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Evening star., 1954-09-10

Walter Bedell Smith hailed the
agreement as IAN important
contribution to the defense of
the free world"
"This occasion marks the
opening>of an era of increasingly
close relations between our two
countries, relations based on the
principles of mutual respect and
of cooperation in the common
interests" Gen. Smith said.
Gen. Smith, in statement is
sued here, also said that "the
United States continues to sup
port Libya's admission to MEM
bership in the United Nations,
whose purposes and principles
are served by the present under
standing"
Evening star., 1954-09-10
Libya Gets U. 5. Aid
In Return for Use
OF TripoIi Air Base
By james z. Roper

- An agreement signed. by the
United States and Libya In
Benghazi yesterday provides:
l.. The United States may use
the giant Wheelus Air Base at
TripoIi until December "a, 1870.
2. The United States will give
Libya up to $4,000 tons of grain
this fiscal year and economic aid
totaling $42 million through f1s-
cal 1911.
The concurrent nature, Of the
base lease and aid program
seemed to confirm that Libya's
youthful Prime Minister, Mus
tafa ben Hahn, was holding out
on renewal of the base deal until
he was assured Of substantial
American grants for his North
African country Of about 2 NIL
lion persons.
The former Italian colony.
placed under temporary United
Nations administration after
World War II. allowed the
United States to operate Wheel
us Field as base for bombers
that might be used in any war
with the Soviet Union. After
Libya obtained independence in
1851, Prime Minister Ben Hahn
insisted that the base agree
ment had to be re-negotiated.
Visited Washington.
He visited Washington this
summer, asking the United
States to rebuild and extend the
ancient Roman water system in
Libya. He said this would pro-
vide irrigation that would make
Libya an economically viable
country.
This idea apparently will be
carried out.
Under the agreement the For
eign Operations Administration
will make available 81 million in
the current fiscal year in addi-
tion to the grain.
The United States also will
give Libya money from what
State Department officials called
especial purpose funds" Under
this clause of the agreement,
Libya will get 81 million in each
of the six years from fiscal 1855
through 1860, and 81 million in
each of the next II years
through fiscal 1871.
Rental on Field.
State Department officials de-
clined to discuss the nature of
this payment, but it seemed to
amount to a rental fee on
Wheelus field.
The economic projects to be
undertaken with FOA funds viii
be administered through Joint
Libyan-American commission to
be set up. In addition to irri-
cation projects, it is expected
to favor construction of roads
and ports.
Acting Secretary of State
Evening star., 1954-09-10
GIobuIin Available
To Physicians Oct. !
By the Associafed Press

BERKELEY, Calf, Sept. 10
Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley
has announced that gamma
globulin will be available to
physicians through norm a !
channels starting October l.
Heretofore, gamma globulin
has been allocated only to polio
danger areas or to exposed per-
sons through the Office of De-
fense Mobilization and the Ma
tional Foundation For Infantile
Paralysis.
The serum has been used for
the prevention or modification
of polio and measles and for
protection against Infectious
hepatitiS,
Evening star., 1954-09-10
INVASION Fears Indicated.
Auto Kills Womun in Bed

HARRINGTON. r. l., Sept. 10.
R.-Miss Alice w. Bates. rs.
was killed in her bed today by
an automobile that failed to
make q curve at high speed and
sliced through q corner Of her
home. Charles G. Nardoza, "a,
was unhurt as his car left the
highway and hit the house. 200
foot ouou
Evening star., 1954-09-10

bombed Communist fortresses at
Aotou an Shihmutou. satellite
bases to the big Red base at
Annoy. All are within artillery
range of Quemoy.
Nationalist warships were
credited with inflicting heavy
damage on Red fortresses at
Wuyu, Cape Chenhai and other
tiny Red-held islands in the
Annoy area.
Invasion Fears Indicated.
The continued attacks on sur
face craft along the China coast
would indicate continued Ma
tionalist fear of a Communist
attempt to invade Quemoy, which
is defended by upward of 10000
crack Nationalist troops. There
has been no official indication
that an invasion might be immi-
nent, however.
Peiping radio said Communist
antiaircraft batteries downed one
Nationalist plane and damaged
another in yesterdays attacks.
Evening star., 1954-09-10

at the University Of Pennsyl-
vania.
The Attorney General. who
attended the University Of Me-
braska, devoted much Of his
address to extolling the career
Of the late Chief Justice Charles
Evans Hughes. also a member
Of the, fraternity.
In discussing communism. he
recalled the campus "pinks" of
the 30s and said that now q
society new to our country
has developed in the Communist
campaign Of worldwide aggres-
sion.
Sees No Real Peace.
so far as we can see ahead"
he said. until the imperialistic
Evening star., 1954-09-10

sives quietly and without hys-
terra.
'I have spoken In public In
the past about the tragedy Of
how the work Of the FBI has
been going to waste. Now we
work In close liaison with the
FBI and we are making better
use of their splendid perform
ance.s
Evening star., 1954-09-10
MistIetoe Horns Pines

DENVER.-The dwarf mistle-
toe of the West is very destruc-
tive of the host pines on which
this parasite grows. but the larger
mistletoe, used for Christmas
decorations and common in. the
South, is less damaging to the
hardwoods on which it grows.
Evening star., 1954-09-10

Touch the soft, imported English fonne and you
know ii will wear WE'LL drope beautifully Ions
burehs buyer knew it, too-thut's why he selected
ttis fine cloth to beor the famed LANSBROOK
LABEL. Thot respected ;obeI is your assurance Of
quotyssfor LANsBRoOK suits are made to our
Specifications detoiis usually found only in
much higher priced suits Regulars, shorts and longs
Evening star., 1954-09-10


fmThe
OConneI service the District
Star StaH hOt0
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

Mr.. Parkinson's own figures will bear
so interest to be paid out of the 20
million dollar annual income guaran-
teed by the Government. Surely Mr..
Parkinson would not, on second
thought, suggest that Dixon Yates be
paid a profit on other peoples invest
ment as well as on their own. $780, 900
amouts to about 11% profit on the
Dixon-Yates investment of 5h mil
lions.
This fact is clearly stated by Will
liam M. Blair, special writer on the
NEW YORK TIMES (Dec. 81. He be-
gins his answer to the question Does
Dixon-Yates get a guaranteed profit?'
thus: 1.-THE contract includes ceiling
of 100000 a year on profits &. This
amount would provide return of about
II per cent on the $5.5 million cash
investment by the Dixon Yates group.
The A. E. C. and spokesman for the
utility interests contends this is in line
with the average return of private
utilities throughout the country.
L am only man who loves hoe,
but I can imagine that many farmers
would be fairly content with an 10
return on their estment-espec
if in addition to this profit they also
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24
Dixon-Yates Is Santa-CIaus?

I find it distressing to have Mr..
Parkinson charge so many people who
deal with figures with being dupes or
deceivers, when his own figures are
so often subject to question. For in
stance: In his PV letter (Dec. 81 he
estimates that the Dixon-Yates group
is going to realize at most about u
of 10 profit on it's investment, and
then goes on to say: 81 wonder how
many farmers would appreciate being
limited to " of L % profit on their in
vestment with no guarantee against
losses" He gets this figure by dis
tributing the permitted 5000, 900 annual
which is 106 million dollars.
But the fact is that the Dixon Yates
group is investing only 5h million
dollars in the plant. The other 100
million dollars of cost will be raised
by selling bonds, which, according to
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24
Vermont Power Baron
Defeats LoW-Cost Electricity,
Van TreschoW Tells Co-ops

MONTPELIER, VT. = (CNS) =
New England is the nations under
developed frontier" because it lacks
low-cost electric power, New York
financier told Vermont Cooperative
Councils annual meeting here, De-
cember 10.
Walter Won Treschow said "large-
scale industries" could take advan
tage of the states natural resources
with such power. He blamed Albert
A. Cree of Rutland, president of
Central Vermont Public Service Cor
poration, for refusing even to discuss
S35 million steam generating plant
on Lake Champlain. This plant would
sell power to Cree's firm at almost
half what CVPSC is paying other
utilities, Won Treschow said.
The Eisenhower administration
showed the same surprising reluc-
lance to produce low-cost power when
it ditched his alternate proposal for
Dixon-Y Yates, Won Treschow said. "The
administration is not acting in the
public interest"
Won Treschow said his group will
go ahead and build steam plant at
Memphis, Tenn. He predicted that
Dixon-Yates, even if it builds it's
plant at West Memphis, Ark, will
never supply any power to Tennessee
Valley Authority.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24
The "Kilowatt Kids" Dixon and Yates,
Tell All to the Newspaper Reporters

81 wish | were in the Land of Dixon
Big deals there really fixin'
Give away, give away, give away, Dixon-Yates
'At the country club where the deal was born in
Ike was golfing in the early mornin',
Give away, give away, give away, Dixon-Yates.
ooh, wish I were in Dixon Land, give away,
give away.
To the power trust I pay high rates to re-elect
Dick Nixon.
Give away, give away, give away, Dixon-Yates."
Anon.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

SEC has been taking testimony.
Attorneys for Dixon Yates and groups
opposed must file their briefs by
January 10 and their answers by
January II. Next day, oral hearings
will begin, Demmler said. Afterwards
the 5-man SEC will make it's decision.
Dixon-Yates aren't dealing with
their operating companies cat arms
length" as the 1886 utility holding
company act requires they do, U. S..
power co-ops told SEC, December II.
Government agencies would pay for
Dixon-Yates' proposed West Mem
phis, Ark, plant by buying most of
it's output, while Dixon subsidiaries
would get power at an "unreasonably
low rate" Clyde T. Ellis told SEC.
Ellis, National Rural Electric Co
operative Associations executive
manager, pointed out that the Arkan-
'sas plant will have at least $4,000
kilowatts of power to sell to Ar
kansas Power & Light Company.
APRIL is a wholly-owned Middle
South Utilities subsidiary. Edgar H.
Dixon heads Middle South. Under
the Dixon-Yates contract, AP&L
would buy West Memphis power at
1876 mills a kilowatt hour. 1t costs
APRIL 4.23 mills to make a kilowatt
hour.
Had there been arms length bar
gaining, Ellis argus, APRIL would pay
a higher rate to Dixon-Yates. Dixon
Yates then could reduce its rates to
Tennessee Valley Authority. The
holding company act, Ellis pointed
out, charges SEC to restrain 'evils
(that) result from an absence of
arms length bargaining between
holding companies and subsidiaries"
Ellis also said SEC shouldn't APP
prove Dixon-Yates financing until
Atomic Energy Commission and IVA
decide how they're going to split
power costs. Only then, Ellis said,
can anyone know how the contract
will affect TWAS customers. One
of SECS jobs, he said, is to watch
out for their interests.
At the hearings December 16,
Demmler cut off questions about the
contracts tie-up with national de-
tense. Joseph Volpe, Jr., counsel for
Tennessee and a dozen public and
coop power groups, had sought to
question Dixon-Yates officials on the
after.
Volpe hoped to explore this matter,
le said, because the only times SEC
ever approved a utility financing plan
INVOLVING so little risk capital was
when SEC found that national de-
ense required it. But Demmler stood
irm. The contract says it's for ma
ional defense; therefore, it is, he
uled.
Dixon said attacks on the contract
hadn't alienated his financial hackers.
Most of them, he said earlier, are
Wall Street insurance firms and
,ankS.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24
Millions for COPS Defense
WASHINGTON, D. C.-(PAD

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(PAD
Just before the election the army
announced award of $500 million in
defense contracts; other services
also made big awards. The admin
istration insisted that this had
nothing to do with the election.
One month later the army re-
vealed its awards for November.
For some well explained reasons,
no doubt, the total dropped to $85
million.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24
SEC WON'T RUSH Dlx0M-YATES, WILL
Give CONGRESS another CRACK Att

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-The 84th Congress will
have chance to amend bury the Dixon contract
Securities & Exchange Commission will delay action
financing proposal until Congress January Senator
Clinton Anderson (DN Mex who II head the HouseSenate
atomic energy committee asked for the delay, December 49,
Three days later SEC Chairman Ralph Demmer it.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24
The READERS
FORUM

LETTERS: No letter over $50
words will be accepted for publica-
ton. All letters must be signed by
writer, although, on request, name
will be withheld.-P.V. Editor.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24
ECONOMIC
TRENDS
cooperative News Service)

Retail sales in November were 2%
ahead of year ago. That looks some
what encouraging beside the year
to-date figures which are still go
behind 1953.-Commerce Depart
ment.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

The longest straight stretch of rail
road track in the United States IS
1886 miles between Wilgenton and
Hamlet, N. c.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

Business failures continued at their
22O-a-week clip in November, gen
orally unchanged from the same
month in 1885 but $50 ahead of
1952.-Dun & Bradstreet.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

Unemployment rose to 1888, 900
by midNovember. That's $4,000
above mid-October and 1884, 900
above a year ago. Employment
dropped 100000 in the October
November periodic 81, 731, 900.
That's 475,0O0 fewer than were
working a year ago.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

received good salaries for their work.
as utility officials do. EDMUND
FREEMAN Missoula.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24
TURN COAT SHEEP

The Rocky Mountain sheep has
brownish coat that turns blue-white
in the winter.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

Steel mills, auto factories, electric
machinery plants were hiring more
workers, though total factory en-
ployment was still below 1853. But
the number of farm and food process
ing workers was down sharply.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

The average workweek crept over
40 hours in November.-Labor-Co Com.
merce Departments.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

Industrial production in November
equaled the year-ago figure for the
first time in 1854. The Federal Re-
serve Boards index stood at 1870
(1947-49 equals 1907. Seasonally adj
justed, it rose three points (from 1876
to 1921 in the month.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

plOyHeHI was SClll DelOW 1905. but
the number of farm and food process
ing workers was down sharply.
The average workweek crept over
40 hours in vember-Labor-C Com
merce Departments.
Industrial production in November
equaled the year-ago figure for the
first time in 1854. The Federal Re-
serve Boards index stood at 1870
(1947-49 equals 1907. Seasonally ad-
justed, it rose three points (from 1876
to 1921 in the month.
Commercial exports-including
federal economic aid, but not mill
tary-jumped to Sligo million in
October. That's 1870 ahead of Oc-
tober, 1858, and 209o ahead of
September, 1854. Commerce De-
partment experts guessed, how
ever, that 1854 commercial exports
would wind up about 80 under
1858. Farm exports are running
300 behind last year.
Wholesale sales in October dropped
AZ from year-ago levels and 10
from September OCCASIONALLY adj
iusted). Wholesalers inventories rose
imperceptibly in October and were
go under last year.-Commerce De-
partment.
Businessmen's inventories rose in
October to $1,000 million-$400
million above September 30 and $500
million above August 81. The previous
five months, April-August, factory,
warehouse, and retail stocks of goods
acknowledgements Department.
Corporate dividends in 1954-al-
ready $7.3 billion-are running al
most 71a 20 ahead of 1853. Part of
this increase was the shift of divi-
dend payments that would normally
have occurred in late 1853 to early
1854 when a tax cut was anticipated.
In November, cash dividends were
up 9X% from the same month last
year.-Commerce Department
Jobless pay claims turned up
again in late November, but for the
fourth straight week new claims
were below their year-ago levels.
On November II, total claims stood
at Isis, 687-19% above the same
date last year. New claims, while
below last year at this time, were
nevertheless rising.-Labor De-
partment.
Steel production was drifting up
ward but had not yet attained year
ago levels. In the week ending De-
cember 6, mills produced 81 Il 70 of |
capacity. Output reached low point
of 500 of capacity last summer. A
year ago the figure was 86.7%.-
American Iron & Steel Institute.
Federal holdings of farm crops
rose to an all-time high October 81
S6.6 billion. When USDA officials
gave out the figures, December 9,
they estimated the food hoard had
climbed to well over 81 billion.
Freight car loadings almost
achieved year-ago levels in the week
ending December Association of
American Railroads.
The longest straight stretch of rail
road track in the United States is
1886 miles between Wilgenton and
Hamlet NJ c.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

Freight car loadings almost
achieved year-ago levels in the week
ending December Association of
American Railroads.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

Federal holdings of farm crops
rose to an all-time high October 81
S6.6 billion. When USDA officials
gave out the figures, December 8,
they estimated the food hoard had
climbed to well over 81 billion.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

Steel production was drifting up
ward but had not yet attained year
ago levels. In the week ending De-
cember 6, mills produced 81 A% of
capacity. Output reached a low point
of 63% of capacity last summer. A
year ago the figure was 86.7%.-
American Iron & Steel Institute.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

Wholesale sales in October dropped
AZ from year-ago levels and IL
from September OCCASIONALLY adj
iusted). Wholesalers inventories rose
imperceptibly in October and were
30 under last year.-Commerce De-
partment.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1954-02-05

a total of $85,O85,559 had been
spent for the immigration and re-
settlement program. :In the high
ly-charged atmosphere of politi-
cal tension and border attrition." 1"
Mr.. Radinsky said, the UIA agen-
cies persisted in seeking to meet
the productive needs of the coun-
try through a large-scale empha-
sis on agricultural development.
For the construction of 43 settle
ments, the development of those
already in existence and the ex-
pansion of irrigation projects, the
UIA last year spent more than
54,500.000, Mr.. Radinsky said.
AS part of the agricultural pro-
gram, a large-scale emphasis was
placed on increasing the land area
under irrigation. He pointed out
that in 1853 an additional $4,000
acres were added to the irrigated
area.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1954-02-05
Israel Seeks International
Aid to Free Iroq Cuptives

JERUSALEM, (JTA) Israel
has asked Britain, Holland, the
United Nations and the Interna-
tional Red Cross to intercede in
connection with the detention by
Iraq of three Israeli nationals
taken off a British plane when it
made a forced landing on Iraqi
territory month ago, it was an
nounced this week. :.
Foreign Minister Moshe Sha-
rett, speaking in the Knesset, de-
nounced the incident as an Gin
ternational scandal and said it
was actually Kidnapping" He
pointed out that the Iraqi action
was in sharp contradiction to Is
rael's practice of releasing Iraqi
citizens who happened to be
stranded in Israel
Israel expected action from
Britain, particularly, Mr.. Sharett
added, because the plane involv-
ed in the incident was British, be-
cause its captain had acquiesced
in the Iraqi action in removing
the Israelis from the plane and
because the plane was immedi-
ately released upon strong pres
sure from the British Embassy
which apparently had insisted. at
the same time, on the release Of
all the passengers.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1954-02-05

: Sounding "somber warning"
to the Jewish people in this coun-
try, Mr.. Sonneborn, who was re-
elected chairman at the meeting,
declared that we can mo longer
escape the painful and boldly ap-
parent fact that available funds
have been sharply reduced while
at the same time responsibilities
in Israel, particularly in terms of
human lives and their productive
rehabilitation, have more than
trebled." Mr.. Sonneborn cited
four major areas in Israel which
have suffered sharply due to the
drastic fund decline:
l. Transition camp conditions
under which 100000 immigrants
live in very difficult straits with
food supplies low and malnutri-
ton an ominous specter."
2. Short-terrn foreign debts
totalling $11O,OOO,00O which must
be reduced by q curtailment Of
imports. 'This limitation on pur-
chases abroad is working severe
hardships in terms of consumer
goods and necessary staples"
8. Agricultural d e " elo p ment
has had to be limited ito the
point where hundreds of thou
sands of acres produce only one
fourth of their potential due to
a lack of funds for implementing
irrigation projects in full scale"
4. Social problem cases involv-
ing stems of thousands of widows,
aged, handicapped, who require
direct assistance and the oppor-
tunity to do some kind of work
but who are getting the barest
minimum of either"
Ellis Radinsky reporting on the
activities of UIA agencies in Is
rael during 1858, announced that
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1954-02-05
Jacksonville Mayor to
Address J.N.F. RuIIey

Hayden Burns, Mayor of Jack
sonville, who was visitor in the
Near East and Israel this past
year, will be the guest speaker at
the annual Jewish National Fund
Rally which will be held by the
Jacksonville Zionist District and
the Jacksonville Chapter of Had
assah Monday night, February Is,
at 8 P. M. in the auditorium of
the Jacksonville Jewish Center.
Chairman of the evening is Max
Rubin. He is being assisted in the
plans for the meeting by Mrs.
Louis Feigenbaum, Mrs. Hyman
Katz, Mrs. David Armel (Presi-
dent Of Hadassah), Jack Becker.
I. j. Edelstein, and Cantor A.
Marion president of the Z.O.A.).
The public is invited to hear
this major address by the Jack
sonville Mayor who has spoken to
many audiences since his return
from his jaunt with other u. S.
Mayors to the trouble spots of the
Near East. He recently addressed
an assemblage of over 400 per-
sons in Orlando, and has appear
ed before several local organiza-
tions. Burns will be introduced
By Leonard Moss, past chairman
of the Jacksonville Jewish Com
tnunity Council.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1954-02-05
Jewish Immigrants
Ask Return to IsroeI

.
RIO DE JANEIRO. - (JTA)-
Jewish immigrants brought to
Brazil from Germany the past six
weeks in the liquidation of the
Foehrenwald camp sreturnees"
situation, have been demonstrat-
ing in Sac Paulo and demanding
their transfer to Israel.
The 'returnees" DPS released
from Nazi concentration camps
who returned to Germany after
their transfer to Israel, and
brought here from Germany
now insist on returning to Israel.