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"“'"•Ti"'—'"" r ' 7~“ - - Tax Revision - Bill Passed By Senate Friday Democrats Charge Help For Wealthy And Corporations WASHINGTON, (INS) —Senate tax leaders talked cautiously today ot a pooeible compromise on the pollcitlcally-explosive issue of tax relief on corporation dividends when the tax revision bill goes to conference. The one billion 300 million dollar tax "reform” bill passed the senate Friday by a vote ot ,63 to 9 after five days of tiring debate.. Senate finance chairman Bugene Millikin (R-Colo.) said the housesenate conferees Will not meet before the "end "of next week" or the following Monday, July 12. He said the tax staff will need time to print ami arrange the revised big bill. Sen. Walter F3jQeorge (D-Ga.) ranking senate* Derifocrut among the conferees, said he was "satislied" the house members will fight to restore the tax relief on dividend* stricken by the senate. George would only comment: “It might go back in the bill in some compromise .form.” . Millikin eaid the question of compromise is "up to the, conferees" but he also pointed out that the house had been firm on wanting the dividend treatment. The bill Mill would exempt from taxation the first SSO of income from stock dividends. But the senate by a vote of 71 ■to 13 killed an additional benefit which would have "exempted five percent of the dividend income above SSO. The house bill—and the finance committee version — would have permitted exemptions of >SO and five percent the first year, and SIOO and ten percent of the balance the second year and thereafter. Elimination of the five percent benefit cut the cost of the bill by an. estimated 200 million dollars. The finance committee approved provisions costing one biilioy 500 million dollars, about 100 million* more than the house. Democrats who fought unfiuecessfully to write in an across-the-board tax cut for average taxpayers charged that moat of the bigger benefits went to the wealthy and corporations. This was de(Tuva Ta Page •!>) »

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Recommendations On Service To Monroe Engineers Report - On Electric Power The engineering department of the public service commission has recommended that "several things be done" by the Decatur electric light and power department arid the Monroe municipal light and power utility “to insure reasonably satisfactory and adequate electric service to petitioners” The recommendations were made after a petition was fHed by several patrons of the Monroe utility with the public service commission alleging unnecessary shutoffs in power and other 'complaints concerning service rendered by the utility to patrons on U. S. highway 27 between Decatur and Monroe. ! . The Decatur department entered the picture of recommendations, because the local plant furnishes the electricity to the Monroe utility. A hearing on the complaint was held some time ago and mission at that time ordered an investigation by the engineering department. The complaint was signed by Al Anderson, head of Ahd arson Industry, and •- aevdral ; other patrons just south of Decatur. The included tor the Decatur plant: ■ To install reclosing equipment on oil circuit breaker at Decatur end of line as soon as possible. To check services of customers served from 7200 volt line supply- k Ing the Monroe system to see thir these services are properly isolated front’ the 7200 volt system by fuse cutouts. Monroe recommendations edrInstall as soon as possible an oil • circuit breaker of sufficient capacity with reclosings and protective equipment to isolate the Monore distribution system from the transmission line. Check and see if al) branches or customers served by the 7200 volt transmission line are properly isolated by fuse cutouts. . Make voltage charts at service entrance to Anderson Industry and Bernard J. Cla'rk trailer camp and correct transformer and service equipment it voltage does not meet commiMiori standards keep a record of eervice outages In accordance With rule 26 of the rules and stands rde of service for electriq utilities of Indiana. It was pointed out in the report, that at present, the report is mere(Tar* To Page Thr»») ' . A ;‘". •„- • ■

Festive Air Is Reigning In Guatemala Last-Ditch Reds In Hills Still Battle ■ GUATEMALA CITY (INS) —A festive,- holiday air reigned in Guatemala City today while troops of the/ lißeration army continued a grim struggle against last-ditch Communist supporters in the Mils 1 south pf t|e capital. The celebration began FrMay* when the city received the news that Guatemala’s two anti-Commu-nist factions had signed a pact in San Salvador, creating the nation’s first stable government since the liberation movement began two weeks ago. It is expected to continue today when Gen. Carlos Castillo Armas, chief of the liberation army, arrives in the capital from his headquarters in Chiquimula. “Anti-Communism” was the rallying cry of the crowds which surged cheering through the streets. Many persons sported cardboard sunvisors with the word “Anti-Communist” printed on them and small jboys sold signs which read “Long Live Castillo Armas and a Free Guatemala.” n These signs were flourished iff the streets where only a week ago a person ran the risk of getting shot for being anti-Communist Communist posters rapidly are being scratched off the walls. A rumor that Gen. Castillo Armas was arriving in Guatemala City Friday sent close to 100,000 persons streaming to the airport. ■ They trooped back to the city, disappointed, and paraded through the streets. Under the San Salvador pact Col. Elfego Monzon, chief of the Guatemala City faction, will head the provisional government for 15 days while free elections and a constitutional regime is organized. Most people in the capital believe, however, that Castillo Armas will become president. Observers pointed to the huge csowd at the airport Friday as an indication of the liberation army com(Tarn To Paste Sis) President Ignores British Policies I Ignored If Clash With U. S. Program UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) —Treading UN spokesmen far Wcific nations said today President Eisenhower is increasingly demonstrating a determination to ignore -British pollciee when they clash | with ’ the fundamental U, S. position. _ These source® said that aside from the evident refusal to give Sir Winston Churchill any encouragement on eeating Red China in UN, Eisenhower and secretary of state John Footer Dulles countered "British “go slow" policy on creation of >n anti-Communist South-, east Asian pact by getting the ANZUS powers on Wednesday to call tor "immediate action” on tlrts treaty. ~ Britain obviously does not share the sense o| urgency for a collective security alliance in the -Pacific endorsed in the ANZUS “immediate action” declaration. The three powers are the U. S., ; New Zealand and Australia. The latter two are members of the Hritiah Common- j wealth. . .. The second by-pass of British j policy by President (Eisenhower' and Dulles, according to -the Pact-' fio diplomata, was the Implementation last week of the U.S.d»hilipplne mutual defense treaty. Although the signing of that implementation pact",by Dulles and Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, special representative for Phillppihe Presideitt Magsaysay, passed practically unnoticed, it was in direct (Tara Te Page Three) . ' ' ? ■ J: ’- . , ■ c _ X .. -

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday/July 3, 1954.

B t——i—j - Communist-Led Rebels Launch Powerful Drive Against New Defenses

0. 5. Officials Use All Means To Bar Red China Declares Fears Os Senator Knowland Not To Materialize WASHINGTON (INS) — A high administration - official said U>d<yy that President Eisenhower and Ms aides are using every possple means to bar Communist China Trvui tire United Nation?:. - The onlcmi. who declined to be identified, said he believes the effort will be successful and "what Sen. Knowland feared will not come to pass.” ** - , This was a reference to the announcement by Sen. William F. Knowland that he will resign asjsenate GOP leader for U. S. withdrawal from the UN if Red China Is seated. — Knowland said that before congress adjourns. It will express some form of opposition to admission of the Chinese Communists to the UN. It was said the action might a rider to the foreign aid appropriations bill, a resolution or amendments to other legislation. Under consideration also. It was learned, Is a proposal to put a sixmonths’ limit on the foreign aid bill so thatjcongress would have a ch»uce trrhct again on the funds ■ftt'Jahuary. This would give congress a chance to halt foreign aid spending next January if it wants to take such retaliatory action in event the administration loses its battle against a UN seat for the Peiping (Tara To Paar Sis) Early Holiday Toll Is Low In Indiana ' ■ r” ! '- - • Police Concentrate %. On Danger Sgots (INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indiana's Independence Day week-end traffic death toll was low as the long holiday began today. • There was a boiling eun and temperatures climbed again into the high nineties after scattered showers over the state; A force of 450 state policemen, all except those on vacation, watched roads for speeders and reckless drivers in an attempt to cut last year's road death- toll of 13 for the holiday., > • The officers concentrated on danger spots of the past and used electric timers to check on fast drivers State police superltnendent Arthur Jessup meanwhile rejoiced in the fact that there were no traffic deaths in seven southern counties during February and June. .They are Bartholomew, Brown. Jackson. Jennings, Johnson, Scott and Washington. He raid this was n "phenomenal record.” -j Five cottages were damaged seriously when a windstorm “Struck Stone Lake, 15 miles northeaet of LaGrange late Friday aftnenoon. A cottage owned by John Steele was moved two feet on its foundation Total damage was estimated at 115.000. (Tara Ts Pace Ila) ■r„ “■ .- ‘ ’/ •-« . '.. ■ ■- 'x. ■ "’,( . 7>

-7— Mop Up Debris Os Rio Grande Flood Report 60 Deaths, Scores Are Missing • , LAREDO, Tex,, (INS) — Rescue workers wearily continued a search for more bodies today as they mopped up debris deposited by the worst Rio Grande River flood in the histpry of south Texas and northern Mexico. At least 60 deaths have been weported. Scores of persons are misi sing. Veteran disaster predicted that the full flood death toll -wohably never will hr ktpwn because many victims either floated downriver or were burled in siltbanks and wreckage. President Eisenhower* has declared six south Texas flood district counties as disaster areas.More than 20,000 persons were . made homeless by the flood. Damage estimates ran to the millions of dollars. The federal civilian defense administration set up headquarters in Laredo to coordinate all government activity in the flood area. Hardest hit by the destroying waters was Piedras Negras, Mex., which reported 38 known dead, 65 persons hospitalized and 15,000 people homeless. Earlier in the week, 16 others died in a flash flood at Ozona, Tex. some 100 miles inland frbin the raging <Rio Grande. Laredo officials, meanwhile received word from fourth army headquarters that military personnel will arrive today to begin building a pontoon bridge to temporarily replace the international span which was washed away *by the flood, • Adolph Bauermeister Dies Last Evening Funeral Services Monday Afternoon ? ■. Adolph H. Qnuermeietjjr, 60. Welle county farmer,* died unexpectedly shout o’clock ■ Friday evening after a heart attack at hl* home, seven miles northeast of Ossian. He was born in Jefferson town-1 ship, Wells county, July 4. 1893. a son of Ernest B. and Caroline Werling-Banermeiwter, and was married to Lydia Stoppenhagen Noy. 15. 1921. Mr. Bauermeister, a veteran of World Whr I, served one year in France. He was a member of I Adams Post 43, American Legion. I and LimberiosC Post 6236, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Surviving are his wife; , a son. PnuMiauermelster of Wells coun- - ty; five grandchildren,; two brothers, August and Otto Bauermeister of near Oseian. and a sister, Mrs. All>ert Bibberich of near Preble. - Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Bethlehem Lutheran church near Ossian, the Rev. Harry Behning officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery, with military rites by the American Legion and VFW. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock thia evening until time of the service*. NOON EDITION Ls*... . T’

House Approves Compromise On Farm Program Eisenhower Scores Partial Victory In Friday House Vote i WASHINGTON (INS) — Presb dent Eisenhower emerged today • with a partial victory in the house, on his farm program and one influWIW senator predicted a similar triumph in the senate. The house Friday approved, 228 t»« 170; a compromise system of flexible price supports ranging from 82% to 90 percent scale, contending that this was necessary to prevent the addition of more crop surpluses to the present huge stocks now lu government storage. Faced with the threat of a possible presidential veto, the House overrode a farm bloc request to continue the present mandatory 90 percent of parity program. A bitter fight is forecast when the legislation reaches the senate, bu| chairman George D. Aiken (RVt.), of the senate agriculture committee, voiced that the housepassed bill will be accepted. Sen. Allen -Ellender i (D-La.), ranking minority committeeman, differed with Aiken and predicted that the senate will okay a oneyear extension of the presept rigid, high price props. The senate group last week approved the 90 percent plan over Aiken's strong dissent. Aiken said, however, he will hold a strategy parley with administration officials before charting hi* course. Aiken said he sees no reason now why a bid should be made in the senate for Mr. Eisenhower's original proposal. w. Seven New Polio Cases In Indiana Total Is Well Under . Figures Last Year . INDIANAPOLIS (INS) ...— Indiana health authorities today reported the severest week of 1954 with regards to the incidence pf polio in | Hoosierland. For the week ending, June 26, Indiana suffered seven new cases of polio increasing the total to 28. However, that figure remained nearly 50 per cent under the total of 53 cases for the same period last year at the same time. Two new counties were among those reporting cases last weekBlackford and Hamilton with one each. „ Porter also reported one which raised its total to three while Delaware’s total also hit three with two new cases last week. Marion had two cages to lift its total to five, heaviest in the state. Other counties and the number of cases ere: Allen 2. Clark 1, Elkhart 2, Huntington 1, Lake I, Noble 2, St. Joseph 2, Vermillion 2, Vigo 1, and Wayne 1. Noble'* two cases Include tbe only fatal case recorded in Indiana to date.

Monopoly Charged United Fruit Co. ' Government Files Anti-Trust Suit WASHINGTON (INS) — The anti-trust suit filed against United Fruit Co. was viewed in official circles today, as a "refutation” to charges of "Yankee imperialism" in war torn Guatemala and the rest of Latin America. The suit was filed in New Or- • leans only two days after Secre- ’ tary of State John Foster Dulles », Glared that the Communists in - Guatemala were trying to make - U. S. big business the scapegoat for the revolt. " The action also attracted immediate attention because of the timing and the political overtones arising from the cease-fire concluded Friday in the Guatemalan uprising. Some government sources said the indictment was prompted, in part,- by foreign policy considerations, including charges that United Fruit's huge holdings have contributed to unrest in Guatemala and other Central American nations. A State Department spokesman denied, however, that the Justice department had consulted state department officials before the action was taken Friday. State department sources&expressed belief that it was strictly a legal matter. United Fruit operates in Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Ecuador. In March, 1953, Guatemala expropriated 243,000 acres of United Fruit land on the Pacific coast under the agrarian reform law. (Cvatlaw* On Pa*r Sis) Eisenhowers Go To Mountain Hideaway Plan Long Holiday At Mountain Spot THURMONT, M<L (INS)- President and Mrs. Eisenhower settled down today for a long Fourth of July weekend at Camp DavidTtheir Catoctin mountain hideaway. The President and first lady, fleeing from Washington’s 90-de-gree heat, are expected to remain at 'their retreat until late Monday. A small group of friends joined (he Eisenhowers Friday night and the party is expected to visit the President's farm at nearby Gettysburg. Pa., during the weekend. The Eisenhowers drove to Thurmont Friday byway of picturesque Leesburg, Va., and the historic civil war battlefields of Antietam and Ball’s Bluff. It was a longer route than they usually take, but Whit* House aides said the President* hid expressed a wish to see th* countryside. White House officials flatly denied a report that the presidential party was re-routed through Leesburg because some Puerto Ricans reportedly were on a highway sometimes used on other trips. ,i ■ INDIANA WEATHER Partly oloudy tonight and Sunday with *oatt*r*d evening thundershower* moatly north and,central portion*. Low tonight 65-70 extreme north, 7075 south and central.

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Launch Strong Attack On New French Posts French Hurl Back Rebel Assault In Six-Hour Battling HANOI (INS) — Thousands of Commuuliß-led Vietminh rebels attacked the French outpost of i Phuly, 30 miles south of Hanoi, toi day and the Franco-Vietnamese troops withdrew from the position. Awdnce Fr&nce Press* said -that the evacuation of the past and city of Phuly was completed by after* coon after the retreating defenders dynamited the bridge across the River pay. ’ Store* of munitions which could not be evacuated also were blown up. ’ , The new French Union retreat northward followed a powerful enemy attack which lasted for six hcurs. The French claimed that they threw back the initial assault. z , The rel>el« struck at dawn in an apmirent effort to catch the French and native Vietnamese soldiers offbalance i after their withdrawal from the southern quarter of the Red River Belta. , . ’ The target of the attack was Phuly, now a keg. point In the tightened defense perimeter guarding Hanoi and it* port city of Haiphong. Phuly is located some 30 miles southeast of Hanoi. French commanders identified ' the attacking rebel units as elite Vietminh troops — probably members of the Communiat-organized regular division®. Report* said the Fmech Union defenders absorbed the first onslaught and launched a counterattack which was supported by artillery and 20 low-dying B-26 attack bombers. Rebel casualties were reported to be high. , The Vietminh evidently hoped to smash French and Vietnamese units before they reorganised following the evacuation of the southern delta area. The French completed their withdrawal from th* 1,600 square mile section of the delta Friday, leaving a population two and one-half million persons open to Red conquest. Today the French high command denied that any secret deal had been made with the Communists <T*ra T» race six) County Meets Its 150-Pint Quota In Donations Os Blood Eight new members were added to the Red Cross gallon club Friday and Adanrn county met it* quota of 150 pints for this visit of the bloodinoblle unßs. New gallon club member* ar* Wilson- Mann, Frances Monahan. Robert Lee Gage. Ben Mazelln. Mrs. Louise Grote. George D. Litchfield, Roy L. Kalver and Omer H. Merriman. Os the 198 people who participated, 37 were walk-in* and 36 were badly-needed new donor*. Red Cro*» officials from Fort Wayne said that they were especially grateful for the fine turnout In Decatdr since moat place* ar* not meeting their quota* and the Fort Wayne blood bank supply is low. / ■' '