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i 1 tf i rf Big Four Urges Asian PeaceJalks 1 Purchase Of Historic Blue Grass Sites Urged FRANKFORT Ky Feb 18 CSpecial) Five Central Kentucky representatives today sponsored a joint resolution to memorialize Congress to complete acquisition by the federal government of four Blue Grass historic sites to be known as the national monuments" The proposed resolution notes that Congress already has approved the project but that three of the sites still are in private hands They are Fort Boones bo rough Boone's Station and Bryan's Station The fourth the Blue Licks battlefield can be conveyed to the by Kentucky under a previous act the resolution stated It asserted of the above mentioned sites are not merely of local and state-wide significance but also of national significance inasmuch as the Battle of Blue Licks was the last battle of the American Revolution Fort Boonesborough is the site of the first white settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains Boone's Station was built by Daniel Boone and for a number of yearp was the home and headquarters of himself his family and connections and Bryan's Station is the site of a famous Indian siege in which the pioneer women of the station displayed great Rep Cassius Clay of Paris chief sponsor of the measure raid several historical and patriotic organizations favor its passage Co-sponsors with him were Reps Josh Cosby Richmond Foster Ockerman Lexington Herbert Fern Flemingsburg and Walker Wiseman Winchester 1 Brown Denies He's Quit Fight For Sales Tax OK Lexingtonian Is Seen As Probable Candidate For Governor If His Measure Is Not Passed BERLIN FAREWELL FOR BIG Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Foreign Ministers Anthony Eden of Britain and Georges Bidault of France seated left to right listened to speeches during a farewell ceremony for the Western diplomats at West Berlin's city hall yesterday Seated at far right was West Berlin Mayor Walter Schreiber (Associated Press Wlrephoto) WLAP Halts TV Plans Holds UHF Unacceptable The American Broadcasting Corporation operator of Radio Station WLAP announced great yesterday indefinite postponement of the construction of the WLAP-TV Channel 27 UHF television The announcement made by Company President Gilmore Nunn said In effect that UHF ultra high frequency telecasting was not an acceptable type for this area The statement came as a surprise development since the com- pany was about midway in con- WVLK Gives Up Senate Shelves Anti-Red Bill House Debates 2 Former To Be Revised 'Pay Raise Railroad Measures Are Passed FRANKFORT Ky Feb 18 (AV-The Senate today shelved until next week action on the anti-subversives bill while the House wrangled In debate over bills that would permit the governor to grant pay raises to certain appointive aides and make it tougher for railroads to drop passengpr service in Kentucky The anti-subversives bill advocated by Atty Gen Buck-man Jr would outlaw subversive organizations and membership in them and also would establish i loyalty-oath program for public officials and employees in Kentucky It would make it a felony to attempt or to aid others to overthrow the federal or state government or any subdivision providing fines or imprisonment or both upon conviction When the bill was brought up its sponsor Sen Carl Ruh (D-- South Fort Mitchell) spoke for it only to be interrupted by Sen Moloney (D-Lexington) who questiqped some of the language Moloney pointed out he speaking for or against the measure He said he was as strongly against subversives as Ruh But he asked what was meant by the bill saying a person could be deemed a subversive on evidentiary grounds' Ruh replied through actions and organizations he belonged to" standards are you going to use? asked Moloney "Would they be thoroughly fair?" Ruh said and added the law would be administered by the attorney general Moloney said he wasn't concerned about how Buck-man would administer the law but said he might be about how some other attorney general would Call A Spade A Spade He also asked what the bill meant by subversive organization and Ruh replied Communist party" you say Communist party then?" asked Moloney He also inquired going to define judge what is a subversive organization" After Moloney declared that be thought "you ought to have the bill spell out" these things carefully Ruh agreed to try to work out amendments Moloney then moved that action be deferred until this was done next week and his motion carried on voice vote Bills to make the Statutes Revision Commission -a part' of the Legislative Research Commission were introduced by Moloney and Sen Homer Losey (R-Somer-set) members of the Research Commission because they're majority and minority leaders The legislation also would provide for an advisory commission on statute revision composed of attorneys appointed by the governor Dairy Bill Deferred Action also was deferred on a House-approved bill to create a Kentucky Dairy Commission to promote use of dairy products after some questions arose over Its various provisions Sen Shields (D-Shelbyville) sponsored the measure in the Senate Kep John Brown (D-Lex-I ns ton) took the floor to seek (Sea Cslamn 3 Back Fas Tbla SceUaa) On UHF Idea Station Withdraws Federal Permit Bid Donald Horton president of the Blue Grass Broadcasting Com- ly the same rrason as those cited Vm HJiaMM HfrT ir anfwinwnail ik by Nunn announced withdrawal left the way clear for a Conference Would Discuss Korea End Of Indochina War By Daniel De Luce BERLIN Feb 18 Russia and the Big Three Western powers tonight called for an Asian peace conference at Geneva on April 26 to attempt to unify war-shattered Korea and end the Indochina rebellion The four foreign ministers concluded their 25-day talks in Berlin with these historic decisions: 1 Invited 16 nations Including Red China and the rival Korean republics to join them in a conference on a Korean political settlement 2 Agreed this conference in Switzerland also would discuss the Indochina conflict with Red China participating in the talks 3 Promised to views" on Big Four disarmament under a resolution of the United Nations dated last Nov 28 4 Admitted the Big inability to agree at this time on unification of divided Germany and granting Austria its independence Hopes For United Korea possibility emerges of effecting the unification of Korea in Secretary of State Dulles told the conference in a farewell speech is also provided the chance if Communist China wants it of restoring peace and order in Indochina and thus enabling the three associated states of Indochina to have freedom and enjoy it in The American departed in the presidential plane the Columbine after the conference closed Soviet Foreign Miifister Molotov the final day's chairman rapped out the adjournment of the Big Four conference at 7 pm Berlin time Workers Rap Molotov West Berlin's Freedom Bell an American gift rang at that hour marking the end of a march to city hall by some 15000 anti-Com-munist workers bearing torchlights silently protesting to German hopes for unification This afternoon 150000 East Berliners including school' children paraded past the Soviet Embassy on Unter den Linden in a Communist mass demonstration Dulles did not hide the tough fact that the Soviet Army still is dug in perhaps for many years on the Elbe and Danube rivers in mid-Europe But Soviet leaders will surely come to see that freedom is not to be Dulles said am confident that if these basic realities human rights become better understood by the Soviet Union lt will become possible to achieve a free and independent Austria which we promised in 1943 and a unified Germany which we said in 1945 was a purpose of our Dulles pointed to varied reasons for hopefulness for the future despite the bitter quarreling which dominated most of the 27 conference sessions totalling 96 hours and 18 minutes: Atomic energy talks between the United States and Russia aimed at eventually pooling atomic resources for international peaceful purposes will continue The Americans would like to hold a conference of atomic-producing powers Russian insistence on including Red China has progress to date on procedure have agreed to pursue a four-power search for agreement on reduction of armaments as recommended by the United The United Nations asked its 12-nation Disarmament Commission last November to propose secret Big Power talks on the subject shall pursue the means to alleviate the plight of the peoples of Germany and have learned much here It makes It less likely that any of us should by inadvertance and miscalculation do what would risk another The Western nations however will not allow paralysis of but will continue to strengthen it through their close alliance Villages Isolated REGGIO CALABRIA Italy Feb 18 (P) Mounting floodwaters washed across large areas of this southern Italian province today They isolated scores of villages damaged and destroyed homes and inundated rich farmlands Eighty hours of continuous rain forced mountains and mountain streams over their banks from Reggio on the toe of the Italian boot to Catanazro 100 miles to the north Local authorities said 23 towns with a total population of 80000 were threatened by rock and dirt landslides and possible flooding Dickenson Trial Sel By Army Accused Of Informing On Fellow Captives WASHINGTON Feb 18 (UP) CpL Edward Dickenson the turnabout Korean war prisoner will be tried by court martial on charges of ir forming on fellow US prisoners to gain favors from his Communist captors the army announced today The Army charged that Dickenson caused three other American prisoners of war and hardship" by reporting on them to his Communist jailers Simultaneously the Marine Corps broadened its investigation of false germ warfare confessions to include CoL Frank Schwa-ble's co-pilot Maj Roy Bley Bley voluntarily forfeited a chance to escape possible prosecution when he insisted on testifying before a Marine court of inquiry which will decide wether Schwable should face a court-martiaL Like Schwable Bley signed a false germ warfare confession In the Dickenson case the Army said a pre-trial investigation revealed to warrant a court martial against the Neck Va mountain youth who originally chose to stay with the Communists and then changed his mind The Army accused Dickenson of committing a by informing on his fellow prisoners order to receive favorable treatment" He also was accused of associating and collaborating with the enemy and without authority" If convicted on charges of giving information to the enemy Dickenson faces a possible death sentence Conviction on charges of misconduct while a prisoner is punishable by a prison sentence dishonorable discharge or other (Ses Column 5 Fas This lectin) earth's surface William Austin of Cave City Ky and James Dyer of Columbus Ohio are mapping the waterfall area Lawrence said they would soon abandon the expedition's old Advance Camp One set up three miles inside the cave entrance last Sunday in favor of Advance Camp Two over against the new area Hear Waters' With their ears against cave walls explorers have up the roar of rushing waters" Phil (Ses Cslamn 3 Back Fafc Thla SceUaa) permit for WLEX to operate a sta- company was withdrawing its tion on channel 18 and Earl application for a Federal Com Boyles general manager of WLEX munications Commission permit to said its operator the Central Ken- operate a television station on tucky Broadcasting Company channel 18 here would go ahead with its plans The action left the application To Study Statements of WLEX operated by the Cen Boyles said he would withhold tral Kentucky Broadcasting Corn-comment on Central pany uncontested for the permit views on the UHF situation until and its general manager Earl he had studied statements made Boyles said the company would by Nunn and Horton about its dis- pursue its plans -advantages Horton said WVLK made the In announcing LAP'S decision move to withdraw its application Nunn said is with mixed emo- because his company felt the tions and a confidence of public of the service of the station understanding that we announce would be questionable1 wi a hearin on the applications of 1 27 UHF 11 WVLK and WLEX for the same vision operation channel had been scheduled be- After having spent seven years fore the commission March 5 and of work and oyer $100000 on our the grant to WLEX would now be television efforts to date it is hard- automatic ly necessary to say that our de- WVLK Horton said sit cision was made with great re- on the sidelines for a while and luctance and in what we believe devote our energies to al-t0 he best lnterests of the though the company would press PuWic for the allocation of a VHF or Construction Halted very high frequency channel to Nunn said necessity of such Lexington a decision was indicated some two (WLAP In announcing that lt weeks ago at which time we was abandoning channel 27 also stepped construction on our new noted that it would seek studios on the Belt Line In the VHF for Lexington and meantime while preparing this Central Kentucky) statement we have oeen conferring Horton said WVLK decided to with the Federal Communications drop its application checking Commission the television net Squirrel Which Found Ring May Get Reward SOUTHAMPTON Feb 18 (UP) A squirrel which found a too tough to crack today became eligible for a $1500 reward Frank Dull caretaker at the summer home of Paper Company Executive Donald Scott Sharpe was raking leaves when the squirrel dropped something shiny in his path It turned out to be $50000 23-carat diamond ring which had been lost since Feb 6 His Insurance company had offered the reward A spokes-' man for the firm said haven't the least idea whether the squirrel or Dull will get the reward Senate Approves Albert Beeson Mitchell Optimistic Over Economic Future WASHINGTON Feb 18 The work of congressmen was made more complicated today by a rash of conflicting statements on some of the biggest problems now facing the lawmakers If all statements are to be believed economic conditions are getting better and worse at the same time The statements also indicated that the Defense Department has taken an important step without telling the joint chiefs of staff about it The highlights: Beeson Albert nomination to the National Labor Relations Board was confirmed by the Senate with just three votes to spare It was largely a party-line vote with Democrats charging Beeson to the Senate Economic Labor Secretary James Mitchell told the House-Senate Economic Committee he thinks employment may increase in March and that he is very optimistic about conditions after that But Edwin Nourse former President top economic adviser said there are no for expecting a in the next six months Indochina Adml Arthur Radford the joint chiefs chairman gave a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee a fill-in on the Indochina situation He was asked by reporters about a Defense Depart- (Sm CsIbbm rags This SssUm) GOP Leaders Score Firing Of Manion WASHINGTON Feb 18 UP) Rep Noah Mason (R-Ill) resigned today from President Commission on Intergovernmental Relations today with a blast at what he termed cratic by Sherman Adams White House chief of staff Mason announced his resignation in protest against the firing of Dr Clarence Manion former dean of the Notre Dame University Law School as chairman of the 25-member commission Manion said Wednesday he had resigned at request and attributed his ouster to speeches he has made supporting the administration-opposed Bricker amendment to curb the treaty-making powers A storm of criticism almost entirely from Republicans broke out on the Senate floor late Wednesday on the heels of tearful announcement to his staff that he was resigning against his wishes Associates said one desire was to carry on the monumental task assigned to the commission by President Eisenhower (Sc Ctlimii 4 Page This InIIh) The Weather Daily Forecast i derable cloudiness windy and warm High of 64 Partly 1 and cooler Saturday Lexington Figures Highest temperature yesterday 59 degrees lowest 31 average 45 normal 35 Highest and lowest on record for Feb 18 70 in 1948 and six below in 1936 Accumulated excess in temperature since Jan 1 216 degrees Precipitation for 24-hour period ending at 6 pm none Accumulated deficiency in preciptation since Jan 1 214 inches Humidity readings 6 am 91 per cent noon 48 per cent 6 pm 59 per cent Sun sets today at 5:21 pm and rises Saturday at 6:22 am Temperatures In Other Cities 1 Hey Boy! FRANKFORT Ky' Feb 18 (Special) A Senate visitor who is entitled to go on the floor at will picked up some bills a senator was ready to introduce today and with a smile carried them to the clerk's desk The other senators smiled as the vistor voluntarily took over the duty of the boys and girls who are paid pages in the Senate and he smiled back But there was general laughter when Sen Charles A McCann (D-Louisville) rose and made a motion that gentleman on the floor be made an honorary asked the presiding officer Lt Gov Emerson (Doc) Beauchamp Wetherby" replied McCann referring to the governor in favor say said Beauchamp but was interrupted by Sen Leon Shaikun (D-Louis-ville) demanding a roll call a time-honored method of blocking humorous motions McCann withdrew his Fleming Tot 3 Killed By Car Driver Charged FLEMINGSBURG Ky Feb 18 (Special) A three-year-old girl was struck and killed by a car about 5:30 today in front of her home near Poplar Plains Little Mary Susan Flora daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Flora was pronounced dead on arrival at Local office She was Fleming county's first traffic fatality in 1954 The driver of the car Woosley 23 a tenant on the Gail Ci earner farm at Muses Mills was chargea with involuntary manslaughter- and released on $500 bond Examining trial was set for Saturday before County Judge Stokely Coroner Gano Hawkins said Mary Susan suffered a broken back a broken neck a fractured legs and internal injuries when she was struck by the front bumper of the car and thrown about 50 feet He said an inquest will be held Monday at the courthouse The girl's father said the family was preparing to leave to visit relatives Mr and Mrs Flora had walked into the yard and saw their youngest child dart into the road Their three other children still were in the house Woosley said he saw the girl ust as he came over the top of a slight hill in front of the Flora's home He slammed on the brakes he said but could not avoid hitting the child Woosley's parents were passengers in the car Mary Susan also is survived by a sister Paulette Flora 7 a brother George Edward Flora 5 a half-brother William Ware 19 and her paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs George Flork The body will be removed Friday morning to the residence from the Boone funeral home Funeral arrangapients are incomplete Dulles Given Rabbits BERLIN Feb 18 Secretary of State John Foster Dulles who accused Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov of rabbits from his during the Big Four conference tonight was given two live rabbits Tin Can Found Skull Removed dows or sticking out of bushes along the roads it was recovered from some teen-age boys the boys said they found the skull But investigation showed that grave had been tampered with and the skull was identified tentatively by missing dentures Barrett was buried in the summer of 1948 None of the other bones missing from the grave have been found The grand jury is expected to give a report on its investigation next week CoL Tyree commonwealth attorney said tonight Judge Rice in his instructions to the jury when circuit court opened told the jurors to summon every resident of the Sugar Camp vicinity if they believed that would help identify the persons who removed the skull and bones from the grave By George Reynolds Herald Staff Writer FRANKFORT Ky Feb 18-Rep John Brown denied forcefully and at length today that he is avoiding the issue of his three per cent sales tax bill and in the erd appeared as a even a likely candidate for governor Brown referring to a Lexington Leader story published Wednesday which inferred that he has not tried very hard to get his bill out of committee declared that he had made an honest and sincere effort foi 30 days to do so argued for a solid hour with that Brown said return to one of its hearings would mean repeating my The Leader story noted that Brown had failed to appear at two ot the committee meetings and continued action regarding the Ways and Means Committee lends credence to opinions voiced by other legislators that he really doesn't want the bill to come up for a vote but wants to use it as a platform for the race for the Democratic nomination for governor next the time that story was going to Brown stated was addressing the Kiwanis Club at Winchester and asking its mem-Ders to support my He went on to ask the committee to report the bill out then said he would ask that the bill be laid over for two days so that he can time on the to rally support for it before it comes to vote be he said don't h-ve enough yotes in my pocket right now to pass the will be those who will say I am using the bill to run for Brown continued know that it is hard to convince people that I run because my past record certainly doesn't indicate it say to you sincerely that I want to run for office If you want to decide the issue pass my bill and promise that I will never again run for public Then he listed several fields of education and welfare he said would benefit greatly from passage of a sales tax and added: is a program that merits a man running for governor or any other high Most observers agreed that Brown's qualifications for 'not running were the key statements of the speech Indications are that the bill would get less than 20 votes at present in the House However few persons here will deny that campaign for a sales tax has gained momentum during the past two months is the easiest thing to sell that ever Brown said later talked to about 100 people over at Winchester yesterday and I know how many came to me afterwards and said they had been against a sales tax but that changed their News In Brief By Associated Press The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Califprnia Businessman Albert Beeson to the National Labor Relations Board Economy prioes for butter are expected after April first because of the cutting of its support prices by eight and one-quarter cents a pound The ousted head of the Presidential Commission on Inter-Governmental Relations Dr Clarence Manion has urged GOP Congressman Noah Mason of Illinois to reconsider his resignation from the same commission Water Pitcher In Grave Where BOONEVTLLE Ky Feb 18 (Special) Owsley County Coroner Ike Wilder today opened the grave of Willie Barrett in the Sugar Camp cemetery and found that the skull and all other bones down to the waist had been removed In the casket were a glass water pitcher and a baking powder can Wilder said a hole about 15-18 inches in diameter had been chopped through the casket The investigation which was ordered by Owsley Circuit Court clarified the mystery of the skull which had been placed on a pole and used to scare residents of the Sugar Camp vicinity The grand jury has not returned any indictments but still is investigating Officials decided the skull came from the Barrett grave and it was reburied with the other remains After residents reported seeing a skull peering through their win Waterfalls Wilderness Found By Explorers Of Crystal Cave pany (WVLK) said yesterday that (Sea Celsma 1 Back fait Tkla See tit a) Third Fined Jailed In Delinquency Case Bill Chapman 29 an employee of Gross' drive-in on the Richmond pike yesterday was given a 20-day jail sentence and $500 fine on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of two 15-year-old girls Chapman was the third man fined and jailed in connection' with an by the girls with two men The other -men Edgar (Tookie) Conyers 19 of 25514 North Limestone street and Todd Rigsby 26 of 335 Ross avenue were ordered punished by the court Feb 10 Trial Commissioner Rodes Clay said testimony yesterday showed that Conyers and Rigsby and the two girls were at the road house for several hours in the early morning of Feb 1 Chapman who lives at the road house was with the quartet there and let them into the place after closing hours Rodes said The trial commissioner also reported that he took under advisement contributing to delinquency charges against Burley Stamper operator of the Sunset motel on the Georgetown pike where each couple registered as husband and wife Feb 1 A similar charge against Mrs Burley Stamper was dismissed CRYSTAL CAVE Ky Feb 18 The Crystal Cave explorers today beheld from brinks of canyons 100 feet high an underground wilderness of -waterfalls Far below the rolling landscape of the Mammoth Cave National Park area explorers of the National Speleological (cave study) Society immediately set out to learn the secrets of the immense canyon water system Joe Lawrence Philadelphia Pa 29-year-old leader of the expedition said an operation is underway to chart every inch of the hitherto unknown to which the explorers have made their way Three hundred feet below the works with which we had already become affiliated tower and equipment manufacturers suppliers and other facets of the industry the brighter side we are renewing our efforts and hope to obtain for this area one of the standard well-established VHF channels through which this entire area may receive the proven acceptable type of television service it demands and deserves We who hav served you over WLAP since the first days of radio had confidently expected to bring to Central Kentucky the best in television and in our mutual interests feel we can accept no Noting the background of television interests the company president said 1948 we were filing for the VHF Channel (4) originally assigned to this area when the Federal Communications Commission's television prevented further Then Nunn said the commission its best judgment and In its attempt to assure nation-wide television service which the too few VHF channels could not render created a new nation-wide allocations plan making use of new channels in the ultra-high-frequency Under this proposal he noted the FCC took away its VHF channels here and assigned UHF The allocations table called for '1463 UHF stations and 617 VHF stations When the freeze was lifted in 1952 WLAP filed for maximum lower on UHF Channel 27 -been Nunn said WLAP-TV on UHF channel 27 could furnish to both viewers and advertisers throughout our area the best in television service day the WLAP-TV grant was made nearly two years later in December 1953 we started with full speed and confidence in the UHF representations which had been made to us on hehalf of this community and had planned to go on the air late this spring statement on position said further: immediately started construction of our new ultra-modern radio and television building (which is already nearing completion on the Belt Line) The bases and anchors were installed for our 500-foot tower (already fabricated and ready for erection) We signed a contract for a primary full service CBS television network affiliation as well as contracts with (Sea Cslamn 1 Back rc This eetisa) Benson Certain Of Presidents Backing In Support Dispute WASHINGTON Feb 18 Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson feels quite certain President Eisenhower would veto any con-pi essional move to continue the present high fixed farm price support system associates said today These sources said Mr Eisenhower feels that the present rigid system must be changed the good of the They said Benson has not discussed a possible veto with the President but that is what the Chief Executive woula do in case Congress tried to override the plans Meantime Sen Milton Young (R-N D) a leading critic of ad-administrption plans to switch to a lower flexible price support program served notice that he and other congressmen want an ekrly showdown on the tauten Young told a reporter the farm economy is in a now and any further decline in farm prices could lead to for the entire economy Mr Eisenhower gave a strong nint of his views at a news conference Wednesday when he flatly backed Benson's proposal to cut (Sm Csiuaa rn This SmUm) WOMAN SPELUVKER GOT DIZZY Miss Marguerite Klein- 27-year-old former Maryland school teacher sits down to catch her breath after fellow explorers had helped her back to the surface from deep inside Crystal Cave where she became ill with asthma and disxiness She was assisted over the most difficult parts of the route by the explorers who brought her back into the sunshine (Associated Press Wirephoto) li.