Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 65, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 3, 1954 Page: 1 of 48
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The state department is firing
staff in West Germany—and
after
more cuts can be ex
Cuts Are OK’d
WASHINGTON,
FBI Agents Believed Alerted for Continuing
Up Boulevard
(Copvrisht, 19M4. by United Preso)
NEW YORK, March S—(U.R>—The shooting of five con-
On Grand Parkway
House Group
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curity chief Scott McLeod of hiring
To Fire 350
cent down to that level.
Wholesale Food
nudism?"
morrow 35 to 45.
Hourly Temperature
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Heavy Fruit Crop Loss
Feared in State Freeze
Plotters Out to Kill Ike
And Overthrow U. S.?
Group Going to High
Court to Fight State
Commission’s Order
Big McAlester Plant
Slash Due by July
President Wants Senate
To Set Up Guards Against
Humiliation of Witnesses
department representatives be-
fore congressional investigators.
McCarthy called his own news
conference at the capitol imme-
diately after Eisenhower’s meet-
ing with the press
Insurance Rate McCarthy
Cut Challenged Hits Back
By Companies At Critics
July 1, officials said Wednesday.
Of the 400 being dropped, 49 are
Americans and the rest are Ger-
man employee. (Page 20)
Department of Agriculture offi-
cials said Wednesday lack of
funds prevents U. S. aid from
being sent to the dust storm
areas. A plea from Colorado
farmers was sent to the depart-
ment, asking a dollar an acre
for improvements in the stricken
state. (Page 11)
Lost Man Found
U. S. Accused
Of ‘Massacre’
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Indochinese Reda
Claim Intervention
compensation insurance rates.
Dickey Against Order
Donald Dickey, insurance com-
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VA Hits Back
Veterans administrator Harvey
V. Higley struck out Tuesday at
the American Medical association
for its criticism of the VA med-
ical program. He said the AMA
was quick to criticise the pro-
gram but didn't have anything to
offer as a substitute. (Page 11)
State Rates Higher
The two other members of the
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STATE—Mostly clear this aft-
even ask her name, her phone
number—or even where I could
ship “to set up codes of fair procedures."
Mr. Eisenhower’s attitude was set forth in an 800-word
statement read at his news conference. Nowhere in the
Oklahoma reaction, Page 28
any type of executive or congres-
sional investigative body be treat-
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go to meet her," Long confessed.
Healthful, She Says
Boise City Coldest Willi Unofficial Reading
Of Zero; Chill Expected to Remain Tonight
By bob McMillin
ed fairly," he said.
Prober Rapped Again
After reading his statement to
the biggest news conference of
this administration the president
under questioning went on to rsp
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^So-Whatn Statistics
Women are more ticklish
than men by 12 percent, statis-
tics reveal. But most people
are sensitive when it comes to
the ticklish subject of money
... So if you, too, would like
more dough than you've got,
Oklahoman and Times Want
Ada are for you!
on the roof and soak up sun:
shine while their hair is drying,"
she told him. "It's healthful, and
the body needs sunshine. That's
what's the matter with people
here: they're puny and sickly be-
‘Defeating Ourselves’
The president said that while all
Americans should be unceasingly
vigilant against subversion we
would defeat ourselves in fighting
layas.
Geereo Dixon learns some
Puerto Rican economics «• A
j visit to San Juan
were lamenting that the force
doesn't have a helicopter.
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Is W rong. Defends
His Methods
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et was approved by the house of
commons Wednesday, but not
before the Labor party forced a
vote on the issue. Geared to air
strength and atomic buildups,
the budget provides for spending
of $4,591, 000. (Page 15)
a month ago”—before the up-
roar touched off by McCar,
thy’s secret questioning of
Zwicker and his blowup with
Stevens.
munique declaring t
tude toward the U. S. action...
They speculated that attitude
would be reflected in the forthcom-
ing Geneva conference at .which
the Indochinese issue will be dis-
I cussed.
Qnata _
fopNEWS
Zp 2oc6y > Times eta Glance l
l esuse they sit in their offices or L
cessen houses too much." Bi
Tebrinke , also suggested she
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Through the Want Ads you
get a better job, better work-
ers and more customers for
your wares. To place a profit-
able ad that’ll tickle you pink,
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Firing Muddled?
Democratic senators say they
are not satisfied with the
civil service breakdown on firing
of governmental workers by the
Eisenhower administration. Okla-
homa’s Monroney says the ac-
counting left him more confused
than he was before. Other Demo
By HUGH HALL
Ordered to cut rates 20
percent by Friday, the Na-
tional Council on Compensa-
tion Insurance Wednesday
notified the state insurance
board it will challenge the
board's right to make such an
order in the state supreme
court.
I V. P. Crowe, attorney for the
| council, said he would ask the state
supreme court to rule the premium
Pupils Use Makeshift Classroom After Fire
A basketball goal in the background doesn't bother these first-graders at Sooner
school—Sandra Stewart, 2938 SE 12, and Mike Rials, southeast of the city—as
they settle down in new surroundings after fire destroyed their classrooms. They
have to carry their lunch now, because the $60,000 fire destroyed the cafeteria, too,
but that isn't bad either. (Story on Page 3.) _____________________
between Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R., Wis.), and Army
■ Secretary Robert T. Stevens.
„ . a juMr. Eisenhower also made it clear that he, as president,
n.. ar V.! .* . .. takes responsibility for the conduct of the executive branch
leu thin in December, the com- wsr,
merce department reported Tues- In a communique broadcast over
day. all rebel radio stations and by Pei-
But taxpayers hid a little bit ping radio in Red China, no ac-
more'left after paying taxes be- cused the United States of "allow-
cause of the 10 percent cut in in- ing the American airforce to par-
come levies starting January 1. ticipate. in the massacre of the
' population."
Ho's statement was the first of-
ficial communist reaction to Amer-
ican ground crew aid to the French
airforce in Indochina.
Political observers here took a
serious view of the Vietminh com-
• .ii reduction order illegal.
Ihalhioma/wn Crowe’s notice climaxed a hear-
InCVV" I •UL‛- ing Wednesday morning after the
A — • rr board voted 2 to 1 to deny Crowe’s
A e H I fI V request that companies be given
-1d HN- lot - until July ] to file new workmen's
VOL LXV, NO. 21.
Robert C. Ruark sees a bright
------------ light for civilization shining
the Reds' atti- through the hunt for The Abom-
inable Snowman of the Hima-
HANOI, Indochina, March 3-
-Ho Chi-Minh, leader of the com-
WASHINGTON March 3IP- munist Vietminh forces, Wednes-
Personal income of Americans day accused the United States of
___j an annual rate of $282.- taking "another step toward direct
500,000,000 in January—12 billions intervention" in the Indochinese
start her sunbathers' paradise Prices Hochet
atop some building ... "and
To 3-Year High
PLEASE EVENMN Deplorable
By HENRY BURCHFIEL PLFASE IURN.
Three county officials were at- Nov. 10. 1950 They claimed .the 2-Eho-
property as a homestead each -
year, beginning in 1951.
The same records, they said,
alls- cauE- IM * —-U
parwers » S 5 U. S. Personal Income
Drops $2 Billions
meameommN
What's Inside
March 3-IF- missionerandI chairmanof'the in- and the president will realize
The house ways and means com- surance board. declared wednes- . __ .
mittee Wednesday overrode a late- day was’the.firstttimehehadsseen
. . . ... 2 the order the two other boara
... . - . - hour Eisenhower administration bere iesved twe weeks ago
Sub-freezing temperatures held the state in an icy grasp plea and voted for a wide range emn ms opinion the order should
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ernoon, tonight and tomorrow
Diminishing winds in the east brinke, dispatcher,
and centralportions, todayCon “Women like to sit in th
tinued cold today and tonisht
and not quite so cold in the west
and north tomorrow. Lows to-
night 10 to 20 in the north and
around 20 in the south. Highs to-
There will be a slight warm-up It was to meet later Wednesday board, Secretary Fred Albert and
over the state Wednesday, but it to take up the others. Approval ol state Fire Marshal Matt Robert-
Judge Delays Ruling will dip back to between 10 and 20 the Reed proposal seemed certain, son, voted in favor of Albert's mo-
- - degrees in the northern section. It and the only question was wheth- tion not to withdraw their order. . . .1. Iit. v,o..
will be around 20 in the southern er even deeper excise cuts might It calls for a 20-percent premium tion of its leaders. Private advices to Ine united nress
District Judge W A Carlile portion during the night and highs be voted for some items. cut in workmen's compensation in- from an Juan, Puerto Rico, said Wednesday that among
Wednesday reserved a ruling in a Thursday will range from 35to 45. S e c re t a r y of the Treasury surance rates by Friday. Dickey those marked for death in the plot were President Eisen-
suit brought bv I M Putnam, pio- It will be about 38 here wednes- Humphrey said in a statement voted against the motion,
neer developer, in which he claims day afternoon and about 20 during Tuesday night the government
legal title to Grand boulevard right th nhl. . „ neg. Herman could not affor
of wav through Nichols Hills At. Okla A&M college, Herman sweeping excise tax reductions as
"A'ShS Renezar, Hinrichs., professorof horticulture, proposed by Reed.
.. e n..o — tn ,g in estimated the SUD -Ireczing em-
attorney for Put n rj uday in peratures caused an 80 to 90 per-
which .to file brief s.Ed.Molerz.as cent loss to the apricot crop
sistant municipal counselor, then .......
will file answer briefs.
Putnam is seeking to invoke a
Comic Dictionary
L Skepticism— The attitude of a
woman when her husband tells
the exact truth.
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WASHINGTON, March 3—0)—President Eisenhower
Wednesday deplored "disregard of the standards of fair
Praher Savs President play" by congressional investigators and declared he will
insist that executive department witnesses before congres-
sional committees lie "treated fairly.” •
The Weather , Cong informed her hecouldnt
.... issue a license for that: He
LOCAL—Fair and continued suggested she call the city at-
cold this afternoon and tonight. lorney
Thursday fair and a little warm- "I was so flustered I didn't
er Diminishing northerly winds
this afternoon. High today about
38, low tonight about 20. High
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: # find it." Policemen Wednesday
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Tuesday night, causing between 80 and 90 percent loss to of excise tax cuts. be withdrawn," he said. Dickey
Oklahoma's apricot crop, extensive loss to the peach crop and But the committee did not com- has resigned as of March 20 to go
possible damage to spring oats and winter wheat. plete action, before a recess, on into the insurance business
Temperatures dipped sharply, with an unofficial zero all the provisions in a bill by ‘-it ia my opinion the board can
----------—--------,reading in Boise City and an chairman Daniel A. Reed hold a hearing at any time on any
Suit May Fence and8 wec"m “ S-zasei zazam:
J was a bitter 16 at the city air- 14 of the 20 proposed cuts before fic rate."
port station and 18 at the it recessed.
Classen weather station. Ned Appears Certain
Oklahoma City Times
crats want to aak some more
that responsibility cannot be delegated to another urestiorsagboussthedlsmtssait
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The woman was less veiled in __________
her conversation with H. J. Te- tempting Tuesday to help an
umc, pui. -p-n.. Oklahoma City couple clear their
“Women like to sit in the nude homestead of a legal cloud. --r .
They said micial courthouse show Davisi purchasedthe.ProP
records suggest the couple and a erty Dec. 19, 1949. from Kenneth
third party may have been vic- M. Allman, a GI wh had..°—I
ums of "double dealing.” Pictures, Page 17 , I
County Attorney Granville .
Scanland was studying the legal tained a loan on,it.from the
aspects of the case while W T. United Service & Research, Inc:
Bih Hale, county treasurer, and The loan subseguently as
. Cragin Smith, county assessor, transferred to Davis an
were jointly investigating the to Mr. and Mrs. Lemleyr, ,
facts and circumstances. ' have since .paidtbe principal,
I'll open bne up anyway,” she They said records show Mr, interest.and..taxs th, records
and Mrs. Frank Lemley pur- Another entry.in .the.rna
j chased the house and lot in ques- the officials said, shows Allm • ---------
tion, located at 3108 S Dumas pLEASE TURN to Holding Baa phone CEntral 2-121
| lane, from Lester L. Davis on pack 2 coCVM » mn .
to Plotter.
Mr. Eisenhower’s statement waa
the closest to a frontal attack he
hasrrAdscnnowecarhl"an execu. No Dust Aid
five officials and employes should
respond "cheerfully and complete
NEW YORK. Maren 3—u-r-ine snooung oz 1ve cun- IV"
gressmen in Washington on Monday was part of a plot to Should be assured of "respect and
overthrow the United States government by the assassina- courtesy."
Private advices to the United Press “Officials in the executive
branch of the government will
have my unqualified support in
insisting that employes in the ex
ecutive branch who appear before
A Bethany man, missing
several days, wandered into a
Dallaa, Texas, business house
Wednesday barefoot and asked
for work. Officers were notified
after he told store officials he
did not know his name. Hia fa-
ther, who had been to Dallas to
help with a search for him, is
returning the 26-year-old men to
his wife and four children here.
(Psge 11)
Lawsuit Answered
An enswer wee filed by the
city legal department Wednesday
to a lawsuit filed last week by
W. A. Crisp, local contractor, in
which he seeks to force the city
to give him a contract to build
the livestock exhibition building
at the new fairgrounds. A hear
ing on a temporary restraining
order will be held at B a.m.
Thursday before W. A. Carlile,
district judge. (Page 17)
Ouster Sought
Hearing on an injunction suit
against blind Dr. Allan V. Peter
son and his wife, Coral, seeking
to stop them from using their
residence st 721 NW 14, for com-
mercial or professions! purposes
began Wednesday in district
court. (Psge 18)
Road Hearing Set
Practically ell of the 2,000 per
sons who have signed a petition
for a relocation of U. S. 66 near
Bethany have been invited to at-
tend a night hearing in the state
senate chamber Thursday on the
proposed relocation. (Page 5)
Gripe, but Fight
What this country needs Is a
little more of the spirit of the
American GI who gripes but
closes ranks to win the battle,
J. C. Penney, operator of nearly
1,700 department stores, said
here Wednesday. He waa a guest
st e breakfast given by the Okla-
homa Publishing Co. (Psga 8)
Editorial Page
Ray Tucker bears that Swe-
den’s Information on our atomic
stockpile bodes ill for ?•’’ re.
quest for authority to share our
' know-how with our allies.
"Apparently," he ssid, ‘‘the ------------- --
president and I now agree on statement was Mel arthy mentioned by name.
the necessity of getting rid of But by name, the president defended and lauded Brig,
communists. We apparently dis- Gen Ralph W. Zwicker, whose honesty and intelligence were
agree onlysonhow.wectshouhd questioned by McCarthy.
handists Mr. Eisenhower's statement was prompted by the case
McCarthy predicted that of Maj. Irving Peress, army dentist who received an honor-
"when the shouting and the tu- able discharge after McCarthy called him a “fifth amend-
mult dies,.the. American fS ment communist," and McCarthy’s handling of Zwicker.
The president acknowledged that the army "made ser-
PHEAFEVENMT°. MeCarthy ious errors” in handling the Peress case. But he pointed
-----Hout that Secretary Stevens R n.nn
had said so publicly “almost OHt8™ Off D^P
- A record British defense budg-
hower, Secretary of State
— When H issued the order two John Foster Dulles and FBI
could not afford now such broad, weeks ago, the board declared a. 0 n
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| employers pay to protect their
Ika Backs Humphrey workmen in case of injury or death ,
............. ............ President Eisenhower told his are higher than in, surrounding Said the federal Ibureauo invest-
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He expressed the belief that com- news conference Wednesday he is states,
mercial orchards have not been backing Humphrey in ...... """
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reversionary clause in a quit claim PLEASFEVRNaT° Weather veto a bill cutting excises he said manager of the Nal
deed issued to Oklahoma City on _ ------------------he couldn't answer to advance. URN to T..
Jan. 24, 19101, by the Military Park The president added with a grin FkCASE COLUMN Insurance
Development Co . now dissolved. Nonoef that sometimes you have to take,
40 Acres InvolllllllSLlitlUlSL some castor oj| along with a sweet AT । m,
' As sole owner of the forn encomt A p,, cookie. He said he was leaving de- aval Depot
pany. Putnam eaims the 200-foot /JI tN tails to Humphrey and to congress ' !
right of way extending.in. an N 1 The Reed bill would slash al- rng:, QCA
from NW 63 and Western 10 N , most all exciaes now above 10 per- 1 O F Ire •eU
Pennsylvania, reverted to him be 000000 la, la! .......
cause the city failed to use it for Is Oklahoma City going to
boulevard purposes. have a rooftop nudist colony-’ An
The right of way involves some unidentified woman said she was
40 acres through the better parts going to defy city police and
of Nichols Hills, Renegar said ......
The deed provided the land was ___, _______
to be used for boulevard purposes you just try to find it”
only. It also provided the land Wanting to be perfectly legal,
would revert to the first party or at first, the woman took her
his heirs if used for any other pur- problem to the police dispatcher .uu , ------ ' . . i
pose or purposes, and then the city license clerk. Wholesale food prices as measu edJuly —
Part Black-Topped She said she was a Caiifor- by Dun & Bradstreet climbed to a Capt. B. L. Lubelsky.
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Putnam contended in a distne sunbathing beauty parlor," she from a year ag0.Itwastheh the back, Capt. Lubelsky said. house of representatives Thus the Chairman MeConrnell ‘Er H
court trial Tuesday the city did not told Ray Long, city license salea- est sinceM r s 9, ’ He said he expected the new nl according to A advices, still of the housestr UP n J ) sen-
comply with the contract by start- man in the city clerk’s office. index stood.atdpz3rents the total ceiling to be stabilized at a little Pemains and the possibility of for Alexander smithI had a break-
ing work on the boulevard within Long hadn’t heard of anything The,figureurepr of one tuma more than 3,000 workers. Most of th Attempts at assassination is ate labor cha in President Eisen
_ the two-year period, nor has it done just ike that. "What do you cost at whplesalen°comnorous. the jobs eliminated will be those thereasonor the FBI alert. fastedate," thew nsursnh‛adI of
in since. mean? he asked. Something eastao, 10 k wr flour of laborers and ordnance produc- Advices to the UP said the shoot- ho " J _ notice
Portions of the. f^edrih^ the write about in this Higheothisr"eek U ford eofi tkm workers. The NAD civilian ingin Washington was viewed with tpewsezstone dsserssdtte White
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at his critics Wednesday follow-
ing President Eisenhower's and
press conference in which the branch of government."
that"e taashethnt Staff Reduced.. .
been assured by senate Republican leader William F. Know- 400 more of its big diplomatie
land that effective steps are being taken by the GOP leader-
chief J. Edgar Hoover.
The advices from Puerto Rico
, gation has alerted its agents to the T Wp. QAcp,]
Humphrey in his tax, Crowe presented the board a let- possibilityrof further outbreakso LMUUF DUUFU
ArredtzmrtmaeyShmiana manzgmr"n"snaronnrconmalxatimalbs la to s WASHINGTON, March —im wue, .........
-------- hower, Dulles and Hoover. there The house labor committee voted McCarthy again, without calling
9 is said to be a plot to kill Gov Wednesday to strip the National his name,
---- Munoz Marin of Puerto Rico, who Labor Relations Board of ita au- The president said that the de-
now ia in the United States, and thority to try unfair labor prac- cision to trip state department re-
Antonio Fernos-Isern, Puerto Rican tice cases. curity chief Scott McLeod of hiring
commissioner to the United States Rep. Holt (R , Calif.) said the and firing powers is none of Sen.
Dulles now is in Caracas, ne committee vote, interpreted as a McCarthy’s business.,
zuela, as head of the American reversal for rPesident Eisenhower. McLeod is a good friend of Me-
delegation to the inter-American was 14-13 and criss-crossed party Carthy. A reporter noted at Mr
conference. Unusual precautions lines. Eisenhower's news conference that
Related news, Page 29 - j The proposal one of four which MeCarthywsaidTunsdayothn-trook
------t--— —--.the committee had before it, would affecting Mctod sisthAt he
have been taken to assure his abolish the NLRB as a quasi-judi- good on the surfase" andanhtion
IAIFSER Im A reduction of safety including a bullet proof cial agency and establish it ashes aaked an official exPana •
aonriim Jeb Acrsdinonm. automobile for hi. tran.port.tion. strietlyan administrative body.. It Mr Eisenhower was asked what
appro at the U S Naval Ammu-The person, charged with the pro- would continue to handle matter, he thought of th . .. . that
Den^here beiwero thefot-tection of Eisenhower took addi-concerning repre.ent.tion, includ- The president replied firymyathat
NEW YORK, March 3- n S April and the M of tional precautions shortiv-after the ing collecive bargaining elections, assiznmentterdun W SprttwM
----------, ... announced wednesday by shooting in congress earlier Itamw. alluunfair labortprac spomsbility 0 the depart-
Peril Still Seen federai C0Urt,, with the complain ment headandIno oneey.
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An Inspirational Message by
Rev. J. Clyde Wheeler, Page 7
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