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.
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celebration at a tavern. With them is Ronald, 12, a younger brother of Roger.
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for peace in the Far Eastern war
which they had sickened of.
French papers from right to left
were unanmious in their praise
of French Premier Pierre Men-des-France
for securing the peace
agreement.
Members of the French Na
tional Assembly were about as
divided as usual, however. Those
on the right were bitter at the
loss of north Viet Nam; those on
the left cheered the end of the
war
"This is not a morning for re
joicing, said London s empire-
minded Daily Express. Most Brit
ish papers agreed with the Lib
eral News Chronicle that "the
free world has lost a lot." 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."
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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.
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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. Police
Police said Dee was not involved
in the robberies but was wanted
on a bad check charge.
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