The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 1

WEATHER Today: Fair and colder Yesterday: High 65 low 43 UMa Pact T) VIEWS Interview by radio gives Chiang views on conflict Fage 9 aant Volume CXXVIII No 44 MACON CIAITIRID l( TXLZOHAPH ESTABLISHES IBS MACON GA FRIDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 13 1953 PRICK VI Cl STS AP up telephoto services Senate Votes Cattle Fence Legislation Solons Score Benson As Secretary Starts Cotton Surplus Talks are withdrawn from their crops i The drop in cotton exports bag WASHINGTON Feb 12 UP1-Agri culture Secretary Ezra Before he left office former (been caused by dollar shortages Benson came under new fire in Agriculture Secretary Charles I abroad plus the availability of Congress today as he met with 53 Brannan recommended a 2 JOOOOO cheaper cotton from other conn cotton industry leaders in an effort bale cut in cotton output this year I tries This has resulted in a rush to solve the cotton surplus prob- According to trade sources how- by farmers to escape price drops lem ever there is little enthusiasm foriby putting their cotton mmr fed- A chorus of angry comment: proposal 'eral support arose from the capital as a result of speech in St Paul Minn Wednesday night in which he said farm price supports should only be used as "disaster Russell Is Critical Sen Richard Russell D-Gal charged that the Eisenhower administration is sowing the seeds of disastrous depression by not acting to halt skidding farm prices Rep Eugene McCarthy D-Minnl said Benson's attitude toward hard-pressed farms Is that of man standing on shore a man WASHINGTON Feb 12 UP -The government today killed price Roy Harris Augusta political leader and Mrs Lee Howard of the Georgia Parent-Teachers Association carried the fight to the Senate Appropriations Committee and urged it to Include money for the pay raise in the spending bill Following a public hearing the committee delayed action on the $230000000 state budget as well as the amendment to set aside the money for the teachers Harris told the committee that if the teachers get at least honorable in the contingent section of the appro pita tlons bill it would the heart and espirit de cores of the teaching profession in Georgia and put a damper on every classroom in the The House turned down the school amendment to the budget earlier but agreed without debate to support the measure to increase the salary of highly experienced teachers Purpose of Bill Floyd County Rep Battle Hall author of the House-approved bill said bis plan to increase the salary of veteran instructors would cost about $900000 and would be financed out of the Education Department's regular appropriations SMOKING DEBRIS IS ALL THAT'S Only this smoking ruin was left of the Hercules Powder Company plant at Pinole Calif after an explosion yesterday Six persons were killed and a number of others injured Story on page 9 (UP Telephoto) shouting instructions to a drowning icggs crude oil and a variety of Reps Roy Wier D-Minnl other items but postponed decon-and Gathins D-Ark spoke jtrol of milk to spread out expected of in President price increases controls on gasoline poultry and Van Fleet Dulles Face Questioning on Far East Eisenhower's campaign promises and statements Sen Milton Young IR-ND1 said the statements not being well taken by the But Benson drew support from The decontrol action also applied to newsprint soaps most fats and oils and tires and other rubber products Only about 17 per cent of the rreenuJ i a rued that prices on those items probably wiU -ronrbjy Newspapers are printed on news- Virtually all but gasoline crude oil newsprint have been selling well under the ceiling price Price Stabilizer Joseph Freehill Sen Clinton Anderson D-NMm the cost of a former secretary of agriculture!" kit on the cop- lie said it appears Benson does list to intend be led into extreme! 50 per cent the goods on the high level supports which would wholesale price index still subject add surpluses 10 Prires May Rise Simultaneously sources reported that President the strategy does not call for the use of Chiang Chinese Nationalist ground troops in Korea Must Defend Plans Van Fleet retiring 8th Army commander now enroute to this country was summoned by the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees to defend his strategy plans against warning that it would mean heavy casualties and risk expanding the war Van Fleet said in Honolulu today that he never claimed the United administration WASHINGTON Feb 12 UP Gen James A Van Fleet was called for questioning by a second Senate committee today in the wake of reports that Russia has more than 400000 troops within easy striking distance of Korea Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will be questioned about Russian strength in the Fax' East when he appears before a closed session of the Senate foreign relations subcommittee tomorrow Gen Omar Bradley chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told senators of the massed Russian strength Monday informed sources said he expects to send out 30-day dls- Nations army would be certain of victory with the mep and materiel now available He did say before leaving Tokyo that the 8th Army is capable of launching a maJAr offensive that could break the Van Fleet said he better not comment at this on statement that an end-the-war offensive would take twice the number of troops now in Korea Bradley also said it would mean heavy casualties and require mobilization It was disclosed Bradley told the Senate Armed Services Committee Monday that Russia has more than 400000 fighting men in Manchurian garrisons including 20000 in the Soviet city of Port Arthur Sen II Alexander Smith R-NJ chairman of the subcommittee which mill hear Dulles said his group is anxious to know what the administration has in mind for future action and what steps can be He said it wants to cover the Far Eastern Meantime the chairmen of the House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees were under mounting pressure to summon Van Fleet before their groups They said the general be asked to testify Rep Melvin Price rD-Illl was among those who thought the Armed Services Committee should look into the views of Van Fleet and Bradley Price said he Is "tired of hearing the generals talk one way when they have the responsibility and another when they are TV Permit Is Granted To Macon Television Co Macon will have its own tele- The 8nt was the first oi macon wm nave us own klnd The televlston company is ATLANTA Feb 12 The House today unanimously approved a pay raise plan for veteran Georgia school teachers while the Senate passed a cattle fencing bill despite strong opposition The representatives voted 128 to 0 in favor of an administration-approved measure that would vide salary increases for scl teachers with 10 years of experience However the measure was nut considered i compromlie for school leaders who are fighting to have nearly 87000000 put aside in the contingent section of the budget to finance a flat 10 per cent boost for the teachers BF Merritt Will Seek Post Merritt Jr and Virgil Shepard are as of today the city's only two announced candidates for mayor Unless others enter the race they will face each other in the political wars this summer Merritt businessman and former state representative yesterday-announced his plans to run for the top Job Shepanl was 'the first man to announce 34-year-old attorney and war jveteran maintains In the race to win One Non-Committal Meanwhile a third possible candidate Leggett has remained non-committal but friends close to the former alderman say a sure candidate" Merritt in announcing his candidacy said he welcomes the d-vice and hopes "to enlist the support of all who want to Join in a campaign to give Macon a government of earnest purpose dignity and intelligent direction" This is the second try for Merritt He ran and lost to Mayor Lewis Wilson In 1947 He said he will announce his aldermanic slate next month Merrlt Statement Here Is his full statement: "I have decided after much thought to become a candidate for mayor and to seek the support of the people of Macon in a campaign to elect an administration that will assure forward-looking decisive leadership for our growing city! In entering the race my desire to serve the people of Macon is tempered by a feeling of humility in the face of the number and complexity of the problems I know the next administration will have to deal with convinced as I am that inaction only creates new problems Instead of solving old ones I pledge to the best of my ability to meet these issues squarely and promptly "An4 in meeting any issue I will keep foremost In mind the welfare of the public as a whole not the interests of any particular group no matter how influential if its interests conflict with those of the general welfare line with my belief that public office is a high trust I will if elected see that the city's businesi is run efficiently and openly with special favors for none an: in the process of organizing an aldermanic slate that will be truly representative and balanced (ivlng a voice to all of the diverse groups in our city I will snnounce the full ticket next month I welcome the advice and hope to enlist the support of all who want to Join in a campaign to five Macon a government of earnest purpose dignity and intelligent Merritt has a distinguished war record and is past president of the Macon Chamber of Commerce the Junior Chamber of Comiqierce the Macon Exchange Club past worshipful master of the Mabel Lodge Free and Accepted Masons and a member of American Legion Post No 3 He is at present a member of the Macon Hospital commission He also is chief of staff of the 48th Division made up of Georgia and Florida National Guard units Democrats to Get Bid to Meet WASHINGTON Feb 12 President Eisenhower is going to Include Democratic as well as Republican members of Congress in his twice a week White House luncheons He hopes to have every member as his guest sooner or later White House Press Secretary Jamls Hagerty disclosed this today in reporting Eisenhower will entertain 10 Republicans and 10 Democratic leaders at lunch tomorrow In This Edition See other story on page 26 Hall said the bill was to give teachers of long experience who do not have full college degrees a fair The measure would grant pay raises of $50 to $150 a year to teachers with 10 years experience or more Teachers holding a two-year college diploma would be raised from $1950 annually to $2100: teachers with three years of college would receive a $100 increase and teachers with four years of college would go from $2850 a year to $2900 Teachers with a masters degree who now make $3300 would not share in toe increase The teachers won a slight victory across the hall when the Senate gave final legu-lative approval to a resolution calling for an to find the money to finance an across-the-board pay raise Some school leaders predicted the resolution would assure the teachers oi a 10 per cent hike' However the Senate spent most of its time battling over the controversial cattle fencing bill rhe upper chamber approved the bill 34 to 17 after beating down seven crippling amendments and a move to table the measure The bill would allow cointy law enforcement officers to impound any cattle found loorfe on the state highways and make cattle owners liable to fines and imprisonment fur allowing uvesiock to roam Sen Iris Blitch of Homerllle a bitter opponent of the bill called the ction cattle and said she would ask that the measure be reconsidered at a later date A similar fencing bill missed passage by two votes in to House earlier in the week and also will be reconsidered The Senate also put final legislative approval on a toll lhat woull set up a state censorship hoard to ban sale of obscene literature The measure which sailed through Houre unanimously now goes to Gov Herman Talmadge for his signature Reds Fishing For Aims TOKYO Friday! Feb 13 Red propagandists fishing for clues to the aims of a new field commander in Korea and a new Washington administration said today the Americans are planning a big scale offensive by land sea and air Moscow floated the feeler Communist China and North Korea were expected to fall in line The new look in propaganda was pitched on charges that the Allies were plotting to expand the war in the Orient The Moscow Literary Gazette foreign affairs magazine said fresh airborne units had arrived in South Korea It noted that Lt Gen Maxwell Taylor new ground commander in Korea led a famous airborne division in the second uorld war Further the Soviet organ said in dispatches relayed here the Americans are planning to attack China from land and sea blockade the coast and drop Chinese Nationalist spies and saboteurs inside Communist China HOKE WILLIS Runs For Governor Willis Enters Georgia Race For Governor BLUE RIDGE Ga Feb 12 UL-A 13th child today picked hla Friday the 13th birthday to ask Georgians to elect him their governor It's my lucky said Hoke Willis in announcing hla candidacy in next year'a Democratic Primary The North Georgia railroad man who list Blue Ridge and ElliJay as his Joint address will'' be 51 tomorrow the day newspaper readers see his announcement Willis announced in 1948 but withdrew He came out again In 1948 and corralled 4963 votes out of 6914G3 Difference Expected But Willis the 13th child of bis family expects next year to be different He never made a Friday the 13th birthday appeal before Nor he added has he ever had a platform to match his new one First plank is a 300-mWloi dollar easy term loan fond to guarantee every boy or girl two years of college "regardless of race color or creed" He also proposes a $60-a-month pension for all 65 or older and a $300 bonus for all veterans To protect the highways be would place a mileage tax on all commercial buses and trucks A raflroad man himself he says that many buses and trucks pay no taxes while even a amah county may receive $100 a day In road taxes he added railroads must construct their own The candidate asked all parents Interested In seeing their children in college to write him He said would hke to hear also from old people desiring the $60 pen-slon WASHINGTON Feb 12 un 1 the second so far to Budget Director Jpscph Dodge come out for the governorship The has called a halt Naval supply depot It Is one of 50 projects frozen under the new administration's economy program Work at Byron will be suspended until the Defense Department and the Senate and House Armed Services committees reappraise it and rule it clearly essential to the defense program Dodge asked Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson to review the projects and to approve only those deemed clearly essential A Senate Armed Services Committee aide told a reporter that the Byron depot was one of those returned to Wilson The action came before the committee could art on an appraisal of the land to be bought for the Byron depot Both committees must approve purchases of land exceeding $25000 Until now Congress has appro- on the planned is former State Rep Nat i st Byron Ga 'JoJkor of Roberta who wants toe federal government to pay the old folks a $50 pension British Freighter Fired On liy Reds HONG KONG Friday Feb IS IP! The British freighter Inchar ran radioed Thursday that she was fired on near the Red China port of Foochow by Junks but that she outdistanced her attackers Whether the junks were manned by Chinese Reds or Nationalists not immediately determined ir Survey Planned NEW YORK Feb A Mutual Security Agency team" assigned to survey the foreign aid program in The Netherlands and Belgium left by Howard Incjuiry Reports 'Arc Given to Solicitor Cotton Is Problem The cotton surplus is one of the most immediate problems the new secretary has to deal with Spokesmen said his meeting with industry leaders was a industry ieaaers as a general of the matter with Benson making no specific proposals Indications are however that he will try to step up dwindling export trade and possibly ask farmers to curtail cotton plantings this year Benson will meet later with dairy industry leaders Unless cotton farmers act voluntarily Benson may be forced to clamp on federal acreage restrictions in 1954 to prevent hugh cotton surpluses and a resulting price decline The federal controls must be approved by farmers but if they refuse them then price supports Stevenson to Give Lectures At Harvard CAMBRIDGE Man Fb 12 (UP) Adlai Stevenson will give the Godkln lectures on government at Harvard during the 1953-54 academic year It was announced today Dates and subjects of the three talks have not yet been determined The lectureship was founded in 1903 in honor of God-kin editor of the New York Evening Post and The Nation during the last century Adams said he had not had time to study the Investigators' file fully He said the reports Included signed statements of city employes and otheri photostatic copies of checks paid to Howard and endorsed by him in five transactions from 1949 to 1952 a comprehensive narrative by city detectives and a statement from Howard The assistant solicitor general said the largest transaction listed was the sale of two transformers and a traffic light to the City of Forsyth for $550 Other signal lights were sold as well as a quantity of copper wire A $10 traffic light was also sold to the City of Tennllle Adams said Howard has been city electrician since 1950 For five years before that he worked in the electrical department Records showed he pleaded guilty in 1948 to a charge of stealing government property from Robins Air Force Base while employed there A $300 fine was paid in that ease Publicity Men Barred WASHINGTON Feb 12 The White House announced today that government publicity men will be barred from President news conferences to make more room for the working press Press Secretary James Hagerty said the only exceptions will be one representative each from the Voice of America and the Defense Department In the past Hagerty said as many as 30 or 35 information specialists from various federal agencies have attended White House news conferences Mr first news conference will be held at 10:30 am next Tuesday Fair Trade Act Set For Schumann Plan LUXEMBOURG Luxembourg Feb 12 Ul The Schuman Plan High Authority tonight imposed the first European fair trade law on coal coke and iron producers of the six-nation steel and coal community Jean Monnet chief executive of the organization signed the regulations binding the six members France Italy West Germany Belgium Holland and Luxembourg Brlaled $9102000 for the depot at plane today for Brussels for yron i month's tour of the Lowlands vision station in the immediate future The Federal Communications Commission granted the Macon Television Company a permit for a new television station on Channel 47 Ed Lowe vice president of the corporation said last night he expects the Macon station to be in operation within three to six months depending on the approval of engineering data and availability of equipment Merchants Sec Big Success In Dollar Day Dollar Day in Macon was a great success yesterday according to the businessmen and Chamber of Commerce officials Thousands of Maconites crowded local stores for the annual spring bargain day in spite of inclement weather Ben Belue chairman of the Dollar Day committee of the local Chamber of Commerce said- it was big were certainly more people here than you-usually see on Thursday" Belue added i Russell Zeigler president of the Retail Bureau and manager of Schwob Clothing Company gave shouts of of the best Dollar Days the association has put out Heniy Matthews of Belk-Mat-thews Company reported the same good news "Everybody bought freely this with the Dollar Day values sent our stock right down he said cheerfully A majority of merchants were sure that the dollar value event was even more successful than that of last year Clemency Promised BUENOS AIRES Argentina Feb 12 UTI President Juan Peron said today he will reduce the prison sentences of nearly 200 Army Navy and Air Force officers jailed in connection with the abortive September 1951 military coup natioi Dulles said: their military and economic strength to Le combned as this treaty contemplates the whole NATO organization has a fatal weakness The European Defense Community is needed to give the North Atlantic Treaty Organization a stoat and dependable Dalles said it had been dear for some ume that the biggest single postwar task was to end d'sunity tn Europe "which makes for weakness ana He recalled that aa the second world war began he had written that Europe has beer the greatest fire izard The whole structure is now consumed in flames When the time comes to rebuild we should not reprnuce a demonstrated Duiite said the United States and free Europe now face the very same problem "Shall a demonstrated fire-trap be he asked cannot 90 per cent owned by corporations operating competing Macon radio stations WBML anti its FM affiliate and WNEX and its FM affiliate The commission said its decision did not set a new policy on combined ownership of competing broadcasting stations and that all other such cases would have to be considered separately The FCC prohibits common ownership of the same kind in the same area Originally WBML and WNEX applied for Channel 47 on a 50-50 basis When the commission expressed doubt that it could make a grant of such application the oint company increased its shares nought in A Fickling who had no broadcasting connections as vice president and redistributed the stock so that each of the radio stations got 45 per cent and Fickling 10 per cent The commission said in effect that entry would serve is kind of a buffer between the other stockholders neither of which could claim control The commission accepted the assurances of Macon Television Company that there will be no tie-in of advertising rates staff or promotion as a result of the joint TV venture Fair Cooler Weather Seen Fair skies and much cooler temperatures are forecast -for Macon and most of Middle Georgia today The pleasant weather is scheduled to remain through Saturday with no more rain in sight The expected high for the day is a brisk 58 degrees after an early-morning low of 35 A total of 11 of an Inch fell yesterday and the average temperature for the day was 54 three above the normal for the date Red Youths Arrested MUNICH Germany Feb 12 UP Police said today 33 minor officials of the outlawed Communist Free German Youth FDJ1 were arrested in a Munich police raid last Tuesday the wit of man devise something Dulles did not touch on the current debate over Far Eastern policy restricting himself to the views and opinions he gathered in Italy France Britain Germany The Netherlands Belgium and Luxembourg Dulles appealed to the nation to dispel thtf fears he found in some European quarters that the United States is not qualified to give the free world the kind of leadership it needs this critical While European statesmen concede this nation has the material power for leadership he said it has questioned whether it has the accumulated wisdom to make the best use of that power He said the chief reason for Western Europe's fears is the fact that the new Republican administration a novelty and the unknown alwaya carries a certain amount of Dulles said "any false in Results of an investigation into ted irregularities involving City Electrician Paul Howard were turned over to the office of Bibb Solicitor General William West yesterday City authorities handed their file to Assistant Solicitor General Charles Adams who said it showed Howard received and cashed checks totaling nearly $1000 for city property and failed to turn in the money At the same time Adams said Howard had admitted the sales of property but maintained not all the material belonged to the city Adams quoted the electrician as saying he used money for sales of city property to purchase other items for city use Howard Suspended Howard was suspended from his post Tuesday night and city officials announced a decision to turn the case over to the grand jury In the absense of Solicitor General West who is out of town Adams said he did not know whether a special session of the grand jury would be called to consider the evidence He said it was possible the matter would be laid before the grand jury at the next scheduled criminal session March 5 Mayor Lewis Wilson said since the report of the investigation had been given to the solicitor office he had no further comment their baby he said carrying out this responsibility mean disaster not only for us but for our friends we must be sober and restrained in our national conduct" The secretary of state said Prei-dent Eisenhower would set a firm example in leadership that should be followed Dulles said that in the course of his trip he assured the Europeans that the President cherishes the same interest and conviction regarding European unity as he did when he commanded the North Atlantic Treaty forces He pointed out that the United States had contributed about $30000000000 to Europe since the war and that tens of thousands of US forces are in Europe because its security vitally affects that of this country nothing that the United States can do will ever bP enough to make Europe safe if lt is divided into rival national he said Teacher Changes Announced West Warned of Danger of Neiv Outbreak Dulles Says European Defense Vital Four School Are Selected Principals were named yesterday for four new elementary schools being built in Bibb County Those appointed by the County Board of Education were: Mrs Ruth Wynn Aultman second grade teacher at Alexander IV School to be principal of the Pierce Avenue School Mrs Elizabeth Jones now head of Virgil Powers School to be principal of Bloomfield School Mrs Lillian Kelly at present Cochran Field School principal to head the Cross Keys School William Brake Lanier Senior High School teacher to be principal of Hightower Road school Named to succeed Mrs Jones as principal of Virgil Powers School was Miss Frances Oliver English teacher of A Miller Junior High Since the Cochran Field School is to be closed and its pupils moved to Heard School the school Principals by Board board did not name a replacement for Mrs Kelly The new schools here are being built with federal funds to relieve congested school conditions la Bibb County brought about by federal activity in this area Mrs Aultman carries to the Pierre Avenue School 26 years experience She holds a life professional four -year certifies new principal of Bloomfield School has 20 yean experience and holds a five-year principal's certificate Mrs Kelly has a principal's certificate and has 10 years experience the last two as principal of the Cochran Field School Brake has 19 years experience Before coming to Macon he was principal of a small- school Ha holds a principal's certificate Mif Oliver has a life professional five year certificate and a degree She has 30 years expert ence WASHINGTON Feb 12 Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said tonight the Western Allies must this very dangerous swiftly set up the proposed European defense force or relapse into the weakness that sparked World War II Reporting to the nation via radio and TV on his recent swing through Western Europe Dulles said he and Foreign Aid Chief Harold Stassen concluded tnat the plan for creating a European Defer Community not dead but only He said they felt there la a good chance that the defense plan will be approved and set into motion olthorgt be conceded there re of hurdles to b- overcome Dulles said the lack of progress since ihe proposal was a last May has been somehwat disconcerting to us' Notins that the defense program is geaed to participation of ail six.