TUESDAY. MARCH 16. 1954
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WASHINGTON, March 15 VP) President Dwight D.
Eisenhower blasted the Democrats' cut-the-income-tax pro
posals tonight as unsound, politically motivated, and unfair
to the great majority of taxpayers.
Declaring such cuts would be "a serious blow to your gov
ernment," the President told a nationwide radio and television
Communists
Wage Attack
On Fortress
HANOI, Indochina, March 15
(AP) Communist-led Vietminh
troops, battling French tanks,
troops, and planes, today fought
their way toward the heart of the
mighty Dien Bien . Phu fortress.
The French bolstered their
stronghold, 175 miles west of Han
oi, with a battalion of paratroop
ers. They also sent planes almost
200 miles from the carrier Arro
manches to bomb and strafe Viet
minh artillery positions.'
The French said the Vietminh
lost 1500 men in the furious fight
ing, but gave no figures for their
own dead.
Censorship slowed correspon
dents' reports of the savage fight.
For the first time in the seven
year-old Indochinesf3
Vietminh rebels dropped their
guerrila and infiltration tacLci
wage a frontal, full-scale Korea
type battle.
The Vietminh prepared infan
try charges with heavy artillery
fire. Then, the Red Chinese-ad
vised and Red Chinese-trained
rebel soldiers, blowing bugels and
screaming wildly charged French
barbed-wire defenses.
There is nothing to indicate any
Red Chinese are actually partici
pating in the fight, but it is cleOr
the rebels , are coached in the at
tacks by advisers behind their
lines.
Governor Race
Petitions End
HARRISBURG, March 15 (JP)—
The deadline for filing nomina
tion petitions for the May 18 pri
mary expired- tonight with six
candidates—t hr e e Republicans
and three Democrats—in the race
for governor.
Thomas S. Stephenson, Altoona,
president of the Pennsylvania
Home Rule Assn., made it a three
way fight for the GOP guberna
torial nomination by entering the
contest late in the day.
The petitions of another poten
tial candidate—Robert Gray Tay
lor, Media—were thrown out by
Commonwealth Secretary Gene D.
Smith as faulty.
Smith said Taylor, seeking to
filei for the Republican nomination
for governor, failed to obtain suf
ficient signatures to his petitions.
The minimum is 100 from each of
five counties.
Other last-day filings for state
wide offices included Mrs. Gay
nelle M. Dixon, Butler, organiza
tion-backed candidate for the Re
publican nomination for secretary
of internal affairs and Peter
Elfish, Washington County com
missioner, for th e Democratic
nomination for the same post.
British Charge Russian
Money Buys 'Unrest'
GEORGETOWN, British Guiana,
March 15 (JP)—British authorities
charged today that Moscow money
is trying to buy hatred and unrest
in Britain's Caribbean colonies.
Officials said the power of com
munism was growing in the poor,
underdeveloped colonies which
dot the Caribbean.
Army Tests Defenses
WASHINGTON, March 15 (IP)
—The first test of defenses against
capture of the huge and strate
gically vital Thule Air Base and
other Artic installations which
Russia might seek to seize in a
war is under way.
audience
"In your interest I must and
will oppose such an unsound tax
proposal."
Speaks Informally
Speaking informally—with the
aid of a promoting device—often
smiling, at other times earnest,
Eisenhower appealed for support
of his own tax program, which in
cludes what he called a "modest"
reduction • in the tax on income
from corporation stock.
He centered his fire on Demo
cratic moves, beginning with a bill
that comes up in the House Wed-,
nesday, to raise income tax ex
emptions. House Democrats want
an increase fr o m $6OO to $7OO.
There is a movement among Sen
ate Democrats to make even more
of a taxpayer's income tax-free.
Technical Help
- The President got technical
help from his unpaid, part-time
consultant, television producer
Robert MOntgomery, in his 15-
minute address, in which he took
occasion also to reproach the "pro
fessionally fain t- hearted" for
spreading depression talk.
Actually, 'Eisenhower declared,
"The nation as a whole continues
o be prosperous" despite unem
--iloyment in some places, and con
ditions "at this time do not call
for an emergency program that
would justify larger federal defi
cits and further inflation through
large additional tax' reductions."
Surprising even some of his own
staff members, the President made
no criticism of last week's action
by the House in cutting excise
taxes by some POO million dollars.
He had opposed this cut and ad-.
ministration leaders have voiced
hope the Senate would try to re
duce it.
Eisenhower said he's as strong
for cutting taxes "at the right
time" as anybody, and he said his
administration has slashed or is
about to slash almost seven billion
dollars from the national tax bill.
Congressman Fights
Pay Raise Proposal
WASHINGTON, March 15 (iP)—Rep. Usher Burdick (R-ND) is
an unusual man. He's one of the few . persons in this country who
doesn't want his pay raised.
There have been several proposals to boost the present con
gressionl pay of $15,000 a year. Naturally, this kind of talk brings
a gleam to the eyes of most con
gressmen. But it only brings
bulky, shaggy 75-year-old Usher
Burdick up fighting mad, all 270
pounds of him.
He insists congressmen are mak
ing plenty now, and that a raise
might only lower the quality of.
the lawmakers,
"Then we'll get congressmen out
only,,for profit and gain for their
service s," he says. "This job
should be something besides that."
Burdick readily concedes one
point. Comparatively, congress
men don't make as much as when
he- first was elected' to Congress
in 1934.
On the other hand, lie thinks he
was overpaid in 1934, "Why; I
couldn't have got a job back home
that would have paid half that,"
he says, "I had to pass the hat
to pay for my campaign, and
when I got elected I had to bor
row $lOO so I could come to Wash
ington."
Rather than stress the financial
side of Congress—or of life—Bur
dick would like to stress this:
What are a man's fighting quali
ties?
"A fellow without a temper,"
he said, "is no gdod in this world."
In North Dakota, where Repub
licans squabble with each other
more than they do with the Demo
..rats, Burdick, has given his po
litical enemies hope.
"I have promised to drop out,"
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McCarthy to Be
Guest 0/ Murrow
On 'See It Nov'
NEW YORK, March 15 (JP)
CBS commentator Edward R.
Murrow agreed late today to Sen.
Joseph McCarthy's suggestion
that the senator appear on Mur
row's show April 6.
McCarthy had notified Murrow
he would be willing to appear
either March 23 or April 6 on the
CBS television show "See It Now."
to reply to charges Murrow made
against the Wisconsin RepLiblican.
McCarthy said he would prefer
April 6.
In his acceptance, McCarthy
charged Murrow had in the past
"consciously served the Commun
ist cause."
Murrow's reply to McCarthy
said that "I deny this utterly" and
added:
"The record when it is finished
will show who has served the
Communist cause, voL. or I."
erm War
onfessorl
Called Hero
WASHINGTON, March 15 WI
—Defense counsel. for Col. Frank
H. Schwable told a Marine court
of inquiry today the flier who
made a false confession of germ
warfare under Communist pres
sure is entitled not only to ex
oneration but also a medal for
bravery. '
The 45-year-old Marine flier's
legal advisers, one a Marine and
the other a disabled ex-Marine,
stoutly defended him as a valiant
man who had held out to the limit
of his endurance.
Col. Paul D. Sherman and John
Pratt told the special court of in
quiry that Schwable signed the
"confession" only after fi V e
months of Red Chinese brain
washings hail left him broken in
body and mind. Schwable repud
iated the "confession" immedi
ately upon his release from 14
months in a war prison in Korea.
Sherman and Pratt told the
court, composed of one admiral
and three Marine generals, it was
clear from all the evidence at hand
that no man could withstand pro
longed brain washing.
he says, "when I reach the age of
90."
He figures this is quite a con
cession. His mother didn't die uTi
til 99, and then only because "she
caught pneumonia after crawling
up a mountain."
Burdick smiled fondly as he
thought of his mother.
"She had the fire," he said.
Railroads To Give
Fare Reductions
PITTSBURGH, Mz..rch 15 VP)—
The Pennsylvania and the Balti
more and Ohio Railroads are going
to make about one-third reduc
tions in round-trip coach fares be
tween Pittsburgh and Philadel
phia and Pittsburgh and Balti
more-Washington beginning April
15.
The railroads jointly announced
their experimental plan today. It
ends Sept. 30. Spokesmen for both
firms said:
"We are introducing these low
fares experimentally in an effort
to get more passengers on the
trains."
Men Caught in A-Test
TOKYO, Tuesday, March 16 (JP)
—A Japanese fishing craft wan
dered into the Bikini atomic test
area' during an atomic explosion
Mailch 1 an all 23 crewmen suf-,
fered radiation sickness
Military 'New 4, saki
Worris ::idgw*y
. WASHINGTON, March 15 (!P)—Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway ex
pressed "particular concern" to Congress today that the "new look"
military plan might make the Army too weak to face up to Russia's
evergrowing military might.
But Ridgway, the Army chief of staff, begged off from saying
publicly whether he had recom
mended sharp cuts in the Army
budget under the program. He
conceded a reply to the question
might be embarrassing.
The general appeared with oth
er top military and civilian chiefs
at a Senate Armed Services sub
committee hearing on the $37,-
600,000,000 military budget for the
fiscal year starting July 1.
Ridgway voiced what seemed
to be the first official protest from
the Pentagon to the Eisenhower
administration's "dynamic" long
range military program, based on
more air power and fewer ground
troops.
In a prepared statement, Ridg
way said•
"Because of the increasing com
plexity of land warfare and the
resultant greater battlefield de
mands upon the fighting man, the
individual soldier, far from re
ceding in importance, is emerging
ever more clearly as the ultimate
key to victory."
The advent of new weapons and
greater emphasis on air power,
Ridgway
. said, had only "given
new meaning and wider scope to
the dimensions of land warfare,
without changing war's nature
and basic objectives." The ulti-
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"is control of land and of people
living on land."
Several of the Pentagon leaders
presented prepared statements to
the subcommittee but the only one
read aloud was by Secretary of
Defense Wilson.
Navy Unveiis Two
New Jet Fighters
WASHINGTON, March 15 (/F)
—The Navy made available today
pictures of two freakish-looking
new fighter planes designed to
take off on land vertically.
They are the Convair XFYI,
built by Consolidated Vultee Air
craft Corp., San Diego, and the
XFVI, built by Lockheed Air
craft Corp,, Burbank, Calif.
The craft are called "VTO"
fighters, for the vertical takeoff
characteristic. Photographs show
ed both:
1. Resting on their tails, in the
position in which they would take
off or land.
2. Resting horizontally, in the
position they would assume in
level flight.
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