the Dec. 10 oi Commerce at its annual meet- lunchcon after testifying about tag, Wilson reported the first new complaints from McCarthy and look, started shortly after the Ei- Cohn over a Nov. 13 news con- senhower administration took over, forence in which the Army sec-has been completed and has led Sen. McCarthy asked on several occasions why Schinc couldn't be assigned to New York at the end of eight weeks of basic training," Stevens said.

Special Counsel, Ray II. Jenkins asked how many' times the question was raised by McCarthy. just that Asked Three Times "I would sny about three- as a guess," Slovens replied. He said McCarthy had said he knew of training being cut in other cases but Stevens said he knew of no case. He said McCarthy was "quite insistent" about it and "suggested Schine might be useful in checking West Point textbooks" instead of carrying out regular Army assignments, Stevens said he replied that "David Schinc like every' other down of a wholesale price increase Mt nr1 i ne1 aouflht bv Panhandle Eastern roUry had fW he kncw no to rwt nnd encouraging prog- PioeUne Co would reduce his current espionage at Fort Mon-rcss" in the military program.

firm's cost of tfas hv soon no year fh 'casts of moneys-requiredto-. carry them out are always subject to stress his point. Briggs said he doesn't play that Mrs. Jennings is a 5-foot, inch number anymore. Police said they blue-eyed blonde, weighing 135 were looking for the pistol-waving pounds, of Norwegian and Irish an- critic.

ccstry. including Illinois, last week. Panhandle had been charging 20 million dollars in higher rates since February, 1952, and if the FPC order stands will have to refund the difference. Gels Flight Data LOS ANGELES Racing pigeons, famed for their country flights and homing instinct, apparently are -becoming weather minded. One of the racing birds hopped into the weather bureau office window at Los Angeles Internationl Airport Sunday, glanced at the latest weather maps and then took off again.

French Paratroopers Leap To Reinforce Dien Bien Phu scheduled to participate in the test, but dropped out because the last in a series of three shots required would have occurred during school vacation. Winnebago County officials denied that any doubts about the safety of the vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas E. Salk, were involved in withdrawal from the test. on Dec.

31, 1953, but more than double pre-Korea. A summary of the bill by services: Cuts Request Army: Gets $7,615,523,000, a cut of $595,477,000 in the President's request, and $5,321,883,000 below appropriations for current year. Average manpower for fiscal 1955 Rita Hayworth to Fight Charges Of Child Neglect be 1,308,600. Army gets 345 hargeus The testing schedule calls for million dollars for research and half the children to get the and half to get a harmless injection, but the patient and his parents will not know which of the two has been given. In Du Page county, 82 school locations were set up for the shots and almost 100 doctors had volunteered to man the stations by the weekend.

development- it on page 3) Missing Mothei WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Actress Rita Hayworth arrived here early today from a Florida vacation to fight "baseless" that her two daughters been neglected. mitt. i The red-haired actress, accom- with new Danied by her husbandj fiii ger Dick Haymes, drove here from Miami, and went immediately to the home of Mrs. Dorothy Chambers, in whose custody the children had! been left.

Mrs. Chambers, a friend of the Where to Find It Found After 19 Days' Absence mother who HANOI, Indochina (UP) French Union volunteers were parachuted into flaming Dien Bien Phu today to reinforce the garrison which the Communist Red attackers had sworn to "finish off" in a new vicious attack. An undisclosed number of reinforcements tumbled from low- flying transport planes into the steamy early-morning mist which shrouded the shrunken and surrounded defense perimeter. A French high command spokesman said the mists obscured the tiny airstrip segment, to which the paratroopers jumped, from Communist gunners. Less Than 100 The parachutists were believed to number less than 100 men.

But military observers pointed out it was a daring move to attempt to parachute even one man onto the constricted battleground. A spokesman disclosed that an- Haymes' family, was identified einW nf (had been parachuted to Dien Bien Phu Friday and hundreds of pounds governess of the children, Rebecca, 9, and Yasmin, 4. 2 24 Pages 15 16 7 Ads 21,22,23 Sections Abingdon Building fiushnell Classified Comics, TV, Radio Editorial Galva Knoxville Markets Monmouth Obituary Sports Theater Weather Women in the 19 4 5 7 20 14 21 17,18 6 3 8,9 been missing for 19 days afterjSynt JietlC Boilll death of her baby was home 1 CHICAGO had the death of her baby today with a "confused" recollec- A ttttflc tion of having taken a bus trip lo 1 ICUiva Los Angeles. Mrs. Marion Wrabel, 31, was found Saturday on a West Side State Capital of urgently needed supplies had been air dropped Sunday and today.

French bombers and French naval fighters from the aircraft carrier Arromanches strafed and bombed the Red positions aroundj Dien Bien Phu in an effort to A lence the Red artillery during the; 1 stallatlon was under investigation that mllltaty programs and i A Ule McCarthy subcommittee. 1 May Make Rebate McCarthy "ffltad" The Federal Power Commission Cohn and Carr called on Stevens gave Panhandle -an increase of Nov. 16 and top'ortod that Mc- more than 12 million dollars in Carthy was "mad" and felt that he annual wholesale rates on gas sold had been "double-crossed," Stevens to 46 utilities in a dozen states, said. The Army secretary said tho next clay he flew to New York, where he took McCarthy and his staff to lunch to discuss the matter. another principal in the dispute, and Col.

Thomas J. Clcary of Stevens' staff, accompanied him to New York. With McCarthy were Cohn, Carr and columnist George Sokolsky. Stevens said McCarthy "indicated he felt the press conference had been badly handled" and that "he was quite put out about it." The Army secretary said they "talked about what could be done" and he "offered to issue a clarifying statement." The upshot was a New York news conference in which Stevens said he had no evidence of current espionage at Fort Monmouth but that he was speaking for the Army and not the Senate committee. He said this statement was no different in substance than the earlier Stevens was under subcommittee orders not to urc any transcripts of telephone 'calls in the case to bolster his testimony in today's questioning.

WASHINGTON (UP) Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens admitted today that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's investigation of Ft. Monmouth, "speeded up" the Army's suspension of some personnel, but he said the inquiry caused "a lot of harm in a lot on two bills passed by he ii Legislature appropriating Stevens made the statement ini frof the u1nd Ii his second day of testimony at thel ihG i U1 Senate investigating Kubcommit-i 8 West Side Medical Centers televised hearings on the i ter "will be operated by the Army-McCarthy dispute.

i Welfare Department with Jenkins Presses cooperation of psychiatry schools Special counsel Kay 11. major Illinois universities. turned the questioning to the Ft. Monmouth investigation, i McCarthy conducted last fail, in an effort to establish that (i. David ov change; He added: "The next few months are obviously critical ones in world affairs, and what happens in Europe and Asia during this period may force a soul-searching review of our specific policies, plans objections and expenditures." New Hospital Authorized in Welfare Order SPRINGFIELD State Welfare Department today announced five million dollars has been allocated to build a psychiatric research and training hospital in Chicago.

The money was earmarked from the state mental health fund, which contains monthly payments by relatives or estates of state hospital patients. The fund is limited to research uses. Welfare Director Otto L. Bettag said 30 other projects costing about VA million dollars also were approved in the first distribution from the fund. He estimated there will be nine million dollars in the fund by the.

end of the current two-year fiscal period Juno 30, 1955. Passed In Mm The projects and allocations are (Continued on page 3) Francis Revealed Unemployment Claim Payments SACRAMENTO, Calif. park bench by her husband, James, simulated atomic bomb burst over parachute drop. 33, after a neighbor reported he the Capitol dome and supposedly Made Several Runs had seen her there. the heart of the city; French headquarters said the enemy lines and had been aani- Wrabel asked police to search Sunday.

(transports dropping the parachut-Jhilated. for his wife after she disappeared! By 4 p.m. the were forced to make several! Nevertheless, the fortress com- FRENCH VIGILANT ON HANOI HAIPHONG ROAD French Union forces man armored vehicles on road between Hanoi and Haiphong in Indochina as they traverse the road seeking to keep it in shape despite constant damage at the hands of Red-led rebels. A huge crater is shown in foreground. (AP Wirephoto.) a few hours after their at 27,000 dead and 18,000 in-lruns over the postage-stamp sized mader, Brig, old daughter, Diane, died of na- jured, with another 68,000 home-'drop zone.

jCastries, had Gen. Christian De tural causes April 5. less. The pretended attack was; The French spokesman scale Wrabel told police his wife told part of a Civil Defense Region 4 not discuss unconfirmed reports dropped, partly because of the him she was confused and feltiexercise to test communications that one entire group of paratroop hazard of the operation and partly that she "had to keep riding." 'nnd division field staffs. of the small area left to the French defenders.

Major Gen. John (Iron Mike) O'Daniel, chief of the U.S. military iscale that would total 23 million instructed that in Indochina, flew into the dollars if applied nationally, reinforcements be rebel-torn Red River delta for The employment official asked war crisis talks with authority for up to million dol- French northepo front commander jlars to help state investigators step Other projects include: $238,320 for development of "semi- educational arrangements" houses" at Lincoln and Dixon state schools and Peoria State Hospital for persons not in need of 34-hour hospitalization. $232,000 for affiliate nurses training schools at Anna and Elgin state hospitals. Grants for private agency research in psychiatry of $50,000 to Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago; $8,000 to the Institute for Psycho- WASHINGTON Spot checks analysis, Chicago, and $15,500 to of unemployment insurance claims Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago.

in five states have uncovered 1 frauds that may total millions of dollars nationwide, Robert C. Goodwin, director of the Bureau of Employment Security, so testified to a House appropriations subcommittee in testimony made public Saturday. He said state investigators in California and four other unspecified states uncovered fraudulent claims and mistaken overpayments on a jreinforeemeats had fallen behind because of the extreme crowding I Gen. Rene Cogny. up their probe..