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Tax Cut Plans Are Defeated By Senators Prospects Os Tax Cut For Consumer Virtually Dead -BULLETIN •t’”' ,-,-«* -3--~- ..*..... . ....... WASHINGTON (INS)—The * senate voted to tone dawn proposed tax-relief for corporation stockholders today as it drove . toward passage of the adminislion dollar tax revision bill, tration's one and one-half bilThe action was tkk<n by voice vote. The provision approved by the senate would exclude from income taxes up to SSO of dividend earnings and would grant an additional credit of five percent on the rest of such income. WASHINGTON (INS) — The . prospect of a tax cut for the man in the street has apparently gone out the window as senate leaders press for passage of the administraion's one and a half hillion dol- . lar tax revision bill. . Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) t who lost his fight for relief, to low-income consumers, said the chances of any such chungg in the ■ measure were now "dead. He predicted that even a -modification in benefits granted corporation stockholders would be knocked out when the bill gets to a house-senate Senate minority leader Lyndon Johnson (P-Tex.l, said the battle over tax cuts for consumers will "go on until November.” George agreed, asserting he was "satisfied'’ that the issue of tax relief for business-versus-consumer had been dramatized in the senate vote. Both sides forecast defeat for an expected last-ditch effort today to strike out the entire section eatfc ing "double taxation'' on corporation dividends. As the bill stands, the senate has reduced from Iff percent to five percent the tax credit allowed on dividend income. Finance chairman Eugene Milliekin (R-Colo.). said he would move for adoption of the other half of • his dividend modification, which would exclude from taxation the first 150 of dividend income, instead of the /irst SIOO. - Republicans under Millikin’s leadership were Jllafeated by a 49- < 40 vote when they tried to give taxpayers an optional 120 tax credit. m .» Then the senate by' the same vote turned down George's amendment to give every taxpayer and dependent an increase of SIOO in personal exemptions — and at the "same time strike out the dividend relief proviso. • The upshot of the stalemate was that Republicans opposing the Democratic plan had a chance to go on record for their own lowbracket tax cut. even though their plan did not carry. Some said this was Millikln's way of keeping Republicans in line against the George amendment. ~ Four Democrats voted against the George amendment — Sens. Harry F- Byrd and Willis Robert(Tara Te rage Ms) \

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Dulles Blames Reds I For Guatemala War Blames Russia For Guatemala Bloodshed WASHINGTON (INS) — Secretary of state Jrtin Roster Dulles was confident today that a Communist effort to establish a beachhead In the American hemisphere has tailed but he served-blunt warning that any other Red efforts will not be tolerated. Dulles, epeaking on a nationwide televised broadcaet, declared that the turbulent events in resulting in the overthrow of the Communist government in that Central American nation, fully exposed “the evil purpose" of the Kremlin to disrupt inter-Amertean unity. ""1 ‘ He flatly blamed the Russian government tor the bloodshed that has occurred in Guatemala in recent weeks. He accused Soviet foreign-min-ister V. M: Molotov of “conniving” with Guatemalan officials of the ousted Arbenz regime of trying to circumvent machinery- set up for American solidarity. On the optimistic side, the Eisenhower cabinet member commented that “the ambitious and unscrupulous will be less prone to feel tlvat Communism is the wave . of their future." Truman Apparently On Recovery Road 2 Former President Reported Improved KANSAS CITY, Mo. (INS) — Former President Harry S. Truman apparently ie well on’the road to recovery today, Consulting—phygiiTkns said “his substantial progress toward recovering is continuing” JThe statement was issued at Kansas City’s Research hospital following an hour-long conference Wednesday night. \ Trumnn has been battling to restrain' his health since he underwent an emergency operation for the removal of his gall bladder and appendix June 20. Complicatione developed because of intolerance for anti.biotlc' and other drugs with which he was treated.' He watt taken off the critical list Wednesday and his physician. Dr. Wallace Graiham, now expects complete recovery. Local Man's Father Dies Near Tipton - Funeral servlcOd were held in the Methodist church in Atlanta this afternoon for C. >M. Hott, 72, who died unexpectedly of a heart attack Monday at his home hear Tipton. He was the father of Harold Hott, 312 N. Tenth St., of this city'. Besides the son he is survived by h|o wife, 'four daughters and two other sons. Burial was made in the cemeivTy near Peru.'

Death Toll In Flood Os Rio Grande Mounts Mexican Town Hit Hardest By Warst . •Flood In History LAREDO, Tex. (INS) — Reports of dead and injured persons and un- . told damage continued to mount today in the wake of the worst flood in the history of the Rio Grande river.- ■ ; ; The town hit hardest was Piedras Negras, Mex., across the turbulent river from Eagle Pass, Tex., itself the victim of the flood which struck South* Texas and northern Mexico. Latest casualty figures from Piedras Negras showed 3(L persons dead. 65 hospitalised and more than 15,000 homeless. Earlier this , week 16 persons drowned And two are still missing ■from a flash flood which hit Osona, Tex., 100 miles inland from the Rio Grande. The flooded Pecos river claimed one life. Six others are missing near Pandale, west of Ozona, placing the total number of dead at 55 with eight persons missing. z Salvador H. Vela, surgeon general of Mexico, issued the casualty figures concerning Pledras Negras to state highway Sgt. Earl Gossett who flew to the flood-stricken town. Gosiett sdid 15.000 are homeless and 6,000 to 7,000 are in the hills around the city without food, water or shelter. Gossett said Vela told him 40 percent of the homes, nymy °f them of adobe with thatch roofs, wefe washed away while another, 40 percent were flooded! Meanwhile the flood began to recede around Largdo. Np casualties have been reported.'? Gov, Allan Shivers of Texas flew to Laredo and said he would ask President Eisenhower to declare south Texas a disaster area. Flood waters virtually surrounded downtown Laredo, cut off the city's east side residential area and made more than a thousand persons homeless. ( Espinoze Infant Dies This Morning Daniel Espinoze. infant son of Fred and Aurora Garcia-Espinote, died at 5:15 a.m. today at the home In Salem. The boy, born June 7, had been 111 since birth., Surviving In addition to the parents are the following brothers and sikters: Caroline, Victor, Lupe, Hortensia, Olga. Fred, Jr., and GamallieL twin titter of the infai&t; and the grandmothers, Mrs. Pauline Garcia and Mrs. Hortensia Espinoze. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Black funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Assembly of God church, the Rev. Canales officiating. Burial, will be in the Decatur cemetery. 6 —.— o '■ 12 PAGF* o _ — —0 *• "V"-' ♦. '■> U-? ■ -J- &

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— - -— , — Increase In Steel Prices ‘ „.48-A .-j> . L.-u.’, w._ 4 ’’Mf Is Announced $3 Per Ton Boost Announced Today After Wage Boost PITTSBURGH (INS) — United Steel Corp, today announced a boost in steel price* equal to percent, or approximately $3 per; ton. Clifford F. Hood, president of the corporation, said the new prices were made necessary because of increased production costs resulting from the settlement made with the United Steel Workers of American last Tuesday. ‘The amount of the increase is less than would be justified if coat considerations, continuing plant replacement needs of the corporation and stockholders' interests alone were considered,” Hood said. "Competitive conditions.”, he said, “Which is another way of referring to the sales problems of our customers and our lower rates of operations, require, however, a lower price adjustment than would otherwise be justified by all considerations, including the public interest, in having a strong steel industry in thia eounlry. “The plan Os United States Stgfl td borrow- $300.000,000, announced two days ago, is evidence of the need for more adequate earnings, which in 1353n- x a record-breaking year of steel production, were only 5.8 percent of its sales dollar and 5.4 percent of sales,” he said, in the first quarter of 1954 were “The average price of the many grades and types of carbon steel after the increase, is still only a little- more than six eents per pound,”'Hood added. United States Steel’s individual product price lists will be announced “as soon as practical,” the company stated. The contract with the United Steelworkers CIO was estimated by union officials as a 12-cents per hour “package” agreement while industry sources put the raise at eight or nine cents. The "package” called for a five cents across-the-board pay raise, and an increase of two cents an hour in payments by the company into an insurance fund. In addi<aora Ta Page sevea)

Fritz Lehr Death Left Wife And Son Homeless

The, Friti Lehr fund, to provide for the widow and orphan of Waldemar “Fritx” Lehr, a former dlaplacedperson electrocuted while moving's small building onto his lot in Union township June 18, has just passed the |SOO mark. Lehr, an employe of Klenk's Service at the time of the accident, was moving a small summer kitchen onto a lot which he was buying, when the top of the kitchfen caught on some telephone wires. He climbed up on the roof of the kitchen and pried the wires loose, but when the tension was released, the wires sprang high in the air. throwing Lehr into high tension wires running about six feet above the telephone wires. Lehr was a member of ihe Immanuel Lutheran church in Union township, and he took an active part in the men’s club and Berea Society for young married couples. Although he had been in becatur og)y two years, he was already on his second gallon of blood donations to the Red Cross here. He was known in his community as an active, friendly and helpful neighbor. Lehr was 27 years old. Lehr was born in Warshau, Phland, and had joined the Polish army at the ago of 16. He had been captured by the Germans When Poland surrendered, and foreod into the German army. When the war ended, he settled near Bre- , men, Germany, since he could not

Eight Policemen x Shot By Crazed Man Battles 200 Police Nearly Three Hours INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Four of eighj policemen shot by a crazed gunman in Indianapolis remained JnjSfnejsU hospital today, but all are now expected to live. The gwnaßan, Howaii EllfeL bL fought aft 200 policemen, for two and a half hours Wednesday before ,he was shot to death Inside his barricaded home. , 1 Patrolman Paul White, 39, the most of the eight, was reported improved today and is now on the serious Hat. The three others -- patrolman •Dora Wai-d, Lt. Paul Pearsey and patrolman 'Merlin Lyoii — are in fair condition. The other four officers were released after treatment Elite, a -former mental patient, started the gunplay by shooting this wife. Janie, 53, during a quar"Tel...,- ; Mrs. 'Ellis escaped to a neighbor's houee. taking with her three of five welfare department children for whom the Elite’ were caring. The other two children were located before they could enter Ellis' 'home, in which the demented man had barricaded himselL police at the scene battfbd Ellis wmAß’Lb. we-k .. X A- - TTWr ' pj HICHM i and made use at bullet prmrf/yegte and armored cars. Three officers finally shot their way into the house, located Elite and cut him down with more than 20 machinegpn bullets. rounds of ammunition were expended in the battle. Mrs. Ellis, notified in a hospital that her husband had been'elain, remarked: ' ~*‘lt just had to be that’way, I guess. 1 feel, better now.” Additional Blood Donors Needed For Friday Visit Here According to an announcement from the local Red Cross headquarters. there is still a shortage of scheduled donors for .the bloodmobile visit at the American Legion home Friday. The. quota of 150 pints will not be met unless more donors volunteer to give blood. Donors are especially needed between 1 add 2 p. m. during which time very few dononr have been scheduled.

< f return to Red-dominated Poland. Mrs. Katherine Lehr met her husband apd"they were married in lß4K~'~Her son, Hans, is now four years old. The family came to the United States in April, H»52. as displaced persons sponsored by the Immanuel Lutheran church.. Mrs. Lehr has no relatives irt»e’TnlTW , "Statas, and most of her fhmily were killed during the Second World War. Lehr had not yet purchased the land where ho planned to live, but it Is hoped that the small lot may C's-ura To Page Sts)

■ 111 I I Monzon, Armas Continue Talks On Guatemala /truce Is Extended, v ' Apparent Effort To ’Solve Differences SAN SALVADOR. El Salvador (INS) — The leaders at the two rival antl-Communist Guatemalan military tactions met agate this morning in an apparent effort to solve differences which came up in their long session Wednesday night and early today. Earlier they extended until Friday morning the cease-fire that is in effect in Guatemala as government troops were rushed to quell Red-sparked peasant uprisings. A dispatch from Guatemala City said that the best guess is that the two military factions wiU reach a settlement within 24 hours. One difference between the two groups supposedly is a demand that Carlos Castillo Armas disperse his "liberation army.” The extension of the battlefield truce was decided on early today by Guatemala junta chief Col. Elfego MonsuJ and “liberation” army leader Gpn.,Carlos Castillo Armas. Announcement of an agreemewbetwfei! tfi» t»6 «tttl-Red« on permanent peace and a unified government had been expected when they wound up their marathon conference in the presidential palaee in San Salvador. But the negotiations * hit some undisclosed snag and the parley broke up with no decisions made. It was officially announced that both men needed more time to study each other’s proposals. Just when they would get together again was not made clear. Castillo Arnies announced he would return to his headquarters at Chiquimula, southeast of Guatemala City. Although Monzon declined to reveal hl# plans, it was believed he would return to the capital. The reports from Guatemala City said that fierce fighting had broken out in the Red strongholds ot Escuientla and Conception. Peasant militia armed by former leftist President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman had been ordered to turn.in their weapons or face summary execution. Salvadorean President Oscar Osorio sat in on the conference between the two Guatemalan officers <T«m To P««e Sis) La Veme C. Early Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon La Verne C. Early, 74, ..died' suddenly of a heart attack at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at his home one and one-fourth miles east of Decatur. Although be had been in falling health tor the past three years, his death wim unexpected. He was. born in Cromwell June 18, 1880, a son of Nelson J. and Sarah G... Shroll-Early, end was married (o Emma Krider Dec. 24, 1904. The family moved here from Richmond iq 1943 and Mr. Early was employed at the Central Soya Co. from 1943 until 1948. Surviving in addition to his wife are a foster son, Don Spies of Kansas City, Mo.; and two sisters, Mrs. Oscar Nesbit of Columbia City and Mrs. L. 0. Thomas of Guatemala, Central America, One sister and one brother are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 pin. Saturday at the Zwlck funeral home, the Rev. L. T. Norris officiating. Burial will be in Eel RtVer cemetery at Churubusco. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening until time of th* services.

— „• -1- I-r- ■ 11 -I- . . U1 Safe Stolen Here Wednesday Night Sherman-White Safe Stolen Last Night Sherman-White & Co., egg and poultry buying firm at jhe corner of. First and Jefferson streets, reported the theft of the firm's safe last night, including around 9125 in cash and 81,000 in signed checks, according to ‘ manager Victor Kneuss, of Bluffton. -Kneuss discovered the theft at ®:3O o’clock this morning when he opened the office. He noticed that everything was topey-turvy, and then discovered that the 3-foot high .coni pan y safe was missing. Kneuss stated that payment on the checks had been stopped, and that the theft was covered by insurance, hut that many Important paper*, key* and records were Included in the safe. Tracks were still visible where the heavy steel safe bad been wheeled over the cement. The’broken safe knob indicated that the thieves had first tried to pry it open and had then decided to remove it through a reaj door and load it into a waiting vehicle. Both city police ans the sheriffs department are Investigating the incident. / Kneuss reported that the same safe had been sawed intoby wouldr.: it open- He estimated that it would have taken several men to lift the safe into a truck or automobile. Police believed that entry Into the building was made through a large sliding door on the north side. Kneuas said that there was no external evidence indicating that any locks or doers were broken. New Principal Al Friedheim School Ernest Kalthoff Is Named Principal Ernest Kalthoff and family of Cleveland, 0., arrived at Friedheim Wednesday to take up residence at the new home recently built by Zion Lutheran church. Kalthoff will assume the principalship of the school and teach grades four to eight. Before coming to Friedheim, Galthoff served at New Minden, 111., from 1930 to 1945; was engaged in child welfare work at Add! son, 111, front'J94s to 1958; and taught at the Luther memorial school in Cleveland. He is a graduate of Rive’r ForestATeachers’ college at River Forest, 111. He attended graduate school at Northwestern University and received his master’s degree in 1932. In 1932 he married Lydia Wagner of Alma, Mo. They have two. children, Gene. 12, and Patsy, 9 years of age. Their new home is a modern six room ranch type home with full basement and oil heat in harmony with the complex of buildings of Zion Lutheran church. > installarion servlces will be held at Zion 'butheran church Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at which the Rev. A. A. Fenner will speak on the topic: "The important task of a Christian day-school teacher.” Special music will be rendered by the (Tors To. Pace Six) J_ '■ To Show Preliminary - Sketches Os School Architect Leßoy Bradley will be at the Decatur high school to show school board members And other interested persons the prelinttnary sketches of the north school building to be cdfiotructed soon, W. (luy Browti, superintendent of schoqls, reported today) ? Bnullcy will meet with the board, Bryce Thomas and a committee teachers, Mrs. Charles iMagley and members of the., Parent-Teachers Association, and other Interested patrons pr teachers who would care to Attend. ' ' .

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Quit As Floor Leader If Red China in U. N. Bitterly Assails Allied Policies For Indo-China WASHINGTON (INS)—Sen. William F. Know land told the senate today he will resign his post as senate Republican floor leader if Communist China is voted a member of the United' Nations. „ The Californian said he would then lead a fight for U. S. withdrawal from the UN .and an end to its financial support of the world/ organization. In a speech bitterly criticizing allied policy in Indo-China and the possible surrender of part of Vietnam, to the Communists, Knowland demanded the “agonizing reappraisal” of American foriegn policy threatened by secretary of state ' John Foster Dulles. -- ■ He predicted that “later this year, a major effort is likely to. he made” to bring Communist China into the UN through action by the general assembly. He de- ► C|H»d: . ‘yjjjlfc “On the day that Communist China bi voted Into membership irrto ('lje Tritted Nations I shall resfgn my fclSeriffilp sh thd * senate so that without embarrassment to any of my colleagues or to the administration I can devote my full efforts in the senat ■■■■• and throughout the country to terminate United States membership in that organization and our financial support to It. “My conscience would not permit me to remain silent or inactive If this last grand appeasement takes place.” . ■ Knowland told the senate: “As we meet here today, our ally, France, in a thinly disguised surrender, is being required to permit 10 million Vietnamese in the Red River delta and northern Vietnam to pass under Communist control. . . "The net result of these developments will be a Communist victory in Asia of no mean proportions .. . ' ' z “Can any responsible statesman believe that the Communists will be easier to deal with when they have added to their atomic stockpile and means of delivery, their manpower and their resources dating the next five years?" Knowland noted that only in Central America-Guatemala —“has direct action by bon-Communistsi willing to fight for freedom been able to reverse the trend." He asked how many more Red victories must be gained in Asia before the free wbrld recognjges its danger. He added: “Will nations which have taken conditioned to not risking war in Vietnam be more prepared to risk, it in Cambodia, Laos. Thailand, Burma, Malaya, India, Pakistan, Mormofca, Japan. Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand?" The GOP leader suggested that “certain neutralist pattens” will use some of the same arguments to “paralyze any effective collective action.” Knowland asked.: ~ "Is the American public to first'”" fully realize the grave consequences of the chain reaction now in process only when future demands are made on us for Alaska and Hawaii?" Knowland, recalled the Klrean aggression and how hundreds of Ssrican prisoners were “killed old blood with their hands tied lnd ? their backs/’ ( He asked if they "are “to become the forgotten meh'Whlle the bloodattained hands of the Communist murderer are clasped in fraternal greeting by our allies in the United Natjons building in New York.” z '■ /■.- : 'V* - ■ Ife) INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and Friday. A. little cooler extreme north. Lew tonight 42-M north, M-74 south.. High Friday 78-88 north. 88-94 south. ..