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Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Wed., July 21, 1954 Communists Call Indochina Truce 'Victory for Peace1 LONDON CP) Europe's Communists and neutralist India hailed the Indochina cease-fire agreement Wednes day as a "victory for peace." Spokesmen for the anti-Com munist world generally agreed their side had taken a licking. Moscow radio led the Red chorus, terming the Geneva agreement a ' new victory of the forces of peace." Indian Prime Minister Nehru issued a statement in New Delhi terming the Indochina settlement a "great step" and "one of the outstanding achievements of the post-war era." Ignoring the United States, Nehru paid tribute specific ally to the foreign ministers of Britain, the Soviet Union, France and Communist China as well as the representa tives of the Vietminh, Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. Government sources said the Indian Premier left out the Americans because they had refused to sign the armistice agreement, Western governments had no immediate official comment. Western Europe's anti-Red press emphasized the West had little cause for self-congratulation. UNANIMOUS PRAISE The exception was France, whose people so long had hoped Senator Dies Of Pneumonia ANN ARBOR, Mich. Wl Blair Moody, former U. S. senator and prominent Michigan newspaper man, died unexpectedly Tuesday at University Hospital of a virus pneumonia. Dr. Cyrus C. Sturgis, head of the hospital's department of in ternal medicine, said the 52-year- old former Democratic senator had been undergoing treatment for an involvement of the lungs and had been doing very satis factorily when he suffered a re versal and died." Moody, appointed to the Sen ate in 1951 after the death of Republican Sen. Arthur H. Van- denberg, was in the midst of a campaign for the Democratic senatorial nomination next month. His death left Patrick V. Mc- Namara, former Detroit council man, unopposed for the nomina tion in the Democratic primary. Moody was stricken with the virus infection last month while campaigning in the Upper Penin sula. He was hospitalized in Han cock, Mich., until last Sunday. He was believed nearing re covery and ready to resume his campaign when he entered Uni versity Hospital. - Moody had been Washington correspondent for the Detroit News for 18 years before his ap pointment to the Senate. He was defeated in his bid for election in 1952 by Rep. Charles E. Potter (R-Mich). - Moody is survived by his wi dow and three sons. JL ' t ( T' ' "CiVi '-v- ,-s. i if' lftw SHAKE AND FORGET Roger Schaaf, 14, center, who wounded his father, Robert, ich, in a now ana arrow aiiat-n, onouc uouui uu o .. ""-- . r coin, Neb., hospital. Police said Roger shot two arrows, the second hitting his father In the chest, following an argument after the elder Schaff returned for a birthday celebration at a tavern. With them is Ronald, 12, a younger brother of Roger. Register-Guard Classified Ads bring quick results. 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The in dependent, influential London Times wrote: "The truth remains that a large part of Indochina is lost to the western world." NEW EFFORTS Occupied Germany and Austria hoped the removal of Indochina from the top of the critical agenda would mean new interna tional efforts to solve some of their problems. West Europe's Communist press was unanimous. "A cease-fire has been possible because the Soviet Union and China have been ready to negoti ate peace," said London's Daily Worker. "By their conduct at Geneva they have killed in the minds of thinking men and wom en the lie about 'Communist im perialism.' " Governor to Test Foreign Aid Legality SALT LAKE CITY Wlfinv .T Bracken Lee said Tnesrlav ho i going to test legality of the fed eral government's foreign aid program by bringing action be fore the U.S. Supreme Court. He asked the Utah atfnrnnu general to find what legal steps a citizen or a public official must take to prove that "it is a viola tion Of our U.S. Cnnslillltinn oihni. our government gives our.hard- carnca money to foreign nations." COSTS HESS Ask us how to SAVE on your FIRE INSURANCE OR AUTO INSURANCE Call or See McLEAN-SANDERS 860 Willamette INSURANCE AGENCY Dial 51413 Raft 'Sneaky' Ends Cruise Ingloriously VENTURA, Calif. OP) Five wet and bedraggled beer drinkers Wednesday lamented giving up their "poor man's Kon-Tiki" voyage aboard an innertube raft after drifting to within 20 miles of their goal, Catalina Island, then bemg blown back 40 miles. The young rollicking Ventura men were plucked off their odd raft, the "Rubber Bomb Sneaky, at sea Tuesday by the sport boat Hawk and the Coast Guard cutter Morris despite their vigorous pro tests that "We're doing fine, Only when the young adventur ers were picked up was it learned that five instead of six men had sailed. One man, who had planned to go aboard and was believed to have sailed, missed the gag ex pedition. Johnny Slrobel, 22, skipper of the raft and originator of the voyage, a burlesque of scientific raft expeditions on the Pacific, insisted, "We still could have made it. We were never in dis tress." The raft was made of 100 in- nertubes lashed together and wired with a few boards. It had a mast, a tent "to keep the beer cool," an emergency motor and an automatic distress radio trans mitter, which was not used. Not only did one man miss the raft when it left here to the cheers of spectators, but the men were so engrossed in loading beer aboard they forgot half of their food supply, which had to be rushed out to them on a speed boat. ' Those who sailed in addition to Strobcl were Kenny Kiunke, 21: Dick Davison, 21; Jimmy Mills, 20; and Jerry Straughan, 22, all of Ventura. Social Security Increase Moves Nearer Reality Bill Aims to Hike Hardboard Duty WASHINGTON Wl-The House Rules Committee Wednesday cleared for House consideration legislation aimed at hiking the import duly on hardboards. The bill, sponsored by Reps. Colmer (D-Miss), Scudder (R- Calif) and Utt (R-Calil), would reclassify hardboards, as wood projects rather than as paper products as now. Import duties on wood products run up to 331? per cent compared with 16?i per cent on paper products, Colmer told a reporter. WASHINGTON W An increase of at least $5 a month in all social security payments moved a step nearer reality Wednesday as the result of Senate Finance Commit tee approval of the administra tion s big social security Dill. Chairman Millikin (R-Colo) of the committee said the measure probably will be called up on the floor next week. Leaders in both parties said Congress would never adjourn without putting the increased benefits on the statute books. MORE TAXES The Finance Committee, in okaying the bill unanimously late Tuesday, approved not only big ger benefits but also more taxes to finance them and extension of coverage to nearly seven million additional persons. President Eisenhower would achieve under the Senate version almost exactly what he asked on benefits and taxes, but not on broadening coverage. He had suggested bringing 10V4 million more persons under the system. The bill as passed by the House came closer to meeting admin istration views on (hat score. MAIN FEATURES Here are the main features of the bill as it comes to the Senate floor: Benefits A minimum boost of $5 a month in all present and future checks. The five million aged now on the rolls would get an average $6 raise; the new average payment would be about $57 a month. The increases would begin in September or October. Future payments would go up as much as $35 a month. Taxes The annual amount of wages subject to the present 2 per cent levy each on employ ers and employes would go from $3,600 to S4.200, effective next Jan. 1. Thus the lax for anyone making $4,200 or more would be $84 next year as against $72 in 1954. Coverage Includes on a voluntary basis about 3Yz million state and local government work ers and 260,000 ministers, and on a compulsory basis 2,600,000 addi tional farm hands, 250,000 domes tic workers, 100,000 industrial home workers and 50,000 persons in the fishing industry. The Senate committee voted to eliminate coverage for 3,600,000 farm operators, 500,000 profes sional people and 150,000 federal government worker, all of whom the President asked be brought under the program. IN HOUSE BILL All these were included in the House bill except 150,000 doctors among the professionals. On the other hand, the Finance Commit tee approved coverage for the full group of farm hands asked by the administration, while the House voted to bring in only 1,300,000 more. The committee also accepted the administration's plans for fu ture tax rates. These call for the taxes to level off in 1975 at 4 per cent each for the employer and employe, 6 per cent for self employed persons. Showers Ease Crop-Damaging Heat Wave in Corn Belt Areas Cyd Charisse Has Minor Surgery HOLLYWOOD OPI Dancer actress Cyd Charisse, wife of singer Tony Martin, was expected to bo released from Cedars of Lebanon Hospital Wednesday fol lowing undisclosed minor sur gery. A hospital spokesman said the leggy dancer entered the hospital Monday, underwent surgery Tues day, and made a "good" recov ery. Japanese Freed TOKYO l.fl Sixteen Japanese sentenced as World War II crim inals by Allied military courts were parolled Wednesday after serving one-third of their terms. By ASSOCIATED PRESS Showers eased a crop-damaging heat wave in parts of the na tion's parched corn belt Wednesday. But a wide strip of torrid wea ther continued across the south and central plains and the num ber of heat deaths in the nation since the origin of the general heat wave July 7 rose to 298. Cooler air from Canada poured into the Great Lakes region. The temperature at Chicago plunged from 98 degrees at 2 p.m. to 71 at 6 p.m. Showers swept from Chicago southward across Illinois where drought and heat have damaged young corn seriously and killed thousands of chickens and pigs. A farmer was crushed to death at Fort Wayne, Ind., Tuesday night Avhen a rainstorm flat tened his farm. Two persons were Nationalist Says Reds Achieve Milestone. TAIPEH, Formosa Wl Chinese Nationalist Foreign Minister George Yeh declared Wednesday that with the Indochina armistice the Communists have "achieved another milestone in their plan of world conquest." "The pattern is set for history to repeat itself," he said. Newspapers on this island ruled by Chiang Kai-shek accused the West of appeasement and conceded to the Communists a great diplomatic victory. injured by trees falling on auto mobiles. Two persons were killed by lightning in southeastern Ohio and a third was missing and feared drowned in the rain-swollen Scioto River as heavy rains doused most of that state. Many Ohio communities still were repairing damage caused by a cloudburst that took four lives last Wednesday when the new storm struck. Hurricane force winds lashed Findlay ai)d Zanesville. The wind tore off roofs, uprooted trees and snapped power lines. Thundershowcrs were quite general from eastern Iowa cast ward to eastern Virginia. The temperature touched 106 degrees in Kansas City, as the number of heat deaths in that state rose to 107. Twenty of the deaths occurred on Monday and Tuesday. Attempted FHA Grab Claimed Bovard Attorney Cites Administrator WASHINGTON Wl The attor ney for Burton O. Bovard said Wednesday Bovard and another government housing official lost their jobs because they opposed an attempted power grab by housing administrator Albert M, Cole. Cole could not be reached Im mediately for comment. Attorney Clayton L. Burwcll has announced that Bovard will fight before the Civil Service Commission his ouster as general counsel of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), a post he had held since 1948. Burwell has attributed Bovard's ouster to "political manipulations" by Cole. HOLLYDAY LETTER The attorney made available a letter he said former housing commissioner Guy T. O. Holly- day had written Feb. 19 to White House chief of staff Sherman Adams saying Cole had proposed "abolishing FHA and taking over its powers and those of other housing agencies. Burwcll said the ousters of both Hollyday and Bovard stem med from their opposition to such a proposal by Cole. Since Hollyday was dismissed Burwell said in a statement, Cole has "accomplished all his objec tives" through a reorganization provided in a housing agency money bill which became law June 24. Burwell said these powers were written into the bill "at the last moment and without hearings." Hollyday and Bovard are among more than half a dozen key federal housing officials who havo been eased out since the White House announced on April 12 the discovery of irregulari ties in the housing programs. Hollyday was dismissed April 12, Bovard on July 15. KNEW OF ABUSES Cole said at the time that Hol lyday was asked to resign as FHA commissioner because he had known of abuses in the hous ing program and had not acted vigorously against them. Holly day praised President Eisen hower and said he was switching his voting registration from Dem ocratic to Republican. His successor, Norman P. Mason, said in firing Bovard as FHA's general counsel that Bov ard had not performed satisfac torily as chief legal officer of the agency which insures con struction mortgages. ! 1 Actor's Son Free on Bail HOLLYWOOD, Calif. OPI Ed ward G. Robinson Jr., 21, as if playing a scene from one of his father s tough guy movies, darkly hinted Wednesday that he had been framed on charges of hold ing up two taxicabs. Young Robinson, who has had several scrapes with the law dur ing the past two years, was re leased from jail Tuesday on $10, 000 bail posted by his father. He bitterly denied the two armed rob bery counts against him. Superior Judge Harold Schweit zer, who fixed bail, released young Robinson on a writ of hab eas corpus, returnable Thursday morning in Superior Court. He was charged with armed robbery. ' The young aspiring actor was arrested on a street in nearby Wcstwood earlier Tuesday. With him was N. Peter Dee, 38. 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