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I the Lincoln Gurning Journal CITY and Nebraska State Journal EDITION FOUNDED IN 1867 86th No. Year 263 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1953 3 FIVE CENTS Russia Calls for Unconditional Control of Hydrogen Weapons Drought Problem 'Urgent' Disaster Area Bid Studied By JACK HART Journal Farm Writer Gov. Robert Crosby has termed drought. conditions in southwestern Nebraska "an immediate problem" and said he thinks the distressed districts should be entitled to federal aid. "Some small operators out there have their backs to the wall," the governor.

stated. "I have been informed that many operators may have to sell their if they don't get ways to buy feed at reduced prices." Crosby said that as long as the federal administration is extending help in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas he thought it should be extended into Nebraska. He said he would like to see this done by portions of counties rather than by entire counties. Crosby said it is his understanding that as governor he would have no direct part in asking aid but that he would want to make some recommendations. REPRESENTATIVES of state and federal agencies were set to meet Monday afternoon to decide whether President Eisenhower should be requested to declare parts of southwestern Nebraska a drought disaster area.

Present at the meeting were to be the state Production and Marketing Administration committee of Parr Young, chairman, Owen and Frank Reese: State Agriculture Director Ed. Hoyt; Extension Director Ed Janike; Director Ernest Frisch and A. E. von Bergen of the state Home Administration; and representatives of the state Civil Defense organization. MEMBERS of the group who had visited the dry areas of Hitchcock, Dundy and Hayes Counties last week felt there was a definite need for federal assistance in the area.

At a meeting in Trenton local representatives from the three counties were unanimous in favoring a request for drought disaster designation. Agriculture officials. in Washed ington report that granting of drought aid is not upon request. If the section were declared a disaster area stockmen there would be eligible to buy government livestock feed at less than market prices. LIVESTOCK MEN would not all be eligible for the cheaper feed.

However, a stockman would be ineligible "only if he has sufficient cash or credit to carry him through the drought emergency period without danger of ardizing the successful operation of a livestock business," according to the Department of Agriculture. Determination of individuals to receive assistance rests largely on a county drought committee made up of the county PMA chairman, county agent, county FHA director and a prominent farmer or rancher and a local banker selected by the first three. The program is under the SUpervision of a state drought committee which has as its chairman the state PMA chairman and consists of the state extension director, the state director of civil defense, state FHA director and a farmer and a banker named by the secretary of agriculture. Bertha Sprague Dies in California Mrs. Bertha Sprague, about 62, formerly Bertha Hoppe of Lincoln, died Sunday in Burlingame, where she had lived the past seven years with her ter, Wilhelmina.

Born in Lincoln, Mrs. lived here until her husband, Frank M. Sprague, died in 1928. Surviving besides her daughter are sisters, Mrs. Herman Reusch, Mrs.

Marie Lehm, Mrs. Eda Busboom and Mrs. Augusta Schlabitz, and brother, August Hoppe, all of Lincoln. The funeral and burial will be in Burlingame, Calif. AIRMAN SAVED FROM SEA rescued him after he had spent 22 hours in the S.

Sgt. Larry Graybill of Landsdowne, choppy Atlantic, fighting sharks. Wire crew member of crashed B-29 weather plane, photo.) lies in a lifeboat of the cruise ship Nassau which Crosby Names New State Health Board Seven Chosen From Lists Submitted Freezing By CLARKE THOMAS Journal Capitol Reporter Gov. Robert Crosby announced his appointments 10 the newly Health. member State Dr.

Thompson Dr. Burt All are from Lincoln because of a constitutional provision that state executive officers must reside in the capital city, Voters in 1954. will have a chance to ballot to change the constitution in this regard. THE MEMBERS are: -Dr. J.

E. M. Thompson, former president of the State Medical Association, former president of Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, former president of the American Association of Dr. Waggener Dr. Norden Railway Surgeons, appointed for three years representing the medical, Maurice profession.

D. Frazer, member -of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine faculty, attending radiologist at Bryan Memorial Hospital, appointed for two years representing the medical profession. Phie T. department Waggener, of pathology chairman of the University College of Mr. Evinger Mrs.

Putney Dentistry, member of the American College of Dentists, two year Dr. Carl dental J. Norden profession. associ- Temperatures ated with the Norden Laboratorles of Lincoln, former officer in Drop Below the Army Veterinary Corps in World War II, one year, veterin- arians. Morris Evinger, faculty member of the University College of Engineering, where his specialty has been sanitary engineering profession, one year, engineering profession.

Dr. Joseph B. Burt, dean of the University College of Pharmacy, president elect of the American Association of Colleges of. PharTracy and a chairman of its committee the past five tears, three years, general public. Mrs.

Fred W. Putney, president of the Lincoln-Lancaster Advisory Health Committee, member of Lincoln YWCA Board and of the Lincoln City Planning Commission, three years, general public. CROSBY SAID, "I am pleased to be able announce such a distinguished list of members." The names were chosen from lists submitted by the various professional organizations involved. The board will have complete charge of the State Department of Health. Crosby said he expected he would call the first meeting of the board soon.

The board meetings will be public. Members will receive $20 a day expenses while "actually engaged in the business of the board." An early item on the list will be selection of director of the State Department of Health. Dr. E. A.

Rogers is the acting state director. Under the new law a $12,500 ceiling is placed on the salary. Dr. Rogers now has an $8,600 salary, all from federal funds, for his duties as director of community services. The Weather Nebraska Forecasts Lincolns Fair Monday night and Tuesday.

Continued cool tonisht, Low near 44 to. night. Rising temperatures Tuesday with high near 77. Winds becoming southerly tonicht and increasing to moderate to fresh Tuesday, Handhille: Fair Monday night and Tuesday. Warmer west and cooler east Monday night with scattered light frost northeast.

Warmer Tuesday. Low Monday mid 30s northeast to 40 west. High Tuesday near 80 west to 75 cast. Platte Valley Southt Fair and warmer Monday night. Low near 45.

Tuesday fair east. partly cloudy west and warmer. Highs Tuesday 80 east to 85 west. Eastern Nebraskas Fait Monday night and Tuesday. Cooler Monday night: warmer Tuesday, Scattered lisht frost extreme south and extreme north Monday night Low temperatures Monday night to near 40 south: high temperatures Tuesday 75 north to 80 south.

LINCOLN TEMPERATURES Official U. Weather Bureau Readines 3:30 4:30 4:30 3130 3:30 6:30 6:30 7130 7:30 8:30 8:30 9:30 9:30 10:30 10:30 11:30 11:30 12:30 13:30 (Mom.) 1:30 1:30 2130 2:50 3:30 65 3:30 High temperature 11. low 42. Sun will set 6:27 will rise 6:14 Barometer reading 12:30 P.m.. Relative humidity 12:30 p.m..

29 per cent. Rainfall figurest This month date. 1.91 Inches: normal to date. 2.00 Inches. This year to date.

14.41 inches normal to date, 20.88 Inches. Of Beria Studied U.S. Officials Still Skeptical WASHINGTON (P) Government officials took a highly skeptical attitude toward a report- under investigation by Senate agents that Lavrenty Beria, deposed Soviet secret. police boss, has- escaped from Russia and hopes for political asylum in the United States. These were developments in what would be, if true, one of the most sensational cloak dagger incidents of generations: a 1.

Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) acknowledged for the first time that his Senate investigations subcommittee has received report that a mysterious figure, in hiding in a. non-Communist country, claims to be Beria He said up am not convinced" and declined to say what his subcommittee is doing in the matter. 2. A Senate source said a subcommittee agent who would know whether the man is in fact Beria has gone to contact him and should make a report in a couple of days.

A. person familiar with the Senate group's operations said, however, that investigators are convinced Beria has escaped from Russia and is hiding, in terror of his life, in a. neutral European country. OTHER government sources, also asking not to be quoted by name, were skeptical, saying the chances of Beria's having escaped from behind the Iron Curtain were "one in a million." The Senate source said that "a man has gone over who will know him if it is Beria," and that a report from this person can be expected within a few days. This source said the man who calls himself Beria had been contacted by agents of McCarthy's subcommittee and had sought political asylum in the United States in exchange for disclosure of Russian secrets.

OFFICIALS IN THE executive branch of the government said they knew nothing which would lead them to believe that Beria, former head of the Russian secret police, has managed to get out of Russia. At the same time, it was made clear this government would be glad to receive any man -who knows as many of the Kremlin's. secrets. as Beria does. So far as is- known in the West, Beria was last seen in public in on May 1.

Soviet Premier Malenkov denounced him. as al traitor on July 9 and ousted him from his posts -as home minister and first deputy chairman of the Council. of Ministers. His name has not been mentioned in the Russian press or radio in recent weeks, and there has been no recent mention any trial. This has led to some speculation here that he may already have been executed.

The Senate, source said the man representing himself as Beria said he had escaped with three aides in' an airplane and that, if given refuge in the United States, will. talk only with McCarthy or Vice President Nixon. The source said McCarthy's agents have been in touch with him for about a month. THE SOURCE added that, unless the story proves to be a hoax, there is a good chance the man will be brought to this country. In Baltimore, Col.

Ulius L. Amoss, head of the International Services of Information, a private espionage outfit, said he had been contacted in Europe this summer by pearsons who. said Beria escaped from Russia. Amoss, who retired after World War II duty with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), said that in Munich he had met a man who described himself as a major of the Russian security police. He said the asked whether the United States would grant Beria sanctuary.

British Composer Dies LONDON (P) Roger Quilter, well known composer, died Monday after a lingering illness. He was 75. His "Children's Overture" was a favorite in Britain for many years. A number of his songs also have been popular with concert singers here and in America. Last 'Freedom Ship' Reaches San Francisco Wednesday With 290 POWs Demands 'Must Be Met' U.S.

Blamed For Conditions Fists Used To Beat off Sharks B-29 Survivors Tell of Battle NEW YORK (AP) Air Force men told of fighting off sharks with their fists during 22 hours in the choppy Atlantic. They were among six survivors of a B-29 hurricane hunter which caught fire and crashed in the Atlantic last Friday. They arrived here aboard the Home Lines cruise ship, Nassau. Three other survivors previously reached Charleston, S. C.

Also aboard the Nassau were. nine crewmen of an Air Force amphibian rescue plane, damaged and abandoned in the rough water while attempting to pick up the B-29 survivors. The Coast Guard is continuing the search for seven missing B-29 crewmen. SGT. CHARLES Graybill of Landsdowne, said he and another.

crewman, James Henderson of Flushing, floated for 22-hours in their inflated Mae West life preservers. had lashed themselves together. Graybill said they developed a neat one-two punch to keep sharks away. But the 21-yearold sergeant said even so a shark nipped one of hands. said Graybill, then felt "Something rushed, by me," one hand in a mouth.

So, I took a poke at him to get loose." Usually, he said, he and Henderson would and splash" when sharks swarmed around them. Graybill bandages on both hands. HENDERSON said Graybill was "pretty sick" during the night and apparently was delirious for more than an hour. Henderson's forearms were bandaged. ite said he had been stung by Portuguese men-ofwar, a poisonous jellyfish.

Of the shark attacks, Henderson said: "They'd come up. I rememberet something 1 had you hit them on the snout they take off. worked." Henderson said he and Graybill got together in the water as both swam toward a raft. "THERE WERE three rafts we went toward that sank," said Henderson. Graybill said a blast aboard the B-29 hurled him out of the craft: "Number three engine broke loose, hit number four engine, starting a fire, and then there was an explosion I was thrown out." Gresham Hit Again By Robbers GRESHAM 0 Burglars invaded this eastern Nebraska town for the eighth time in four years.

Sheriff Lewis Ekarts said approximately $1,000 worth of merchandise was stolen. A stock of spark plugs valued at $500 was taken from and Tonniges tobacco garage, coffee $500 was carted out of Diers grocery store. The Thompson department store was the big loser the last time robbers invaded the townJune 25 of this year. Thompson's reported a loss of $2,500 at that time. Diers grocery was also a victim of the June robbery, along with the Gresham Grain Company.

Page Index Calendar 5 Editorial 6 Lincoln 2 Markets Mere Mention 3 Nebraska. 7, 11 Radio Sports 10 Statistics :13 Theaters Wire Women Marine Phoenix, the Gen. William Black and -Sunday the Gen. A. W.

Brewster. DELIRIOUS, unrestrained joy has been the keynote. Soldiers once given up for dead have stood at the rail, yelling, laughing and crying at the sight of their loved ones on the dock: Mothers have fainted and fathers have sobbed openly. But maybe it's like Capt. James C.

Williams said when he left the Brewster: I'm near crazy with happiness. was a POW -Lays down conditions for disarmament. a War Prize Jet Might Be MIG-17 North Korean To Get Award SEOUL (P) A daring North Korean officer Monday flew MIG jet over to the Allies and a Seoul newspaper said the plane was one of the latest models, 4 a twin-jet MIG-17. A Fifth Air Force spokesman, asked to comment on the published report, said the Air Force "cannot confirm anything that the Seoul press reports." Far East Air Force, headquarters had announced it was a MIG-15, the swift, mass produced type which carried the brunt of the fighting for the Red air force during the war. THE NEWSPAPER, Tong-a Ilbo, said the MIG was a 17 with two 37mm cannon and two.20mm cannon.

It quoted an officer who had seen the plane speed in, but did not identify the officer. It also reported that the pilot was a North Korean captain named Noh Keum Suk, and that he flew from an airfield at Sunan, about 10 miles north of the Red Korean capital of Pyongyang. The MIG-17 is radar equipped and is believed to be faster than the MIG-15. It has been reported stationed in Europe but there never have been any indications it was in the Far East. The United States offered $100,000 last February for a MIG delivered intact at Seoul and it.

I was believed the North Korean officer knew of the offer, GEN: O. WEYLAND, Par East Air Force commander, was, $50,000 and an additional $50,000 instructed a to pay the pilot for the airplane itself. a member the Neutral NaAn Air Force, spokesman said tions Inspection team: inquired whether a MIG-15 landed. and was told that a MIG had flown in during the morning. The MIG's guns were still armed when it raced unheralded from North Korea and made a perfect landing at sprawling Kimpo Air.

Base near Seoul. There was no quick reaction from the Communists. Weyland announced: It is being studied by U.S. Air Force officers. The pilot's name.

will not be revealed unless he personally consents. THE PILOT disappeared behind a tight wall of secrecy; and Kimpo Air Base was closed to everyone but authorized military personnel. A psychological warfare colonel near Seoul said American Sabrejets -met the MIG over the southern boundary of the demilitarized strip across the Korean peninsula and escorted the Red fighter to Seoul. COL. DON P.

HALL of Kingsville, of Fourth Fighter-Interceptor Wing, said the pilot was "smiling and very happy it was over Hall said the MIG pilot got out of his plane and immediately saluted Capt. Cipriano F. Guerra of Mission, Tex. The MIG pilot shook hands with all the men. The captain pointed toward the gun on the MIG and the MIG pilot turned off the switch.

Air police immediately surrounded the plane. Asked why the pilot brought the MIG, Hall quoted him: "I'm happy to leave CommuI nism." ALTOGETHER 301 former POWs filed off the gangplank: 239 from the Army, 48 from the Air. Force, 14 Marines and four from the Navy. There were privates and noncoms, lieutenants, captains and majors. The Howze brings 290 more soldiers back from Red prison camps Wednesday.

Already more than 3,100 of the 3,500 men freed at Panmunjom have returned by ship or plane. Only a few more are left in Army hospitals in Japan. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (P) Russia has called upon the U.N. to impose an unconditional ban on the production of atomic and hydrogen weapons without delay.

before. 60-nation General AsThe Soviet, proposal laid sembly during a major policy declaration, by Deputy Vishinsky. Foreign The Soviet delegate also served notice that was ready to make a vigorous fight to get the assembly to revise its earlier decision barring neutral. countries as representatives at the Korean peace conference. The Communist demands on this, he said, are justified and must be met.

The Soviet proposals on atomic control included hydrogen weapons by name, but otherwise- followed closely Soviet disarmament resolutions of previous sessions. GOING HOME Maj. Gen. William Dean of Berkeley, about three years a captive of the Communists, waves Monday as he boards a military transport plane at Tokyo for his flight home. He will arrive at San Francisco Tuesday.

(AP Wirephoto by Radio From Tokyo.) KOLN-TV Asks Largest Power Station KOLN-TV has filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission for permission to build a maximum power transmitter station of 316,000 watts and to erect a 1,000 foot tower. If granted, the new transmitter and height of tower would. make the station the largest. in the state. KOLN Manager Harold (Hap) Anderson said exact of transmitter would depend on the FCC, and won't be known until after action is taken on the application.

"The station wo'tn be within five miles of Crete', as recently reported, however," Anderson explained. THE FCC in Washington reported that KOLN-TV's application asks that the transmitter location be changed township, miles east of Beaver Crossing. Just when approval on the new power might come is uncertain, since the FCC has no definite. time schedule for processing. applications, Anderson said.

Action may take several months. The Civil Aeronautics Administration must also approve the tower height and location. Height of KOLN-TV's present tower in Lincoln is just over 400 feet, Anderson said. Present power is 24,800 watts on Channel 12. IT IS believed the channel would remain the same.

KOLN and KOLN-TV were sold recently by its Lincoln owners, the Cornhusker and Television for "something in excess of a half-million dollars" to the Fetzer Broadcasting Co. of Michigan. In acquiring the dent John E. Fetzer of Kalama200, said that it was his desire to continue growth and expansion of KOLN Radio and Television TV "not only in the Lincoln area but in the vast farm areas to the west and south." The Fetzer Broadcasting Co. has a stock interest in four radio and television stations operating in Michigan and Illinois.

Osteopaths to Meet Next Week The annual convention of the Nebraska Osteopathic Association will begin in Lincoln next Monday, Sept. 29 rather than this week, as erroneously reported in the Sunday Journal and Star. Meetings will continue through Tuesday, Sept. 29, when the session closes. Huks Slay Six MANILA (P).

-Six persons were killed early Monday in an ambush by Commi led Huk outlaws off the main national highway about 55 miles north of Manila. Philippine News Service said the dead were four civilian guards riding in a jeep and two women killed by stray bullets. "I saw them throw hand nades the wounded. saw them open the doors of ambulances and fire inside with their machine guns. "At least 1 pulled through.

"But I'd hate to think everybody was going forget all that now, just because some of us came home on a ship. There are many American soldiers buried in Korea, They won't be coming home like this." THE CAPTAIN, Kansas City, is 32. He looks 10 I years older. VISHINSKY ASSAILED th'e United States as the real cause: of world tension, charged Western policy in Germany threatened to touch off a new war and declared the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was aimed at weakening the U.N. Soviet disarmament resolution- first Soviet move on this subject since the death of Stalin and the accession of Georgi Malenkov to power -had four points: 1.

Immediate and unconditonal prohibition of the atomic and hywith the security council- -where Russia has the veto -to supervise compliance. 2. Immediate one-third reduction by the Big Five the United States; the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China in their armed forces with a conference shortly afterwards to discuss reduction of the armed forces of other countries. 3. Dismantling of military bases maintained -in foreign countries.

was an obvious reference to the United States for Vishinsky had renounced U.S. bases overseas earlier in his speech. 4. Condemnation of propaganda tending to stimulate warlike psychosis. THE SOVIET delegate told 60-nation General Assembly the discussion taken by the assembly last month ran counter to the armistice agreement in recommending that only countries representing the two belligerents I should take part in the parley.

recommendation of this assembly must be brought into conformity with the armistice. he said. The United States has insisted that the armistice restricted the representation in the peace conference to the two sides, but the Russions have sought to make it a roundtable affair by inviting India and other so-called neutrals. Vishinsky spoke from notes. In the past when he has not had a prepared text it indicated he had received new instructions too late for inclusion in a written speech, The coldest weather of the season sent Nebraska temperatures below the freezing level Sunday night and brought the first frost of any consequence to parts of the state, the Weather Bureau reported.

The mercury fell rapidly Sunday night as cold, dry air pushed over the state. Light frost was reported at North Platte, where the state low of 29 was recorded, and at Valentine, which had a low of 31. Low-lying areas in other parts of the state also had thin layers first hints of fall felt. early-morning frost, as the The Weather Bureau said low temperatures were generally degrees below the seasonal normal and light frost was forecast again Monday night for Panhandle and Eastern Nebraska. The high pressure area which caused the drop, however, moved off to south Monday and southerly they winds began blowing into the state.

Bill: We'll Be Improved "We'll show al ot of improvement in practices this week," season Monday. Quarterback Club at the boys have their necks Glassford declared. "They aren't discouraged a bit. We've got a lot of grass to cut, and I expect us to improve each week." Discussing Saturday's 20-12 loss to Oregon, the Nebraska mentor said the Huskers "lost the ball game because we didn't shift the way we should have shifted defensively, "We were well prepared on detense we just made some mistakes." Glassford heaped praise on Center Jim Oliver, whose two wild passes from center led to the first two Oregon touchdowns. "Oliver is the hardest worker on our squad, and as fine a boy as ever coaches." Glassford said.

"He's my center!" SAN FRANCISCO (P) The Gen. R. Howze, ninth and last of the freedom ships returning liberated American POWS to their homeland docks at Ft. Mason Wednesday, concluding the greatest emotional binge the San Francisco waterfront has seen in years. It started when the transport Gen.

Nelson M. Walker sailed through the Golden Gate with 328 repatriates Aug. 23. It continued with the hospital ship Haven, the Gen. W.

F. Hase, the Marine Adder, the Gen. John Pope, the THE SOVIET DELEGATE attacked the position of the United States as "obdurate." He said Secretary 'of State Dulles had adopted the policy of South Korean President Sygnman Rhee and was doing everything possible "to thwart consideration of this question at the present session." Dulles listened intently Vishinsky assailed what he called the "intolerant attitude" of the United States in opposing Indian participation in the peace conference. "The United States has proved time and again it will not hesitate to thwart the interests of states who want to walk their own paths," the Soviet delegate said. TURNING TO appeal last week for the Communists to show by deeds that they really want peace, Vishinsky said it was the United States that was preventing a lessening of world tension.

He added: enemies of peace called for peace, but they set so many conditions as to make them barren." Vishinsky stated that Russia has no territorial claims on any state "and that includes the neighbors of the USSR." This was a reference to an appeal by Dulles for the Communists to stop their alleged efforts to spread Communism by revolution. VISHINSKY accused the United States of "stimulating the war psychosis." U.S. leaders, he said, have "done their; best to stimulate fear" by rumors of aggressive intentions of the Soviet Union. Turning to the German question. Vishinsky declared the Western Powers were trying fo push the German people down the path to war once more by advocating rearmament on large scale.

months. I haven't seen my and kids in three years. I'll see them tomorrow. I'm so happy I just don't know what to say. I hope all these families.

and all these soldiers, don't get so happy they forget what caused the misery in the first place. "YOU'VE HEARD of Death Valley. I was there. I saw hundreds of men die from lack of food, for lack of any medical care whatever. See my nose? A Chinese smashed it with his rifle butt after they captured me.

Most of the repatriates seem very young, too young to have suffered and survived the rigors of Red captivity, There was Lt. James L. Stone, first man off the Brewster. He is 30, looks younger. He was first off because he has been awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest tribute.

The first big cheer, the salutes of the generals, went Lt. Stone, but his big moment came tea when he spotted his mother at the foot of the gangplank. A hero, sure, but a son first. Trip to Take? a Make it with ease in a reliable Used Car. See Class 26 for the good 000 Adv..