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Reds Have 22 Division Spearhead in Germany KLTOK-C. rAY WASHINGTON Washington fcftrd Wtduodajr night that Kus- hu a ready-made spearhead of 22 dlvtiloBi, uiuit ur them armored la Germany where they could laiiidly luto Europe. Within JO days of the jump-oil en tuck attack, Soviet and lattlllU countries could mutter 4UO divisions, It wai stated. total of men under arms today In Ilus ila. Eastern Germany and la European satellites Is placed at over six million, whom about million are In iround armlet.

The Soviet Union's 20.00U-plan* fleet of fighters, Iwttlefleid bomb- rrs snd heavy bombers Is being converted swiftly Into a deadly and completely modern Jet force. This new assessment of Communist military power came from Informed diplomatic who may not be Identified It became with an hour-ionK White House con Terence of President Eisenhower and Adm. Arthur Radford chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Stuff who landed in Washington Tuesday after a quick trip to Europe which Included a talk with British Prime Minister Churchill. Sections of Montana Get 10 Inch Snowfall Probable Results of Army-McCarthy Probe Discussed DENVER While tornado warnings were posted in parts of the southwest and up to lu inches of saow was falling in Montana Wednesday, Colorado's temperatures remained balmy and unmarred by moisture. Rain In Wyoming Wyoming wuther stations, how ever, nearly all reported rain or light snow as the cold wave and moved south.

In Sheridan, with .07 of an Inch, the mercury recorded only 31 degrees. Cody had a hlih ot 32 and .02 of an inch of moisture. Farther the temperatures rose to a Wyoming high of 77 at Douglas. Colorado's highs were: Lamar 89. I.a Junta (8, Pueblo 85, Akron 83.

Trinidad 81. Umon 79. Denver 78, Colorado Springs 76, and Alamosa 67. Senate Okehs Million of Aid I. I.

Mitchell OiM Futieial services for Eusebius B. Mitchell, retired liemer railroad wzi held Schrader- llonuary at CheyeBM. Mitchell died Suuday ia tat Wre- capital. He was 81. Bora in Clinton County, Missouri, Oct.

30, Mitchell began his railroad career at IS. lie worked on several Wettem railroads before joinin the Colorado Southern as telegraph operator in 11112. Mitchell became chief chief dispatcher, trainmaster and division superintendent, with headquarters in Denver. He lived here from 1912 until 1940, when he retired and moved to Cheyenne. GREEUEY TtllWM French Troops in Mufti Leave for Indochina 5 1 Reprisal Threat Made Against Gen.

Kirke Lawton Dragged into Joe-Army Hearing WASHINGTON ifl The current McCarthy-Pentagon Inquiry could lead to perjury charges, forced resignations, or Just reprimands. Or. of course, if no Improper tactics were found on anybody's part, all parties could be cleared. The verdict ot the Senate Invest! Subcommittee, which conducting Inquiry, will come In the form ot a report to Its par the Semite Government Opera tlons Committee. Then, may be WASHINGTON The Senate Wednesday passed ami sent to the House a 15-million-dollar emergency appropriation for dust storm relief In drought areas.

It quickly and unanimously approved the appropriation which was tacked onto a catch-all money bill by Chairman DridKes (R-N'H) of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Tha House, which has approved other items in the bill, is expected to give quick approval. Tim Rccretary (it agriculture would bfl empowered to pay up to llOni Li Offl nil I i uei umy WTI majority and minority reports If a dollar an ncre this year and nex th. senators degree. year to farmers who agree to Presumably the parent body will file the findings with the Senate.

Sen. Mundt (R-SD). acting chairman of the subcommittee, and others have naid that it all parlies stick to their stories, the Justice Department may be tlerted to prosecute for perjury. Depending upon the findings, It Is conceivable there might be some resignations a McCarthy tides or Army officials. Or the net result could be subcommittee find- Ings criticising either aide, or both, with no further action.

If the findings should go heavily (gainst McCarthy, it Is not known what action might be taken. The Senate power to expel mem, bers. but this Is rarely done, tnd there Is no Indication- such action would taken. French Troops Hold Off Rebels HANOI. Indochina Iff-- French troops a hammered back attempts by Vietminh rebels to crack western barricades within 60 yards of the command head quarters ot 'besieged Dien Bien Phu, The Communist-led rebels were Increasing their pressure also on Dien Bien Phu'i southernmos miles from th center of the fortress.

was no estimate of the forces Involved or casualties in clashes either point. Earlier, the French saidttielr patrols killed 25 Vietminh and captured one in brief forays to test enemy strength. Additional fortifications were being built within the hard-pressed main-fortress area, now less than a mile in diameter. The main rebel pressure at the Isabelle stfongpoint was on the eastertn bank of the Youm River, which flows through the heart of the Dien Bien Phu plain in northwest Indochina. low soil conservation practices aimed at preventing snd reducing wind erosion.

Usual rules and regulations covering payments are waived. A dozen senators testified to need for emergency aid in states hard-hit by recent dust storms including Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico, Bridges placed In the record a letter from True D. Morse, undersecretary ot agriculture, giving the department's views on how the money should be spent. "We believe that the funds should be used to assist in future wind erosion control measures re lated closely to practices which will be effective in meeting imme dlate erosion control problems, am to the extent feanible, will havi range conservation i Alorse wrote. We are particularly concerns! that (1) the limitation ot Jl pe acre would lend to discourage some of the most urgently neede practices with long range benefit such as the establishment of per manent cover, and (2) such pay ments should be on a cost sharin basis, except for producers who ar unable to provide part of the cost; of emergency control measures Bridges said a preliminary est Auto Industry Faces Possible Inquiry on Monopoly Practices YOUK ijf) Atty.

Gen. Herbert Ilrownell said Wednesday night the Justice Department is concerned about possible anti-trust collusion in the multi-million dollar auto industry. In a speech before the Economic Club of New York, he added: know well that Increasing concentration in an important industry contains dangerous potentialities We. want to find out whether this pattern is nothing more than the consequence of competitive forcen freely at work, or whether any one or more of the facts which amount to collusion or the suppression of competition has been at work." His remarks followed by only a few days a disclosure by the Justice Department's anti-trust divl xiun that It Is looking into four specific phases of the auto field The divinion expressed concen with the growing concentration of production in the hands ot a (en- big companies with a resultant shrinkage In business among the so-called Independent motor firms. The auto Industry has gradually constricted years until today the "big General Motors and Chrysler--produce and market an overwhelming percentage of the nation's cars.

Jn Detroit, there was no Imme- diate.comment from the "bis thrte' or smaller producers. Spokesmen for firms showed keen inter est in Brownell's speech and in dlcated top officials wanted time to study the text comment Ing. told his dinner audi ence: "The Department of Justice doei ot assume that any given num WASHINGTON an atmos-l phere of ever-growing French paratroopers, garbed in civilian elnthta, arrive at Orlv Field, Paris, with their gear prior to boarding U. S. Air Fores plants for flight to bolster French Union forces In Indochins.

Charles E. Wilson, U. 8. defense secretary, has announced that the Air Fores was carrying French troops to Indochina at tha request ef the French government. (AP Wlreihoto).

Denverite Admits U. S. Tax Evasion Yasmin Reunited with Rita mate snowed more than 11 millio acres of cultivated lands and mor than five million acres of rang lands had been more millions of acre may be damaged," he said-unless emergency measures put Into speedy operation. Big Wet Spots on U.S. Weather Map (AnoclaUd PMM) BiK wet spots mottled the U.

o. weather map Wednesday. There were thundershowers or just plain rain in the Middle and North Atlantic states. Rain 'or snow fell in the Great Basin area of the Far West and in the northern Rockies. Showers sprinkled the Pacific Coast and showers or thunderstorms hit Arkansas, the Gnlt Coast region and South Atlantic elates.

It was cold in Montana. Great Falls had a low of 14 decrees, the lowest ever recorded there this late in the spring. 'Four Inches of snow were reported In parts-of Montana with 3 to Inrhes more forecast for the mountain sections. The snow, hy improving dry ranges, was worth "a coort many millions ot dollars" in southwest. said.

Allie Solved Brownies NEW YORK iff--Allie Reynolds, ace rlphthander of the Yankees, had a rood season nfcinst the St. Browns in 1S53. He beat them five times wltlmut a loss. Azainst the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox. however, he didn't fare as well.

He beat enrli club ones snd they topped'him one time. In Ms rookie year for Cardinals in Ray Jablonski played ID all ot his team's 157 games. Beef and Bacon Rationing Will End in Britain LONDON lifl-- The roast beef of old England conies into its juicy own again at midnight July 3. Food Minister Gwilyn Lloyd- George told the House ot Com-! mons Wednesday 14 years of 'oeef and bacon rationing will end at that hour. The announcement sounded the deathknell tor rationing, forced on Britain by war and postwar shortages.

Butter, margarine, cooking fats and cheese will be ration free after May 9. Beef and baron are the. last of the many once-rationed foods to be freed. Pocked Windshields Blamed on H-Bomb er ot competitors in an indusliy the proper number, or that anj uestion of concentration can be onsidered without regard to the orces of the market plare. Where It appears, however hat there may be dunger of erious shrinkage in the numbe competitors engaged in a hasl ndustry, the department believe lint the causes are worth exam nation.

For it is the American phllo ophy that freedom and progres are best served by multiple center of activity rather than by undo, concentration ot power. in Egypt CAIRO. Egypt In swift predawn raids squads of Egyptian military police arrested 12 Army officers and 40 civilians Wednesday on charge! of conspiring with Communists to promote May Day rloti. The police acted on direct orders of Lt. Col.

Gamal Abden Nasser, Egypt's strong maa Premier. A spokesman for Nasser said action, taken after a linfthy meeting of the ruling Revolutionary Council, was aimed at purging the army of "dissident Mead Mount Gets Million Dollar Ag Dormitory Contract Ike's Economic Adviser Hopeful Wednesday into the question whether Secretary of the Army Stevens a reprisals" against a general for praising and cooperating with Sen. McCarthy Uay H. Jenkins, special counsel to the Senate Inventifcatiois hub- committee, brought i-p the question of "threatened reprisals." naming MaJ. Gen.

Kirke Lawton, commander of the Army Signal Corps center at Ft. Monmouth, N.J.. as the general Involved. 1 Jenkins announced he proposed to read Lawton's testimony before a secret hearing of the subcommittee last Oct. 14 on the subject of alleged Communist infiltration at Ft.

Monmoutb and Its radar lab- ratories. He said he would do this preparation for crossexamining tevens on whether "he did or did ot threaten reprisals against Gen. because Lawton cooperat- and "complimented" McCarthy nd his subcommittee. Democratic Sens. i Mo) and McCtellan (Ark) object- to this testimony being made public before they had a chance to DENVER (n-- Dr.

ttwmrf J. Denver guilty In Federal Court day to charges ef evade Income tax $34.000 in and Two other a a charges for 1147 and 1M9 missed. admitted he his 1949 and laeOM wkM lM reported the toUl it abmrt Itt.W*. The government tual income for two J59.SDZ, WASHINGTON President Wives May Take Jobs of Strikers ead it. so hearing recessed Rita Hayworth and husband Dick Haymes leave home of governess of Rita's children at White Plains, N.

Y. (April 26) with Rita's four-year-old daughter, Yasmin, nnroute to local hotel before the actress' appearance in court where a Judge ordered Rlta'a two children returned to her. They had been placed under protective custody of a children's court on a compliint that (he neglected them when she left them st the home of a governtss wn lle she and Hsymes vacationed in Florida. Yasmin Is her daughter by marriage to Prince Aly Kahn, and Rebecca, 9, is htr daughter by to Orion Welles. (AP Wirephoto).

Elsenhower's top economic advls er, Dr. Arthur Burns, Wednesday told nation's state governors he current "business contraction' is of least In his tory and wai most hopeful to future. Burns, chairman of Clswhow er's Economic Advisory Council said, administrate Is busy rounding up an emergenc public works program and a new tax cut plan tor use In case th economic picture worsens Instea of improves. No details of possible furthe tan cut recommendations given, but higher Income tax exemptions have been suggested, as one way ot raising consumer purchasing power. Elsenhower himself has expressed belief that conditions will straighten out without Invoking any slam bang emergency plan Burns spoke to the govtrnors privately, but sumup of his ewi for reporters ter by Frank Bane, executive sec etary of the Governors' Confer nee.

said Burns expressed be ef the business downtrend has eached Its low point and he was overnight with the question of admitting It still In the air. Elevens testified he "had a talk with" Lawton, and discussed the possibility of removing him, as a result of an address the general to Ft. Monmouth officers- to the effect that soldiers with pro- Communist leanings seem to come COLUMBIA FALLS, A Columbia Fall! womat the may have to which hai kM- hand along with about struction Mrs. Kuth Woolsey said day that and otittr of workers Idled by (trite I offer to go back to work IB of men. men ter'i strike at Anaconda num Company's plant at Columbia Otktr afts are honoring picket Mt by NKOtUttoM at a standstill witk WW eetlngi EAST LANSING.

Mich, iff-- The recent rash of pocked windshields across the country could have been caused by the H-bomb explosion in the Pacific, a Michigan High way Department research ensi neer said Wednesday. Bryant TV. Pocock. head ot th 1 isotype section of the State a Department Research Laboratory, said by-products of the H- homb blast could damage the -windshields without leaving traces of radioactivity. Rocky Ford Gas War ROCKY FORD 'SI-- Three Independent i i companies.

Frontier. Shamrock and Superior, continued to sell automobile fuel Wednesday at 22.9 cents per gallon, 5 cents below prices charged by companies'. "They put 'the cut in effect last Friday. Superior has two filling stations in i Coin- FORT COLLINS Wi-- The Mead Mount Construction Co. of Den ver was the low bidder at $1,017 400 on general- construction Newsom Hall, a dormitory at Colorado AfcM College.

The contracts were authorized by the State Board ot Agriculture, governing body of the school. The dormitory is the second in a series of residence halls begun by the College last year. The first. Green Hall, is expected to he ready for use by the fall term. Officials said Newsom Hall, named for the late Dr.

I. E. New- cm, former president of the col- ege, may be ready by the fall of 955. The plumbing contract went to he Johnson Davis Plumbing and leating Denver, on its bid of 196.57a. and the electrical contract the Fort Collins Electric which bid 549.975.

Construction of Newsom Hall Is xnecled to begin by May 10. Both Imildings were designed by James M. Hunter of Boulder and each v.ill house 400 students. They are bein? financed without cost to since the loans made from the federal housing and home finance apency will be repaid from revenues. A very A.

Batson Goes To Pakistan DENVER IJl-- Avery A. Batson of Denver, former regional chief of the Reclamation Bureau here, will leave May 8 with an 8-man ot experts hired by the Ford Foundation to advise the Pakistan government. Batson will advise the Pakistan government on water control i its use, irrigation and hydroelectric power ai part of that country's plan for economic develop meht. was granted leave absence from the bureau to make the trip, Between 1947 and the first of thi year, Batson directed federal rec lamation projects from Denver Prior to his replacement there ha been outcries in Casper. ove his proposed merger of the Caspe and Denver district bureau office in Loveland.

plan, designed in line wit economy and efficiency drives i the government, is being re-studie in Washington. Batson, in January, was Iran ferred to the staff of Asst. Reel matton Commissioner L. N. Clellan here.

Tn announcing Ba son's departure, -McClellan the bureau will miss his service but in giving Batson the leave absence was augmenting its tec nical assistance program oversea Iraq is getting bids on Its Mti sabi drainage project, east of tt town ot that name. ornado Weather efurns to Texas WACO, Tex. on deadly of spring-tornadoes--threat- ned Texas again Wednesday. Black, ominous clouds hung low the sky around Waco, spewlnl ail and rain over rural communl ies. Two twisters broke up be ore they reached the ground.

orti of funnel shaped cloudi came rom numerous sources. The Weather Bureau here was a chance twisters woul spawned from bad local thun derstorms in an area hounded Waco, Wells, Sherman an Longview. Tornado-Jittery a around Waco' watched the broa black cloud drift eastward at slow speed late Wednesday. Waco last year, Texas' mo destructive tornado in 60 short se onds slashed downtown Waco in grotesque pile ot rubble, killed 114, injured more than 300 and did damage ot nearly 60 million dollars. This was the second straight day tornado warnings were posted for a part of Texas.

The twister signal went up Tuesday for a great hunk of north and west Texas and one tornado that did no damage whipped across plowed fields near Big Spring. Other thunderstorms did minor damage at Rochester, Ballinger and Fort Worth. A South African tirm wants United States capita! to develop cheap pig iron output. from a certain eight or 10 colleges. The Army secretary, on wit ness stand for the fifth day, said he was somewhat "agitated" about this--felt such remarks were be yond of a post com mander.

Under cross-examination by Jen kins, he said he discussed the mat Ur with 'MaJ. Gen. George Back Army Signal Corps chief. Jenkins wanted to Know If Stev ens told Back he didn't like Law ton's favorable attitude toward th McCarthy subcommittee. Stevens replied he couldn't member just what he said to Bac But asked If he knew Lawton ha been cooperating with the McCa thy probers, the Army secrets said "I certainly did, 1 ordered hi to do so." Mrs.

salt women Is contacting wlTee ther men Idled by sklng to atund a neetlif aturday, "We're onM loat ay check." Mrs. WoolW Burglars Are Prompt WEST HARTFORD, COBB, Ill- Andrew Hansin got a 1150 watel from his company alter II yean ot Burglars broki Into his home night snd tt. tost hopeful that thing! will rove. 1m- A Shoe Switch MIAMI UK--The English horse ilympic, now racing at Hialeab, is had his shoes switched. The nes thattnormally go on the hind eet are on the forefeet.

Trainer ran believes the slight heel the rear shoes gives the horse traction tor grass rac- ng. USE THE TRIBUNE WANT ADS Textiles Top Goal -NEW DELHI India's textile industry produced about 000 yards of cloth last year, exceeding the target the government's five-year plan. Some 678,000,000 yards were exported. Open 1:00 50c to 2 p.m. CWtMHBTOH EkwrnTMHI SRORTLIGHT and COLOR CARTOON Soon! EXECUTIVE SUITE way they act-1 just that (hey Wok they're entity! That "Born Yetterday" Cutie Doei It lnl f.HJOT MOVtfMHYCUft Box Office 6:30 Show 7:15 Last Times Tonight PRE-WAR PRICES at TOMMIE'S BAR-B-Q PIT 59c This Friday, April 30th SHRIMP DINNER Includes 5 Shrimp, French Fries, Toast, Salad, Tartar Sauce, Lemon, Coffee, Butter.

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