Kennebec Journal from Augusta, Maine • 1

A- i 1 -v "I j- 1 1 'yriai) 1 ') v-' "'v vr I ir' r-: i J- -j -J- V-' 1 -i- a 1 'mi i r--: Oldest Daily Paper i March of Dimes I K-l ESTABLISHED 1825 VOL NO 18 AUGUSTA MAINE THURSDAY MORNING JANUARY 21 1954 TWENTY PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS In a Jiffy Say Indians Tried IToLurePOW North INCHONEorca Jaall IfW- -Returalag Cklneaa prlaan guards had tried to eaeonrv ago-them to retara to i Two- anU-Commanist prto-wko psmad Ihroagh hero today aa-tbelr way ta la tho aeatral aono "cam to -ns at algM and tried to get as to go nerth" Pvt Yoag Kna Skew laid' "Tin Indian favored the Commuaistk They always -spake ta about going north" divert builnets from them 'Tho WASHINGTON Jan 20 (JB- Supporters of the St Lawrence Seaway after 20 years of effort-tonight' won Senate approval of legislation to authorize the United States tojoln with Canada in building the controversial project it -is Passage of tha bill which tha pro-seaway had been freely predicting since the beginning ef debate a week ago cama on a roll call vote with B1 Senators voting yes and 33 no Tho seaway discussed tar more than 80 years whuld ha a 27-foot-deep waterway In tha SL Law- EtfltarUli RailP4l Sparta F-l Klaanclil Gardiner P-4-5-7 Haltatretl-frl CAA ASKS wfng be clipped jnOSS WILL get Uni-hand look it Down-Eait economy P- STREAM POLLUTION -ob4ii-duatriil problem AIM told P-S LIMESTONE SCHOOL AID WASHINGTON Jin 20 IP The Depirtment Heiltb Education ind Welfare announced today 'll location df for co na traction of acboota In Llmo-atone Maine where enrollmenta have been booated by federal ac-tlvltlea CANADA UNEMPLOYMENT OTTAWA Jan XI WW-Un entpleyment In Canada baa hit a peetwar high The Labor Department1! Natienal Empleyment Ser vice an Dea 10 bad 23IA88 loeklag far wark thengh an nnknawn pereentaga nf theaa wrra net actaally ent ef Jobe Hewerer en the aaaae baala the prevlena peatwar blb wa II2MO tn the lata- winter of 1M0 beforo tho Korean War atlmnlated em 'ploymeat ELECTION DATE- PORTLAND Jan 20 UWThe Portland Young Republican Club voted tonight without dissent to endorse continuance of practice of holding stato elections In September even during nation kl election yoara Sentiment for making date coincide with that of other atatea was voted earlier this week by'tht Portland Club an organization composed of- enrolled Republicans Journal Photo TWO INJURED IN THREE CAR CRASH Laurler Freeman Brunswick and Dr Walter Russell South' Portland were hospitalized early Wednesday night after being Involved In a three car crash on tho Brunswick Road Tha accident Involved Malm Forest Service station wagon a sand truck and a sedan 4 Injured in 2 Accidents On Ice-Glazed Highways TT ureathermaa opened i veri-TteChnielaa at Augusta General rence BIvef from Atlan tic Ocean to the Great Lakes allowing ocean-going vessels to sail directly Into taka porta-Thi outcome became apparent after' tha supporters beat down aa amendheat by Ben Long (D-La) that would hava required the project to bo financed through annual appropriations' 1 Then the Senate voted 31-22 against returning the bill to committee as proposed fey Sen Flanders (R-m The Houm has yet to consider tho bllL The measure had tha strong backing of President Elathhower his Cabinet tho Nhtlona! Secur saying they did not want to go Nationalist China hr South Korea The Communist Command which had demanded the POWs be held natil a peace conference 'decided their fate apparently accepted the accomplished fact American military power had been a lifted for threatening Red' ges tures But there were By deciding to return tho printers when they did the Indian custodian fore got out ef difficult position Lika the Communists Uw Indiana held that release Last Of Anti-Red HOW Returned PANMUNJOM Thursday Jan last of 21809 anti-Communitt prisoners of more than three years was surprisingly smooth Thera ware only minor Incidents aa some POWs stepped out af Una of the prisoners aa cfvUiaas by Jan 22 would violate on armistice Tho UL Command Insisted that Congress Gets Eisenhower's Trimnied-DownBudget 'Today Senate bad rejected bills to thorize It fqur times before over Uie last 20 year Tho Houm has never voted ott the proposaL" Under the present bill the United Staea would build only that part of tho seaway la tho International Rapids section of tho SL Lawrence Canada would build the remaining portions la its territory Estimated coat of tho American -hart to 103 million dollars The bill would act up a development corporation to laauo bonds In' that amounL Tha' i boqds would bo retired from tolls oa shipping using tho waterway frenctLPriv EasesThreat To Thailand 1 HANOL ladochlaa Jan 30 ifi- French Union forces leoccupied the Mekoag River port ef Tfcakhek today without firing shot and seated a Mg part af the gash the Communist-led Vtetmlnh hid cut across i the narrow waist of Laoa The strike by tanks aad infantry gunboats aad Marina commandos to lessen a red threat to Thailand acroae the Mekong and open the way for resumption river aad road traffic between the north and south' -of Laos ona of the three associated states af: ladockina JFrench army headquarters ktre! aanounced the task fores met no-' oppoaitton Is regaining cootroi mf -Thakbek a provincial capital abaa-! a Christmas ta tho face of -drive by a Vtetmlnh division- -Indochina from tho South' China aeacoaat to thy Mekong The rebels apparently had fled northward or eastward Into tho -7 Jungles possibly toward Vinh one of their old hoses In neighboring VtetNam-UQ miles south of The Vieminh never made' any pretense of trying ta fortify Thak-hek They had merely bivouacked in Uw countryside aad sent nightly patrols late tha town after tho French and Laotian garrison pulled out' But tho threat of their guaa checked use af tho Mekoag as an artery af commerce oven white tho French built up defense forces ta tha geao-Savaanakhet area 36 to to milea farthef south Eighty per cent af the heavy basic supplies for tha people -af-aorthen Laoa aormaliy come from the south mostly by way af Savaa- Tha rebel squeeM was so effective that prices soared and many stock of merchindiM dteap--peared from atom shelves Laotian officiate wert forred to taka steps to "prevent hoarding aid abusive prices" Transport planes were -pressed lata service to carry baste supplies to Vientiane the governmental seat Uw royal capital of Prabang aad other towns -and villages ta the north-: With the French hock ta Thak-bek supply lines are being restored and the propaganda value of tha Vietmlnh's Yuietide offeasiva Is getting ahopwora The rebel push to the Mekong -r bad a geographically Imprestiva effect caused Jitters in Thailand which sent troop reinforcements to the frontier It forced the French hastily- to build up their counter-offensive bases ta the south and tt red Uw rebels 'could still put a lightning drive after years of war US of Head To Speak Here "Author Blasts Anti-Anti-Reds As SYRACUSE NY Jan 20 IfU-Clalming open season oa people who flght eommualsm1 victor Lasky author aad lecturer attacked tonight what fcs called phoney nonaenae being spread 'about McCarthyisma Laaky speaking to an estimated 2S0 persons at the American Legion clubreoms here aasai whom he -termed "scrambled eggheads" "The Communist party today leading' a campaign against Me-Carthyism and leading a lynching campaign against anti Commn-nlato" Laaky aaid --Asserting that McCarthy "la Mamed today for eveiytblng under the sua" Laskjr continued "not a day goes by that a newspaper fditor doesn't decide the worst menace to America la Senator Mc- Carthy" "Ever that noted political analyst Frank Sfpatra who la to London chaiiag Some girt named Ava told reporter that this mas 'McCarthy -la a terrible dreadful nun" Laaky aaid Lasky questioned how "aw derful woman like Eleanor Roosevelt can coma and say that If Alger Hlaa had not been caught he would still be less of menace that Cohn and Schina investigators" Commenting on what ho termed lakt year's furors on Lasky said "newspapers were screaming abodt books that never wit marched back to the Allies today in tho cold drizzling darkness of eary morning North Kareaaa Pretest The 'return of this Chlaese aad North Korean prisoner from the neutral aooe wa completed without a major incident white a North Korea broadcast protested the ae-tiog "destroyed" the armistice The Indlaa Command aaid 104 out of the thouMMta decided not to come back at (he last mameaL They remained In the neutral tone with 63 other former mand POWs aad 346 former Red POWs tacludiag -11 Americana who don't grant to go heme Returning Chinese came hack down a muddy flare-lit road chaat-Ing -to-tite eerie sounds of bugles drama aad cymbals ail fashioned from American beer cans crap metaL Light mow began to fall aa the ist ef them marched late South Korea at 12:53 am (IS am Wednesday E8T) 16 hours after tho atari of "Operation Como-back" Tho Chinese were loaded an tracks for-Iflchoa earaute ta Chiaag Farmosa Five tnopshipa were scheduled to uU today for tha Nationalist Island The Indian command Mid 14227 Chinese returned The Command put tha figure at IfiOD The 752 returning North Kama POWs had already bee loaded talk box care 54 to a car for the goutheast pwt of Pniaa AQ automatically become rivBr tens agate tha Command Mid Jaa 22 regardteM af where they on the high seas ar ia Pumb Undergoing reorientation courses The great turnover of the prisoners from Indlaa custody ta the neutral zone many of whom had been held behind barbed wire for i ity Cound and tho Joint Chiefs of Staff i Eisenhower Mid la hia State of tho Union mesMgo that tha project now' wm needed for national defense aa well tor economic reaaohsT And Adnb Arthur Radford chairman af tha Jotat chief Mid fas a letter read aa tha-Senate Soar today that tha seaway was "pieenry to the (create of nation! aeeur and aaid the Jotat chiefs "strongly" reaommanded pat- -aago-ff tks MIL Tho seaway' has been traditionally opposed by East and Gulf Coast port cities coal and railroad Interests who claim it would under the- truce they must become civilians Jaa 21 i Back Passed By -their' action tha ladles passed the buck to the disputing commands la a contrast to the outburst by North Korea Peiping' made a comparatively mild pretest Red China's radio conceded "The Neutral Nations Repatriation Commia-sioe has encountered tremendous difnerityta carryiag out the terms of tho armistice aad tt has toade immense efforts" sible -to spend 1cm for aianpower and equipment A high administration authority dloclootd last November that the Elsenhower team wm working toward lopping between five and six Mlllou doltere from next year's budget and tt was obvious nattooal ascurtty must share to redtfetIdK5v v- 1r This official 3te ar 4 billioa aa tha likely slash to security spending Ha' figured at that timo-wlth final decisions an the budget still to be made- that spending would be held to perhaps ar 17 bill ions against slightly more than 72 bill ions projected for this year wbea tho current budget was revised last August He put government income at about 63 billion for tha year ahead compared with the August estimate of little over 68 buttons for this year So bock la November the pectlvo deficit came to three or four Miltons with a peasibUBy of further reductions before Uw new budget finally was ready for Congress Vj 1 ft rr- Journal Photo than 100 different types of sign Smallest af tho lot Are tte designed to fit parting meters stating limit attorn of the lot Tha biggest 7 Mayba tho alga at Uw corner nf Bridge' and State streets which baretracka from entering Not all ofthe signs that are ta in the city are painted by Barry Many are from an out of firm Thom are Uw standard Md reliables which are ta heavy demand Uw busiest time nf the "When school Is starting" Barry will tell ybn when signs have to be) checked replaced aad ready for opretag day i Accept Baxter Land Gift Over Patten Protests AUGUSTA Jan 98 CR-Gev Cross and tha Executive Council today accepted a gift of aver 21000 acres af wild load ta Plaeala-quis county to bo added to Baxter Stato Park -Tha sift was from former Gov Perclval Baxter of Portland whoso previous gifts have given tho state a wilderness park of 212 square miles ta the ML Katahdta region Approval was given after' the governor and council heard protests of a delegation from tho Patten area ihat removal of hunting privileges a condition of tha gift would damage sporting camp business and force three camp operators to quit reasons undisclosed Cross and tha council heid tbeir discussion behind closed doors Councilor Harold Owen of Milo said later however tbat be voted against acceptance but that tha order passed by a 6-1 vote The new Baxter gilt was ia parcels om af 13141 acres hi the Mattagamoo Lake regiod Pattea tha ether af 8000 ooutheaot of ML Katahdla Opponents led by former State Sen George Barnes of Moulton said acceptance of tha land also would remove it from taxation Said Bai In the whole history of the slate of Maim there to no greater benefactor than fitfnierGov Baxter who la moved by great: heart XXX" But he aaid that "closing of this territory to hunting under this proposal would he disastrous to the whole artfe" Ho asked that the matter be deferred until the Legislature could consider tt fully -A retired game warden super-visor Caleb Scribner of Pptten Mid be is a friend of Baxter aad hares hia avereioo to killing of wild aaimala' But bo Mid: Sometimes a great mas like Baxter hatf bobby ta which he become intensely Interested that he might' carry tt too Arthur Augustine Shin Pood camp owner Mid ho represented a group of camp operators three of whom would have to close because the gift would bring the restricted park area ao close ta their property i Other opponents Included "State RepTRaynumd Potter of Medway and Raymond Campbell chairman of tboPenobocot county commissioners Baxter iwu Jn tho Stato House but did tog attend the hearing-Councilor Owen uld ho voted against acceptance became more people of hia district which includes PWobscot and Piscataquis counties opposed tha gift than favored tt The council adjourned until Feb 2 Earlier today -the governor and council received a report from Institutional Service Commissioner Normal Greenlaw oa his department's annual Inspection of county Jails -Moat Jails were reported having fair or better conditions and administration The Aroostook and Kwh county Jails were rated and York's "very good" white Oxford count? JAU was the only one to receive a "poor" rating THE WEATHER KAIN MAINE Rain changing to now flurries south and central portions Much colder Thursday night- BOSTON Jan 20: Maxi mum temperatures for 12 hours and minima for 18 hours hot II ending City Max Min irnr 39 -4S cAUGUire- Boston Los Angeles Miami' -New-York-! Phoenix 36 Portland-'MataO'32 iinr DAILY ALMANAC 69 80 43 19 Jan 26 2 Feb 8 Feb 10 Feb-17 Rises Sun Seta 4:63 Length 924 Increase 0:34 Layoffs Loom BOSTON Jaik 26 Iff A Boatoil and Malm Railroad official mM Uiht 966 BAM employes may be laid off soon if freight reveaaa taereaaa All departmenta wanld be affected by tho layoff tho of-AcUl Mid qndTI to 20 men have been laid off already 2kt railread employs 3 OH a A 4 Hospital and Laurler Freeman Brunswick Dr Russell was treated for a fractured right ankle and Freeman was treated for -a minor cofccuaslon and bruised cheat He held overnight at the hospital for observation Both werk treated by Dr Allan Stinch-fleld Stato Trooper Francis Whalen aid tha accident occurred when a station wagon driven by Freeman crashed into the rear ef a sand truck driven by Wellsley -C Wright Bowdoinham and a 1933 sedan driven by Dr-Jack Spencer Portland crashed Into the station wagon Thomas James Dresden stand-' tag In the sand truck operating a machine was thrown out ef the truck but was 'not Injured Whalen said Whalen said Freeman was unable to give an account of the accident because of his Injuries The accident occurred oa a slippery foggy highway Whalen aaid there was extensive damage to the front ends of Jboth tho atatlen wagon aad sedan He said there was minor (fa mage to the sand truck Stato Trooper Byron Marshall ef Gardiner assisted Trooper Whalen with tho Investigation Two persona were taken to Augusta General Hospital for treatment late Wednesday afternoon after a head-on crash on Route 202 August a-Wtathrop highway mar the Stanley Road intersection: State Trooper Harland White aaid cars were operated by Berne A Bablneau 18 Wlnthrop and Robert Kenney 42 Rum-ford He said Bablneau will be arraigned Friday ta Wlnthrop Municipal Court bn a driving charge Riding with Kenmy were Mrs Everett McKenna 23 Rumford who was thrown against the windshield and bruised about the cheat head and knee' and Mq Hudson McKenna 72 Rumford whd received toss severe injuries were released from hospital after treatment Also In tho Kenney car was Hudson McKenna 69 also of Rumford Neither he nor the driver of either ear was Injured The 'stato trooper aaid both ears were badly damaged He akV car lost a wheel and traveledi80 -fret-after the Impact 21 Marines Missing In Boat Accident INCHON Korea Thursday Jah 21 A Japanese-manned landtag craft ram- med Into a small boat fas lachsa's saler ksrhar today 1 Mlltag I 8 Marines and Injnrtag XL At least 21 Ma-' rises were missing and feared drawned' Navy rescue craft churned the chill chappy waters far tha miming A Navy officer said a bagg landing akin carrying Chi- neat prisoners of war crash- ed lato'i -smaller landing -Marines The 21 injured were token aboard 'other ahlpo for treat-' meuL: -7' Nineteen nf them were a hoard the hospital 'ship fosnlaiiosr- Five were oX the transport (ton Jehn Pape and three were aboard the UanapOrt Newcastle -TodayWe Rev George 8 Graffaaf Keadfield Corner Methodist Almighty God each we turn In prayer in Thee Grant us strength for the coming hours and tha ability to understand and enjoy Thy love to manifest in all abouL Keep us reverent to Thy law obedient to Thy will and responsive to our own best Impulses Grant Tfiy blessing not alone on us but oo all men' Amen us bui on su nwB Atuo table Pandora box of all of them evU late Wednesday afternoon In central Maim when reeling rain and dense fog combined to lower highway visibility and coated roads with alternate stretches ef too and water In the Augusta area four motorists were hospitalised with Injuries sustained In two different accidents Dr Walter fpssell of South Portland new X-ray specialist at Augusta General Hospital suffered broken right ankle -In a three-car crash on tha Gardlncr-Brunswtok road Injured In the same accident was Laurler Freeman' of Brunswick who suffered a mild concussion and chest brulsep He remained at Augusta General Hospital overnight Russell was a patient at the same hospital Mrs Everett McKenna 23 of Rumfard and Mrs Hudson McKenna 72 also of Rumford suffered Injuries in a two-car accident la Wlnthrop late Wednesday afternoon Both wen taken to Augusta General for treatment of injuries and then discharged -Lata last night weather fore-castfrs gave -hut little moment for today Rain changing to snow with falling temperatures was predicted for central Malm' "Much colder Thursday bight" was also In tho weather oiling" Trmperatiirri'started rising Wednesday noon and at 11 o'clock had reached 36 degrees Three-Car Crash Two men were taken ta Augusta General Hospital early Wednesday night om a new staff member at tha hospital after being Involved In a three-car sect dent on Route 201 about -five miles out 'of Gardiner Injured were Dr Walter Russell South Portland new X-ray assunted hirmwganas test day Chadwick aaid Previous his tournfdutjrwlth the' Augusta firefightefi- Turner war member -of the Wayan Vol-nnteer Fire Department and today la aa henorary-member For four years the new' fire eaptala has been viee-president of the Maim Federation of Firefighters Tie is a past president of the Augusta Relief Association served for fouTjtoars ar treasurer aadTs Ms current secretary' Capt and Mrs" Turner live 41 Middle St 11 WASHINGTON Jan HD Ul President Elsenhower sends to Caogresa tomorww- a trimmsd down federal budget to fUuac the government through the 153 fiscal year storting next July It will be the first complete budget to 21 years from Rapub-Ucaa admialstratteu gad sagreo stoaal leaders are predicting It will be around three bUUoo dollars out of balance Sea Bridges (R-NH chairman af the Senate Appropriation Committee-Hid Jaa 3 that Eisenhower was aiming at bolding the deficit withla that figure One again the budget la bound to be heavy with expenditures tor national defense which sow ac count for roughly twothirds af all federal spending But even this Mg program has been alashad substantially Elsenhower himself has aaid the administration caa get more fight-tag power for 1cm money through a look defense policy' placing the emphasis oa air power aad aa assortment of atomic and other aew-wcapoaa Ai the admiaistra-tioo ace tt this will make tt pos With the arrival cf snow and designation of-certala stroet for sliding the -need arises for signs vary approach to Uw Barry says that ha such sigM-thia year Tha signs am placed fay order at City Government and the Parking District- Barqr employed jointly by the district and by Urn 'city working under Police Chief VWJJudley busy now stocking np with enough signs to fill tho need during Uw auptmar months when thera outside work to be done painting corks and streets Traffic sigit coma ia all shapes and aH aizes auu au sixes Ho charged tha New York Times gad'tlie New York HerakLTribune with "another kind of book-burning" is the fact that neither newspaper he claimed ever reviewed a book by antt-Communlst author Geraldine Fitch "Anyone has a jfght to attack McCarthy" Laskjr said not a senator But tt might be I good Idea to condom or condemn McCarthy as an individual and not oa a movement" The editor of tho American Legion Reader said "om of the moat vicious attocksr pn Senator Mc- Carthy came recently when the Christian Science Monitor declared that 'because government agencies were afraid of Joe McCarthy they were hiring Catholics and firing Lasky called the purported -vicious aad said ridiculous to make a religious -Issue put of an Issue that deta jiltely does not concern religion" kind CAPT BTRON I TURNER Byron Turner Named Fire -Dept Captain The Augusta Fire Department has a new captain according to announcement last night by Chief -oflAlbcrt Chadwick Byroa Turner veteran of 13 service with the department 18' years as regular firemaa -itovi Richard Bowditcb of president of the United -State Chamber of Commerce and former president of Uw New England Council will bo guest speaker to tlw annual meeting of tho Angus' ta-Haltowell Chamber of Comma announces Bernard 5L Johnstone executive secretary The auiud meeting will be 'at the Augusta Houm February 17 to 8:30 pjn BdMditcb widely known for ft-naneiar taterests to fiL'enal aad tranaportatten is president of the -OH Bpfagite ACS and JJiq Sprague -f: Steamship Coof Bosonandyrest- deto-sf CJUIprapw A fos LUL of Caaada "Bowditck hu a summer to -coastal Maine-and wtthMs family summers here 7r SIGNED Clyd Barry-Jr works aa another of tlw more fliafut suit mills ntVrtMmn arena'- ttaX-W weff an the riprrhighways and parhtag sresw tiic Signs af imes NEW-If 84 jliYMOUTHS: DeSOTOS CinHea-ffCimimlnqs Inc Westons Ave Dial S-3S28 MACOMBER FARR 4 WHITTEN INSURANCE: ANY -i "HERE 1 AMOUNT- 'a? Depositors Tresf Bldg Angnsla- 7 DIAL 2-75 isaaBBasBBSSBBi Ever try to eounf the traffic signs yoa see driving from home to work daily? Like Uw man who ta responsible for placing them and maintaining them you hever realise how many different types of signs there are In': tho etty'-''' 'J There are over a' hnndred dll-terent'-type-jClydr-Barry has concluded after quick survey range from Stop aad Na Fajrking signs to sock odd items as thoM that' pipes time limits on-parting ta a fa a new one that bars tracks from a street the' seasons hive an fai-fluenct fhs traffic-signs uucDcs ou irauic -niir JOHNS-MANYILLE ROCK WOOL INSULATION jar tosil wfurt toiwr fad auto Sctentllrelty btown In by aaprrt crews 7-- FULTON'S IN Old SL Dial S-4SOI faHtoweg Af KMi (rconuon INSURANCI AGENCY 284 Water Auguste.