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FREEDOM OP THE PRESS IS A RIGHT OP THE PEOPLE THE LUDINGTON DAILY NEWS An Independent Newspaper Serving Mason County and Surrounding Area WEATHER: Fair and cool tonight Sunny, warmer Saturday. VOLUME NO. 63, NO. 209 LUDINGTON, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS ZkisSummet- Don't swim away from your upset boat as this foolish man is doing. Your boat is your best Mfe-preservelr-r always'remember that fact! A tired person can be put on it while others swim boat slowly to shore and safety.

JRoll capsized boat right side up to handle more easily Re-enter boat over stem or make a i for self-rescue. Wooden boat or metal one with good foot-loop with rope at the bow to help buoyancy tanks will stay afloat even when filled with you get aboard. Don't try to climb Avater. Get aboard carefully and hand-paddle to shore. over the side if you fall 60ATING, canoeing and sailing account for almost half of each summer's needless drownings.

The American Red Cross recommends: Don't ever go out in small craft unless you know how to swim. What's Doing in The World US and State CARNOUSTIE, England Hogan, golf's living legend, won the British Open championship on ty's first try today, shooting a rec- Ut uJfc' last round for 72- hole score of 282. He had rounds of for the second lowest score in the tournament's history. WASHINGTON joint congressional conference agreed today on slightly more than five billion dollars as the maximum figure for foreign aid during the current fiscal year. That much was set as the ceiling in an authorization bill.

The actual cash must be provided later. Today's figure is about 300 million dollars less than the President requested. WASHINGTON State department today ordered our ambassador to Moscow, Charles Boh-, len, to return to Washington for consultation on the dismissal of Lavrenty Beria from the Soviet government. Bohlen is now on vacation in Paris. European diplomats viewed the purging of Beria as the beginning of an all out struggle for power inside the Kremlin with prospects of a showdown next between Premier Georgi Malenkov and Foreign Minister V.

M. Molotov. PANMUNJOM U.S. Secretary of State Walter Robertson and Syngman Rhee were reported today to have made substantial progress toward an agreement by which the South Korean president will go along with a South Korean truce. WASHINGTON Iff) Under administration pressure for action at this session of Congress, Chairman (Please turn to Pasc 10.

Column 4) Concert Dates Received Here Miss Elizabeth Dickey, secretary of Ludington Community Concert association, told The News today that she has received notification of the dates of the 1953-54 series of concerts. Nov. 18 a concert will be presented by Nancy Carr, well-known Chicago vocalist; Jan. 13 by Musical Americana and March 25 by Tolenberg Ensemble. All three concerts will be given at Lyric theater.

WANTED! EXPERIENCED GIRL for general office work. Apply at the AUTOPULSE CORPORATION Ludington Recess Parley until Saturday PANMUNJOM Iff) Allied and Communist negotiators met secretly for 29 minutes today, then recessed until Saturday their efforts to clear the final obstacles to a Korean truce still bitterly opposed by South Korea. was, no. hint whether the top-level delegations made progress toward singing an armistice. Informed quarters speculated that much of the session was devoted to Communist demands that the if.

N. Command guarantee South Korean compliance with armistice terms. President Syngman Warplanes Aid GIs at Porkchop SEOUL (ffi Waves of bomb- laden American warplanes swarmed to the aid of Allied infantry and artillerymen today in the struggle for Porkchop Hill and Arrowhead Ridge in Western Korea. Low-flying jet fighter-bombers flew more than 200 frontline mis- sins by early afternoon, hurling tons of explosives and fiery jellied gasoline into Communist trenches which Allied shells and foot soldiers failed to knock out in four days of wild, see-saw fighting. The show of air power was the biggest so.

far for July. Zooming low over the embattled hills, the Allied jets burned out or blew up more than 200 yards trenches, 18 mortar positions and several Red bunkers. Before daybreak, troops of the U. S. 7th Division broke up two Chinese attacks on Porkchop Hill and South Koreans held off 400 attacking Reds at Arrowhead Ridge, six miles to the northeast.

An Allied observer said one shelling killed or wounded every one of 100 Chinese trying to leave a western finger of Porkchop Hill. Ground fighting slowed after the Air Force moved in. Chinp.se troops still held parts of the northern slope of Porkchop Hill, with small groups of Reds entrenched on the western finger and the southeastern edge. On nearby Arrowhead Ridge, Chinese troops held the eastern outpost in front of the ridge. But ROK 2nd Division soldiers were still in position on the western outpost.

No fighting was reported on the main part of Arrowhead, which is held by the ROKs. But the roar of artillery kept up at a fairly steady pace. Since the battlq began Monday night, about 150,000 rounds of Red mortar and artillery have fallen in the Allied sector. The Weather (U.S. Weather Bureau Forecast) Lower Michigan: Fair and coo! tonight.

Sunny and somewhat warmer Saturday. Highest temperature one year ago today, 81; lowest; 59. Highest temperature this date since 1872, 102 In 1936; lowest, 51 In 1895. The sun sets today at 8:10 p. m.

and rises 'Saturday at 5:05 a. m. The moon sets today at 8:08 p. m. and rises Saturday at 5:25 a.

in. Temperature at the U.S. observation station for 24 hours ending at 12 noon: Maximum 71, minimum 50. Rhee has threatened to pull his 16-division army out of the UNC and fight on alone to unify his nation. Resumption of the negotiations came after a 20-day -recess which followed Rhee's release of some 27,000 prisoners.

Rhee'did not meet Friday with President Eisenhower's envoy, Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson. And there was no announcement when another session would be held. A South Korean source told Associated Press Correspondent Bill Shinn that Rhee "still is insisting that South Korea must have from America concrete assurances that Korea will be unified, peacefully or otherwise." He said Rhee was adamant despite U. S. offers of a military security pact, substantial economic aid and four more army divisions.

Predict House Will Pass Tax Extension Bill WASHINGTON weeks of delay and fierce backstage battles, President Eisenhower's drive to extend the excess profits tax on business reached the day of decision today on the House floor. Leaders on both sides predicted a bill to extend the tax for six months, from June 30 to Jan. 1, would be passed, probably overwhelmingly, and sent to the Senate late this afternoon. Chairman Daniel A. Reed (RNY) of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, fighting the administration proposal all the way, conceded he didn't expect to win.

House leaders called an early session (8 a.m. CST) and scheduled five hours of debate. Amendments from the floor were barred, forestalling any efforts to soften the tax with relief amendments or tack on the cuts in personal income taxes vigorously demanded by Reed. The 78-year-old committee chairman, who blockaded the bill in his committee for weeks, said in a report to the House Thursday the White House was "relegating the great committee on ways and means to the status of a rubber stamp." Representatives Jenkins (R- Ohio) and Mason (R-I11) joined in the- report, declaring the tax- writing committee, when it approved the bill, was "following blindly an order from the executive branch of government." Eisenhower first asked for the extension in a radio broadcast to the nation on May 19. He conceded it was a bad tax but said the brief extension would produce an estimated 800 faillion dollars in vitally needed revenue.

The levy, on top of regular corporation taxes, takes. 30 per cent of all corporation profits defined in the law as excessive. Opponents say the tax stifles business and costs more revenue than it produces. Malenkov Turns Out Aide, L. V.

Beria as A Traitor By THOMAS P. WHITNEY MOSCOW P. Beria, longtime head of Russia's police forces and first deputy to Premier Georgi M. Malenkov, has been fired from the Soviet government, expelled from the Communist party and turned over to his nation's highest tribunal as a traitor. The parly newspaper Pravda denounced him today as an agent of international imperialism and an Puppet Show Set 10 and 2 Tuesday Ludington recreation department will sponsor the, first in a series of puppet shows for children at Oriole hall at 10 a.

m. and 2 p. m. Tuesday. The first show will feature Lewis Parsons, his music and puppets in the favorite "One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes." The morning show will be for youngsters up to and including the fourth grade.

The afternoon show will be for children through the eighth grade. After each performance each child attending will be given a paddle pop. If interest is shown in this type of special event, Mr. Parsons will be back at later dates to give performances of "Jack and the Beanstalk" and "The, Three Little Pigs." Jail Closing Is Imminent Imminent closing of Mason county jail because of its hazardous condition is in prospect, according to a letter County Clerk Albert E. Johnson has received from W.

H. Nestle, state jail inspector. Mr. Nestle, who is with the state department of corrections, said in this letter: I "I made an inspection of your county jail on June 30, 1953, and was somewhat surprised to see that nothing has been done towards remedying your present jail condition and, in view of the fact that the voters have turned down a bond issue for the building of a new jail, it leaves us only one course to follow and that is to start proceedings in your circuit court to close your present jail. "Sheriff Anderson is doing a remarkable job in keeping this old jail in operation.

"We regret that we have to take the above action as we feel that the majority of the members of the board of supervisors realize the condition of your present jail." Voters of Mason county defeated a proposition to build a new jail to replace the present building. CARS DAMAGED Ludington police reported that considerable damage resulted to cars driven by Winona J. Beard of Shelby and Edward E. Lessard of 705 North Rath avenue in a collision at 3:30 m. Thursday.

No one was injured in the accident which happened at the corner of Tinkham and Rath avenues. Hal Boyle Old Maids Cause Bachelors By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK know what causes more old maids than anything? Bachelors. women are convinced the only good bachelor is a former bachelor. They aren't really sporting about their hunting. They not only hate the ones that get away from them.

They resent seeing a bachelor escape from another girl. A young lady who returned empty-handed from a recent June" matrimonial safari complained to me: "To get married today a girl practically has to grab a boy while the ink is still wet on his high school diploma. The older men get the more frightened they seem to be of marriage, and after 30 they seem to think it is illegal or underhanded or something. "Just what is wrong with bachelors? Arc they afraid to grow up?" Well, in the interest of lovelorn ladies I called together all the bachelors I know a happier body of men you never and asked bluntly: "Fellows, what is wrong with you? Why don't you get married? Are you yellow?" This made them angry. They all joyously agreed they were cads but all denied they were cowards.

They divided into two general classes: 1. Those who wouldn't marry the best woman, who ever lived, "not even if she was half-angel and had feathers to prove it." i 2. Those who hadn't found "the right girl" and heartily hoped now they never would. "People have got the wrong idea about bachelors," said one. "They think they are sad, lonely and helpless.

But when you see a guy like that he isn't a.real he's just a prospective husband. "A true bachelor is happy and carefree. A married man has two at home, one in the office. A bachelor has to please only one. And he leads a crowded social life.

He is always in demand. Any party is considered dull, even by wives, unless the hostess has a bachelor or two on tap." "enemy of the Communist party and the Soviet people." A parly communique said Mal- enkov himself outlined the case against the 53-year-old Beria at a recent meeting of the party Central Committee. His downfall left Malenkov with three deputy premiers; Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, War Minister Nikolai Bulganin, and Lazarus M.

Kaganovich. The party accused Beria of "criminal activities designed at subverting the Soviet state in the interests of foreign capitalism" and of trying to put his Internal Affairs Ministry "higher than the government and Communist party of the Soviet Union." Pravda said he had planned secretly to "seize the leadership of the party and the country" in order to restore capitalism. In Western capitals, non-Communist observers speculated that Expulsion of Beria Mau Indicate Russian Leaders Have Gained Power Editors: Eddy Gilmore was an AP correspondent in Moscow from 1941 until 10 days ago, when he and his family left for the United States. Now in Stockholm, he examines various aspects of the purge of Lavrenty P. Beria.

By EDDY GILMORE STOCKHOLM, Sweden Lavrenty P. Beria's expulsion from the Communist party and Soviet government means that Premier Georgi Malenkov and perhaps feel strong enough or desperate enough to doom the supreme policeman to utter disgrace. In this mighty struggle for Stalin's power, which does not necessarily appear to have ended, the sensational action against Beria was a natural development. Just before I left Moscow, high members of the party and government on June 27 watched the premiere of a new opera at the Bolshoi Theater. Oddly, Beria's name was not listed among those present.

"Do you suppose that it's already happened?" one Western diplomat asked me, referring to what we all expected in the power inevitable arrest of someone on top. The, cold-eyed Georgi has been damned by the most terrifying the Soviet lexicon enemy of the party ana people. On top of this he has been branded an international imperialist agent, a sickeningly familiar expression. It seems certain that the Supreme Court, which now has his case in its hands, will give him the works. Another mighty question of the moment: has the struggle for power been halted with Beria's disgrace? Is someone else, in the hours before dawn, (dramatic things always happen in Russia shortly before sunrise) going to be accused of being an enemy of the party and people and an international imperialist agent? Anything can happen in Russia.

The appointment of Sergei Kruglov, already a high-ranking policeman, is intriguing for this great lumbering fellow was and is a friend of V. M. Molotov. What has Molotov, Stalin's old friend and now foreign minister, had to do with Beria's disgrace? Start Repairing Courthouse Here Mason county courthouse is under way. Scaffolding is being placed on the south side of the building where bricks will be repaired.

Later the courthouse roof will be replaced. In the interior of the building painters now are working in the county treasurer's office. The county clerk's office already has been painted and several of the other offices in the building will be repainted. Maybe very little; maybe very much. Beria's disgrace could very well be connected with the East Berlin and East German uprisings.

It is known in Moscow that he has had not only his finger but his whole arm in the bubbling German cauldron. Twelve years of watching events in Russia have certainly convinced me of one thing: when something happens as has happened in Germany, somebody has to. be singled out. Beria is being denounced in Moscow this morning for, among other things, trying to put his police before the party and government. If one can believe this, it could mean Beria had been trying to arrest some of his colleagues in the party and government.

Possibly Malenkov himself. Places Anthony on Probation Milk Problems Meeting Topic SCOTTVILLE E. C. Meade, agricultural adviser to Gov. G.

Mennen Williams, will discuss the problem arising from the discontinuation of the Carnation Co. milk plant in Scottville, with members hls conduct, this stipulation will Milton Anthony. 17, who was charged with negligent homicide, was placed on probation for two years Thursday afternoon by Judge Thomas F. Maher of Detroit at a special session of Mason county court. Judge Maher told young Anthony during the two-year period, he is not to drive a car, but also laid that, if, at the end of the first rear, the court is satisfied with of Scottville Board of Trade and all milk producers and farmers interested.

be lifted. The judge found Anthony guilty following a non-jury trial, which The meeting will be held at 8:15 opened at 10 a. m. and ended at p. m.

Tuesday at Scottville munity hall, Loyal Bagley, chairman of the newly-formed emergency milk marketing committee, said this morning. School Board Election Monday Five candidates are in the race for the election of Union School district No. 1, which includes Ludington and part of Pere Marquette township, to be held Monday. Candidates include A. Wilber Davis, incumbent, Oscar W.

Johnson, Ivan A. Tillotson, Maurice Tallefson and Milton Gunberg. Polls will be open from 7 a. m. to 8 p.

m. at Precinct 1 at Longfellow school for voters in and Second wards, at Precinct 2 at Oriole hall for voters in Third and Fifth wards and at Precinct 3 at Pere Marquette school for voters in Fourth ward and that part of Pere Marquette township included in the district. Election officials at Precinct 1 will be Mesdames Marie Masse, Cecile Johnson, Ethel Altrock and Repair work on the exterior of Hazel Rowe at Pl eci nct 2, Mesdames Vima Prehn, Sophia Gunberg and Ena Lunde and at Precinct 3 Mesdames Ida Andersen, Ottilie Jensen and Lena Hansen. AT THE BEACH Water temperature at the Ludington beach at noon today was: 63 degrees. The air temperature was 66 degrees.

Residents of the Week Heads of Service Clubs Chart Various Projects The incoming presidents of the five service clubs in Mason county are our candidates for Mason county Residents of the Week. They are Dr. R. E. Somers of Ludington Rotary club, Kenneth Stephens of Scottville Rotary club, Carl E.

Larson of Ludington Lions club, William Banninga of Ludington Optimists club and Henry J. Dongvillo of Scottville Optimists club. Another new president who should be included is Chester Nerheim of Ludington Junior Chamber of Commerce although the Jaycees. is not one of the service clubs. All of these organizations play an important role in the community life of the county, realizing many worthwhile achievements in which every member has a significant part.

The particular project of the Rotary clubs is aiding crippled children, of the Lions club assisting the blind and near-blind and of the Optimist work with boys, while the Jaycees are active in many ways. No community can be stronger than its weakest club, and, with all groups as helpful as these organizations, Mason county cannot help but be strong and continue in vigorous development. 3:15 p. m. In sentencing the youth, Judge Maher said, "In this case in which the defendant is charged with simple negligence, he can be guilty of heedlessness, thoughtlessness or inattention, and the court can only come to the conclusion that he is guilty of heedlessness." In his talk to Anthony, Judge Maher said, "I have talked with the prosecutor and the sheriff, and both have told me of your excellent conduct.

It is unfortunate that this happened, but it did happen, and I place you on probation for two years, provided that you don't drive during those two years. You are a good boy, and, if at the end of the first year you have shown that you have been a good boy, the court will consider lifting the one-year bah on your driving. You have been a good boy. Continue to be a good boy," the judge said, then asked, "Do you see what it means to be a good boy?" the defendant -replying, 'Yes, sir." The charge was the result of an automobile accident on the night of April 24 in which Mrs. Minnie Wright of Scottville Route 1 received fatal injuries.

At the afternoon session, the prosecution rested after testimony by Elmer Thomas of near Fountain, who told of arriving at the scene just after the accident hap pened, and of Miss Marcella Astrauskas of Scottville Route 1, passenger in the Wright car. The defense called Miss Hazel Wright, 14, and Miss Marjie Wright, 17, daughters of Mrs. Wright and also passengers in the car at the time of the accident; Maurice Anthony of Riverton father of the defendant; Marvin Anthony, 15, his brother, who was with Milton at the time of the accident; Milton, the defendant; Edward Roller of Custer Route 1 and Ivan Andersen of Scottville, who arrived at the scene shortly after the accident; Marvin Berg, 16, a passenger in the Anthony car when the accident occurred, and Matt Urka, owner of a Scottville garage to which the two wrecked cars were taken following the accident. Assistant Prosecutor William Stapleton was in charge of the state's case, assisted by Prosecuting Attorney Vernon R. Keiser.

The defense case was handled by Wilfrid Hocking. Beria was the first victim of nower struggle within the Kremlin Allowing Stalin's death, and also he possibly was being made scapegoat for the recent East German uprisings and other unrest in the Soviet satellites. The charge that Beria acted in interests of foreign imperialism was viewed here as a clear reference to the recent riots in Berlin and the release of North Korean prisoners of war by South Korean President Syngman Rhee. The Russian press has charged that these events were related parts of a Western plan to prevent peace. The government announced Sergei N.

Kruglov had been named internal affairs chief. He had headed the ministry until Stalin's death, when it was combined with Beria's Ministry of State Security and Beria took over. Pravda gave these details of Beria's offenses: He advanced officials in his ministry on the basis of their personal loyalty to him. He "put the brake by every means possible on decisions of the most important and urgent questions in the field of agriculture in order to undermine the collective farms and create difficulties in our country's food supply." He tried to "sow enmity between the peoples of the USSR" and to encourage nationalist tendencies in the individual Soviet republics, at the. expense of all- Soviet unity.

He "intentionally held up the realization" of party and government directives and "in a series of cases attempted to distort them." Pravda continued: "The incontrovertible facts show that Beria lost the character of a Communist, that he became transformed into a bourgeois degenerate, that he became in fact an agent of international imperialism. "This adventurer and hireling of foreign imperialist forces gave birth to plans for seizing the leadership of the party and country for purposes of wrecking our Communist party awU the. policy worked out by the party over many years with a policy of capitulations which would lead in the end to a restoration of capitalism." Speculation that Beria was on the skids first boomed early in April, when the post-Stalin government released 15 doctors imprisoned in a much-trumpeted plot against top military and government officials. The. Malenkov regime blamed a minor official of Beria's old ministry of state security with framing the doctors.

One of the most feared men in the Soviet Union, Beria sprang to prominence toward the end of the- bloody purges of the 1930s that made Stalin an absolute dictator. It was his job to purge the purgers and attempt to heal the wounds of the blood bath. Ruler of a grim empire of spies, informers and executioners, he was long considered one of the most likely successors of Stalin After the postwar rise of Malen- kov, he and Beria were dubbed the "power twins" and Beria was believed to be extremely close to the Red dictator. A squat, scholarly-looking man, Beria's entire party back to the revolutionary days of been spent in the secret police. He was widely considered to wield absolute power in his hidden realm, bulwarked by his close ties with Stalin.

As a colonel-general in the Red army, Kruglov served as Soviet security officer at the Big Three's Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam conferences during World War II. Kruglov also served, as deputy commissar for home affairs from 1941 to 1946. Last October, he was elected to the new central commit-; tee of "ommunist Party. Squirrel Causes Man to Break Leg CLEVELAND (M This sounds squirrely, but a squirrel broke Jack Gagliardo's left leg. The squirrel leaped out of a tree in Woodland Hills Park Thursday and landed on the head of the 57-year-old man.

Gagliardo reeled backward in surprise and tumbled down an incline, fracturing the leg. Condemned Man, 23, Prays for Victim JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ft- A youthful St. Louis Negro, outwardly calm and praying for the man he killed, went to his death in Missouri's lethal gas chamber early today. Kenneth Boyd, 23, died for the slaying of Sam Barenfeld, a St.

Louis grocer, Jan. 13, 1951. On his way to the execution chamber, he prayed for his victim as well as the judge who sentenced and the jury which convicted him. Boyd got $30 in the robbery. FACTORY SALE Sport coats, leisure and zipper jackets, Broken lots and Also factory SPORTSWIM.