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to Wage Board Pares Miners Pay Hike; Strike WASHINGTON (UP)-The wage Stabilization Board sliced 40 cents from John L. Lewis' soft coal contract in a surprise move Saturday, and the government made plans to cope with an strike beginning Monday. Public members of the board Joined industry in refusing to $1.90 representatives, a day wage boost Lewis had negotiated last month for 375,000 soft coal diggers. The Interior Department promptly ordered coal stockpiles frozen at one minute past midnight Saturunder with Lewis' United Mine contracts. The miners chief warned when the contract was signed that any change in the terms would nullify the agreement.

Traditionally, his men refuse to work without a contract. Defense Solid Fuels Administrator Charles W. Connor said the order barring shipments of soft coal after midnight was drawn up to provide an emergency stockpile in case of a long strike. He said his agency will allocate coal to consumers on the basis of need and essential use. Industries are the principal users of bituminous coal.

Anthracite coal, used as home fuel, was not affected by 24-Hour United Press News Wire FIRST IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA Circulation A. B. C. Certified The Beatrice Times Vol. 11 No.

160 Beatrice, Nebraska, Sunday Morning, October 19, 1952 Five Cents the order. The Solid Fuels Administration estimated that available supplies will meet the demand for most large industrial consumers for 10 weeks. More than 100,000 miners already have quit work in protest against the board's delay in reaching a decision. The others are expected to stay away from the pits when the mines reopen Monday after the week end shutdown. The miners now earn a basic wage of $18.25 a day and work an average of three week.

Economic Stabilization Director Roger L. Putnam commended the wage board for "a very, courageous" act in "saying 'No' to an unstabilizing wage increase." The impact of a strike on the presidential campaign may be softened by the fact that soft coal BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL IMPROVED New addition to Blue Ridge school includes stage and two toilet rooms. (TIMES Photo). Patrons Do Much Of Work Blue Ridge rural school, northwest of Beatrice, is getting a new look. With patrons of the school district doing much of the work, an addition housing a stage and indoor toilet facilities for the boys and girls is nearing completion.

The school district contracted for the carpentry and plastering of the addition and for the papering of the old schoolroom, but volunteer labor has been used in painting, cleaning, and readying the schoolroom for the paperhanger. Each toilet room has a stool and lavatory and hot and cold running water. A septic-tank sewage system is used. The stage measures 7 feet, 8 inches by 14 feet, one inch. The entire addition is 20 feet long and 24 feet wide (the same as the width of the original building).

The school is one of only three Please turn to page 6 Ike Playing Politics With Heartaches-HST By DAYTON MOORE United Press Staff Correspondent EN ROUTE WITH TRUMAN Saturday that Dwight D. Eisenident Truman charged hower played partisan politics with the heartache of "the mothers and fathers of this country" saying South Koreans should replace American troops in the Korean battlelines. He said the GOP presidential candidate had "held out a false hope to the mothers of America in an effort to pick up a few votes." "That was a contemptible thing to do," the President said in a speech prepared for delivery at Providence, R. I. "It was irresponsible because the Republican candidate knows that we cannot pull our troops out of Korea now." "We can't do it unless we willing to say to Stalin: 'We you he added.

Blood Donors Below Quota "Are we going to let down our boys in Korea?" asked Mrs. erina Morrison, executive tary of the Gage county Red Cross, yesterday in connection with the bloodmobile visit to Beatrice 00 Tuesday and Wednesday. Headquarters will be at Municipal auditorium. An average of nine pints is given wounded soldier, she said. every, 384 donors needed to meet the a quota, only 172 had registered yesterday.

The Red Cross bloodmobile's visit to Beatrice is the first since July and all donors are eligible to give again as the waiting period is past gallon of blood. They are Dean Eight donors have each si given a Brandt, 902 North 13th; Edward M. Cass, 302 North LaSelle; John W. Elwood, 1409 East Court; Mrs. Lois M.

Fry, route Bernard W. King, 418 North Ninth; Harry Rush, 507 Ames; Ed Nickels, 417 North Eighth; and Dean Sackett, 808 North Tenth. Register-Vote Campaign Stresses Importance Of Individual Ballot Under leadership of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, 19 civic and fraternal organizations are pushing the reg1ster-vote campaign in Beatrice. In Gage county, only Beatrice voters need to register. Registration books at the city clerk's office in Municipal auditorium will be open through October Beatrice voters who registered in or later need not register again unless they have changed residence.

The following article is one of a series be published daily in The Times. By JOHN GOETTE (Central Press Writer) "YOUR BALLOT IS BOSS," rings one slogan of the 1952 nonpartisan Register and Vote campaign. Vote-lazy Americans are in for a surprise if they imagine that one vote does not count for much. Reminding them of the potency of a single ballot, history is cited: In 1832, Clay defeated Jackson for President in Maryland by only four votes. In 1884, Blaine lost New York by less than one vote per precinct.

Had he carried the state, he would have defeated Cleveland for the presidency. A Texas senator in 1948 won his seat by only 87 votes. In that same year's presidential race, one state in the east and one in the west were won by one vote per precinct. Statisticians of the American Heritage foundation estimate that the odds are just about 50-50 that you are throwing away your own important vote. That vote is guaranteed you by the Constitution's 15th Amendment: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous servitude." And by the 19th Amendment: right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." However, this certification of heritage works only if you activate it by exercising your franchise.

Communist Poland, too, has a constitution, adopted in July, 1952. which provides that "Every citizen who has reached the age of 18, irrespective of sex, nationality, race, religion, length of residence, social origin, profession and property status, has the right to elect." Yet the elections under it scheduled for this autumn are given. a dim prediction for freedom by ob- I stockpiles are at near record levels and insure normal operations for 70 or 80 -well past the Nov. 4 electioratement on the wage board's ruling was immediately forthcoming but Kentucky coal operators said a strike is a "sure thing" now. It was considered likely that the miners will stay home without any formal word from Lewis.

Tolerance Of Ike Lauded Rabbi Says Truman Anti-Semitic Link Charge "Irresponsible' NEW YORK (UP)-Dwight D. Eisenhower moved quickly Saturday to combat President Truman's charge that the GOP presidential nominee has sided with "antisemitism, anti catholicism and anti-foreignism" on immigration policies. Eisenhower interrupted a day of rest to with Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, Cleveland, 0., on the charges made Friday by the President in a statement to the Welfare Board's national leadership mobilization for GI and community services. After the meeting with Eisenhower, Silver told reporters he was shocked by the President's ment and that he thought it was "irresponsible." At the same time the Eisenhower staff released a letter from the Republican nominee to Silver in which Eisenhower pledged his intention to support the maintenance of Israel as a free state, even to the point of granting the young Jewish homeland political and economic aid. Silver told reporters he and Eidiscussed the Truman statement.

Eisenhower himself made no public statement on words of the President, but it was apparent that Silver reflected Eisenhower's views. "Much permitted in a campaign but the attempt by implication to identify a man like Gen. -whose humanity and broad tolerance are known all over the world -with anti-semitism and anti-catholicism is just not permissible even in the heat of a campaign," Silver said. is clear that Gen. Eisenhower is opposed to the McCarran bill.

Incidentally, the McCarran was fathered by the Democrats and both Democrats and Republicans were both culpable for keeping this American bill on the books." Purebred Boar, Gilt Sale Here The eighth annual purebred boar and gilt sale of the Blue Valley Breeders association will be held 7:30 p. m. Monday at the Gage county fairgrounds. Consignors are: Chester White--Edwin Gummert, Beatrice. Durocs-Wayne Larsen, Beatrice: Arthur Rosenthal, Harbine; J.

C. Williss, Beatrice. HampI shires-R. E. Dell, Filley, Duane Dell, Filley; Jerold Mees, Fairbury.

Poland China -Charles and Max Kimmerling, Beatrice; Ernest Wentz Son. Sterling. Spotted Paland- -Fred W. Baum Sons, Tecumseh; Edwin Daubendiek, Beatrice; Joseph Hajek, Odell; Alvin L. Johnsen.

Beatrice, Arthur Nispel, Plymouth. Yorkshire: George P. Remmenga, Filley. Scouts, Dads District Party Boy Scouts and their dads of this district will have their first ScoutDad party at 7 p. m.

Wednesday in Riverside Park. Roy Owens, game warden, will speak at the out-door meet. The group will roast wieners and marshmallows over the campfire and spend the evening informally. Scout groups in Beatrice, Pickrell, Adams, Wymore and Wilber are expected to attend, Wes Winker, chairman of the district camping and activities committee, said. STUDY CIVIL DEFENSE Nebr.

Historical Soc Timesworthy Topics THE SAD, reflective hour that came on when the news arrived that the Huskers had lost was interrupted when the editorial door in his riper years, on the quietly opened revealinge a man thin side, soft enough of voice and quiet yet gracious in his demeanor. "I AM WILLIAM RITCHIE" he said, "the Democratic candidate for senator against Dwight Griswold. I have made a personal swing around the state, from the panhandle to the eastern "fields. I am covering this area. I have visited Pawnee City, Falls City, Liberty, Holmesville and now I would appreciate a few minutes of your time to state WE EXPLAINED that we were Republican paper but with the a conviction that the public interest and the general right to facts demanded attentive interest to any candidate, whatever party.

am an, old line, conservative Democrat, Ritchie began. "I do to be confused with the bigger wing of my party which stands for heavy spending, welfare by government determination rather than public desire. I believe in free enterprise, balanced get and a return to the gold with possible speed. I have rejected all deals with the CIO and conceive the duty of a Nebraska senator as one most largely representing the agricultural interests which provides 85 per cent of Nebraska annual new income." THAT GOT US into the farm program. "I am 1 by all means in favor of a farm program similar in nature to the one we have.

But I doubt the good sense of a parity based on long ago, reflecting a condition of life and operation that no longer exists. I think incentive payments based on ideas of 1932 fit neither the needs or the desires of farming. A modernized program should be one that gives the farming and ranching areas a fair measure of protection while being beneficial to the whole RITCHIE more or less favors a dynamic farm program somewhat the idea of the treatment of utilities--perhaps an agricultural commission empowered to make timely adjustments of parities and incentives according to the ups and downs of farming conditions. The conditions would be only such regulations as would serve the public welfare while guaranteeing in return the prices that would assure a reasonable return on investment and effort. SUMMING up his other positions he said he was against Universal Military Training, for MacArthur's way of handling Korea, against the Yalta treaty, for the amendment of the Taft-Hartley act, against ducing needed old age assistance, against socialized medicine, for a balanced.

budget, payment of naand a drastic reduction in the number of government employes, HE MADE NO election predictions but expressed some concern over Nebraska's general silence in the face of efforts otherwise by "both parties. "Republicans and Democrats alike are having a hard time attracting although there is no doubt the people are giving the state of tion a good deal of quiet thought This is going to be a hard election to SISTER DIES Mrs. Harry E. Dorr of Lincoln died Friday night after an illness of about three months. She was a sister of A.

J. Overgard of Beatrice. Other survivors are her and a son, Harry E. three brothers. Funeral services are pending in Lincoln.

Homestead Program 4 Concerts Denver Symphony Substitutes For Wagner Opera Company Four numbers, highlighted by the Denver symphony orchestra, make up the 1952-53 program of the Homesteader Community Concert association. Announcement was made Satur-1 day of these four concerts: Nov. 14, Conrad Thibault, baritone. March 6, Men of Song, male quartet. April 25, Denver symphony orchestra with Rudolph Firkusne, piano May Philharmonic piano quartet.

The Homesteaders announced with regret that a scheduled appearance of the Wagner Opera company has been concelled. Said a statement: "The Homesteader Association is very pleased to be able to obtain the Denver Symphony replace the Wagner Opera Company. This change was necessitated the inability of Mr. Charles Wagner to fulfill his commitment with the Homesteader organization. Since Mr.

Wagner was unable 1 to secure any other engagement in the Midwest it became financially impossible for him to assume the cessive expense of transporting his large company and equipment into Nebraska and Beatrice. "Because Homesteader members have so greatly enjoyed, in past seasons, concerts by the Cincinnati Symphony, the Minneapolis Symphony, and the St. Louis Symphony, it was the unanimous vote of Homesteader representatives from Beatrice and the surrounding towns to secure the Denver Symphony for the April 25 concert. Appearing with the Symphony will be Rudolph Firkusne, pianist, a soloist in his own right." Memberships will be mailed the first of November. 834 FHA Loans In Gage County $1,151,676 For Home Building, Repairs Gage county residents have obtained Federal Housing Administra-25.

tion loans to build, buy or repair homes in the total amount 676 between 1935 and September 1, this year. Holger Holm, Omaha, Director of Federal Housing Administration, furnished the figures yesterday. There are 834 borrowers involved in this volume of loan business in Gage County, Holm said. As to type of loans, he said, the above figures can be broken down as follows: Number Loan Units Amount Loans for individual homes 162. $900,411.

Number of Borrowers Repairs and Remodeling 672 $251,265. Total 834 $1,151,676. Three Enlist In Air Force Three area men who enlisted in the Air Force for periods left Friday Parks Air Force Base, Pleasanton, via United Airlines. The men, Jack A. Sinn, of Alexander; Irvin D.

Lisec, Odell, and Frederick R. Hermann, Waterville, are assigned to the 3275th Air Force Indoctrination Wing at the California Base, Recruiter Sgt. Rolland Willis reported. Texas Water Shortage DALLAS, Tex. (UP) A leaky faucet could cost a Dallas citizen a fine of up to $200 today.

The city's water supply, depleted by a three year Texas drought, has dropped to a dangerous four-month supply and the city fathers took drastic steps to halt the loss of water. Residents were warned that they could not wash their cars, sprinkle their lawns or waste water through defective plumbing penalty of fines up to $200. The protracted drought has severely dropped the water level in Conversing on Civil Defense matter Friday at the Ex Senior High School during an afternoon meeting are, lett to right, Mrs. F. W.

Carstens, assistant Gage County director: Wendell Harding, state director; and Austin Bacon, deputy state director. Some 50 persons connected with state and county civil defense met to deliver reports, view films and receive instructions on the matter at the district meet. (TIMES Photo). Hoover Defends GOP Record NEW YORK (UP) Former President Herbert Hoover charged Saturday night that the Republican Party has the victim of "misrepresentations and falsehoods" for 20 years. He said that at the request of Adlai Recalls 'GOP Bondage' Garner Endorses Him To Texas HOUSTON, Tex.

(UP--Adlai E. Stevenson called upon the dissident Democrats of Texas Saturday night to remember "the chain of economic bondage which the Republicans riveted around the necks of the South and West." Stevenson charged that Dwight D. Eisenhower, his Republican opponent for the presidency, had promoted "the old rustler, Bob Taft," and the rest of the Oid Guard to control of the GOP. He said if Eisenhower wins Texas will get the same it has from the GOP in the past. Gov.

Allan Shivers of Texas and most of the state's Democratic leaders have gone over to hower. Stevenson has been trying to offset this by recalling memor ies of "Hoover hog" (jack rabbit) and showing his intimacy with eran Texas Democrats still faithful to the party. For instance, he went out of his way to eat breakfast at Uvalde, with 83-year-old former Vice President John Nance Garner. Cactus Jack gave Stevenson his blessing and asked his neighbors to vote for him. Two Accidents; Minor Injuries A sideswiping accident on the north end of the Sixth street viaduct last night resulted in over $50 Anmases.

to each of cars driven by Fletcher, Lincoln, and Leonard W. Mullen, 510 West Mary. Police reported no one was injured. minutes later, police investigated an intersection crash at Seventh and Grant streets where Ed ward M. Cass, 302 North LaSelle, and his three small children received minor bruises and suffered from shock.

A car driven by Cass was upset by the impact when it collided with one driven by Carolyn Salisbury, 416 North 16th street. Mrs. Cass, also in the car, was uninjured, according to police reports Both cars were damaged in excess of $50. Cubmobiles To Race Today Cubmobiles will race at 2 o'clock this afternoon from a ramp at Twelfth and Ella streets in the annual American Legion sponsored event. Jurgen Folkert is Legion chairmanare offered in three divisions, according to kinds of wheels.

There are 10 prizes in all. NEW LIGHTS Mercury-vapor street lights are being installed along East Court street between 9th street and 19th street, George Miller, Utilities manager, announced yesterday. About two weeks will be required to complete the job of installing I the 24 poles and lamps, Miller said. Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower he had "come out of what I had hoped was final retirement from political activities" to cite the GOP record and refute charges such as those that his party was a tool of Wall Street, caused the depression and was reactionary. He declared the Republican Party first regulated business. He said the charge that the GOP caused the depression was exploded thousand times by multitude of economists, historians and He statesmen." that the New Deal itself delayed economic recovery which he said the Republicans started. He said there were seven major "misrepresentations" about the GOP. He listed these as (1) that it is the party of privilege and tool of Wall Street, (2) That the Republicans caused the depression nothing about it, (3) That it is reactionary and opposed to change and reforms or is not "forward looking," (4) That is opposed to conservation and developing natural resources, (5) That GOP administrations were corrupt, (6) That the Party is incompetent to preserve peace, and (7) That the growth of Communism in this country was caused by the Republican years of the depression.

275 New Voters On Poll Books Some 275 names have been added to the city's list of registered voters since a Get-Out-the- Vote campaign spearheaded by the Junior Chamber of Commerce was started. City Clerk Al Kleman made that estimate yesterday after observing 73 new registrations or renewals of registration. Kleman estimated that approximately 50 of Saturday's 73 registrations were by persons who had not registered in Beatrice since before 1950 when a state law ordering new registrations for all voters took effect. Kleman said the approximate total registered voters is the highest since the new registraItion began in 1950. He estimated that Beatrice has a potential registered vote of 6,300.

ROBOTNICZA KOMITET WARSZAWSK I Polish soldiers and a tommy gun guard Warsaw headquarters of Workers party during general election. The Red bloc won overwhelmingly. servers of the National Committee for a Free Europe. This is what they foresee: "During the electrol period not only intensive agitation should be expected, but also new purges, show trials and all kinds of repressions toward the people." "It is not yet certain," say the observers, "if following the Soviet pattern, the Communists in Poland will bring, the legislative elections only the casting of votes for one single ticket, with candidates appointed by the party, or attempt to keep the fictitious division in several existing political parties, TWO GRASS FIRES Firemen were called to put out a grass fire in the 100 block on South Bell street Saturday after noon. No damage was reported.

At 5:10 p. m. Saturday the rural truck was called to the Reno Fisher farm three miles north of Beatrice on North Twentieth street. A weed fire threatened to burn into a corn field but no damage resulted. PREMIUM CHECKS Checks are in the mail to prize winners at the recent Gage County 83 Fair.

a Weather NEBRASKA: Far and warmer Sunday and Sunday night, high temperature in the 80's west to 70's east. TEMPERATURES High Saturday at Beatrice 69.1 low 36; high year ago 48, 10W 40. PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 11 p.m. None October to date None Same period, 1951 1.20 1952 to date 25.40 Same period, 1951 46.60 3 which are dependent on the ruling Communist party." In the last Polish elections of 1947, the "permitted" opposition groups polled 2 per cent of the national vote. Thus the Register and Vote drive stresses that under Communism one's destiny is in the hands of men who hold public office.

Under democracy the men who hold public office are answerable to you. You, by casting your ballot, are ruler on election day. That is the heart of this non-partisan campaign. Envoy Matthews Dies At Omaha Lake Dallas, the city's only supply source. Army engineers said that even if water were consumed at only a.

normal rate it held only a Only inches of rain have fallmonth reserve. en here so far in October, compared with 1.26 inches which normally fall, the weather bureau said. For the four months from June 1 through Sept. 30 2.48 inches were recorded, contrasted to a normal rainfall of 10.45 inches. The total rainfall for the year is 17.81 inches, against a normal precipitation of 29.87.

OMAHA, Neb. (UP) Francis P. Matthews, U. S. ambassador to Ireland, died Saturday of a heart attack.

His death came unexpectedly. He was 65. Ilis son, Francis said he was stricken at 9:15 a.m., c.s.t. and died half an hour later at his home here. He was in Omaha on vacation and had planned to return to Dublin to rejoin his wife and daughter.

Matthews, a wealthy attorney. was appointed secretary of the navy by President Truman shortly after the armed forces were uni- fied, and helped put the program into effect. He had been ambassador to ireland for more than a year. But only Friday he hinted of retirement when he told an Omaha Chamber of Commerce luncheon that he would be "happy" to return to Omaha in a few mouths. This was the first indication he pianned to leave government servwhen the new administration moves in next January.

Matthews, a Roman Catholic lay leader, had been the affairs of the government, the church and the Democratic Party. His appointment as secretary of the navy in May, 1949, came as a surprise even to himself At the time, he said jokingly that his only nautical tie was a "rowboat at my summer home." Without military or naval background. he was credited with getting the unification period over the hump. He resigned in July 1950, to accept the appointment as ambassador. Matthews was a supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus from 1939 to 1945.

He was knighted by I the Pope..