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Arkansas State press., 1954-05-07
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MRS Mary Corner Pueblo Colorado formerly of this city,
Suhg her parents, Mr. and Mrs D. McElroy Her father
mcEIroy celebrated his 93rd birthday Sunday.
MIS- FANNIE Woods funerazed Thursday, Attending
~ea from other states Mckinley Ellis, Cleveland
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ellis, Mr. and Mrs Henry Allen
anu MFs Mitchell Romph, all of Detroit Michigan Samuel
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n ana host of friends.
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next meeting will be June l. p. at Jones high school
ituluS r. Young will deliver the principal address at
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gfam Miss Sarah Pascha Shoer college, will speak at
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as er guest the weekend their son, Pfc Roose-
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Arkansas State press., 1954-05-07

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Moss H. HENDRIX organization of June handle women
activities for the Coea-Cola company
graduate Of Howard university and the University of
Michigan with further study the American university Wash
ngton D. c. Mrs. Lightfoot holds masters degree in
relations and publicity She member Of Delta Sigma Theta
public administration and has studied the fields of public
sorority
The young pube native Of Hartford Connecticut Is the
daughter of Attorney Mrs Drew She married
to Victor Lghtfoo Howard university dental student
Arkansas State press., 1954-05-07

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Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07
Religion
Bohu'i Convention

One of the worlds most un-
usual religious centers - the
Baha'i Temples situated in a
little Chicago suburb, Wilme:te.
III.
This week, followers Of the
Baha'i religion, which draws its
teachings from all the great
faiths of history, met there for
their annual convention.
Their key resolve: To spread
Baha'i beliefs to the remotest
corners of the earth, and there
by further the brotherhood of
man, the unity of all religions
and peace for the world.
Leaders claim that Baha'i.
whose founding 11O years ago in
Persia (now Iran) makes it one
of the youngest among religions.
lis growing faster than any other
faith.
There are about 5000 Baha'is
in the United States, but others
throughout the world helped in
building the religions $1,000, 900
center at Wilmette.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07

aided France in a moment OF
crisis and it gave the us. Air
Force some valuable experience
in peacetime.
The Douglas Globemaster
planes of the 7th Squadron
started from the state of Wash
ington. They had flown more
than 5000 miles before they
picked up the French paratroops
at Orley Air Base, outside Paris.
Avoided India and Burma
The route was top secret dur
ing the operation. The huge,
three decker planes avoided
India and Burma after being
forbidden permission to iy over
those countries. Stops were made
in the Azores, France, Tunis,
Dhahran, Karachi, Colombo.
Bangkok, Saigon and then a still
secret forward base in Indo-
china.
The giant Globemasters paused
only long enough in Indochina
to discharge their human car
goes. Then they winged off to
Clark Field, Manila, and their
bases in the United States, com
pleting a circumnavigation of the
globe.
Each plane carried two full
American crews.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07
ARMY ROW: Who Is Lying?

-ject to committee approval, of
course, but thus far he's had it.
Not Awed in Washington
The hearings still have a long
way to go but one thing already
is apparent: Jenkins may be a
country boy, but he isn't aWed
by his surroundings.
Jenkins has ruled against Nc
Carthy a couple of times and
once when Stevens was on the
stand, he held up a big hand like
traffic cop and commanded.
Wait, wait, wait" The Army
secretary stopped and waited.
Under Jenkins vigorous cross
examination, Stevens admitted
he had tried to get Sen. McCar-
thy to suspend his investigation
and let the Army take over with
its own probe of alleged espio-
mage at Fort Monmouth, N. J.
The secretary's detailed explana-
ton of his efforts to win the
friendship and cooperation of
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07
In Short

Declared: By Air Force Sec
retary Talbot, that there is an
alarming decline in armed forces
.reenlistments, traceable to dis
satisfaction with pay and allow
.ances.
Recommended: By the House
Appropriations Committee, that
more than 281s billion dollars
be allocated for defense of the
country in the next fiscal year.
Appealed: By a coal industry
spokesman, to governor of 16
coal-producing states, to join in
action to stem unfair" competi-
ton from low-priced foreign
coal. y
Announced: By the Marine
Corps, that Col. Frank H. Schwa-
bic will not be disciplined for
having falsely confessed to germ
warfare while a Communist
prisoner in Korea.
Won: By the administration,
a legislative victory when the
Senate rejected continuation of
high, rigid farm price supports.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07
OousIus Globem0siers cireUmncvgate the World
On AirIiEi Of french PalatEoopers 70 lndeehina

The United States has demon
strated for friend and foe that
no matter what the distance,
America can quickly and effec-
lively send its air arm to trouble
spots anywhere in the world.
It was called Bali High, a
million-dollar airlift speeding
French paratroops from Paris
halfway across the globe to en-
battled Indochina. It was the
longest troop ferrying mission
in history. And it will not be
completed until early in May.
Started in the United States
The airlift originated in the
United States at the request of
French Army Secretary Pierre
de Chevigne who reported the
battle for Diem Bien Phu had
used up most Of the French
paratroops available in Indo-
china and more were needed
urgently. It was carried out BY
the 9TH and 4th US. Troop Car
rier Squadrons under the direc-
ton Of Gen. William Tunner, the
man responsible for the Berlin
airlift, from his headquarters in
West Germany.
Bali High, though expensive.
served a two-fold purpose. It
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07
Business
Effect Of Excess Profits Tax

Effect Of Excess Profits Tax
The so-ca1led excess profits
tax died last Jan. 1. Now its ab-
sence is showing up in corporate
earnings reports for the first
quarter.
Unquestionably, the death of
the excess profits tax has cush-
ioned the decline in earnings
resulting from the lower over all
rate of business activity as COM
pared to a year ago. The first
$50 major corporations reporting
their first quarter results showed
an average dip of only IL per
cent from the Unusually high
profit levels of the first three
months last year. If the tax had
still been in effect. the drop
would have been much greater.
Some Increases
Some corporations managed to
snow an increase in their first
quarter earnings despite lower
sales. Inevitably, they credited
this seeming paradox to the de-
misc Of EPT. Others will con-
tinue figuring their quarterly
earnings reports on the old basis.
holding back the excess profits
tax 81 wing as a big surprise for
the year-end report.
How bis a saving Wilt mean2
Gen. Robert E. Wood, retiring
this week as chairman of Sears.
Roebuck & Co., estimated that
Sears will reap a IS million-dol-
lar windfall this year from the
death Of EPT.
Gen arally speaking, the bigger
the company the more tax money
it will save in proportion to the
volume Of business it does.
That's because large corpora.
tions were socked more heavily
by EPT than their smaller com.
petitors.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07
Triple Threat Man

The man who may emerge as
the star of the televised McCar-
thy-Army showdown hearings is
Ray H. Jenkins, a Knoxville,
Tenn, lawyer who is playing not
one, but three, difficult roles in
an investigation that is probably
unique in Washington history.
As special counsel, it is Jen-
kins' job to help the Senate
Investigations subcommittee find
out who's lying: Army Secretary
Stevens, II. Struve Hensel, as
.sistant secretary of defense; and
other Army officials on the one
hand, or Sen. Mccarthy, and his
chief aides, Roy Cohn and
Francis p. Carr, on the other.
Aids Witnesses
First, Jenkins helps each side
to present its case by asking
questions that enable witnesses
to nail down their stories. On
occasion, he may even, as he
did with Secretary Stevens.
wonder if there is anything at
all to be added that might help
clarity the situation.
Jenkins second role is to cross
examine the witnesses he has
just helped guide. He always
apologies, explaining it is his
duty to probe now for weak
spots in the story. Despite the
apology, Jenkins doesn't pull
any punches. On cross-examina-
ton, he takes off the kid gloves
and Wades in with brass knuckles.
Jenkins third role is that of
judge whenever any tricky
question of legal procedure
comes up. His judgment is nee
essary since the chairman, Sen.
Mundt (R-SD) is a onetime elo-
cution teacher without legal
training. His decisions are sub
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07

Mccarthy and Cohn drew barbed
questions.
The Tennessee trial lawyer
wanted to know why so high an
official should humble" himself
and "go traipsin' off to New
York" to make peace if Stevens
weren't afraid of the Wisconsin
/ senator or of Cohn, the subcom-
mittee counsel?
Stevens asserted, however, that
all he was trying to do was CO.
operate with a congressional
committee and that any intima-
ton of a deal" to switch the
subcommittee probe to other
services was an "unequivoca
/ lie"
The Cropped" Picture
Another dispute arose over q
| picture showing Stevens and
Pvt. G.. David Schine together
The picture was admitted into
/ evidence although Stevens de-
MED that he ever knowingly had
posed alone with Schine. 1t later
developed the picture had been
cropped from a photograph show
ing Stevens, Schine and a Col.
Bradley, along with part of a
civilian.
The picture is important be-
cause one facet of the Army
Mccarthy row revolves about
the Army's contention that the
senator and his aides exerted
improper pressures for prefer
ential treatment for Schine.
wealthy young New Yorker who
was an unpaid consultant to the
subcommittee before he was
drafted.
The Mccarthy side contends.
among other things, that Stevens
was very friendly with Schine
at the very time the Army Sec
retary charges improper pres
.sures were being applied.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07

of only one dam project, the
Karaj Barrage, would cut the
cost of electricity from eight
rials 90 cents) to an estimated
two rials, (21s cents) a kilowatt.
81 Million in American Aid
So far, the American taxpayer
has granted Iran outright a total
of 81 million dollars plus a top
secret amount to rebuild the ma
tion's armed forces and flesh up
its now American-trained gen
darmerie.
Yet the new years state
budget shows a deficit of 600
million rials, which is 715 mil
lion dollars at the going ex-
change rate or 1815 million
dollars at the strictly Alice-in-
Wonderland official figure.
Dissatisfaction is slowly rising
throughout the country at the
steady upcurve in prices of
staples such as sugar, tea, and
bread. These three foods are the
diet of the Iranian poor and ev-
cry dinar increase in their price
helps Zahedi's opposition-still
underground, still disunited as a
result Of tactical squabbles, but
waiting to pounce.
Even newspapers firmly lined
up behind Zahedi admit this
increasing price pressure is get
ting out of hand.
Oil Decision Is Basic
Ground between the mill
stones of rising prices and static
OR no-wages, the mass of
Iranians watch with chilly eyes
the oil discussions between Ia
hedi's men and representatives
of a consortium of eight of the
worlds biggest oil companies.
Five of these companies are
American; the others are Brit
ish, French and Dutch. Their
task is to arrange an interna-
tional plan to provide a market
for Iranian oil at a time when
the world market is so badly
glutted that production is hope
lessly outrunning demand.
To Zahedi falls the unenviabie
task of finding a solution palata-
bic to he consortium on one
hand and on the other accept
able to a nation deeply anti
British, deeply nationalist, and
unbelievably proud.
In Trans southern cities, the
"black gold" stinks on the hot
wind and seeps up into the very
streets. In her capitals oil can
drown governments and suffo-
cate their programs, however
ambitious or far-seeing.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07
Science
Sunshine Batteries

A new sunshine battery which
converts the suns radiation into
electricity has been demon
strated before the National
Academy of Sciences in Wash
ington.
Engineers of the Bell Tele-
phone Laboratories, which de-
veloped it, say eventually bat
teries may be able to harness the
suns almost imitless energy for
use by man.
The model battery, about the
size of mans hand, is made of
razor-thin strips of silicon, the
main ingredient of common
sand. AS sunlight strikes the Sill
con, a flow of electric current
is created in atoms in the strips.
It has no moving parts.
Company officials say that,
with further development, the
sunshine batteries promise to
supply all the power for long
rural telephone lines. They
would supply power even on
cloudy days and charge up stor-
age units to permit night opera
ton.
The model exhibited in Wash
ington created enough electric
power to carry a voice a short
distance over a telephone wire,
broadcast from a miniature ra-
dio transmitter and run a toy
ferris wheel.
The batteries for rural tele-
phone lines would be a foot
Square.
Sunshine batteries, as ex-
planned by Bell officials, could
run walkie-talkie radios, and
power mobile electrical equip
ment for military or civilian
purposes. If they could be made
big enough and cheaply enough,
they possibly could provide cur
rent for lights, television sets
and refrigerators in homes.
The inventors of the new bat
terry are u. L. Pearson, physicist;
G. S. Fuller, chemist, and D. M.
Chaplin, electrical engineer.
The invention is different from
the atomic battery, recently an
nounced. That battery converts
rays from radioactive atoms into
electric current.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07

He wants vital new rail lines
to the Soviet border zone at
Meshed and 20 the strategically
important provincial capital of
Tabriz. His projected nationwide
dam system would irrigate mil
lions Of acres and revive a sag
ging agriculture. He'd like to
buck up the sugar and cotton
spinning industries with new
plants and launch countrywide
cheap housing projects to get his
people out of caves and mud huts.
Grim Realities
Trans grim realities have been
revealed by Zahedi's blunt radio
speeches in which he told his
people "Work-Don't Talk" and
'Your treasury is empty"
Trans often sharp-spoken Shah
told the country even before the
Aug. IS revolution that swept
out doddering old DR.. Mossa-
degh: 1T is no pleasure for me
to be King of a poverty-stricken
people-nor is it anything to be
proud of.
Zahedi's New Deal" would
if he could get it rolling-show
immediate tangible benefits to
Trans man-in- the-street. In a
country where the common man
nurses a bitter distrust of poll
ticisns dating back slightly more
than 5000 years, that could give
the Zahedi regime a solid basis
in public support.
Zahedi's projects would funnel
currency into the pockets of un-
employed men for whom con-
tending with street dogs for
edible refuse is a normal state of
affairs. For those getting by and
the well-to-do-about 10 per cent
Of the population-completion
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07

French willingness to continue
fighting had Allied governments
worried. There were reports
from Paris of a Stiffening morale.
with the possibility that failure
of the gallant French effort at
Dien Bien Phu might produce
a reaction similar to the British
after Dunkerque or the Ameri-
can after Bataan. But this was
only guesswork. The French are
awfully tired of the war.
The situation had advanced to
the point where Defense Secre-
tary Wilson felt obliged to tell
Congress that events of the next
few months might be critical,
and might force a reappraisal of
the outlays necessary for the
military establishment.
Some people guessed this
might mean eventual deplov-
ment Of air and naval forces. if
not their actual Intervention.
which itself was predicted in a
narrower circle. The adrninistra-
ton continued to issue state
ments, saying it hoped the dis
patch of troops would not become
necessary.
Grim Realities
But with every other breath
the Importance of Southeast Asia
to the United States was stressed
in such fashion as to leave hard
ly any alternative but direct in
tervention if, by military force
or through the failure of France
to keep going, the Communists
appeared about to sweep the
peninsula.
There was little hope for the
negotiations at Geneva. For one
thing, while the Allied diplo-
mats had been able to hold a
united front at Berlin, they did
so with the backing of an inter-
national defense system in being.
Scurrying British and Ameri-
can diplomatic and military
/ leaders gave rise to a feeling
early in the week that they
might be planning some sort of
demonstration now, such as re-
enforcement of British forces in
Malaga and even more spectacu.
lar assistance than the round.
the-wOTld Globemaster flight.
which picked up paratroopers ir
France and delivered them tC
Indochina.
The Recurring Question
Official statements, on the
other hand, kept putting off de.
cisions. But President Eisenhow-
er, who can certainly qualify as
an expert witness on military
affairs, kept going back to the
question in almost every breath.
So did Vice President Nixon.
So did leading Congressional fg-
ures.
Paratroopers on maneuver in
North Carolina joked when they
boarded planes that they prob
ably wouldn't jump until they
/ reached Indochina.
1t was typical of an atmos-
phere of inevitability which was
beginning to surround the dis
cussion.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07

dIly uIIIIIeIy moves pIl0r 70 eX-
ploration at Geneva of what
could be done about a cease fire.
France asked for troops and
was told the United States was
doing all the President had au-
thority for without Congress
sional approval. Dulles spread
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07
Quotes

Russian Premier Malen.
kOv, addressing the Supreme
Soviet (parliament) eff any,
one thinks, as Hitler thought.
that we are weak, we will
show them, as we showed
Hitler, just how weak we
are"
Bertrand Russell, British
philosopher: "If you want 10
survive, you must let your
enemies survive. Either both
live or both die. Therefore,
abuse of your enemy, hatred
of your enemy, anything
that makes an agreement
with him more difficult,
doesn't do any good"
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07

1Or an 4fanldn new Oedl.
Lacking a New Deal" the great
mass Of illiterate, poorly-in-
formed, and violently prejudiced
Iranians form a truculent i'm
pediment to an oil solution.
Zahedi's program of improve
ments is elaborate. It aims at re-
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07

ing business with the Commu-
niStS.
Informal and preliminary dis
.cusSiOns had begun at Geneva,
but the Korean question had
priority on the formal agenda
and the sessions regarding ii
were expected to be long
draWn-out.
The French Crisis
Meanwhile, the French posi-
ton at Dien Bien Phu became
progressively precarious. Its. loss
would not be a great or decisive
defeat, but the possible effect on
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07

the w ord in
Geneva that
submission to
Congress Of a
Pacific treaty
was the way
to get it.
But France
and Britain
C ou d n O t
| b brln g them-
| selves to that
lest it preju-
i'd / c e ( h q
CHANCES of do
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07

ducing Trans
estimated 80
per cent illit-
eracy (the
u. S. figure is
2.5), checking
disease, and
attacking pow
erty and un-
employment
in a nation
where about
half the peo-
pie live at or
near animal
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07
US. IS Confronted by Tough Decision on Indochina
iran S Fote Hunqs
On Oil Decision
By DON SCHWIND

AsSOcIaEed Press correspondent in IehTan
TEN. FAZLOLLAH ZAHEDIS new American backed
" Ianian Government is in politicoeconomic vicious
circle which only intelligent oil solution break-and
a break needs to come soon!
Lacking oil solution Iran has an empty treasury.
Lacking money, Zahed cannot shove through his plans
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07
Western Allies
Split at Geneva
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Associated Press For NelUs AnGly

ME United States faced with dragging feet on all sides
regarding its proposal for united action" in defense
OF ndochna had just about reached the point this week
where had to decide what would do alone if there
no other alternative
Winston Churchill made it clear Britain would not make
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-07

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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-09-28

In olden days before life be-
came complicated. woman
place was in the home. There she
reigned supreme. A mans place
was in the World--a place where
woman never trod
In those days a woman was
kept busy tending to her do
main. She reared the children.
did the laundry. cleaned tine
house, shopped. cooked sewed and
in general did everything possible
to make her home a happy.
comfortable one She attempted
all this without benefit of laun-
dries, clothes washers. dish wash
erS. electric mixers. automatic de-.
frosters. electric stoves and all
the paraphernala designed to
make life less burdensome.
One thing that did help the lit
tie woman in those days gone by
was the presence of servants,
When juniors squaWkune or his
persistence in wanting TO be
quick change artist frayed her.
nerves. she could push him into
the arms of the waiting nurse
maid and close the door between
them.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-09-28
Social -Act;;vi;iG;;e,
Buckingham Woman's Club Plans
Full, ActiUe Program For First Year

An Institute Know Your Club
hightlighted the first fall meeting
OF the Woman's Club Of Buckin9-
ham County. held in the new
Dillwyn Elementary School Audi
forum on Saturday. S ptemb1t
rs.
Mrs. J Francis West. president
and institute leader. stressed the
Importance OF each member know
ING the framework within which
the club operates. its organiza-
tional plan, the dual function Of
the l3 member Executive Board
and the clubs program.
Club Program
The club program was present
ed by the department chairmen
Mrs, RoWlett II Bruce chairman
of the educational department,
asked the cooperation Of the club
in encouraging student to study
to become teachers, and also sup-
gested that the club be ever con-
scious of the Importance Of the
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-09-28

TEACHING profession Mrs. Bruce
suggested that a beginning be
made by honoring the teachers at
a reception The club adopted the
plans. Mrs. Bruce also moved that
The club have a New Years
dance and this motion was
adopted
Lovely homes. loving homes,
and more attention to The needs
& our youth was the theme en-
phasi2ed by MIS- J Branch Forbes,
chairman of the America Home
Department Club members were
asked to practice some form Of
family prayer and family church
attendance The club adopted a
proposal that a study be made Of
the Needs Of County Youth,
and decided to hold an antique
show during the month of Oc-
tober as Embarrassing project
Public Affairs
Mrs Arthur Gillian, chairman
OF the Public Affairs department