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SERVING UNITED FEATURES AP SERVED TELEMATS BY Helena World EASTERN ARKANSAS FOR 84 YEARS AND EAST ARKANSAS KECORD 3 Complete Daily Reports By Associated Press Over Leased Wire, Issued Every Afternoon (Except Saturday) and Sunday Morning EIGHTY -FOURTH YEAR HELENA HELENA (ARKANSAS) TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1955 No. 31 Arkansas 60th General Assembly Red Slave Labor Organizes and Gets Down to Work Camps are Ready Claimed To Be On Payroll of FBI -Was He? LOS ANGELES A A declaration by David Brown. Los Angeles chairman of the beled Civil Rights Congress, that, he was a paid FBI informer. was! greeted with "no at Washington FBI headquarters. The Los Angeles FBI office said Brown was not an employe.

then left any further comment to Washinaton. The Civil Rights Congress has been listed A5 "subversive and Communist" by the 0.8. attorney general's office and the House Committee on Un- Ac. tivides. Brown, In a 20-page statement released to the press yesterday, said his tale of being kidnaped last! week was a hoax.

Brown stated that since 1950 be had been paid from $5 a report to $250 a month by the FBI for Information on leftist organizations a here, including the local chapter of the committee which worked in behalf of the executed spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. 49, said he now regrets having been a "stool pigeon" and at various times he had felt "an inward feeling of for taking the FBI money, Finally, last week he decided to run away from it including his family, be said. He said he reached Portland, Jan. 6 but changed his mind, called the FBI there and was flown back to Los Angeles Thursday night. He gave police story that he had been, kidnaped, taken: farm house near Fresno, Califo to shoved out of a car on a lonely road early Wednesday and hitchhiked back here.

William R. Patton Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon William R. Patton, aged 81 years, passed away last night about 8 clock at his home south of Elaine after an illness of several weeks. Death was attributed to Chronic Myocarditis.Born in North Carolina, he has been a resident of Phillips County for the punst 50 years. He was enI geged in farming.

until he retired from active life a number of years ago. Survivors include his wife, Sarah E. Patton, Elaine; two sons, Burk Patton, Dammion Patton: Elaine: three daughters, Mrs. Ethel Moore, Mrs. Marie Robinson, and Mrs.

Eunis Bares, all of Elaine: one sister, Mrs. Bettie Hurst of Marianna and 22 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held from Keeshan Lambert Chapel Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Steve Sturdivant Baptist Minister. Burial will follow in the Odd Fellows Rest, West Helena: Pall bearers will include: D.

G. Anders, J. D. Davis, Earl Ragsdale, Herbert H. Hill, Pat Speck and Claude Moore.

Keeshan-Lambert Funeral Home in charge of complete arrange ments. Explosion Causes Heavy Damages JONESBORO, Ark. UP An oil stove explosion caused an estimated $20,000 damage to a cafe and grocery store building at nearby Lake City yesterday. Deputy Sheriff Marvin Phillips said flaming oil from the cafe cookstove spread the fire through both buildings. Owners of the twc businesses estimated the Cherry's Portrait LITTLE ROCK UP Gov.

Francis Cherry's portrait has been hung in the governor's reception room nt the state Capitol. Ken Francis, executive secretary to the governor. presided at an informal ceremony for the portrait hanging which was attended by 60 friends. WINS AWARD Miss Maxine Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Leslie Turner of Barton, has been selected by her class and the faculty as D.A.R. Good Citizenship Girls from Barton High School. Miss Turner is very active in school activities. Last June she attended Arkansas Girls State. She is president of the Student Body, a member of the Beta Club, Glee Club, editor of the annual and was a member of the F.H.A.

for two years. Miss Turner is also active in sports, having been on the basketball team for the past two years and a cheer leader for the football team for the past three years. Hammarskjold Cables Chou Warm Thanks HONG KONG Secretary Gentral, Dag. Hammarskjold. arriving.

in Hong Kong from Peiping tonight, disclosed he had cabled warm thanks to Red China's Premier Chou En-lai for his hospital ity. The U. N. chief remained mum on the results of his mission seeking the release of 11 American airmen held by Red China as spies and other U. N.

personnel imprisoned by the Chinese. Hammarskjold told 50 waiting newsmen at Kowloon, Hong Kong's mainland station, he would make no statement on his mission until be made his report to the U.N. General Assembly which sent him. As the Hammarskjold party crossed into the British crown colony at the frontier station of Lowu, he sent a cable back to Chou saying leaving your country, I wish to convey to you on behalf of my, colleagues and myself our warm appreciation of the welcome given us. Your courtesies and hospitality and the unfailing assistance of everyone with whom we came in contact have rendered this a most memorable experience, for.

which we all of us stand in gratitude." "Please accept my sincere personal thanks and convey our expressions of gratitude to all your colleagues and assistants." Asked "was your mission uccesful" Hammarskjold replied: "Well, that's certainly a question on which you cannot expect a reply." The secretary general told newsmen, smiling, that: "This isn't a press conference." But he read out the sentences from his cable to Chou: Hammarskjold is scheduled to spend the night at Government House in Hong Kong before flying on to Tokyo and thence to the United States. He is due back at U.N. headquarters in New York Saturday. He is to leave for Tokyo at 8 a. m.

tomorrow (6 p.m. CST) tonight aboard a Scandinavian Airways System plane. March of Dimes Needs Support Almost $30,000,000 in March of Dimes funds was needed during 1954 to provide help for polio patients. At the beginning of 1955, seventy thousand patients were still on active lists on National Foundation chapters. The March of Dimes needs your financial support to continue aid for patients send in your contributions to The March of Dimes today mail the Chamber of Commerce in Helena, Ike Asks Pay Boost For Civil Service Workers WASHINGTON President Eisenhower urged Congress today to boost the pay of government Civil Service and postal workers by about 5 per cent and at the same time raise postal rates.

also proposed a health insurance program for government workers. The President estimated the pay raise would cost $339,500.000 a year and. that the cost to the government 1 of the health program would be $55,000,000 a year. Eisenhower sent two separate messages to Congress--one dealing with a pay increase for Civil Servtee workers and the other with a pay rise for postal workers and with the proposed increases in postal rates. The tying together of postal rate and postal pay increases amounted to a repetition of the President's stand of last year that the two should go hand in hand.

He vetoed a bill last year to boost federal pay because it did not include higher postage rates. Congressional comment since 'the new session began has indicated the lawmakers are receptive to the idea of a pay boost for government workers but still reluctant to raise postal rates. In today's postal message, Eisenhower recommended that: Congress create a permanent, independent commission to adjust postal rates in future. Rates now are established by Congress. 2.

In the. meantime. Congress should raise existing rates on the first three classes of mail. Eisenhower didn't specify by how much, but the administration's position has been that letter postage should go up from three to four cents and air mail postage from six to seven cents. The President said second class rates which apply on newspapers and magazines should be increased such matter makes a fair and reasonable contribution to postal revenues." Third class mail consists largely of advertising matter.

Eisenhower said revenue from it has been the cost of the servile and that the rate should be raised so that users of this service will pay a proportionately fair share" of postal revenues. As to. pay raises, Eisenhower proposed: 1. The pay of classified Civil Service employes be raised by 202 million dollars, which would be about" 5 per cent of present payrolls. There are about a million employes who be affected.

from They would get raises ranging $125 a year in the lowest grade to $800 in the next to the top rating. There would be no increase in the present top pay of $14,800 a year. Percentagewise, the individual increases would range Continued On Paze Four MidSouth Workman Hit Under Brick Street MidSouth Gas Company workmen fan into a real road-block yesterday afternoon while digging holes in Walnut Street to repair gas mains. The workmen have been busy for the past two weeks repairing gas main connections before the street resurfacing work here by the city gets underway. In digging their holes in the 500 block on Walnut they ran into a series of cross ties buried about two feet below the brick surface of the street.

It was necesary to get saws to cut out the ties before they could dig down to the main which incidentally was some 82 inches below the surface. Several veteran residents said that the crossties came from an old wooden street Or from the horse-drawn street cars which operated here over half a century ago. Mathis Sentence Is Commuted by Cherry Governor Francis Cherry yesterday commuted the sentence of Dan C. Mathis, 55, of Helena to three years. He also commuted the sentences of six other men and pardoned four.

Mathis was sentenced to five years November 16, 1953, for embezzling about $73,000 from the Helena Wholesale, and the action of the outgoing governor makes him eligible for parole now. Orval Faubus Inaugurated As Governor Of Arkansas Outlines Plans For His Administration By RAY STEPHENS LITTLE ROCK P- The Arkansas: Scuate Ito: down to work quickly but the House contented itself with routine -task as the 60th General Assembly convened. Eight bills, including one to make more difficult for public utilities to Increase their rates, were intoduced in the Senate. In contrast, only our measure to pay House expenses and salaries -WAS offered in the lower chamber The House bill would for this purpose. an priate increase of about $8.000 from the amount sperit by the 1953 House.

A similar bill in the Senate appropriates $115,950, the. same two years ago. After getting the routine chores of organizing out of the way, the senators began throwing bills into the hopper. Sens. Max Howell of Little Rock and Clifton Wade of Fayetteville offered the proposal to change the taw governing rate increases for public utilities.

Their bill would empower the state Public Service Commission to rule on temporary rate boosts 3.5 well as permanent Increases. Under present law, a utility can raise its rates prior to PSC consideration simply by posting 8 bond. The bond guarantees refunds to customers in case the PSC eventually, reduces or disallows the proposed increase. The Howell-Wade bill is designed to these indiscriminate rate increases by public utilities," said Howell. It would force a utility to prove to the PSC an "immediate and impelling for higher dates before putting Into effect an increase.

The utility would have to petition for the temporary increase. and the PSC would have to rule on it within 120 days, The agency could either reject the request, or allow the utility to put the proposed increase into eftect under bond. Another, pubile (Continued .00 Page two) Central Papooses Need Funds; Want To Work Saturday Need a boy to work around the house on Saturday morning, or Fun errands at the store? The Central High School Papooses want to have a football banquet and want to work to raise the necessary money. So they're willing to work any Saturday morning for the next two weekends. They hope to raise enough money to have their footbail banquet on Saturday, January 29th.

Some 33 of the boys -who copped the district junior title last fallhave signed up for the projects. West Helena boys can be reached by calling 5-2326 or 5-2363 and those in Helena at 4-2748 or 4-3683. Two Robberies Are Reported Last Nite Someone broke into the Helena Country Club last night and broke open coin machine but nothing else was reported missing. Entry was gained by breaking a hole in the side door on the bottom floor. Deputy Sheriff Lawhon is still investigating.

And Charles Weaver reported to Helena police that someone broke into his car parked in front of his house, broke open the glove compartment and took a pistol. Several weeks ago someone broke into Mr. Weaver's home and stole pistol and a small sum of cash. Insure agains theft with E. L.

Burks, 301 Solmon 4-2161. Girl Scout Troop Elects Officars Girl Scout Troop 3. West Helena had an official meeting Saturday ifternoon at. 2:30 p.m. The officers were elected as following: President: Slaughter: Pianist: Luann Thomas; Program Chairman: Carole Shannon, Refreshment Committee: Valerie Oehms, Chairman; Benigna Henkel.

Annette Holt, Joyce Taylor, Sunshine Committee: Pam Daniel Newspaper Reporter: Penny Rose, Patrol Leaders: Luann Thomas, Neala Duke, Joy Tedford, and Pam McDaniel. Meeting closed with Taps, Reporter Penny Rose For Open Revolt BERLIN -An American reCeased from a Soviet slave labor camp at Vorkuta said today the vast network of prisons in Russia needs only a to explode into open John Noble. 31; of Detroit. told a news conference in West Berlin that the prison network in the Soviet Union is a gigantic tinderbox. "All it needs is a start for open evolt," he asserted.

Released by the Russians Jan. 3 after 912 years imprisonment. Noble appeared in fairly good health -but said he- -would remain under U. S. medical care here for a while before leaving for his parent's home in Detroit.

By TOM REEDY BERLIN An American released from a Soviet slave labor camp at Vorkuta said today a rebellion flared there in July, 1053, in which guards mowed down 11 prisoners on the spot and wounded 50 more. John H. Noble, 31, of Detroit, who was released by the Russians on Saturday after years imprisonment, told a news conference the vast network of prisons in Russia "needs only a to explode into open revolt. Noble said the revolt at Vorkuta, in Arctic Russia northeast of Moscow, was inspired and organized by followers of the executed Soviet Secret: Police Chief L. P.

Beria, who was then under arrest. From 50 to 60 persons were executed later, he said, as a result of the revolt. Noble said the slave labor camp at Vorkuta: contained more than a half million inmates, of whom 95 per cent were dedicated to opposing the Soviet regime, Noble said the inmates got the impression that Berta's men: were trying a to a foment revolution throughout the Soviet Union to overthrow Premier Georgi Malenkow's regime. Noble described how he and his father. a camera manufacturer, were trapped in Dresden by World War I and were forced to re main there under local internment.

Both were arrested in 1945 by the Russians. The father was released seven years later. Young Noble was taken from a German prison (Continued on Page Four) Stockholders Okay Stock Dividend For Helena National Stockholders of the Helena Na.tional Bank this morning unaniI mously approved a plan to double the capital stock of the bank. Under the plan all stockholders or record would receive a 50 per cent stock dividend and be given an opportunity to purchase $50.000 worth of new stock. The move will bring the bank's capital stock to $200,000 and would increase the Capital.

Structure to $715,000. Stockholders also re-elected all directors of the bank and the directors in turn renamed all officers. The directors are E. T. Hornor, chairman of the board; J.

J. White, president; T. E. Wooten, Vice president; J. T.

Franklin, George S. Goldsmith, Al Haraway, L. P. Kee, shan, J. B.

Lambert and James R. Bush. Other of the bank are John M. Moye, vice president; Lawson M. Anderson, cashier, Ann Murdock and Hermena Leifer, assistant cashiers.

In his report to the stockholders, Mr. White reported that 1954 was the best year in the history of the bank. He warned the stockholders that during 1955 they should keep their affaris in 'a liquid state" a and not to overexpand their operations. However, he emphasized that he did not expect any general recession in 1955. Helena Young Men's Club Changes Name The Helena Young Business Men's Club last' night voted to change its name to the Helena West Helena Young Business Men's Club.

Members pointed out that a number of those in the club either work or live in West Helena and that by changing the name both cities would be publicized when the Miss Arkansas Pageant is here in June, I LITTLE ROCK 2-Orval Faubye became the 36th governor of Arkansas at 11 31 a.m. today. At that time, he was sworn in by Chief Justice Griffin Smith of the Arkansas Supreme Court before a joint session of the Ser.ate and House and packed galleries in the House chamber. Faubus wore a dark blue suit. white shirt, figured blue tie and a white carnation.

He was accompanied by Mrs. Faubus. wearing a fitted charcoal gray suit, white satin hat and white accessories. Fifteen Farrell Faubus accompanied his parents to the House chamber but remained in the background while his father was sworn in. The joints session earlier heard retiring Gov.

Francis Cherry deliver his farewell address. After Faubus was escorted to the rostrum he first was presented with a certificate of election by Lt. Gov. Nathan Gordon, who was presiding. This was followed by the official swearing in.

Faubus got an ovation from the legislators and spectators. So did Cherry, both before he started speaking. and after he concluded. Cherry's farewell speech in which he reviewed accomplishments of his administration and urged against tax increases, took approximately 45 minutes. The modish Mrs.

Cherry and their three children sat near a door of the House Chamber. The Cherrys left immediately after the retiring governor, defeated by Faubus for a second term Democratic nomination last summer, finished speaking. Cherry also wore a dark suit. He had on a dark tie with neat diagonal red and white stripes and, like Faubus, he wore a white carnation. After Cherry finished and before Faubus was inaugurated, the state's other constitutional officers were sworn in for new terms.

Officers sworn in 'were SecreItary of State C. G. Hall, Auditor J. Oscar Humphrey, Treasurer Vance Clayton, Attorney General Tom Gentry. Remainder of the inaugural program was scheduled for the capitol steps early this afternoon.

Faubus planned to repeat his oath of office for benefit of an outdoor audience and a statewide radio and televisiom hook-up and to follow this with his inaugural speech. Later, he and Mrs. Faubus will hold an informal open house at the Governor's Mansion. Cherry and his family, who moved out of the mansion before New Year's, planned to remain in Little Rock until the end of the current, school semester when they will return to Jonesboro. Cherry will re-enter law prac- (Continued on Page two) U.

S. Air Force Planes Land In Canadian City EDMONTON, Alta. (P--A steady stream of U.S. Air Force transport planes flew into Edmonton today, carrying 3,000 American I paratroopers from Kentucky to maneuvers in Alaska. The last of the 86 big transports was due to land here about After a 12-hour stop, the planes continue on to Alaska via Whitehorse, in the Yukon tory, where they make a two-hour refueling, stop.

The paratroopers are members of the 503rd Regimental Combat Team. They are being flown, mainly in C119 Boxcars, -from Ft. Campbell, to Elmendorf Air Force Base at Anchorage, Alaska, to join other U.S. troops. Holiday Business Goes to New Peak WASHINGTON (P December's record holiday business carried 1054 retail sales to a new peak of $170,806.000,000, the Commerce Department reported today.

This was $170,739,000,000 in 1953. The cash registers rang up December sales of $18,003,000,000, or $1,558,000,000 more than in the same Christmas shopping month of 1953. New Governor Orval Faubus, newspaper publisher of Huntsville, who today was inaugurated as Governor of Arkansas, succeeding Gov. Francis Cherry, attorney of Jonesboro. Cherry Defends Fiscal Code In Closing Talk LITTLE ROCK PI Francis Cherry strongly defended his Fiscal Code and claimed big improvements in school and highway programs during his administration as he made his last speech as governor in inauguration ceremonies today.

Cherry said that the Fiscal Code, instituted during his two-year administration. was the "basic reform." He estimated savings under the pian at 15 per cent. The outgoing governor said that the Highway Commission appointed by him under the new Mack-Blackwell amendment had achieved a record that could not be equaled "anywhere in the annals of Arkansas highway construction." He said that the $60 million the "new non-political Highway Commission has spent its first two years has been the best investment. of highway dollars. this state has ever known." "An obvious, effort to tear down.

this highway set-up is being made, and it will. be presented to you in just a few days." Cherry claimed that political corruption had been evident in the highway, welfare and other departments when he took office. He said that welfare assistance to needy persons had been increased. He said that the department previously had been used by "politicians hungry for personal power and longevity in office." Cherry said that approximately 8.000 people in 20 Arkansas counties are receiving federal surplus commodities as a form of drought relief aid. He said that, as a result of a meeting he had federal authorities last Thursday, the quantities of the commodities being distributed would be doubled.

Cherry said that the new finanstructure had enabled his administration to give $5 million annually in additional funds to public schools. He said the "98 per cent of all white and Negro pupils in the state "enjoyed a full 9-month term of school for 1953-54 and will again this present schbmlt dy90 The formed Jonesboro chancellor said that the average salary of teachers had been increased by $287 annually. "Without requesting new or higher taxes," Cherry said, "the present quality and quantity of governmental services could be maintained." In his closing remarks, Cherry said that he had passed up "two tempting offers" of employment outside the state. "My faith in the future of Ar. kansas is steadfast and undaunted," he said 'and I have cast my lot for the future in the state of Arkansas." CAPITOL PATTERN Atlanta- -The state capitol building of Georgia, located here, is designed after the national capitol in Washington, D..