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TEMPERATURE 84; low, 73. Last night's Rainfall from 7 a.m. Thursday to 7 a.m. Noon MI VERNON REGISTER-NEWS MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SQUARE DEAL FOR ALL SPECIAL FAVORS TO NONE A NON PARTISAN NEWSPAPER WEATHER PARTLY cloudy this afternoon and tonight with scattered showers. Saturday partly cloudy with little change in temperature.

Low tonight low 70s. High Saturday upper 80s. Low Saturday night low 70s. VOLUME XXXV NO. 244.

MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1955 25c PER WEEK BY CARRIER IKE LEAVES FOR BIG CONFERENCE em RIDGWA RIPS DEFENSE POLICY CRITICIZES RELIANCE ON AIR, A-BOMB Penfagon Releases "Con- fidenfial" LeHer Warning of. Russian Ground Power. By Press WASHINGTON The Penta- on today ripped tihe secrecy la- el off a letter by Gen. Matthew B. sharply challenging the basic military policy of the Eisenhower administration.

In one of his last official acts as Army chief of staff, Ridgway lashed out at what he described as the administration's over-emphasis on "air-nuclear weapons" and hydrogen bombs. Ridgway addressed his letter to Secretary of Defense Wilson, who ordered it made public today after its contents had leaked into print. In its strictly military phases the letter was essentially a restatement of criticisms Ridgway had voiced piecemeal and in less pointed terms for montJlis before he retired June 30. But the paratroop general gave his contentions new emphasis by putting them all together in a compilation and relating one argument to the others. The 10-page study of the relative military positions of the United States and its free world allies vs.

Soviet bloc made two main contentions: 1. The Communists are pursuing their worldwide aggression course along lines not probably not bring nuclear weapons into play. For that situation, Ridgway said, the free world needs "an immediately available joint military force of hard-hitting character in which the versatility of the whole is emphasized and the preponderance of any one part is de- emphasized." 2. Some time between 1958 and 1962 the Reds will have developed such nuclear weapons and delivery capability that "the United States nuclear-air superiority will have lost most of the present significance." In that situation foresaw a nuclear stalemate, either through mutual destruction if the weapons are used or through their cancellation because neither side will employ them for fear of what the other will do in retaliation. The letter, which had been classified "confidential" at the Pentagon, was released on orders from Wilson.

In telling newsmen of his order to the Army to give the letter out Wilson commented laconically: "I don't think it's very important." "Parochial," Siiys Ike President Eisenhower put it a little differently at a news conference some months ago. Questioned then about Ridgways objections to administration plans to reduce Amiy strength, Eisenhower said was expressing a "parochial" view. The President's point was that an Army man. was speaking from the Army's "local" viewpoint. Eisenhower took the position that emphasis on air power and atomic and hydrogen weapons represents a broader view, and commented that the President has the "overall responsibility.

At that time Ridgway told a congres.sional committee the proposal to reduce Army forces by 140.000 men would national securit.v. Ridgway's retirement as Army chief of staff has been widely attributed to his opposition to administration policy. Ridgway passed the regular retiromont age of 60 last March and actually was serving under an extension of time after that. An additional extension, however, 1 liave been permissible. He stopped out to become head of the Mollon Research Foundation in Pittsburgh.

i a told Wilson that America's forces arc insufficient to meet "the commitments which the United States has pledged." told Wilson Ru.ssia is developing a fully rounded mili- capability-, available for various kinds of campaigns. On the other hand, Ridgway said: "The present United State's prc-occupation with preparations for a genei-al war has limtied the military available for a coW war lo those which are essentially byproducts or leftovers from the means available for a general war." 1LLIXOI.S TEJIPERATURES Rockford 94 66 Moline 93 66 Peoria 8,5 68 Rantoul 77 66 Quincy 83 64 Springfield 85 66 Vandalia 84 67 Scott Ail' Base 81 69 SUMMIT HOMES These are the villas to be occupied by two of the four chiefs of state during Big Four conference slated to begin In Geneva, Switzerland, July 18. Soviet Premier Nikolai Bul- ganin will live at Villa La Pastorale (lop) near Palace of Nations, conference site. French Premier Edgar Faure will stay at VUla Prevorzie (bottom), about six miles north of Geneva. (AP Wirephoto) BULGANiN SAYS RUSS TO MAKE SINCEREEFFORT Khrushchev, Zhukov, Molo- toY, Gromyko to Accompany Premier to Geneve.

By Associated Press MOSCOW Premier Bul- ganin declared today tlie Soviet delegation is leaving for Geneva Satuixlay to make "a sincere effort" to solve international problems. The Prime Minister told a news conference that if the Western Big Three delegations make a similar effort to Geneva there is "no reason to believe that the basis of a future peace cannot be assured." Bulganin received reporters inside the Kremlin. He was accompanied by the other four major members of the 10-man Soviet delegation to Geneva. They are Communist party boss Nikita Khrushchev, Sov i 1 Foreign Minister V. M.

Molotov, Defense Minister Georgi K. Zhukov and Dep.Foreign Minister Andrei Gromylto. Bulganin read a three-page prepared statement in Russian which was then translated into English. Tliere was no opportunity given to tlie 75 correspondents to ask any questions. When translation of the statement was finished, Bulganin and his delegation marched out.

Bulganin said in his statement; "Wo go to Geneva prepared to discuss frankly the points at is.suc to achieve a relaxation of inter-national tension and restore confidence between states. The desire of the people of the world is peace. Two world wars brought them only suffering and the cold war burdened the peoples with the crushing costs of an armaments race and great fear." Charge West Menaces Russia The Soviet Premier repeated familiar Moscow allegations against the Western powers, de during they were forming "a war bloc" and surrounding the Soviet Union with military bases. "There is a great deal of talk in the West about an alleged menace from the Soviet Union," the Premier declared. "Bui we never wanted war nor, do we pian any attack on anybody in ihe future.

But in view of the war preparations in the West we must take mca.sui'es to protect oureolves. We have an arm.v— a very good army with all the necessary arms and modern equipment." Electrocuted By Washing Machine By Associated Press BRIDGEPORT, 111. Riley C. Duckworth, 36, of Bridgeport was killed by electric shock Thureday while working on an automatic washing machine in his home. Duckworth was a draftsman for the Ohio Oil Co.

A wife and two children survive. AUTO CRASH IK MISSOURI TAKES FIVE Four of Dead Are (llinoisans Whose Cor Skidded Into Another. By Associated Press PALMYRA, Mo. Five persons, four of them members of an Illinois family, died Thursday night as two cars ci-ashed on wet pavement IK' miles north of this northeastern Missouri community. A sixth person is reported in critical condition at a Hannibal hospital.

The Missouri Highway Patrol identified the dead as Harry Colbert, 51, Moline, his wife, Mary, 34; their two sons, Charles 10, and James, and Vivian E. Atchison, 29, of Dallas, Tex. James Atchison, 32, husband of Vivian, was injured critically. Patrolmen said the Illinois car skidded on the pavement of U. S.

31 into the path of the Texas Bodies of the dead were taken to the Palmyra Funeral home. Used Children As Lure To Jail Her Husband On Debt By Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R. I. Superior Court Judge Pati'ick P. Curran has ruled, in effect, that it's not cricket for a woman to use children as a lure to got a man jailed for being delinquent in his support payments.

Judge Curran ordered the release Thursday of Marvin R. Mitchell of Galveston, who had been in 14 days in a debt action based on failure to keep up court-ordered payments for support of his wife and children. Mitchell said his wfe, Mrs. Helen F. Mitchell of Natick, R.

called him on Father's Day and asked him to come to see his children. When he arrived, Mitch- 3ll said, a deputy sheriff was A 'aiting with a writ of arrest. OK U. S. GAS TAX HIKE FOR HIGHWAY PROJECT House Committee Pushes Plans For One-Cent Gas Tax Increase, Levies On Diesel Fuel And Tires To Pay For 40,000 Miles Of Superhighways For Defense.

By Associated Press WASHINGTON The House Public Works Committee today appiwed by a 22-9 vote about in new taxes over the next 15 years to pay for a giant new road building program. The vote affinned tentative action Thursday approving tax increases on gasoline, ti-ucks and buses, dieso! fuel, heavj' tires and tubes and all tire retreads. In addition, the committee added a new tax increase. This would increase the levy on medium truck TVi by 18 to by 18 from five cents a pound up to eight cents a pound. The construction program calls for 37 billions in federal spending and 15 V2 billions from the stales over a 12-year poriofi.

The federal government would put up 24 billions, and the states 2Vi billions, to complete 40,000 miles of defense superhighways. In addition, the pi'ogram calls for a 25-million-dollar inci-case each year for 15 yeai 'S in both federal and state funds for primary, secondard and urban roads. About 1 billion is spent annually for this program now, on a 50-50 matching basis. Gasoline Up 1 Cent The schedule of increa.ses approved yesterday, to take effect within a few weeks after the bill is enacted: Gasoline, from 2 to 3 cents a gallon; diesel fuel, 2 to 5 coMs a gallon; trucks and buses, 8 to 10 per cent; heavy tires, used by lai'ge trucks and buses, 5 to 15 cents a pound; heavy tubes, 9 to 15 cents a pound; camelback used for retreading all tires, from no tax now to 15 cents a pound. II til Meanest Thief Enters Church At Bakerville Jefferson county officers Had a candidate for "meanest thief of the week" today.

Late yestei'day they were notified that someone had broken into the Bakerville church, a shoit distance south of Mt. Vernon. The thief, or thieves, took two window fans and an oscillating fan fi'om the chui-ch, county officers said. The break-in occurred within the past two or three days. Auto Wreckage Blocks Railway By Associated Press EFFINGHAM, 111.

Trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad were held up here and at Terre Haute, Ind. for two hours early today while crews removed pieces of an embedded auto fi'om the railroad roadbed at nearljy Montrose. Sheriff Chai'les L. Meizer said the unoccupied car apparently stalled on the tracks and was abandoned. A fast freight hit it.

Meizer said he was holding two Jasper County men for questioning in connection with the accident. Street Oiling Delayed By Rain "Called off on account of wet streets." That was the situation in the Mt. Vo)-non street oiling pro- gi-am this week. Approximately two miles of dirt streets had been prepared for oiling this week and the spi-eading of oil was scheduled today. The deluge of i-ain halted the program.

Streets originally for oiling today will be oiled next if it doesn't rain, said Emmitt Lemay, public works superintendent. Kefauver Witnesses Are Hidden By Screen By Associated Press CHICAGO Hearings by the Kefauver Commiitoo on Juvenile Delinquency headed into its second day today, the into "quick bain' adoptions." Thye (R'-Minn) is scheduled as the fii-st witness before the subcommittee headed by Sen. Kefauver (D-Tonn). Thye is the authoi- of a Senate bill which would make unlawful ccrtan commercial dealings in minor children. The measure' is now under considei-ation by Kefauver's subcommittee.

Hearings today and will center on certain infant adoption practices which ver as "an appai'ont racket in ihr placing of babies for adoption." James H. DoYio. chief counsel for the subcommittee, sairi some 30 UTtnesses are scheduled to appeal-. He they would inclufie childle.ss couples bilked in what ho called the "baby black mar'- ket," unwed mothere and attorneys. To in.suro secrecy for tostifj-itig, Kefauver and Sen.

Wiley (R-Wis), the two Senate members conducting the hearings, have ordered a boxlike screen and microphone set up around a witness chair. CITY FIGHTS INCREASE IN WATER RATE Pfeiffer to Represent Mt. V. ot Hearings. Discuss Possible Condemnation Proceedings on Water Property.

Mt. Vernon city councilmen decided la.st night lo can-y on this city's all-out battle against huge water rate increases and, at the same time, discussed a possibility of starting condemnation pi'O- ceedings to acquire the Illinois Cities Water Co. property hero. The mayoi' and council mot in informal session at city hall with Attorney Frank Pfeiffer, Springfield attorney who has ably repi-e- snnted Mt. Vernon in the water vale fight, and a group of business Icadoi-s who have served as a committee lo attempt negotiation with the water compan.y for puichase of the property by the cit.y.

Last February the Illinois Commerce Commission turned down the water company's request for enonnous increases which would have cost the people of Mt. Vernon SSQS.OQO per year, an increase of 111 per cent. Later the ICC granted the company's request for a re-hearing. Then, earl.y this month, the water company asked the ICC lo grant "temporary" water rate increases here, in the same amount sought in it's petition last spring. Hearing- Next Wrftk Hearings on both matters are scheduled in Springfield next Wednesday, July 20, Last night the council authorized Attorney Pfcirter to repi'o- sent the City of Mt.

Vernon al the and lo continue the fight against i-ate increases. The city council more than a year ago publicly announced its intention for the city to purchase the local water comoany, if possible. When the council's efforts to negotiate with E. G. Parsley, wntor company president, failed repeatedly, the council ten months ago apfwinlcd a special committee of six leader's of the comniimity to attempt to negotiate with the company for the purchase of the water company and, if po.ssibic, to report a price to the council.

On this committee were Carl Schwcinfurth, Harold G. Watson, Attorne.y Maurice DeWitt, John R. Mitchell, Attorney George VV. Howard and Silas Echols. All members of the committee except who is out of the city, attended last night's confoi'ence.

They submitted a "final report" to the council that the committee had contacted Parsley, by letter and in person, requesting a confei'cncc for the DULLES IN PARIS MAY OPEN NEW YISJAS FOR PEACE President Tells Congress He Hopes Geneva Talks Will Identify, Ease "Divisive Issues." LEAVES BY PLANE AFTER RADIO TALK Secretary of Siiito John Foster DtillcB Is Interviowt'd l)y ncwsinnn, with microphone, nt ihe French Foreign ministry in Paris Thursday following his arrival by piano. Next to hliii In French Foreign iMiiilster Antolne Pluiiy. Others are not Itlcntlfiwl. Dulles siiont throe hours with V. S.

experts going over proposals the Anicrlcaus, British and I'TOIKII will imt to tho Rus- shins when they meet "ut Uie summit" in Geneva, next weoli. Wirephoto by radio from I'arls) PLANE WITH 87 ON BOARD LIMPS HOME Giant Air Transport Flies 700 Miles Over Ocean With Two Engines Dead. Continued on Page Two) By Associated Prost HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE, Calif, For four' tense, long hours Thursday night Capt. Theodore Roosevelt held his mind and nci'vos ready to ditch a Globcmastor and 87 men in the fog-covered Pacific, But tho ordoal ended in a safe landing here with the big military transport's two Ktarboard engines dead. Two right-hand tii'es blew out in the landing but pilot of Elyria, Ohio, held the plane straight on the runway.

When it was all over, Roosevelt, a seventh cousin of both Teddy and Franklin D. Roosevelt, quietly told reporters. "Everybody was extremely calm. "I was pretty sure we'd have to ditch. Those felt, I guess, they could cope with whatever came up." The C12'l flew aliout 700 miles with only its two port cnginos.

The Glohonia I or carried 7,9 men of the 187th Regimental Combal Team airborne and its crew of eight. It was on a flight from Hickam Field, Hawaii, to California in the Operation Gyroscope transfer of tho 187th from Japan lo Ft. Bragg, N. "We were about 10 minutes past tho point of equal lime mid- point when the first engine weni," said LI. Richard E.

Davidson, Alliance, Ohio, assistant nav- Continued on Page Two) Holds Christrfias Service In July Bv Assocjntuti Proii VICKSBURG, Mich. Rev. George pastor of the First Methodist Church, plans Christmas service for next Sunday. The clergyman said tho spiritual aspect of tlie holy day frequently is lost in the commercial activity of the December holidays. He plans a service of carols, anthems, and a Christmas sermon.

Flowers will replace the traditional holly. Says Japanese Killed 2000 In Germ War Tests By Assodntcd Prosff TOKYO A Japanese ma gamine today published what it said was an eyewitness account of lapanese germ warfare experiments during World War II. Hiroshi Akiyama, writing in the current issue of Pungoi Shun- iu, estimated tha.t at least 1,500 to 2,000 persons were killed at a warfare center miles south of Harbin, Manchuria. Akiyama, who claims ho was assigned to the huge germ warfare unit as a drafted army civilian, said "human uinea pigs" tvoro daily given germ When they died, ho wrole, Ihoir bodies were burned in an incinerator. He also said army officers running tho gorm warfare senior experimented with gorm filled bombs.

Human sub.jecis ivere tied to posts and bombs dropped nearby, ho said. "But this proved a failure," the article said, "because the heat 3f the explosion killed SO per cent of the gci-ms." In Soviet Russia accused Japan of conducting genn war- foio and spocficially charged Ishii with chief responsibility for such warfare. Woman Clings To Helicopter In Dramatic Rescue A Moman swimmer, Identified as H. Adrian, a German, clings to undercarriage ot helicnpter heading baek to beach at Schevcnlngen, Holland. Bathers In foreground run surf to assist the woman who had been seen struggling against the tide 250 yards off stioro by pilot of the air craft.

The pilot who had been flying banners, dropped his and swooped low over Mrs. Adrian for tlie rescue. (AP IRA STORMENT OF BELLE RIVE FATALLY HURT Farmer, 69, Dies at Local Hospital After Crash Of Trucks. Ira Norman Storment, 69- year-old Belle Rive farmer, was fatally in.jured in a collision of two pick-up trucks at 6:30 p. m.

Thur.sday at 26th street and Broadway. Mr. Storment, who suffered a skull fracture and other injuries, died at 12:40 a. m. today at Good Samaritan Hospital.

Max McCarty, 836 Fairfield Road, d.river of the other truck, injury. Police Orricoi'9 Everett Dalby and Art Phillips, who investigated the accident, said that Slormcnt was driving north on 2()th street and that McCarty was headed oast on U. Route Broadway, driving a Tri- County Electric Cooperative truck. The fatal accident occurred during a rninstonn. Investigating officers said Stoi-mont drove on to the high- Vay, directly in front of McCarty.

It was impossible for McOai-ty to stop quickly enough to avoid a collision, the officers said. McCarly's truck hit the Storment truck broadside, and the Storment truck landed in the of the Bill Greene home, in tho north side of the road. McCarly's truck remained in tlie highway. Drivers of both trucks were alono al the lime of the accident. Fj'icnds said that Stoirnent was on a trip to buy cattle.

Mr. Storment was born December 15, in Hamilton county, the son of Joseph and Rebecca tScrivner) Storment. He is survived by his wife, Hallio; three sons, Carl of Gary, Wendell of Eugene, Oregon, and Ralph of Mt. Vernon; six grandchlldi'on; and a brother, Ransom of Deiafield. Tho body was tiiken to the Grigg and Gholson Funeral Home in Dahlgron.

Funeral aiTange- monls were incomplete. Coroner Ben Roeder said he will conduct an inquest in the case early next week, after the funeral. 5-Day Forecast By AisDcittod PrtJi will average to 5 degrees above normal; normal high 88 north to 93 south, normal low north to 68 south; little change in temperature through warmer Monday through Wednesday. Pre- cipitati9n little or none northwest half, to ti to Vi! inch southeast half, in showers tonight and early Saturday. Dulles and Western Foreign Ministers Agree in Advance on Strategy for Meeting Reds.

By Atioelattd PrtH WASHINGTON. President told Congress today le hopes the Big Four meeting Geneva will be able to identify the "outstanding issues" troubling the world and "develop methods to try to solve them." The President referred to next week's "summit" meeting in transmitting to Congress the 9th annual report on U. S. participation in the United Nations. It covered the year 1954.

Eisenhower takes off for va tonight after telling the nation about his cautious hopei that the Big Four conference, which begins Monday, may lead eventually to enduring peace. OpportiinltleM For Peace In his message to Congress, the President said he will enter the Big Four "with a full awareness of the opportuniUes offered by the United Nations to contribute to the peace of the Ho added; "If these meetings reach useful areas of agreement in ihe handling of international problems, then they will open new vistas looking toward further agreement. "This can only mean that the United Nations can have, new and wider opportunities to build upon the foundation thus laid." On Air Tonight "Eisenhower plans a 15-minute Informal address (6:15 p. CST dealing with world problems to be taken up at the conference and with his view on steps toward solving fiiem. All four television networloi will carry the extemporaneous talk from the White House at the time of delivery, as will ABC and CBS radio.

The MBS and NBC radio networks will broadcast recorded versloM la ter. Wife And Son Go Aloni; One hour after Eisenhower concludes, he will take off from National Airport aboard his sonal plane Columbine HI. party will include Mrs. Eisenhower and their son Maj. John Eisenhower, who wDl serve as an aide to his father.

The plane will make one refueling stop, at Keflavlk Air Base, Iceland. Eisenhower is due at Geneva Saturday evening. FOREIGN MINISTERS AGREE ON STRATEfiY Qy Aiioclalod Press PARIS. The Western Big Three foreign ministers agreed quickly today on -their position and strategy for the historic Geneva meeting with Russia's lop political and nulitary leaders. In slightly more than three hours, U.

S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay endorsed a detailed draft of Western conference plans. These include a definite list of topics the West will raise and the stand it will take on each issue. The list was submitted to the ministers by diplomatic experts from each delegation Thursday. It was not disclosed what sub- the West intends to bring up at Geneva but they were almost certain to include German reunification, European security, disarmament, and French Premier Edgar Faure's new disarm- and-develop scheme to help Continued on Page Two) Something New At Mt.

V. State Fair; Mule Racing (Picture on Pago 16) Tiiere be something new on the race ti'ack at the Mt. Vernon State Fair next week. Racing up and pulling regular race sulkies be an entertainment feature every afternoon, Tuesday through Friday. The trained racing mules, from the Jerry Lippialt stable of Salem, Ohio, will score from behind a mobile staiting gate, just iike the regular pacing and trotting horses.

In the sulkies will be ama'teur drivers. Ljppiatt's racing mxiJm entertained at Fairs and race meets throughout New York stete last year and their Mt. Verjion engagement will be their flrst in the state or UlinqU. "Phe mule race will be off between heats of the apeed progjum mtk afternoon..